The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #155128   Message #3646637
Posted By: Dave Sutherland
30-Jul-14 - 12:12 PM
Thread Name: AL Lloyd, is he the one that got away
Subject: RE: AL Lloyd, is he the one that got away
In a conversation with the late Pete Elliott some twenty odd years ago we were discussing Bert's version of "Celebrated Working Man" which he recorded on "The Iron Muse" which differed considerably from Jack Elliott's version which came from Yankee Jim Roberts with whom Jack worked. Knowing how the Elliott family would have gone to the wall for Bert, Pete dismissed his version of the song as "wangling" but stressed that it was the only occasion that he was aware of Bert doing such a thing. The only other instance that I could cite as being an obvious Lloyd "creation" is his variant of "When a Man's In Love" which is the only version of this Irish ballad which contains any erotic content; I have heard lots of other singers perform this song, often citing different sources, but with a far more platonic ending than Bert's.