I'm a Romany Rai / Various: I'm A Romany Rai
I'm a Romany Rai / Various: I'm A Romany Rai
Format: CD
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Artist: I'm a Romany Rai / Various
Label: Topic Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 714822067225
Genre: Folk
(2-CD set) Among the 57 historic recordings on these two discs are powerful recordings of many of the finest Southern English Gypsy traditional singers including Tom Willett, Phoebe Smith, Charlie Scamp, Sheila Smith and Rebecca Penfold. The second CD is entirely devoted to recordings of Carolyne Hughes and her family. Shirley Collins was invited to select and present her choice of material for the first two volumes. She has a passionate interest in traditional song, and has been a professional singer for most of her working life with a prolific list of published recordings to her credit dating from 1955.
Tracks:
1.1 I'm a Romany Rai
1.2 The Roaming Journeyman
1.3 Won't You Buy My Sweet Blooming Lavender?
1.4 The Banks of Sweet Primroses
1.5 How Old Are You, My Pretty Fair Maid?
1.6 Oh, What a Life
1.7 The Game of Cards
1.8 Father, Build Me a Boat
1.9 Dear Father, Pray Build Me a Boat
1.10 Higher Germany
1.11 The Rose of Ardene
1.12 Meeting Is a Pleasant Place
1.13 Briny O'Then
1.14 The Bold Drunkards
1.15 The Little Ball of Yarn
1.16 Green Grow the Laurels
1.17 The Banks of the Sweet Dundee
1.18 Young Leonard
1.19 Down By the Sheepfold
1.20 Thorny Park
1.21 The Bold Poachers
1.22 Down By the Tanyard Side
1.23 I Am a Man That's Done Wrong to My Parents
1.24 Barbary Allen
1.25 A Blacksmith Courted Me
1.26 A Blacksmith Courted Me
2.1 The Soldier and the Lady
2.2 The Sprig of Thyme
2.3 A Blacksmith Courted Me
2.4 The London Murder
2.5 As I Was A-Walking One May Summer's Morning
2.6 Once I Had a Colour
2.7 My Father He Built Me a Shady Bower
2.8 Georgie
2.9 Young Willie
2.10 My Black Dog and Sheep Crook
2.11 If I Were a Blackbird
2.12 Down By the Old Riverside
2.13 A Wager, a Wager
2.14 The Brake of Briars
2.15 The Bird in the Bush
2.16 Flash Girls and Airy
2.17 The Game of Cards
2.18 Catch Me, Bold Rogue, If You Can
2.19 Jealousy Thoughts
2.20 The Long Lost Child
2.21 Henry My Son
2.22 Barbry Allen
2.23 Billy Boy
2.24 The Cuckoo
2.25 Died for Love
2.26 Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender
2.27 The Little Boy
2.28 Adieu to Old England
2.29 The Butcher Boy
2.30 My Truelove Was a Sailor Lad
2.31 Meet Me Tonight in the Moonlight
2.32 Tuning
2.33 The Draggle-Tail Gypsies
