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Thread #110981   Message #2354518
Posted By: Jim Carroll
01-Jun-08 - 03:13 PM
Thread Name: Peggy Seeger's Cockney Leadbelly??
Subject: RE: Peggy Seeger's Cockney Leadbelly??
No - read Peggy's letter again - it was really aimed at accent and language.
Can't lay my hands on the records at present,
Off the top of my head
Blind Beggar of Bethnall Green, Betsy Baker, Georgie Barnell, London Ordinary, Tottie, Fan in the Lion's Den, London Burning in Ashes - can't remember any more; will dig them out later.
Prior to these albums Ewan did 2 Folkways albums of London broadsides which containes Roome For Company, Pity's Lamentation, There's Nothing to be had Without Money, The Midwife's Ghost, Merry Progress to London, London's Lottery, King Lear and his Three Daughters, The Female Frolic, Give Me My Yellow Rose, King and no King and Constance of Cleveland.

Terry Yarnell was/is researching material for a book of London songs and had compiled a large list of them last time I spoke to him
Jim Carroll