> Folk Music > Records > Peggy Seeger: Eleven American Ballads and Songs
Eleven American Ballads and Songs
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Eleven American Ballads and Songs Topic Records 10T9 (10" LP, UK, 1957) See also the partial French reissue |
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Introduction and notes by Alan Lomax;
Sleeve design by Brian Byfield
Musicians
Peggy Seeger: vocals, banjo
Tracks
Side 1
- Cumberland Gap (Roud 3414) (1.56)
- The Lady of Carlisle (Roud 396; Laws O25; G/D 5:1056; Henry H474) (4.09)
- The Deer Song (Roud 3607) (2.51)
- Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens (Roud 451) (3.06)
Side 2
- I Never Will Marry (Roud 466; Laws K17; G/D 6:1244) (2.28)
- Devilish Mary (Roud 1017) (2.01)
- The Fair Maid By the Shore (Roud 181; Laws K27) (2.21)
- Three Banjo Tunes: Soldier's Joy / Shady Grove (Roud 4456) / Georgia Buck (Roud 3428) (3.16)
- The Wife of Usher's Well (Roud 196; Child 79) (3.45)
All tracks trad.
> Folk Music > Records > Peggy Seeger: Come Along John
Come Along John
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Come Along John Topic Records 7T18, later TOP18 (EP, UK, 1958) |
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Recorded by Bill Leader;
Sleeve design by Gloria Leader
Musicians
Peggy Seeger: vocals, banjo;
Penny Seeger: vocals [3, 7-8],
guitar [3, 5, 8];
Barbara Seeger: vocals [3, 7-8],
autoharp [3]
Tracks
Side 1
- All Around the Kitchen (Roud 11599)
- Come Along John (Roud 4618)
- Billy Barlow (Roud 236)
- Old Aunt Kate (Roud 11617)
Side 2
- Little Bird, Little Bird, Go Through My Window (Roud 7700)
- Lula Gal (Roud 7728)
- Rissolty, Rossolty (Roud 2792; TYG 1)
- The Derby Ram (Roud 126; G/D 3:645; TYG 59)
All tracks trad.
> Folk Music > Records > Peggy Seeger: Shine Like a Star
Shine Like a Star
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Shine Like a Star Topic Records TOP38 (EP, UK, 1958) |
This album contains songs from Ruth Crawford Seeger's book American Folk Songs for Christmas (New York: Doubleday, 1953).
Sleeve design by Fredun Shapur
Musicians
Peggy Seeger: vocals,
banjo [1-2, 4, 6-7],
guitar [3];
Penny Seeger: vocals [1],
guitar [1];
Barbara Seeger: vocals [1]
Tracks
Side 1
- Amen
- Child of God
- Pretty Little Baby
Side 2
- Great Big Stars
- Shine Like a Star
- The Angel Band (Roud 4268)
- Watch the Stars
All tracks trad.
> Folk Music > Records > Peggy Seeger: Troubled Love
Troubled Love
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Troubled Love Topic Records TOP72 (EP, UK, 1962) |
Recorded by Bill Leader;
Notes by Angela Carter
Musicians
Peggy Seeger: vocals, banjo
Tracks
Side 1
- A Rich Old Man (Roud 1004; Laws Q7)
- The Rambling Gambler (Roud 414) (3.06)
Side 2
- The Cruel War Is Raging (Roud 401; Laws O33) (2.13)
- The Trooper and the Maid (Roud 162; Child 299; G/D 7:1470) (3.44)
All tracks trad.
> Folk Music > Records > Peggy Seeger: Early in the Spring
Early in the Spring
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Early in the Spring Topic Records TOP73 (EP, UK, 1962) |
Recorded by Bill Leader;
Notes by Angela Carter
Musicians
Peggy Seeger: vocals, banjo
Tracks
Side 1
- Madam I Have Come to Court You (Roud 542; G/D 8:1588) (2.15)
- When I Was in My Prime (Roud 3; G/D 6:1180) (3.483
Side 2
- So Early, Early in the Spring (Roud 152; Laws M1; G/D 1:51) (3.15)
- The Chickens They Are Crowing (Roud 3650) (2.08)
All tracks trad.
> Folk Music > Records > Tom Paley, Peggy Seeger: Who's Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?
Who's Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?
