> Ewan MacColl > Records > Ewan MacColl, Isla Cameron, The Topic Singers
Ewan MacColl, Isla Cameron, The Topic Singers
![]() |
Untitled Album Topic Records TRL1 (LP, UK, 1954) |
![]() |
This is a compilation of tracks mostly from 78rpm Topic records. The container is plain manila cardboard. The disc itself is 12" with what appears to be a hand-drawn label with “Topic” and above it “Workers' Music Association London”. The matrix numbers are RPL 627 and RPL 628.
Musicians
Ewan MacColl: vocals [1-2, 4-7, 9-16];
Isla Cameron: vocals [3];
Al Jeffery: banjo [3-5, 12],
guitar [6, 8];
Una Brandon-Jones, Hertzel Goldbloom and Martin Lawrence with the Topic Singers,
pipe and tabor; accompaniment conducted by Arnold Goldsbrough
[17]
Tracks
Side 1: Ewan MacColl, Isla Cameron | Side 2: Ewan MacColl, The Topic Singers |
---|---|
|
|
I don't know of the origin of tracks 11, 14 and 15.
> Folk Music > Records > Isla Cameron: Through Bushes and Briars
Isla Cameron: Through Bushes and Briars
![]() |
Through Bushes and Briars Tradition Records TLP 1001 (LP, UK, 1956) |
![]() |
The CD sleeve claims that the CD is digitally remastered but it was obviously copied from a very worn LP full of scratches and hisses. And there are no sleeve notes at all so we don't even know who accompanied Isla Cameron on guitar.
Produced by Robin Roberts;
Edited by Patrick Clancy;
Liner notes by Isla Cameron;
Photography by Catherine Wright;
Design by Elizabeth Clancy
Musicians
Isla Cameron: vocals;
??, guitar [1, 3, 8, 12, 14, 17, 19]
Tracks
Side 1 | Side 2 |
---|---|
|
|
All tracks trad. except
Track 7 words Robert Nunn (1808-53), music trad.
Note
For the history of the Tradition / Transatlantic / Rykodisk copyrights and licences on this recording, see Fred McCormick's letter “Ennis on Ember—reply” in the Musical Traditions letters.
See also Nick Guida's Tradition Records discography.
> Folk Music > Records > Rory & Alex McEwen and Isla Cameron: Folksong Jubilee
Rory & Alex McEwen and Isla Cameron: Folksong Jubilee
![]() |
Folksong Jubilee His Master's Voice CLP 1220 (LP, UK, 1958) |
Liner notes and cover design by Rory McEwen
See Nick Guida's The Balladeers website for more information on this record.
Musicians
Rory & Alex McEwen: vocals, guitar, 12-string guitar, bouzouki;
Isla Cameron: vocals
Tracks
Side 1 | Side 2 |
---|---|
|
|
Tracks 1, 3, 7 trad., from Ord, Bothy Songs and Ballads;
Track 2 coll. Alex McEwen;
Tracks 4-6, 12, 16-18 trad.;
Track 8 trad. arr. Rory and Alex McEwen;
Track 9 Ewan MacColl;
Track 10 Ruth Seeger;
Track 11 coll. Alan Lomax;
Track 13 Leadbelly, coll. Alan Lomax;
Track 14 Jean Ritchie, The Swapping Song Book;
Track 15 coll. Pete Seeger
> Ewan MacColl > Records > Isla Cameron, Ewan MacColl: English and Scottish Love Songs
Isla Cameron, Ewan MacColl: English and Scottish Love Songs
![]() |
English and Scottish Love Songs Riverside Records RLP 12-656 (LP, US, 1958) |
Edited by Kenneth S. Goldstein;
Cover design and produced by Paul Bacon, Ken Braren and Harris Lewine;
Recorded at Topic Studios, London, England;
Sleeve notes by A.L. Lloyd
See Nick Guida's The Balladeers website for more information on this record.
Musicians
Ewan MacColl: vocals [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 12-14, 16, 18],
accompanied by Peggy Seeger: banjo, guitar;
Isla Cameron: vocals [2, 4, 6, 8, 11, 13, 15, 17],
accompanied by Ralph Rinzler: banjo, guitar
Tracks
Side 1 | Side 2 |
---|---|
|
|
Most (10) of the tracks are also on Still I Love Him, so it seems safe to assume that both albums were drawn from the same studio recordings.
> Ewan MacColl > Records > Isla Cameron, Ewan MacColl: Still I Love Him
Isla Cameron, Ewan MacColl: Still I Love Him
![]() |
Still I Love Him Topic Records 10T50 (10" LP, UK, 1958) |
![]() |
![]() |
Recorded by Bill Leader; |
Recorded by Bill Leader;
Notes by A.L. Lloyd
See Nick Guida's The Balladeers website for more information on this record.
Musicians
Isla Cameron: vocals [1-2, 4-5, 7-9, 11-12, 14],
accompanied by Ralph Rinzler: banjo, guitar;
Ewan MacColl: vocals [3, 6, 10, 13],
accompanied by Peggy Seeger: banjo, guitar
Tracks
Side 1 | Side 2 |
---|---|
|
|
Acknowledgements
Thank you very much for Alistair Banfield for the second cover picture.
