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Thread #128868   Message #2887873
Posted By: Jim Carroll
16-Apr-10 - 08:26 AM
Thread Name: Tune Origin: Scarborough Fair
Subject: RE: Scarborough Fair
Version of The Elfin Knight, (Child 2)
Recorded from Mark Anderson, retirerd lead miner, Milton-in-Teasdale, Yorkshire in 1947 (By Ewan MacColl and Joan Littlewood for BBC radio programme The Ballad Collector).
Very similar version entitled Whittingham Fair recorded earlier by Frank Kidson in Yorkshire.
Jim Carroll