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Thread #45051 Message #1076897
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
20-Dec-03 - 02:16 PM
Thread Name: tune Req: Dives and Lazarus (variants)
Subject: RE: Variants of Dives and Lazarus
Assuming that you mean recordings of traditional rather than revival singers, there seem to be very few. Two are currently listed in the Roud Folk Song Index:
Library of Congress AFS L57: Child Ballads Traditional in the United States: Aunt Molly Jackson, Clay County, Kentucky, 1939. Dives and Lazarus.
Folktracks FSA 129: Blow the Windy Morning: Emily Bishop, Bromsberrow Heath, Herefordshire, 1952. Divers and Lazarus.
I think that the Bishop set also appeared on The Folk Songs of Britain, Vol. 9. Songs of Ceremony (Topic Records in the UK, Caedmon in the USA), but that is long out of print. You can get copies of material that Peter Kennedy recorded in the '50s from his Folktrax label; sometimes the compilations have been given different titles since those listed by Roud. Emily Bishop's set appears on two: