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Thread #15390   Message #137532
Posted By: lamarca
17-Nov-99 - 05:22 PM
Thread Name: A. L. Lloyd: History and anecdotes?
Subject: RE: A.L. Lloyd:History and anecdotes?
Art, I think Topic just re-released that album as "English Sporting Songs" on CD, so we have a copy. Here's the listing from the Topic Discography site (a neat place itself...)

TSCD495 Bold Sportsmen All Ewan MacColl, A L Lloyd, Roy Harris Card Playing Song. The Bold Gambling Boy. Gaelic Football. Creeping Jane. Morrissey and the Russian Sailor. The Cock Fight. The Sporting Races of Galway. Sovay the Female Highwayman. Turpin Hero. The Saucy Bold Robber. Old Bob Ridley. Reynard the Fox. Stewball. The Turpin - Sugar Ray Fight. The Football Match. Govan Pool-Room Song. Heenan and Sayers.

I really like the Tom Russell song, too - we have a tape of Katie Lee singing it, and it's wonderful!

Rick, I like listening to Lloyd's singing, but feel vaguely guilty about it - it's so quirky, that I couldn't explain to anyone else WHY I like it, and feel people would think I'm weird (they'd be right, of course...)