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Who's Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot? Topic Records 12T113 (LP, UK, 1964) |
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Tom Paley & Peggy Seeger Elektra Records EKL 295 (LP, mono, USA, 1965) |
Recorded by Bill Leader in London in 1964;
Photography by Brian Shuel;
Notes by Tom Paley and Peggy Seeger
Musicians
Peggy Seeger: vocals [1, 3-4, 6, 8-10, 12-13, 15], banjo, autoharp, dulcimer;
Tom Paley: vocals [1-2, 4-5, 7, 9, 11, 14, 16], guitar;
Claudia Paley: vocals [11]
Tracks
Side 1
- [PS, TP] Who's That Knocking at My Window? (The Drowsy Sleeper) (Roud 22621; Laws M4) (2.36)
- [TP] Love Henry (Roud 47; Child 68) (2.40)
- [PS] The Lass of Loch Royal (Roud 49; Child 76; G/D 6:1226) (6.22)
- [PS, TP] Who's Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot? (Roud 49; Child 76; G/D 6:1226) (2.22)
- [TP] Pretty Polly (Roud 15; Laws P36B) (2.51)
- [PS] Englewood Mine (2.39)
- [TP] Buck Dancer's Choice (1.15)
- [PS] Just As the Tide Was Flowing (Roud 1105) (2.07)
Side 2
- [PS, TP] The Kicking Mule (Roud 3774) (1.33)
- [PS] The Heartless Lady (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124) (3.55)
- [TP, CP] The Fiddling Soldier (Roud 140; Laws P14; TYG 34) (3.14)
- [PS] Tittery Nan (Roud 2194; Laws H16) (1.46)
- [PS] Loving Reilly (Roud 538; Laws M10; G/D 6:1097; Henry H234) (5.29)
- [TP] The Cuckoo (Roud 413; G/D 6:1157; Henry H479) (2.34)
- [PS] If He'd Be a Buckaroo (Roud 3586) (1.12)
- [TP] The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore (Roud 17338) (2.33)
All tracks trad. except
Track 6 Isaac Hannah / trad.
> Folk Music > Records > Peggy Seeger: Classic Peggy Seeger
Classic Peggy Seeger
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Classic Peggy Seeger Fellside Recordings FECD105 (CD, UK, 1996) |
Issued under license from Topic Records;
Produced and remastered by Paul Adams;
Booklet design and artwork by Mary Blood;
Photography by Brian Shuel
Musicians
Peggy Seeger: vocals, banjo, autoharp, dulcimer;
Tom Paley: vocals [16, 18, 21], guitar
Tracks
- Cumberland Gap (Roud 3414) (1.56)
- The Lady of Carlisle (Roud 396; Laws O25; G/D 5:1056; Henry H474) (4.09)
- Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens (Roud 451) (3.06)
- The Deer Song (Roud 3607) (2.51)
- I Never Will Marry (Roud 466; Laws K17; G/D 6:1244) (2.28)
- Devilish Mary (Roud 1017) (2.01)
- The Fair Maid By the Shore (Roud 181; Laws K27) (2.21)
- Three Banjo Tunes: Soldier's Joy / Shady Grove (Roud 4456) / Georgia Buck (Roud 3428) (3.16)
- The Wife of Usher's Well (Roud 196; Child 79) (3.45)
- The Rambling Gambler (Roud 414) (3.06)
- The Cruel War Is Raging (Roud 401; Laws O33) (2.13)
- The Trooper and the Maid (Roud 162; Child 299; G/D 7:1470) (3.44)
- When I Was in My Prime (Roud 3; G/D 6:1180) (3.483
- So Early, Early in the Spring (Roud 152; Laws M1; G/D 1:51) (3.15)
- The Chickens They Are Crowing (Roud 3650) (2.08)
- Who's That Knocking at My Window? (The Drowsy Sleeper) (Roud 22621; Laws M4) (2.36)
- The Lass of Loch Royal (Roud 49; Child 76; G/D 6:1226) (6.22)
- Who's Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot? (Roud 49; Child 76; G/D 6:1226) (2.22)
- Englewood Mine (2.39)
- Just As the Tide Was Flowing (Roud 1105) (2.07)
- The Kicking Mule (Roud 3774) (1.33)
- The Heartless Lady (Roud 1; Child 200; G/D 2:278; Henry H124) (3.55)
- Tittery Nan (Roud 2194; Laws H16) (1.46)
- Loving Reilly (Roud 538; Laws M10; G/D 6:1097; Henry H234) (5.29)
- If He'd Be a Buckaroo (Roud 3586) (1.12)
All tracks trad. except
Track 19 Isaac Hannah / trad.
