Do you Know?

Subject: Do you Know?
From: GUEST,Scouse
Date: 24 Oct 00 - 06:40 PM

Who was the only Folk artist to have more than 100 LP's accredited to his name.Have a guess!!!!!

Subject: RE: Do you Know?
From:
Date: 24 Oct 00 - 06:49 PM

Alex Campbell is supposed to have around 120 albums issued--but don't try to find them all

Subject: RE: Do you Know?
From: manitas_at_work
Date: 25 Oct 00 - 08:17 AM

JImmy Shand?

Subject: RE: Do you Know?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Oct 00 - 10:47 AM

Haven't a clue! If only it had been me!

Magpie

Subject: RE: Do you Know?
From: GUEST,Ian M.
Date: 25 Oct 00 - 11:05 AM

Alex Campbell.

Subject: RE: Do you Know?
From: radriano
Date: 25 Oct 00 - 11:06 AM

Quantity is not neccesarily quality. Are we playing the "he who has the most toys at the end wins game" again?

Subject: RE: Do you Know?
From: mousethief
Date: 25 Oct 00 - 11:22 AM

Who or what is Alex Campbell?

Alex
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Subject: RE: Do you Know?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 25 Oct 00 - 12:24 PM

Alex Campbell, Big Daddy of Folk Music

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Do you Know?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 25 Oct 00 - 12:36 PM

As for an answer to the first question, I think Dave Swarbrick is a very strong contender if you count all recordings in which he was listed as one of the musicians.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Do you Know?
From: M. Ted (inactive)
Date: 25 Oct 00 - 01:21 PM

Hmm. "Artist" could mean that this person is an instrumentalist or back-up rather than a the singer/instrumentalist that we tend to assume, and "accredited" probably means that the name is not the the primary performer--And "Folk"--could mean anything!!

Subject: RE: Do you Know?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 25 Oct 00 - 06:34 PM

It appears that Nana Mouskouri is credited with around 200 LP's. But those would be HER albums, not HIS. And it would be stretching quite a bit to call her a folksinger. Certainly SOME of the songs she sings are folksongs.

She sings in several languages and is popular all over Europe, which accounts for her prolific output.

Subject: RE: Do you Know?
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 25 Oct 00 - 07:56 PM

Mousethief - so far, there are very few of Alex's 120 albums listed on this site - plus one picture!

Subject: RE: Do you Know?
From: M. Ted (inactive)
Date: 25 Oct 00 - 11:36 PM

I read somewhere or other that Henry Burr made more than 10,000 recordings(keeping in mind that when he started recording, everything was recorded directly to the cylinder, and he had to re-record each song everytime they wanted to make a new batch) though he was hardly a folkie--

Some of those Nashville cats have probably been credited on 200 albums, but I am hard pressed to think of any names right now--

Subject: RE: Do you Know?
From: GUEST,scouse
Date: 26 Oct 00 - 03:49 PM

Alex is correct,congraters to all who got it right.