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Thread #32925 Message #3268552
Posted By: Ross Campbell
04-Dec-11 - 08:15 PM
Thread Name: Never heard of Alex Campbell
Subject: RE: Never heard of Alex Campbell
"CRM" (Alex Campbell, Alan Roberts, Dougie Maclean) on CD at Amazon UK & US
Track Listings 1. Trooper And The Maid 2. I Lo'e Nae Lassie But Ane 3. Jute Mill Song 4. Her Fa La La Lo 5. John Anderson My Jo 6. What Wouldna' Fecht For Charlie 7. Leis A Lurighan 8. Bonnie Mary 9. Rattlin' Roarin' Willie 10. Little Song 11. Miss Elisabeth Campbell 12. Alick C. MacGregor 13. Jock Stewart
Also listed on CD are "Alex Campbell at the Tivoli Gardens"
Track Listings 1. Cindy's Crying 2. Candy Man 3. Needle Of Death 4. Tom Thumb's Blues 5. First Time Ever 6. The Time Has Come 7. Where I'm Bound 8. Champion At Keeping Them Rolling 9. Long Gone From Home 10. Strolling Down The High Way 11. He Was A Most Peculiar Man 12. Sally Free And Easy
and "Alex Campbell in Copenhagen"
Track Listings 1. Colors 2. Rambling Boy 3. The Oggie Man 4. 1913 Massacre 5. Been On The Road 6. Verdant Braes O'Skreen 7. John Riley 8. Lang A' Growing 9. Whistling Rufus - Double Eagle 10. Roll Down The Line 11. Leaving Of Liverpool
Amazon's Alex Campbell Store lists 53 tracks available as MP3 downloads. Some of these are duplicates from different albums (but might still have been recorded on separate occasions).
MusicStack lists about thirty different titles available, mostly LPs, from £5 to over £100.
I saw Alex a couple of times at Blackpool Folk Club at the King's Arms, early seventies. After the second time, when he managed to consume a whole bottle of whisky during his set, I swore I would never go to see him again. A few years after, a gigging singer friend who had "discovered" Alex persuaded me that, straightened out, he was still a performer to be reckoned with. At the Raikes Hotel (about 1980?), he was certainly on form and produced a great night. He and local residents the Taverners had a running competition to try to remember how many folk clubs each had helped to start (and sometimes to close down!)
There was a copy of Folk Review magazine mid-seventies that included a breakdown by Alex Campbell of his year's income and expenditure (total about £3000 as I recall). That's turnover, not profit! Not a lot, even back then.