Tracks 1-9 are from Eleven American Ballads and Songs (10T9, 1958);
Tracks 10-12 are from Troubled Love (TOP72, 1962);
Tracks 13-15 are from Early in the Spring (TOP73, 1962);
Tracks 16-25 are from Who's Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot? (12T113, 1964)
> Folk Music > Records > Peggy Seeger with Irene Scott: Almost Commercially Viable
Peggy Seeger with Irene Scott: Almost Commercially Viable
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Almost Commercially Viable Golden Egg Productions GRADE 2 (CD, USA, 1993) |
Issued under license from Golden Egg Productions;
Mastered by Tim Young at The Hit Factory, London;
Executive producer at Fellside: Paul Adams;
Cover illustration by Judie Bomberger;
Artwork by Mary Blood
Musicians
Peggy Seeger: vocals [1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 1-13, 16-17],
backing guitar [1-2, 5, 7, 9-11, 16],
piano [4, 13-14],
English concertina [16],
Korg synthesiser [9],
autoharp [2];
Irene Scott: vocals [3, 5, 7, 9, 14-15],
lead guitar [2];
Sara Allen: alto flute [9];
Steve Anstee: cello [14, 17];
Roger Bunn: double bass [6];
Kenny Clayton: piano [3, 6, 12, 17];
Kathryn Locke: cello [1];
Calum MacColl: lead guitar [10],
backing guitar [7-8, 13],
bass guitar [2, 15],
zither [14, 16],
8-string dulcimer & psaltery [11],
penny whistle [5];
Neill MacColl: backing guitar [7],
lead guitar [1, 8, 12],
bass guitar [4];
Nick Muir: electric piano [15];
Dick Pierce: trumpet [6];
Brian Spring: drum [4, 6, 8];
Will Stallibrass: harmonica [15];
Phil Steriopulos: double bass [12];
Johnny van Derrick: fiddle [17];
Robin Williams: violin [3]
Tracks
- New Spring Morning (3.54)
- Bread and Wine (3.32)
- Let's Pretend (2.33)
- Polonium (4.22)
- Primrose Hill (4.31)
- Sweet Heroin (4.27)
- Garden of Flowers (3.28)
- Guilty (2.03)
- Night Song (2.58)
- A Good War (4.08)
- Morning Comes Too Soon (3.33)
- You Don't Know How Lucky You Are (3.05)
- Give 'em an Inch (1.54)
- My Joy of You (5.30)
- Holiday Song (3.13)
- Once Again (3.39)
- Getting it Right (3.50)
Tracks 1, 4, 9-13, 16 Peggy Seeger;
Tracks 2, 5, 8 words Peggy Seeger with Irene Scott; music Peggy Seeger;
Tracks 3, 15 Ewan MacColl;
Track 6 words Elizabeth Pyper, music Rutthy Taubb;
Track 7 words Peggy Seeger with Irene Scott; music trad. Sicilian;
Track 14 words Ian Davidson, music trad. Scots
> Folk Music > Records > Peggy Seeger: Three Score and Ten
Peggy Seeger: Three Score and Ten
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Three Score and Ten BBC / Appleseed Recordings APR CD 1100 (2 CD, UK, 2007) |
Produced by Nick Barraclough for BBC Radio 2;
Recorded at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on 29 May 2005;
Mastered by David Glasser at Airshow Mastering, Boulder, Colorado
Musicians
Peggy Seeger: vocals [2-5, 7-8, 10-11, 14, 16, 18-19, 21-28],
spoken vocals [13, 15, 17],
guitar [2, 14, 18, 25],
banjo [4, 8, 19, 21-24],
concertina [5, 9],
piano [10, 16],
autoharp [11, 27];
Billy Bragg: vocals [11-12],
guitar [11];
Eliza Carthy: vocals [5-6, 26],
fiddle [3-6];
Martin Carthy: vocals [5],
guitar [6, 9, 28];
Graham Henderson: accordion [10, 26, 28];
Calum MacColl: vocals [5],
guitar [3, 10, 16, 26];
Neill MacColl: mandolin [3, 26],
guitar [27-28];
Kitty MacColl: vocals [5, 26];
