Carolyne Hughes and family : Gypsy songs and stories 1
SCD 1116 Sound Library Carolyne Hughes and family : Gypsy songs and stories 1 / Carolyne Hughes - Folktracks [Folktrax], 1975. - 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Compact disc. Musical instruments: Voice.
1. Blackdog and Sheepcrook (or, Flora) talk after about her grandmother -- 2. Blind Beetles (or, Died for Love) explanation of song after -- 3. Jew's Garden (Child #156)talk before and after -- 4. Lord Thomas & Fair Ellen (Child #73)explantion after -- 5. Bird in the Bush (or, Three Maidens) -- 6. Paddies Lie Down (or, Paddy Backwards) talk before -- 7. Billy Boy (or, My Boy Billy) -- 8. Draggle Tailed Gypsies (Child #200) talk before and after -- 9. Tuning Up -- 2 pieces of mouth music for Step Dancing [talk before] -- 10. Flash Girls and Airy Too (or, Seventeen Come Sunday) -- 11. Banks of the Sweet Primeroses talk after -- 12. Jealousy Thoughts (Poison in a Glass of Wine) / sung by daughter Celia, talk after -- 13. Drowsy Sleeper explanation of Romany after -- 14. Georgie (Child #209)talk before and after -- 15. Soldier and the Lady (Nightingales Sing) talk before and after -- 16. I Am a Romany (Song of the Thrush) talk before -- 17. Talk about Romany life etc. -- 18. Adieu to Old England Adieu talk before and after -- 19. Flower of Servantmen (Child# 106)talk before -- 20. The London Murder (Oxford Girl) talk after about grandmother -- 21. A Blacksmith Courted Me talk after -- 22. Sprig of Thyme talk before about age of song -- 23. The Little Boy (Lady Maisry Child #65) -- 24. Brake of Briars (Bridgwater, Bruton Town) / sung by husband John Hughes with talk after about his work -- 25. Henry My Son (Child #12) / sung by daughter Carrie. Recorded in Blanford, Dorset, 1968 -- Tracks sung by Carolyne Hughes except where otherwise indicated.
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