Three score & ten : a voice to the people : 70 years of the oldest independent record label in Great Britain : Topic Records
Bok Engelsk 2009
| Utgitt | London : Topic , 2009
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| Omfang | 108 s. : ill. + 7 CD
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| Opplysninger | This 10" book with 108 pages and 7 CDs celebrates 70 years of Topic Records, the oldest independent record label in Great Britain, and possibly in the world. Produced and researched by David Suff; On the cover picture are Louis Killen and Frankie Armstrong. - Innhold CD 1: A selection of treasures from the Topic catalogue. The humpback whale / Nic Jones ; Angi / Davy Graham ; The Shaskeen reel / John Wright ; The Lancashire Toreadors / The Oldham Tinkers ; Sullivan's march / Pat Mitchell ; San Francisco Bay blues / Jesse Fuller ; Country gardens / William Kimber ; Tamlyn / Mike Waterson ; The air for Maurice Ogg ; Jumping Jack ; The air for Maurice Ogg / Alistair Anderson ; Creeping Jane / Joseph Taylor ; Wasps in the woodpile / Andrew Cronshaw ; Prince Heathen / Martin Carthy, Dave Swarbrick ; The bonny labouring boy / Harry Cox ; Rawtenstall annual fair / Lea Nicholson ; Music for a found harmonium / Patrick Street ; Bitter withy / John Tams --. - Innhold CD 2: England arise! ; The nut dance (excerpt) / The Britannia Coconut Dancers ; Spencer the rover / Bob & Ron Copper ; All things are quite silent / Shirley Collins ; Blackwater side / Anne Briggs ; The two magicians / A.L. Lloyd ; Scan's polkas / Oak ; The crafty maid's policy / Frankie Armstrong ; A place called England / June Tabor ; When I die / Peter Bellamy ; The bold Princess Royal / Sam Larner ; Hal-an-tow / The Watersons ; We shepherds are the best of men / Fred Jordan ; The rose of Britain's isle ; Glorishears / John Kirkpatrick & Sue Harris ; Riding down to Portsmouth / Tom Willett ; Higher Germany / Pheobe Smith ; The ideal schottische / The Cheviot Ranters ; The methody parson / Roy Harris ; The maid and the palmer / Brass Monkey ; Hopping down in Kent / Louie Fuller ; The devil and the farmer's wife / Walter Pardon --. - Innhold CD 3: Ireland boys, hurrah. The rising sun ; The pope's toe / Jackie Daly ; The Waterford boys / Paddy Tunney ; The banks of red roses / Sarah Makem ; Gillan's apples ; The prize jig / John Doonan & John Wright ; Slieve Gallon Brae / The McPeake Family ; Paddy Ryan's dream ; Mamma's pet / Seamus Tansey, Reg Hall ; My Irish Molly o / The Flanagan Brothers ; The blackbird / Seamus Ennis ; The factory girl / Margaret Barry ; Roaring Mary ; The old torn petticoat / The Irish Country Four ; Spailpín a rún / Sean Mac Donnchadha ; The choice wife / Willie Clancy ; The tinker's old budget / Mary Ann Carolan ; Padraig O'Keefe's ; Con Cassidy's / The Boys of the Lough ; Dowd's favourite / Hugh Gillespie ; Wife of the bold tenant farmer / Joe Heaney ; The music in the glen ; The green fields of America / The O'Halloran Brothers ; The knight templar's dream / Len Graham ; The yellow tinker ; The humours of Scarriff / Sean O'Shea & Bobby Casey ; He rolled her to the wall / Frank Harte ; The heather breeze ; The traveller / The Russell Family ; The patriot game / Dominic Behan ; The Belfast hornpipe ; The rights of man / John Rea ; Bridie Morley ; Duignan's favourite / Packie Duignan & Seamus Horan. - Innhold CD 4: Scotia the brave ; Miss Drummond of Perth ; Fiddler's joy ; Traditional reel ; The Shetland reel / Battlefield Band ; Come all ye fisher lasses / The Fisher Family ; Queen among the heather / Belle Stewart ; Cullen bay ; Jig o'slurs ; Seagull / Kentigern ; Wi' my roving eye / Norman Kennedy ; Blue bleezin' blind drunk / Cilla Fisher ; Soldier's joy / Tom Anderson & Aly Bain ; The dowie dens of Yarrow / Gordeanna McCulloch ; Erin go bragh / Dick Gaughan ; Young Jimmy Foyers / Sheila Stewart ; Kempy Kaye / Jock Tamson's Bairns ; Lady Eliza / Winnie Campbell ; Tilley plump ; Auld Foula reel ; Oot and in da harbour / Curlew ; Herd laddie o' the glen / Willie Scott ; The fireman's not for me / Isla Cameron ; Dance with me, Morag / Isabel Sutherland ; The wind that blew the bonnie lassie's plaidie awa' / Jimmy McBeath ; MacCrimmon's lament / Jeannie Robertson ; The gallant Forty Twa / Ian Manuel ; The twa corbies / Ray & Archie Fisher ; Boulavogue / Davie Stewart ; The wandering piper / John Burgess. - Innhold CD 5: The singer & the song. Unity (raise your banners high) / John Tams ; The dominion of the sword / Martin Carthy ; The sun is burning / The Ian Campbell Folk Group ; Go down ye murderers / Ewan MacColl ; Police patrol / Bob Davenport ; Two tears / Eliza Carthy ; Never any good / Martin Simpson ; Both sides of the Tweed / Dick Gaughan ; George's son / John Kirkpatrick with Brass Monkey ; Reconciliation / Ron Kavana ; Stumbling on / Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight ; Acceptable losses / John B. Spencer ; Ships of shame / Steve Ashley ; The land of three rivers / Vin Garbutt ; No telling / Linda Thompson ; Dust / Johnny Handle ; Two-fisted heroes / Bill Caddick. - Innhold CD 6: The people's flag. The man who watered the worker's beer / Paddy Ryan ; Talking union blues / Pete Seeger ; Joe Hill / Paul Robeson ; Masters of war / Martin Simpson ; The red flag / Bob Smith's Ideal Band ; The blackleg miners / Louis Killen ; No power on earth / Billy Bennett ; The internationale / The Topic Singers & Band ; To the