James McNally: bodhrán [7];
Irene Piper-Scott: vocals [3],
spoons [7];
Mike Seeger: vocals [18, 20-21],
autoharp [18],
banjo [19, 21],
quills & shaker [20];
Pete Seeger: vocals [21],
banjo [21];
Norma Waterson: vocals [5-6, 26];
All on chorus [12]
Tracks
CD 1: First Set
- Introduction (2.11)
- Hangman (Roud 144; Child 95; G/D 2:248) (4.33)
- Fiddling Soldier (Roud 140; Laws P14; TYG 34) (4.30)
- Logan County Jail (Roud 691; Laws E17) (4.37)
- Che Guevara (3.58)
- Lowlands of Holland (Roud 484; G/D 6:1116; Henry H180) (5.27)
- Different Therefore Equal (3.39)
- Caveman (4.48)
- Humours of Bandon (2.46)
- Home Sweet Home (5.47)
- Darling Annie (5.21)
- If You Want a Better Life (2.58)
CD 2: Second Set
- Poem for Ewan (1.05)
- First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (3.48)
- I Am Ill with Love (0.54)
- So Long Since I Have Been Home (6.14)
- My Mother Is Younger Than Me (3.51)
- When First Unto This Country (Roud 1081; G/D 7:1469) (3.10)
- Soldier's Farewell (Roud 401; Laws O33) (4.03)
- Quill Ditty (3.11)
- Cindy (Roud 836) (4.21)
- English Is Cuh-ray-zee (4.04)
- Take It from Dr King (5.10)
- Where Have All the Flowers Gone (5.19)
- Gonna Be an Engineer (7.13)
- Careless Love (Roud 422) (4.45)
- Sing About These Hard Times (4.58)
- Love Call Me Home (5.15)
Track 2 trad. USA version of Child #95;
Tracks 3-4, 18-19, 21, 26 trad. USA;
Tracks 5, 7-8, 10-13, 15-17, 25, 27-28 Peggy Seeger;
Tracks 6, 9 trad. UK;
Track 14 Ewan MacColl;
Track 20 Mike Seeger;
Track 22 Richard Lederer, Josh White Jr.;
Track 23 Pete Seeger;
Track 24 Pete Seeger, Joe Hickerson;
> Folk Music > Records > Peggy Seeger: First Farewell
Peggy Seeger: First Farewell
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First Farewell Red Grape Music RGPSCD4 (CD, UK, 9 April 2021) |
Produced, mixed and mastered by Calum Malcolm;
Recorded at Voom! New Malden and Atticus, Palmers Green;
Photography by Vicki Sharp Photography;
Project management by Kerry Harvey-Piper, Red Grape Music Ltd;
Sleeve design amd artwork by Kitty MacColl
Musicians
Peggy Seeger: vocals [1-11],
piano [1, 3-8, 10],
concertina [9],
guitar [11];
Calum MacColl: vocals [4],
guitar [2-6],
ebow [7],
organ [9];
Neill MacColl: guitar [2];
Kate St John: cor anglais [1],
accordion [2, 4],
backing vocals [2],
oboe [8]
Tracks
- Dandelion and Clover (2.57)
- The Invisible Woman (3.41)
- Lubrication (2.27)
- All in the Mind (3.25)
- We Are Here (3.25)
- The Puzzle (2.14)
- Lullabies for Strangers (3.35)
- One of Those Beautiful Boys (2.39)
- Tree of Love (1.29)
- How I Long for Peace (3.12)
- Gotta Get Home By Midnight (2.16)
Tracks 1, 3, 6, 9-11 Peggy Seeger;
Track 4-5 Calum MacColl, Peggy Seeger;
Track 2 Neill MacColl, Peggy Seeger;
Track 7-8 Kate St John, Peggy Seeger
> Folk Music > Records > Peggy Seeger
Other records with Peggy Seeger
See also the Ewan MacColl discography for the numerous albums Peggy Seeger made with him.
The Armistice Pals,
Where Have All the Flowers Gone?,
EP, Folkstock FSR008, 2014
Various Artists,
The F Spot: Femmes Fatales,
CD, Folkstock FSR12, 2015
Various Artists,
Destination: The End of an Era for a Leading Folk Music Label,
3 CD, Fellside FECD282, 2018
Various Artists,
Vision & Revision: The First 80 Years of Topic Records,
2 CD/2 LP, Topic TXCD597, 2019