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The Season Round

The Season Round (Topic TSCD700)

The Season Round
Traditional Carols & Celebrations for the Whole Year
Various Artists

Topic Records TSCD700 (CD, UK, 1996)
Topic Records KTSC700 (cass., UK, 1996)

 The Season Round (Topic TSCD700)

Compiled and produced by Tony Engle
Design / Mac-work by John Haxby, Edinburgh

Musicians

Shirley Collins [6];
Oak [2];
The Valley Folk [1, 8, 12, 14];
The Watersons [3-5, 7, 9-11, 13, 15-17];
Waterson:Carthy [18]

Tracks

Side 1

  1. [VF] Come All You True Good Christians (Roud 815) (1.39)
  2. [O] Shepherds Arise (Roud 1207) (3.04)
  3. [W] Here We Come A-Wassailing (Roud 209; TYG 22) (1.24)
  4. [W] Pace-Egging Song (Roud 614; TYG 53) (3.11)
  5. [W] The Holly Bears a Berry (Roud 514) (2.29)
  6. [SC] Cambridgeshire May Carol (Roud 305) (1.16)
  7. [W] Hal-An-Tow (Roud 1520) (2.04)
  8. [VF] The Two Brothers (Roud 202) (3.06)
  9. [W] Earsdon Sword Dance (Roud 610) (2.59)

Side 2

  1. [W] Harvest Song: We Gets Up in the Morn (Roud 2471) (1.16)
  2. [W] Souling Song (Roud 304) (1.29)
  3. [VF] Cherry Tree Carol (Roud 453; Child 54; G/D 2:327) (1.37)
  4. [W] Herod and the Cock (Roud 306; Child 55) (1.00)
  5. [VF] The Babe of Bethlehem (Roud 11878) (2.50)
  6. [W] Wassail Song (Roud 209) (3.04)
  7. [W] Idumea (Roud 6678; Sacred Harp 47b) (2.30)
  8. [W] Green Fields (Roud 3385) (2.41)
  9. [W:C] Sleep On Beloved (Roud 15632) (3.19)

Tracks 1, 8, 12, and 14 are from The Valley Folk: All Bells in Paradise (12T192, 1968);
Track 2 is from Oak: Welcome to Our Fair (12TS212, 1971);
Tracks 3-5, 7, 9-11, 13, and 15 are from The Watersons: Frost and Fire (12T136, 1965);
Track 6 is from Shirley Collins: The Sweet Primeroses (12T170, 1967);
Tracks 16 and 17 are from The Watersons: Sound, Sound Your Instruments of Joy (12TS346, 1977);
Track 18 is from Waterson:Carthy: Waterson:Carthy (TSCD475, 1994)