Transatlantic Folk Box Set

Subject: Transatlantic Folk Box Set
From: eddie1
Date: 21 Oct 07 - 01:04 PM

Before Record chain Fopps went to the wall, I was lucky enough to get the above described as a Limited Edition 3-CD for £5.00.
Some great names from the past - The Johnstons, Dransfields, Ian Campbell Group, Young Tradition, Grehan Sisters, Sallyangie and and and.
One odd pairing is Sydney Carter and Sheila Hancock with "Coming Down From Aldermaston". Does anyone know if this is the actress who was married to John Thaw? Didn't know she was a folksinger.

Eddie

Subject: RE: Transatlantic Folk Box Set
From: johnross
Date: 21 Oct 07 - 10:19 PM

The notes to 1998 four-CD set "The Transatlantic Story" (Essential ESF CD 64) describes the original 1962 LP, Putting Out The Dust Bin (TRA 64), as a coupling of "the songwriter Sidney Carter and actor Sheila Hancock...Hancock was already a household name as the scatty Carol in BBC TV's The Rag Trade and had a huge success in the West End play Rattle of a Simple Man."

Several of Transatlatic's early LPs featured actors who were not known as folksingers, including Tony Britton.

Subject: RE: Transatlantic Folk Box Set
From: eddie1
Date: 22 Oct 07 - 12:27 AM

Thanks for that John. It's not the best track on the album but interesting.

Eddie

Subject: RE: Transatlantic Folk Box Set
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Oct 07 - 10:48 AM

Greetings eddie/ John.

My copy of the LP is Transatlantic TRA106 of 1962
Putting Out the Dustbin

Songs written by Sydney Carter and performed by him and Sheila Hancock.

with Stephen Sedley (compiler of the songbook "The Seeds of Love") - guitar, lute.
Ralph Trainer - guitar, banjo.
Roger Hellyer - bassoon.
Bill Leader - recording engineer, drum, tambourine.

Other songs in addition to Coming Down From Aldermaston were:
My Last Cigarette (which has been played quite often in recent times with the introduction of no-smoking legislation).
My Father Was a Cupid.
Lanlord and Tenant.
Blow the World to Kingdom Come.
Mixed Up Old Man.
Gentlemen Preferred.
Putting Out the Dustbin.
Watch 'Em, Nell.
Put the Moon in the Dustbin.
My Mum was a Woman.
Better Take a Book to Bed.
Socialism in our Time.
and
Waiting for the Film to Come which had the splendid verse (as remembered)
Lady Chatterley - what a lovely love-affair,
Here's a forget-me-not, let me put it in your hair.
There wasn't a single word I didn't know already there,
I'm waiting for the film to come.

bigJ