Recorded at Leader Sound, Halifax in 1983;
Notes by Jim Eldon;
Photography and sleeve design by Richard Wasling;
Released by Stick Records of Hull in 1984

Musicians

Jim Eldon: vocals, fiddle;
The Leeds Band [8, 10]:
    Andrew Hinchliffe: 5-string banjo;
    Jackie Wright: banjo-mandolin;
    Tom Napper: tenor banjo;
    Martin Clarke: melodeon;
    Jim Eldon: fiddle;
Lynette Eldon: clog dancing [3, 12]

Tracks

Side 1

1. Mutton Pie (Roud 1308) (2.19)
2. The Merchant in Cheshire (2.17)
3. Burton Stather Broom Dance (1.28)
4. The Jew’s Garden (Roud 73; Child 155) (1.52)
5. The Deserter (Roud 493; G/D 1:83) (2.28)
6. Brian O’Lynn (Roud 294; Henry H480a; TYG 27) (2.22)
7. Six Pretty Maidens (Roud 21; Child 4; G/D 2:225; Henry H163) (4.29)
8. Old Joe / Park Hotel / Follow On (2.16)

Side 2

9. A-Hunting We Will Go (Roud 509; G/D 7:1475) (2.11)
10. The Adelphi Polka (2.22)
11. The Three Lovers (Roud 4; Child 73; G/D 2:212) (1.44)
12. Tom Dickinson’s Tunes (2.24)
13. The Lady of York (Roud 9; Child 20; G/D 2:193; TYG 73) (2.30)
14. Derry Gaol (Roud 896; Laws L11; Henry H705) (2.55)
15. Little Boy (Roud 733) (3.18)
16. I Wish There Was No Prisons (Roud 1708) (2.26)

All tracks trad. arr. Jim Eldon except
Track 9b Martin Clarke / Don Mackay;
Track 9c Don Mackay

Video

Produced by Jim Eldon and Keith Summers;
Special thanks to John Howson

Musicians

Billy Harrison: fiddle [1-2, 4-6, 8-10, 12-13, 15, 19], cello [7, 16, 21], talk [3, 11, 14, 20], vocals [17-18];
Jim Eldon: fiddle [1, 4, 7, 9, 12-13, 15, 21]

Tracks

1. [BH, JE] Hornpipe (1.31)
2. [BH] Old Time Waltz (1.10)
3. [talk by BH] Plaing in Dick Gray’s band (0.52)
4. [BH, JE] Woodland Flowers (1.08)
5. [BH] Freddy Archer (1.00)
6. [BH] Father’s Polka (1.22)
7. [JE, BH] Bells of Hell Polka (0.57)
8. [BH] Woodland Flowers (0.47)
9. [BH, JE] Pop Goes the Weasel (0.59)
10. [BH] Tell Mother I’ll Be There (0.53)
11. [talk by BH] Playing in Houses (0.50)
12. [BH, JE] Father’s Polka (1.24)
13. [BH, JE] Keel Row / Cuddle In, Cuddle In (1.28)
14. [talk by BH] Christmas at Nunburnholme (1.28)
15. [JE, BH] For Unto Us a Child Is Born (1.22)
16. [BH] When Christ Was Born of Mary Free (0.50)
17. [sung by BH] Sweet Chiming Bells (Roud 936) (1.12)
18. [sung by BH] While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (Roud 936) (1.09)
19. [BH] While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (Roud 936) (0.50)
20. [talk by BH] Carolling at Kilnwick Hall (1.35)
21. [JE, BH] While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (Roud 936) (1.45)

Recorded live at BBC Radio Humberside in February 1987;
Remastered for CD by Andy Newlove at Fairview Studios and John Howson at Veteran 2004

Musicians

Jim Eldon: vocals, fiddle;
Lynette Eldon: step dancing [3, 12]

Tracks

1. Dancing in the Dark (2.54)
2. The Codfish (Roud 149) (2.11)
3. Herbert Smith’s Four Hand Reel (2.37)
4. The Maid and the Magpie (Roud 1532) (4.45)
5. Tom’s Hornpipes: Flowers of Edinburgh / Sailor’s Hornpipe (2.53)
6. Shovelling Ice story (3.04)
7. Bridlington’s Fishermen’s Song (2.59)
8. Busking Set (3.46)
9. Windy Old Weather (Roud 472) (2.50)
10. Mary Had a Ploughboy (Roud 148; Laws M25; G/D 2:224) (3.39)
11. Poor Old Horse (Roud 513; TYG 60) (3.40)
12. Jigs (2.32)
13. Barr and Darr (3.03)
14. Herrings’ Heads (Roud 128; TYG 31) (4.53)

