A.L. Lloyd - Topic Records

'Bert' Lloyd occupied a unique position in the folksong revival of the 1950s and '60s. He was a musicologist with an international reputation, who wrote on the social history of British folk music and broadcast many series on traditional musics of the world. A learned and kindly mentor to younger singers, he was himself a performer of great charm, who united in his performances a scholar's respect for text and a singer's instinct for expression.

A.L. LLOYD ENGLISH DRINKING SONGS TSCD496

These songs of merriment and mayhem were of the kind, Lloyd said, that might be heard 'around the barroom table of a little country alehouse on a Saturday night not drinking songs in the strict sense - not songs merely in praise of liquor' but songs that 'tell a bit of a story songs as sly as a tinker's wink, as rough as a ploughman's hand.' They are accompanied on banjo or concertina.

1 The Derby Ram
2 The Foggy Dew
3 Maggie May
4 When Johnson's Ale Was New
5 The Butcher & the Chambermaid
6 A Jug of Punch
7 The Parson & the Maid
8 Three Drunken Huntsmen
9 All for Me Grog
10 The Drunken Maidens
11 Rosin the Beau
12 The Farmer's Servant
13 John Barleycorn
14 A Jug of This

Alf Edwards English concertina
Al Jeffery banjo & harmonica

A.L. LLOYD LEVIATHAN! TSCD497

Lloyd brought to this collection of whaling songs and ballads a love and knowledge of the subject inspired by his own experience at sea. The harsh life of the whaler is described in laments, shanties and narrative songs.

1 The Balaena
2 The Coast of Peru
3 Greenland Bound
4 The Weary Whaling Grounds
5 The Cruel Ship's Carpenter
6 Off to Sea Once More
7 The Twenty Third of March
8 The Bonny Ship The Diamond
9 Talcahuana Girls
10 Farewell to Tarwathie
11 Rolling Down To Old Maui
12 The Greenland Whale Fishery
13 Paddy & the Whale
14 The Whaleman's Lament
15 The Eclipse

Dave Swarbrick fiddle
Martin Carthy mandolin
Alf Edwards English concertina & ocarina
Trevor Lucas, Martyn Wyndham-Reade chorus