begging i will go / Ewan MacColl ; The hand-loom weaver's lament / Harry Boardman ; The rigs of the time / Shirley Collins ; Greedy landlord / Stan Kelly with Leon Rosselson ; Time to ring some changes / Richard Thompson ; Sixteen tons / Ewan MacColl ; Peat bog soldiers / The Ian Campbell Folk Group ; Aa'm glad the strike's done / The High Level Ranters ; Threes score and ten / The Watersons ; Dirty old town / Ewan MacColl ; The Liverpool barrow boys / The Spinners ; The weaver's march / The Celebrated Working Men's Band ; We poor labouring men / Waterson:Carthy ; Perfumes of Arabia / Martin Carthy & Dave Swarbrick ; Hot asphalt / Bob Davenport & The Rakes. - Innhold CD 7: Even more treasures from the topic catalogue. Skye crofter's ; The swallow tail / Billy Pigg ; While gamekeepers lie sleeping / June Tabor ; Boi se otvori / Roza Tsetkova ; Barleycorn / Tim van Eyken ; The girl on the greenbriar shore / Tom Paley & Peggy Seeger ; The happy one-step ; Green willis / The House Band ; Clyde Water / Nic Jones ; Baranca / Vlado & Nikola Robanovski ; Georgie / Levi Smith ; Jenny Lind / Scan Tester & Rabbidy Baxter ; Worcester city / Eliza Carthy ; Talking dustbowl blues / Ramblin' Jack Elliott ; Kaba vence / Refki Taho, Hysen Zizolli & Ahmet Metolli ; The green banks of Yarrow / Alison McMorland & Peta Webb ; Johnny, will you marry me? / Dan Sullivan's Shamrock Band ; Hamburger --polka fra Hardanger / Vestlandsgruppa ; Hedger and ditcher / The Silly Sisters ; Burren no. 1 ; Chris Droney's favourite / Chris Droney ; Nna hamu / The Jauharah Orchestra ; Little Sadie / Hedy West ; Fulmine / Andy Cutting (Blowzabella) ; No one stands alone / Blue Murder.. - Curated, researched, written and produced by David Suff, Three Score & Ten - A Voice to the People is a fitting eulogy to Topic Records – the oldest truly independent record label in the world. Seven CDs, 144 tracks, in a ten by ten inch hardback book, with dust jacket, containing 108 profusely illustrated, full colour pages with a narrative portrait of Topic Records from it’s inception in 1939 to the present day. Also included is a complete discography listing every release in those 70 years. The 144 tracks cover all aspects of Topic’s recording history. The extensive text gives a complete recording and social history with profiles of the essential recordings, principle artists and key personages. The many illustrations are a revelation in themselves, anchoring the whole project with photos of the artists, album sleeves, advertising leaflets, snapshots and memorabilia in full colour on every page. The story of Topic Records is synonymous with the rebirth of folk and it’s growth as a musical and social movement in Britain during the last seventy years. Three Score & Ten comprehensively chronicles this incredibly dynamic and creative period in a sumptuous package of pictures, words and music. BBC Review Topic Records is an extraordinary institution. Founded 70 years ago, it can rightly claim to be the oldest truly independent record label in the UK, and has had an enormous impact on the development of the folk music scene in Britain. With folk now back in fashion, it’s appropriate that Topic should celebrate its birthday in style, and this elaborately packaged set does just that. The seven CDs are cleverly positioned within the hardback cover of a well-illustrated 100-page book that tells the story of the record label, from the late 30s through to the present day, with photos and features on the key figures involved. These include the singer and songwriter Ewan MacColl, whose 1952 recording of the classic Dirty Old Town is included, through to the Waterson Family and singer and guitarist Martin Carthy – and even that veteran American folk hero Pete Seeger. Topic started out as a staunchly left-wing label. It was founded by the Workers’ Music Association, an offshoot of the British Marxist Party, at a time when the growth of fascism elsewhere in the world had led to an upsurge in socialism in Britain. Members of the WMA included such distinguished composers and musicians as Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears, and the aim of Topic was to promote music that “exerts an influence against the social injustices of our present society”. As the CDs here prove, the label did just that – and much more besides. It released, and continues to release, music by great folk singers, singer-songwriters and experimental musicians who have used the folk tradition as their starting point. The first and last CDs in the set show off the label’s range, from the extraordinary guitar work of the late Davy Graham and his classic Angi (first recorded for Topic in 1963) through to the traditional singing of June Tabor and the classic American blues of Jesse Fuller. Other CDs are devoted solely to English traditional songs, with contributions from those great 60s stars Shirley Collins and Anne Briggs, or to Irish and Scottish songs, or to songwriters, with contribution here from Linda Thompson, guitarist Martin Simpson, and that adventurous contemporary singer-songwriter, Eliza Carthy. And, of course, there’s a CD of left-wing songs, including Topic’s first-ever release from back in 1939 – The Man That Waters the Workers’ Beer. Anyone who appreciates great folk music should check this out.
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| ISBN | Nkr.900.00
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