MacColl Seeger Australian Album

Subject: Review: MacColl/Seeger Australian Album
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 07 Jul 20 - 02:19 AM

Wonder if anybody can help with a request from a friend seeking information for an article
I'm looking or background information and, if possible, a copy of the sleeve notes of an Album Ewan and Peggy made while they were in Australia; 'No Thyme Like the Present'
I tried once before but drew a blank
Help would be appreciated
Thanks
Jim

Subject: RE: Review: MacColl Seeger Australian Album
From: Reinhard
Date: 07 Jul 20 - 03:35 AM

This eBay auction has a photo of the album's backside with the notes.

Subject: RE: Review: MacColl Seeger Australian Album
From: Reinhard
Date: 07 Jul 20 - 03:42 AM

But why did you mark your request as a review, Jim?

Subject: RE: Review: MacColl Seeger Australian Album
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Jul 20 - 04:16 AM

I just called a friend with lots of records, unfortunately her extensive record collection is not easily searched, so I'll ask around.


https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/records/ewanmaccoll-ross.html

Wattle Records (Australia)
(78 rpm)
?? Jim Jones at Botany Bay/Black Velvet Band (with Peggy Seeger and John Cole)

(7-inch EP)
B-2 Convicts and Currency Lads (with A.L. Lloyd, Peggy Seeger and John Cole)

(10-inch LP)
C5 Singing Sailors (with A.L. Lloyd)
C6 Shanties and Fo'c'sle Songs (with A.L. Lloyd)
Note: C5 and C6 appear to contain tracks from Topic TRL3, T.7 and T.8

Larrikin Records (Australia)

BR 1059 Hot Blast (orig. Blackthorne 1059)
BR 1061 Different Therefore Equal (orig. Blackthorne 1061)
EM 2556 No Thyme Lyke the Present (Also issued by EMI)

Amalgamated Metal Workers And Shopwrights Union (Australia)

(Double Cassette Set)

AMWSU 91 Songs of Struggle
(Live concert with Peggy Seeger, recorded at the Tom Mann Theatre in Sydney, 198?)

sandra

Subject: RE: Review: MacColl Seeger Australian Album
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 07 Jul 20 - 04:20 AM

Mistake - too early in the Morning E

Thanks Sandra
I've traces them - if the two ea albumms coincide with the ld Topic records, whih I think they do
Many thanks all, as usual
Kim

Subject: RE: Review: MacColl Seeger Australian Album
From: Reinhard
Date: 07 Jul 20 - 07:43 AM

I've typed up the album details for No Tyme Lyke the Present from the above-mentioned eBay auction's photo.

Even though it's an Australian release it was recorded at Decca Studios in the UK in 1976. Besides Ewan and Peggy, Calum and Neill MacColl, Alan Prosser and Ian Telfer were involved.

Subject: RE: Review: MacColl Seeger Australian Album
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Jul 20 - 08:03 AM

oops, there is a little typo

Ewan NacColl & Peggy Seeger: No Tyme Lyke the Present

Subject: RE: Review: MacColl Seeger Australian Album
From: Reinhard
Date: 07 Jul 20 - 08:10 AM

Sorry! fixed...

Subject: RE: MacColl Seeger Australian Album
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 07 Jul 20 - 10:13 AM

I'm expanding captions on a blog & strangely enough, I had previously made some typos!

sandra (picky proofreader)

Subject: RE: MacColl Seeger Australian Album
From: Stewie
Date: 09 Jul 20 - 10:20 PM

I have a copy in my collection. It cost me $6.99 - the price sticker is still on the cover. The price of vinyl LPs has gone through the roof these days

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: MacColl Seeger Australian Album
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 09 Jul 20 - 11:47 PM

thread drift - I have a used (rare) Australian LP I paid $1 for in the 70s (I liked its pretty cover which is why I bought it & ended up loving the songs, too) which is apparently worth several hundred today. A pristine copy of the same album was worth $1500 in the late 90s, & a pristine copy sold for over $4000 a few years ago. (Hush by Extradition)