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Rudyard Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs
Rudyard Kipling Made Exceedingly Good Songs Dambuster Records DAM 019 (LP, UK, 1989) |
Recorded by Nigel Schofield;
Cover design by Peter Bellamy, based on a woodcut which appeared on the cover
of The Bookman magazine in January 1903.
Musicians
Peter Bellamy: vocals [1-14],
concertina [1, 3, 6];
Jamie O’Dwyer: fiddle [1, 6, 9, 11];
Sharon and the Students (Maggie Adam, Neil Adam, Anthea Bellamy, Peter Bellamy, Jim Ellison, Joel Griffiths, Lynda Hardcastle, Helen Hockenhull, Mike Hockenhull, Alan Rose and John Wade): harmony vocals [14];
Jim Ellison: vocals [7, 13]
Tracks
Side 1
- Back to the Army Again (1894) (4.46)
- Big Steamers (1911) (2.27)
- Gethsemane (1919) (1.54)
- The Prodigal Son (1901) (2.20)
- The Roman Centurion’s Song (1911) (3.43)
- We Have Fed Our Sea (1896) (3.23)
Side 2
- The Dutch in the Medway (1911) (2.30)
- A Song to Mithras (1906) (2.03)
- En-Dor (1919) (2.50)
- Heriot’s Ford (1891) (2.08)
- The Anvil (1911) (1.02)
- The Wet Litany (1904) (2.41)
- Thorkild’s Song (1906) (2.05)
- Recessional (1897) (2.42)
All tracks words Rudyard Kipling, music Peter Bellamy
Tracks 1 and 14 were included in 1999 on Wake the Vaulted Echoes
Notes
Michael Grosvenor Myer noted in the Mudcat Café thread Peter Bellamy recordings? in 2013:
It should be pointed out for such abroad etc. who might not get the reference, that the title of that album was a play on a well-known UK advertising slogan of the time for Mr Kipling’s Cakes, “Mr Kipling makes exceedingly good cakes”: a slogan obviously expressed in faux-simple terms to give a period feel back to the great days of Empire, of which the brand name itself was presumably supposed also to be redolent.