The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #17054   Message #2744229
Posted By: MGM·Lion
12-Oct-09 - 12:54 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Workhouse Boy
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Workhouse boy
The OP had one thing wrong, and nobody has corrected it: The Halliard were actually Dave Moran, Nick Jones [as he called himself then, early in his career], and Nigel Patterson. They specialised in writing original tunes to previously unrecorded broadsides, at which both Moran & Jones were particularly gifted. Jon Raven did once record with them, on one of his own-label records, but on alternate tracks, not as part of their lineup. Tony Rose was never associated with them: this confusion possibly arose because Nic Jones's & Tony Rose's first solo albums were the first two issues on Bill Leader's Trailer label not masny years later then the days of The Halliard [whose members had all shortly before been schoolfriends].