Three Score & Ten Dirt Cheap

Subject: Three Score & Ten Dirt Cheap
From: Owen Woodson
Date: 04 Dec 12 - 05:59 AM

Three Score & Ten, the CD/book package which Topic Records published for its seventieth anniversary is now on off from them at the incredibly cheap price of £25-00 plus shipping.

Subject: RE: Three Score & Ten Dirt Cheap
From: Newport Boy
Date: 04 Dec 12 - 07:44 AM

Thanks, Owen - a great bargain. I've ordered mine.

Phil

Subject: RE: Three Score & Ten Dirt Cheap
From: wassail
Date: 04 Dec 12 - 02:17 PM

Many thanks........half the price of Amazon!
       Mike

Subject: RE: Three Score & Ten Dirt Cheap
From: Leadfingers
Date: 04 Dec 12 - 02:33 PM

And Topic DONT avoid UK Tax !

Subject: RE: Three Score & Ten Dirt Cheap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Dec 12 - 10:35 AM

My copy arrived today, beautifully presented too. The notes that accompany the discs are worth the money on their own!

Subject: RE: Three Score & Ten Dirt Cheap
From: Leadfingers
Date: 07 Dec 12 - 10:52 AM

AgreedJohn ! Hard Back book plus CDs - Excellent .

Subject: RE: Three Score & Ten Dirt Cheap
From: John Routledge
Date: 07 Dec 12 - 11:02 AM

Just about resisting the temptation to open my package It is a Chtistmas present.!!

Subject: RE: Three Score & Ten Dirt Cheap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Dec 12 - 12:21 PM

Good luck with that John ;)

Subject: RE: Three Score & Ten Dirt Cheap
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Dec 12 - 09:43 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: Three Score & Ten Dirt Cheap
From: Dennis the Elder
Date: 08 Dec 12 - 04:44 AM

i,ve ordered one, cant't wait for delivery.
Thanks for link Owen.

Subject: RE: Three Score & Ten Dirt Cheap
From: Joe Nicholson
Date: 08 Dec 12 - 09:00 AM

Mine came to-day but it is a Cristmas present from M. so I cannot open it till the 25th. Roll-on.

Subject: RE: Three Score & Ten Dirt Cheap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Dec 12 - 03:01 PM

Well I'm really enjoying it. As I don't get to any concerts, and I never listen to folk progs on radio, some of the names I know only from the Living Tradition, have now become flesh (as it were), and I have discovered some really great songs and singers. The only time I get to hear and see new folks (to me0 is Whitby, which is now the only festival I go to.
Interestingly, although I have a fair collection of vinyl and cassettes, there aren't very many duplicates of stuff I already have.

Subject: RE: Three Score & Ten Dirt Cheap
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Dec 12 - 09:07 AM

That's it. I have now listened to all the tracks, and I enjoyed nearly all of it. Some stuff was inspiring, some was not quite to my taste, and there was only one track I had skip, because I couldn't stand it.
I've discovered some great stuff, and been amazed that Ewan McColl EVER recorded that track!
Well done Topic, good selection of tracks, and the theming of the CD's worked well for me.
I recommend it whole heartedly.

Subject: RE: Three Score & Ten Dirt Cheap
From: GUEST,Fred McCormick
Date: 09 Dec 12 - 03:24 PM

John. I presume you're referring to 16 Tons. Not only did MacColl record that track for Topic, there is also a National Coal Board film of him singing it.

Well, it was in the early days of the revival, at a time when MacColl, Lloyd et al were intensely concerned about revitalising workers' musical culture, but hadn't quite settled on how they were to do it.