All tracks trad. arr. Jim Eldon except
Track 1 Bruce Springsteen;
Track 13 Jim Eldon

Recorded by Oliver Knight at Panda Sound, Robin Hood’s Bay, 1997;
Photograph by Pauline Eldon;
Knitting by Lynette Eldon;
Design by Sheik Design

Musicians

Jim Eldon: vocals, fiddle;
Lynette Eldon: clog stepping [2-3, 6, 8, 13, 19, 27, 29, 32]

Tracks

1. Died for Love (Roud 18828) (1.40)
2. Still I Love Him (Roud 654; TYG 33) (2.18)
3. Champagne Charlie: Champagne Charlie / The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo / Let’s All Go Down the Strand (2.24)
4. Tommy Bell (Roud 121) (1.35)
5. The Folkestone Murder (Roud 897) (1.53)
6. The Red Bush (1.16)
7. Lord Bateman (Roud 40; Child 53L; G/D 5:1023; Henry H470) (4.49)
8. The Rakes of Mallow (Roud V10577) (1.42)
9. No, My Love, Not I (Roud 1403) (1.48)
10. Robin Hood and the Three Squires (Roud 71; Child 140; G/D 2:243) (1.58)
11. Oh, What a Windy Night (TYG 19) (1.36)
12. Pip’s Among Cod (Roud 472) (1.49)
13. The Green Castle Hornpipe / The Steamboat Hornpipe (1.57)
14. The Laidly Worm (Roud 3968; Child 36) (5.35)
15. The Candlelight Fisherman (Roud 1852) (2.01)
16. The Derby Lamb (Roud 126; G/D 3:645; TYG 59) (1.16)
17. As I Was Going to Alston (Roud 364) (1.31)
18. A Nobleman Lived in a Mansion (Roud 2533) (1.30)
19. Napoleon Crossing the Alps (1.48)
20. Freddy Archer (1.25)
21. Bold Dickie & Bold Archie (Roud 83; Child 188; G/D 2:244) (3.19)
22. Father Had a Knife (Roud 850) (1.25)
23. The Bold Princess Royal (Roud 528; Laws K29; G/D 1:47) (1.10)
24. The Dogger Bank (Roud 18836) / The Cliff Hornpipe (2.40)
25. The Bonny Labouring Boy (Roud 1162; Laws M14; Henry H576) (1.35)
26. What Shall I Draw the Water In (1.50)
27. The Two Schottisches (1.55)
28. Mrs Cuddledee (Roud 19228) (2.04)
29. The Step Dance Tune (1.24)
30. Robin to Bobbin (Roud 236) (1.46)
31. Acre of Land (Roud 21093; TYG 23) (1.27)
32. Hopping Down in Kent (Roud 1715) (2.06)

All tracks trad. arr. Jim Eldon except
Track 3a George Laybourne;
Track 3b Fred Gilbert;
Track 3c Harry Castling

Recorded by Ched at Cholmley Manor;
Needlework and photographs by Lynette Eldon

Musicians

Jim Eldon: vocals, fiddle

Tracks

1. What Is Your One-O (Roud 133) (5.05)
2. Birdhouse in Your Soul (2.49)
3. Farewell Stick and Farewell Stone (Roud 196; Child 79) (2.31)
4. The Cullercoats Fishers’ Song (Roud 128; TYG 31) (2.45)
5. High Castle Wall (Roud 64; Child 100; G/D 5:999; Henry H221) (3.41)
6. My Wife Drove Me from My Door (2.51)
7. Some Candy Talking (1.50)
8. Grace Darling (Roud 1441) (2.05)
9. I Wish There Was No Prisons (Roud 1708) (2.21)
10. ’Til the Following Night (2.34)
11. Wife’s in Dry Dock (2.06)

All tracks trad. arr. Jim Eldon except
Track 2 Flansburgh, Linnell;
Track 6 unidentified / Charley Lincoln;
Track 7 Jim Reed, William Reed;
Track 8 Felix McGlennon;
Track 10 Screaming Lord Sutch;
Track 11 Jim Eldon

Recorded, produced and mastered by Phil Snell at Limbo Studio;
Photos by Martin Peirson and Phil Snell;
Cover layout by Phil Snell

