Ewan MacColl

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 02 May 20 - 12:40 PM

The sleeve notes are available at

https://www.theballadeers.com/eng/ewm_1967_ada66_lh1.htm

Somewhere Jim mentioned he hadn't read them, or something like that. Anyway, if I have done something wrong by posting the link, c'est la vie.

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 02 May 20 - 01:06 PM

Sorry Starry - the 'Second Crop' two aren't there - they've only just been found
Balladeers is an extremely useful and highly recommendable site though
Jim

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 02 May 20 - 02:23 PM

Thanks, Jim. Hope you're staying healthy. Remember, if you can smell a fart or a beer on someone's breath you're standing too close.

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 02 May 20 - 02:35 PM

As my mam used to say when complained of a bad smell "Your nose is too near your arse"
Jim

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 May 20 - 05:41 AM

I've added that link to the Mudcat YouTube channel playlist "Other videos of interest", Phillip.

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl
From: Phillip
Date: 11 May 20 - 03:17 PM

Calum MacColl has just put the original Topic recording of Jamie Foyers up on the Bandcamp page!

https://ewanmaccoll.bandcamp.com/

There is also a new posting of the Wattle Records disc Singing Sailors, though it seems to be the same material that Stinson also brought out, including the joined together track The Flying Cloud. If anyone, by which I suppose I mean Jim, knows how the two separate recordings of The Flying Cloud came about I would be very interested to know.
I think the star5 of it, obviously made when Ewan was pretty young, is superb, with masses of tension in that higher pitch. If I said it’s a terrible song, dreadful and awful, that implies the song is poor. But those seem the right words to describe it. It is chilling, maybe?