> Louis Killen > Records > The Waters of Tyne
The Waters of Tyne
![]() |
The Waters of Tyne Prestige International INT 13059 (LP, UK, 1961) |
Recorded by The City of London Studios;
Produced by Kenneth S. Goldstein and Ewan MacColl;
Notes by Ewan MacColl
Musicians
Isla Cameron: vocals [1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 14, 16];
Louis Killen: vocals [2, 4-6, 8-9, 11, 13, 15];
Peggy Seeger: guitar [1, 4, 10, 12],
banjo [3, 6, 9, 11, 14]
Tracks
Side 1 | Side 2 |
---|---|
|
|
All tracks trad. except
Tracks 4, 6 George Ridley (1835-1864);
Track 10 Ewan MacColl (1915-1989);
Track 11 Tommy Armstrong (1848-1920);
Track 12 Robert Nunn (1808-1853);
Track 14 Joe Wilson (1841-1875)
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Alex Lioubimov for sending me the cover picture and album details that he found somewhere on the net.
See also Nick Guida's Tradition Records discography.
> Folk Music > Records > Isla Cameron, Tony Britton: Songs of Love, Lust and Loose Living
Isla Cameron, Tony Britton: Songs of Love, Lust and Loose Living
![]() |
Songs of Love, Lust and Loose Living Transatlantic TRA 105 (LP, UK, 1962) |
![]() |
![]() |
London FFRR Records 5808 (LP, USA, 196x) |
Produced by Nathan Joseph;
Cover: Brian and Sally Shuel
Musicians
Isla Cameron: vocals [1-2, 4, 6, 8, 10-11, 13, 15-16, 18];;
Tony Britton: vocals [1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16-17, 19];;
Stephen Sedley, Ralph Trainer: guitars;
Geoffrey Pratley: spinet
Tracks
Side 1 | Side 2 |
---|---|
|
|
All tracks trad. except
Track 2 William Shakespeare;
Track 3 François Villon;
Tracks 5, 14 John Dryden;
Track 9 John Donne;
Track 12 Thomas Campion;
Track 16 Hugh MacDiarmid;
Track 17 Andrew Marvell
> Folk Music > Records > Northumbrian Minstrelsy
Northumbrian Minstrelsy
![]() |
Northumbrian Minstrelsy Concert Hall AM 2339 (LP, UK, 1964) |
Recorded by Peter Kennedy;
Notes by Reg Hall
Musicians
Isla Cameron: vocals [1, 4, 6, 9, 12, 17];
Bob Davenport: vocals [1-2, 5-6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 19];
Jack Armstrong: Northumbrian small pipes [1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13-14, 16, 18-19],
fiddle [2, 15];
The Rakes [2, 6, 8, 10, 15]:
Michael Plunkett: fiddle, whistle;
Paul Gross: fiddle;
Reg Hall: button key accordion
Tracks
Side 1 | Side 2 |
---|---|
|
|
All tracks trad.
> Folk Music > Records > Isla Cameron: Isla Cameron
Isla Cameron
![]() |
Isla Cameron Transatlantic Records XTRA 1040 (LP, UK, 1966) |
Produced by Nathan Joseph;
Cover: Brian and Sally Shuel
Musicians
Isla Cameron: vocals;
Martin Carthy: guitar [1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 12];
Jack Fallon: bass [11]
Tracks
Side 1 | Side 2 |
---|---|
|
|
Track 1 Sydney Carter;
Tracks 2, 4, 5, 9, 10 trad.;
Tracks 3, 8 trad. arr. Martin Carthy;
Track 6 Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill;
Tracks 7, 12 Bob Dylan;
Track 11 Dehn, Auric
> Folk Music > Records > Isla Cameron, Tony Britton: We Lay My Love and I Beneath a Weeping Willow Waly
Isla Cameron, Tony Britton: We Lay My Love and I Beneath a Weeping Willow Waly
![]() |
We Lay My Love and I Beneath a Weeping Willow Waly Old Thundridge Records RIB049 (CD, UK, 2019) |
This is a CD reissue of out-of-copyright albums from the 1950s and 1960s.
