Seeking 1960s folk LP set

Subject: RE: Seeking 1960s folk LP set
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 May 26 - 02:07 PM

Thanks, John. I should have know that. ;-)

Subject: RE: Seeking 1960s folk LP set
From: GUEST,CJB
Date: 16 May 26 - 12:28 PM

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Subject: RE: Seeking 1960s folk LP set
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 May 26 - 12:21 PM

BTW It's 'The Black Cat Piddled in the White Cat's Eye.' :)

Subject: RE: Seeking 1960s folk LP set
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 May 26 - 11:32 AM

Could Richard Dyer-Bennet have participated in something like that?

Subject: RE: Seeking 1960s folk LP set
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 16 May 26 - 03:43 AM

The comic song selection sound very much in the style of Robin Hall & Jimmy McGregor.

Subject: Seeking 1960s folk LP set
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 May 26 - 01:03 AM

This is from an email request from Elaine. Can anybody identify this 2-LP set?

From Elaine:

Here’s a summary of what I can remember:

Format: A two-record set (33 LP) in a single gatefold jacket — the cover opened like a book. I think lyrics to all the songs were printed on the inner pages, but I don’t remember clearly. The cover was white with ink and color illustrations (no photographs). I received it as a gift when I was about six years old, so it was new in the late Sixties.

Performers: Male solo voice. I think there were two different performers, a tenor with a banjo and a light baritone with guitar. The performer(s) adopted the accent of whatever song was being sung rather than singing in a consistent native accent.

Repertoire I remember:


• Fifteen Years on the Erie Canal
  
• Waterboy
  
• There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
  
• She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain
  
• The Battle Cry of Freedom (Union version — "Rally round the flag boys")
  
• A medley of British Isles comic songs including:
  
  • You Cannot Shove Your Granny Off a Bus
    
  • Why Do Scotsmen Emigrate (the whisky verse)
    
  • There Is a Happy Land / Duke Street Jail (Glasgow)
    
  • On Mondays I Never Go to Work
    
  • The Black Cat Fiddled and the White Cat Sighed (Cor Blimey)
  I’m pretty sure the songs were organized into four groups (one for each side of an LP) by theme. There may have been more Civil War songs, for instance, or more songs from the South.
  
  Label: Unknown, but possibly Elektra, Vanguard, or a similar folk revival label of the period.
  
  Performers I've considered and am uncertain about: Ed McCurdy, Oscar Brand, Logan English. It did not sound like Burl Ives.
  
  Is this enough to help identify something?
  
  Thanks so much for your help.
  
  --Elaine