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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 (1.39)
  2. [O] Shepherds Arise (3.04)
  3. [W] Here We Come A-Wassailing (Roud 209; TYG 22) (1.24)
  4. [W] Pace-Egging Song (3.11)
  5. [W] The Holly Bears a Berry (2.29)
  6. [SC] Cambridgeshire May Carol (1.16)
  7. [W] Hal-An-Tow (2.04)
  8. [VF] Two Brethren (3.06)
  9. [W] Earsdon Sword Dance (2.59)

Side 2

  1. [W] Harvest Song: We Gets Up in the Morn (1.16)
  2. [W] Souling Song (1.29)
  3. [VF] Cherry Tree Carol (1.37)
  4. [W] Herod and the Cock (1.00)
  5. [VF] The Babe of Bethlehem (2.50)
  6. [W] Wassail Song (3.04)
  7. [W] Idumea (2.30)
  8. [W] Green Fields (2.41)
  9. [W:C] Sleep On Beloved (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)