Compilation and digital restoration by A.C. Bigg
Musicians
Isla Cameron, vocals [1-3, 5, 7, 9, 11-12, 14, 16-17, 19, 23, 25];;
The Raymonde Singers, vocals [1];;
Tony Britton, vocals [2, 4, 6, 8, 19, 14, 15, 17-18, 20];;
Stephen Sedley, Ralph Trainer, guitars;
Geoffrey Pratley, spinet;
Rory & Alex McEwen, guitar, bouzoiki [23];
Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Newton, reading [21-22, 24, 26-37]
Tracks
- [IC] O Willow Waly (2.16)
- [TB, IC] Oh, No John, No John, No! (Roud 146) (1.48)
- [IC] Ophelia's Song (1.19)
- [TB] Not All Can Do It That Will (1.34)
- [IC] Died for Love (Roud 60; Laws P25; G/D 6:1170; Henry H683) (1.58)
- [TB] The Art of Love (4.29)
- [IC] Westron Wynde (Roud V18833) (0.59)
- [TB] The Logical Song (0.55)
- [IC] Let No Man Steal Your Thyme (Roud 3; G/D 6:1180) (1.39)
- [TB] On His Mistress Going to Bed (3.12)
- [IC] Take Me Out of Pity (2.06)
- [IC] My Mother Choose My Husband (1.42)
- [TB] The Wanton Country Maid (1.35)
- [IC] John Anderson (Roud 16967) (2.24)
- [TB] After the Pangs of a Desperate Lover (Roud V13097) (1.08)
- [IC] As I Roved Out (Roud 3479; G/D 6:1165) (2.51)
- [TB, IC] Wha's Been Here Afore Me Lass? (1.43)
- [TB] To His Coy Mistress (2.40)
- [IC] Still Growin' (Roud 31; Laws O35; G/D 6:1222) (3.44)
- [TB] Blow the Candles Out (Roud 368; Laws P17; G/D 4:788) (2.25)
- No Platonique Love (1.17)
- To Althea from Prison (1.19)
- [IC] Mormond Braes (Roud 2171; G/D 6:1142) (1.30)
- This Garden (3.50)
- [IC] Lowlands of Holland (Roud 484; G/D 6:1116; Henry H180) (2.39)
- When Westwall Downes (1.50)
- Why So Pale and Wand, Found Lover (0.34)
- For Her Gait, If She Be Walking (0.37)
- Beauty (2.19)
- Man (2.52)
- For Hope (3.12)
- Jordan (0.59)
- Shadows in the Water (3.52)
- The Pulley (1.08)
- Ode upon Doctor Harvey (4.58)
- The Flaming Heart (2.04)
- On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (0.43)
All tracks trad. except
Track 3 William Shakespeare;
Track 4 François Villon;
Tracks 6, 15 John Dryden;
Track 10 John Donne;
Track 13 Thomas Campion;
Track 17 Hugh MacDiarmid;
Tracks 18, 24 Andrew Marvell;
Track 21 William Caqrtwright;
Track 22 Richard Lovelace;
Track 26 Sir Richard Strode;
Track 27 Sir John Suckling;
Tracks 28, 37 William Browne;
Tracks 29, 35 Abraham Cowley;
Tracks 30, 32, 34 George Herbert;
Tracks 31, 36 Richard Crashaw;
Track 33 Thomas Taherne
Track 1 theme from the film The Innocents;
Tracks 2-20 comprise the album Songs of Love, Lust and Loose Living (Transatlantic TRA 105, 1962);
Tracks 23, 25 from Rory & Alex McEwen, Isla Cameron: Folksong Jubilee (HMV CLP 1220, 1958);
Tracks 21-22, 24, 26-37 from Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Newton: XVII Century Metaphysical & Love Lyrics (Caedmon TC-1049)
> Folk Music > Records > Isla Cameron
Other records with Isla Cameron
Various Artists,
The Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music - Volume III: England,
LP, Columbia SL-206, 1955
Various Artists,
The Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music - Volume VI: Scotland,
LP, Columbia SL-209, 1955
Various Artists,
Folk Songs
(Topic Sampler No. 1),
LP, Topic TPS114, 1964
Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger,
The Ballad of John Axon
(The Radio Ballads Vol. 1),
LP, Argo RG 474, 1965, Argo DA 139, 1971
Various Artists,
The Best of British Folk Music,
LP, Transatlantic XTRA 1031, 1966
Isla Cameron, Sydney Carter, Martin Carthy, Nadia Cattouse,
Songs from ABC Television's “Hallelujah”,
LP, Fontana TL5356, 1966
Richard Rodney Bennett,
Far from the Madding Crowd: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack,
LP, MGM CS-8053, 1967
Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger,
The Big Hewer
(The Radio Ballads Vol. 4),
LP, Argo RG 538, 1967, DA 140, 1971
Isla Cameron, Trevor Lucas, Mary O' Hara, Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention,
Through Bushes and Briar,
LP, BBC Radioplay TAIR 87043, 1987
Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger,
The Ballad of John Axon
(The Radio Ballads Vol. 1),
CD, Topic TSCD801, 1999
Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger,
Song of a Road
(The Radio Ballads Vol. 2),
CD, Topic TSCD802, 1999
Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger,
The Big Hewer
(The Radio Ballads Vol. 4),
CD, Topic TSCD804, 1999
Various Artists,
World Library of Folk and Primitive Music - Volume 1: England,
CD, Rounder CD 1741, 1998
Various Artists,
Transatlantic Folk Box Set,
3 CD, Sanctuary SMEDT137, 2004
Various Artists,
Anthems in Eden: An Anthology of British & Irish Folk 1955-1978,
4 CD, Castle Music CMXBX1030, 2006
Various Artists,
Three Score and Ten: 70 Years of Topic Records,
7 CD, Topic TOPIC70, 2009