Ewan MacColl/Lang A' Growing

Subject: Ewan MacColl/Lang A' Growing
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 05:35 AM

I'm trying to trace recordings of Ewan MacColl singing Lang A-Growing; specifcally, the version he got from his mother, which starts "The trees they are ivied, the leaves they are green".

To date I've found nothing subsequent to a 1956 recording he made for Riverside in New York. Nothing in Topic, or Folkways, or The Long Harvest, or any of the other Argo LPs I've got.

Can anybody help ?

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl/Lang A' Growing
From: Peace
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 02:30 PM

Trees They Do Grow High (Lang A' Growing),Newport Folk Festival. Recorded Jun 24/26, 1960. Vol.2, Vanguard VSD 2088, LP (1961), cut #B.03 [1960]

I do not know that that is the specific song you seek. Hopefully, the real researchers will get on this thread and do their stuff. Guys, where you at?

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl/Lang A' Growing
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Sep 06 - 02:54 PM

I think this'll be the same version that Alex Campbell sings on his 'Live in Copenhagen' LP. Beautiful!

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl/Lang A' Growing
From: GUEST,padgett
Date: 04 Sep 06 - 05:22 AM

I wonder if Bob Blair has anything of this?

he wasnt at Whitby FF this year due to illness but prev year had some original recordings that Ewan had done

he was working towards other material too

Ray

Subject: RE: Ewan MacColl/Lang A' Growing
From: Fred McCormick
Date: 04 Sep 06 - 06:42 AM

Thanks for the info folks. I hadn't thought of Bob Blair, but I'll certainly get in touch. I hope his illness is nothing serious.