> Folk Music > Records > Harry Cox: Down by the Riverside / The Pretty Ploughboy
Harry Cox: Down by the Riverside / The Pretty Ploughboy
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Down by the Riverside / The Pretty Ploughboy Decca OC87/88 (78rpm, UK, ca. 1934) |
This 78rpm record is the first folk song record issued by the EFDSS of a traditional singer.
Recorded in London, 1934, organised by E.J. Moeran
Musicians
Harry Cox: vocals
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Both tracks are now available on the Topic anthologies Come Let Us Buy the Licence and My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean (The Voice of the People Series, Volumes 1 and 2, 1998).
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> Folk Music > Records > Traditional English Love Songs
Traditional English Love Songs
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Traditional English Love Songs Folk-Legacy Records FSB-20 (LP, USA, 1964) Harry Cox Sings English Love Songs EFDSS / DTS Records LFX 4 (LP, UK, 1965) |
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Recorded by Peter Kennedy 1953-1956
Musicians
Harry Cox: vocals
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> Folk Music > Records > Harry Cox: Harry Cox
Harry Cox
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Harry Cox EFDSS LP 1004 (LP, UK, 1965) |
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Recorded by Peter Kennedy;
Photograph by Peter Kennedy
Musicians
Harry Cox: vocals, fiddle, melodeon
Tracks
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Review
This review is from Norm Cohen: Folk Music Discography, Western Folklore, Vol. 30, No. 2 (April 1971), pp. 157-166:
(…) Harry Cox, another great English folksinger, has been better represented on LP. In addition to seven selections on the Caedmon set, Folk Legacy issued an entire LP of his songs in 1965. Harry Cox (EFDSS LP 1004) includes another fourteen selections from his repertoire issued in 1965 when the singer was eighty years old; there are no duplications with the other LPs cited. Recorded and edited by Peter Kennedy, the album includes several familiar ballads (Laws J5, L12, O3, O10, P35) and songs, two examples of Cox's fiddling and four excerpts from interviews in which Cox talks about himself and his music. Cox was first “collected” in 1922 by composer E.J. Moeran; ten years later he was featured on the first recording of an English traditional singer issued by the EFDSS.
> Folk Music > Records > Harry Cox: What Will Become of England?
Harry Cox: What Will Become of England?
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What Will Become of England? Rounder Records 11661-1839-2 (CD, UK, 2000) |
Recorded
by Peter Kennedy in Catfield, Norfolk in October 1953 [3, 5-6, 12-15, 18-19, 25-26, 32, 34, 36, 39, 41, 43-45],
by Alan Lomax in Sutton, Norfolk in October 1953 [9, 23-24],
by Alan Lomax in London in November 1953 [1-2, 4, 7-8, 11, 16-17, 22, 28, 30-31, 33, 35, 38, 42, 46],
by Alan Lomax and Peter Kennedy in London in December 1953 [20],
and by Peter Kennedy in London in December 1953 [10, 21, 27, 29, 37, 40];
Edited and with notes by Peter Kennedy
- Musical Traditions CD review by Mike Yates
- Musical Traditions CD review by Steve Winick
Musicians
Harry Cox: vocals, fiddle, melodeon
Tracks
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> Folk Music > Records > Harry Cox: The Bonny Labouring Boy
Harry Cox: The Bonny Labouring Boy
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The Bonny Labouring Boy Topic Records TSCD512D (2 CD, UK, 2000) |
Recorded between 1945 and 1970;
Compiled and researched by Paul Marsh, Steve Roud and Reg Hall;
Design by John Haxby
Musical Traditions CD review by Mike Yates
Musicians
Harry Cox: vocals, fiddle, melodeon
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> Folk Music > Records > Harry Cox
Other records with Harry Cox
Various Artists,
Folk Song Today,
LP, HMV DLP 1143, 1955
Various Artists,
The Barley Mow: Songs from the Village Inn,
EP, HMV 7EG 8288, 1957
Various Artists,
The Unfortunate Rake,
LP, Folkways FS 3805, 1960
Various Artists,
Songs of Seduction
(The Folk Songs of Britain Vol. 2),
LP, Caedmon TC1143, 1961; Topic 12T158, 1968;
CD, Rounder 1778, 2000
Various Artists,
The Child Ballads 2
(The Folk Songs of Britain Vol. 5),
LP, Caedmon TC1146, 1961; Topic 12T161, 1968;
CD, Rounder 1776, 2000
Various Artists,
Fair Game and Foul
(The Folk Songs of Britain Vol. 7),
LP, Caedmon TC1163, 1961; Topic 12T195, 1970
Various Artists,
Sea Songs and Shanties,
CD, Saydisc CD-SDL-405, 1994
Various Artists,
Hidden English: A Celebration of English Traditional Music,
CD, Topic TSCD600, 1996
Various Artists,
A Century of Song,
CD, EFDSS CD02, 1998
Various Artists,
Come Let Us Buy the Licence
(The Voice of the People Vol. 1),
CD, Topic TSCD651, 1998
Various Artists,
My Ship Shall Sail the Ocean
(The Voice of the People Vol. 2),
CD, Topic TSCD652, 1998
Various Artists,
We've Received Orders to Sail
(The Voice of the People Vol. 12),
CD, Topic TSCD662, 1998
Various Artists,
It Fell on a Day, a Bonny Summer Day
(The Voice of the People Vol. 17),
CD, Topic TSCD667, 1998
Various Artists,
The Rough Guide to English Roots Music,
CD, World Music RGNET 1018 CD, 1998
Various Artists,
English Originals: A Defining Collection of English Folk Song,
CD, Topic TSCD706, 1999
Chumbawamba,
Readymades,
CD, Mutt CD001, 2002
Various Artists,
The Pigeon on the Gate: Melodeon Players from East Anglia,
2 CD, VTDC11CD, 2008
Various Artists,
Three Score and Ten: 70 Years of Topic Records,
7 CD, Topic TOPIC70, 2009
Various Artists,
East Anglia Sings,
CD, Snatch'd from Oblivion SFO 005, 2012
Various Artists,
Good People, Take Warning
(The Voice of the People Vol. 23),
3 CD, Topic TSCD673T, 2012
Various Artists,
Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in Britain,
2 CD, Harbourtown HARDCD055, 2013
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Alistair Bandfield for record details.