Originally released as English folk songs by Columbia, ca. 1955, as part of the Columbia world library of folk & primitive music.

Compact disc.

Program notes by Bob Copper and from the original LP by Lomax and Peter Kennedy, and texts ([36] p. : ill.) inserted in container.

Recorded by Alan Lomax, 1951, and by others for the BBC, ca. 1937-1951.

World library of folk and primitive music ; v. 1

The Alan Lomax collection

The historic series

Haul on the bowlin' (Stanley Slade with male chorus)

A' roving (Stanley Slade with male chorus)

Earsdon sword dancers (Royal Earsdon Team with Jimmy McKay, fiddle)

My bonny lad (Isla Cameron)

The contented country lad (Jim and Bob Copper)

The turmont [i.e. turmut] hoer's song (Fred Perrier with accordion and villagers)

Up the sides and down the middle (Bert Pidgeon, melodeon; Alfie Tuck, riddle drum)

The threshing machine (Jim Copper)

Quarrymen's chant and song (Tom Tewkesbury and quarrymen)

The four loom weaver (Ewan MacColl)

Fourpence a day (Ewan MacColl)

The rigs of the time ("Charger" Salmons and friends)

The Redesdale hornpipe (Jack Armstrong, Northumbrian small-pipes)

Corn rigs (Jack Armstrong's Barnstormer's Band)

The wassail song (Phil Tanner)

The Symondsbury & Eype mummer's play

The Padstow May songs & hobby horse music

The seven step polka (the Haymakers Village Barn Dance Band)

Brigg Fair (Isla Cameron)

The sweet primroses (Phil Tanner)

Died for love (Isla Cameron)

Country gardens (William Kimber, anglo concertina)

Polly Vaughan (A.L. Lloyd)

Singing games and rhymes (group of Sidbury children)

The prickle holly bush (Walter Lucas and villagers)

Richard of Taunton Dean (Mrs. (Aunt Fanny) Rumble)

The mallard (Bunny Palmer)

The false hearted knight (Jumbo Brightwell)

Old daddy fox (Cyrill Biddick with accordion and chorus)

The gower reel (Phil Tanner, mouth music).

Folk songs, English > England.

Folk music > England.

Folk dance music > England.

Field recordings > England.