Musicians

Jim Eldon: vocals, fiddle

Tracks

1. Old North Skelton Sword Dance (0.47)
2. Good Luck to the Barley Corn (Roud 944, 10722) (2.58)
3. Goathland Square Eight (1.11)
4. The Merry Cuckold (Roud 114; Child 274; G/D 7:1460; Henry H21ab) (5.18)
5. Goathland Speed the Plough (1.58)
6. Queen of Tavendor (2.21)
7. Old Time Waltz (1.08)
8. Fair Ones Are Shining (Roud 15; Laws P36A; G/D 2:201, 2:202) (4.20)
9. I Wonder If the Old Folk Thinks of Me (1.00)
10. It’s Still Around Somewhere (4.20)
11. No Man’s Jig (1.00)
12. Three Jolly Tugboatmen (1.52)
13. The Officers’ Polka (1.18)
14. There’s a Puffin in my Pint (1.28)
15. The Brickmakers (1.05)
16. Adieu to Old England (Roud 1703; G/D 6:1083) (2.54)
17. Sid’s Twist (1.20)
18. It was the Liner Titanic (Roud 27918) (1.46)
19. The Sylph (1.07)
20. A Message from Genghis Khan (2.26)

All tracks trad. arr. Jim Eldon except
Tracks 10, 14, 20 Jim Eldon;
Track 12 Gezz Overington, Jim Eldon

Tracks 1-14 recorded at BBC Radio Humberside by Ray Williams in April 1989, remastered by Phil Snell at Limbo Studio, Otley;
Tracks 15-25 recorded at Flamborough by Jim Eldon in 1988, produced by Jim Eldon and Ray Williams

Musicians

Robert Leng: lead vocals [1, 6, 13], vocals [2-3, 7-12, 14, 15-17, 20, 23-25], chorus [4-5];
Jossy ‘Pop’ Mainprize: lead vocals [6], vocals [2-4, 8-11, 13, 15, 17-22, 25], chorus [5, 14];
Jim Eldon: lead vocals [5], vocals [2, 13], chorus [1, 3-4, 6-8, 10-11, 14], fiddle [5, 9]

Tracks

Songs

1. Roll the Old Chariot Along (Roud 3632) (2.00)
2. A Thunnerin’ Sort of a Lie (Roud 1706; G/D 8:1701) (1.45)
3. Wreck of the Brownlow and Walmo (1.40)
4. Jolly Old Ploughboy (Roud 163; TYG 32) (2.18)
5. Windy Old Weather (Roud 472) (2.36)
6. Flamborough Sword Dance Song (Roud 21187) (1.38)
7. Happy Young Man / I Was in It (2.21)
8. Opening Time at Thornwick (1.31)
9. Heave Away the Trawl Warp (2.30)
10. Pull for the Shore (RoudBS B222035) (2.21)
11. Grace Darling (Roud 1441) (2.09)
12. Where’s Tha Been, Lad? (0.25)
13. Good Luck to the Barley Corn (Roud 944) (3.06)
14. Oh Where Is My Boy Tonight? (Roud 9823) (2.25)

Stories

15. A Thunnerin’ Sort of a Lie (Roud 1706; G/D 8:1701) (0.32)
16. Father’s first day at sea (1.02)
17. Pigs, parsons and nuns (3.03)
18. A naked light & Jenny Gallows’ pond (1.27)
19. The ghost ship (2.23)
20. Earlie in the Morning (Roud 21187) (0.24)
21. Dogs and poachers (1.40)
22. The white gull (1.15)
23. The big white bird and the minister (2.10)
24. Grandad and the work lantern (1.40)
25. A Thunnerin’ Sort of a Lie (Roud 1706; G/D 8:1701) (0.46)

Recorded live and mastered by Phil Snell at Limbo Studio, Otley

Musicians

Jim Eldon, Mossy Christian: fiddles

Tracks

1. Helmsley Longsword Tune (2.07)
2. Freddy Archer (2.09)
3. Dog Whipping Day (2.18)
4. Farewell to Culture (2.52)
5. The William Henry and Mary King (1.35)
6. Cuddle in, Cuddle in (1.54)
7. The Brickmakers (2.07)
8. Waltz Vienna (2.31)
9. Eazum Teasum (1.53)
10. Cock of the North (1.39)
11. The Zodiac (3.07)
12. Flamborough Sword Dance Tunes (2.21)
13. The Battle of the Boiling Water (1.35)
14. Billy Harrison’s Father’s Polka (2.36)
15. Forty Miles (1.45)
16. Black Jack (2.16)
17. No Man’s Jig (1.55)

Tracks 3-5 Jim Eldon;
Track 9 learned from Edith Annie Grey / Jim Eldon;
All other tracks probably trad.