The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #50800   Message #2375905
Posted By: Don Firth
27-Jun-08 - 07:35 PM
Thread Name: Richard Dyer-Bennet
Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett
Ah, SO! Cut and pasted from Charley's post above:

DECCA DLP 5046            10"-LP    1949

RICHARD DYER-BENNETT (SIC)
TWENTIETH CENTURY MINSTREL - TRADITIONAL BALLADS OF ANCIENT TIMES!

A-1 The Devil and the Farmer's Wife
A-2 Eggs and Marrowbone
A-3 The Willow Tree
A-4 Villikens and His Dinah
B-1 Swapping Song
B-2 The Old Maid
B-3 Early One Morning
B-4 Greensleeves
B-5 Oh Sally My Dear

This was one of the first records of folk music I bought back in 1952 and from it, I learned some of the first songs I sang—and still sing. I do a somewhat different version of "The Devil and the Farmer's Wife" ("The Farmer's Curst Wife," which I learned later from an Andrew Rowan Summers record), and I added a couple of judiciously selected verses to the one verse of "Greensleeves" that Dyer-Bennet sings. I didn't learn "The Old Maid."

My record also lists B-5 as "Oh Sally My Dear," but it's actually "The Sally Gardens," the Yeats poem set to music.

I also have the "Olden Ballads" record with Tom Glaser on the flip-side, three or four (?) of the Stinson records, and #1 through #6 and #8 through #10 of the Richard Dyer-Bennet label.

These—and a three and a half foot stack of other vinyl records—I want to start transferring to CDs. . . .

Don Firth