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Simon Ward!

Pity poor old Steeleye Span 🎵🤠

I have copies of programmes 3, 4, 5, and 6. 6/10 1973, Shirley Collins, 3/11/1973, Prof Wilfred Mellors, 1/Dec 1973, Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seager and 29/12/1973, Charles Parker. They are a bit ropey but no worse than this. Can I upload them and if so how?

This album is such a treasure! Thank you for posting! Walking through the forests on this is like stepping back in time.

Omg, this is so, so good.

The sounds of my youth...

Those must have been tough guitar strings!

Just wonderful, Carthy at his best.

This recording is just magical. Carthy is beyond brilliant. Thanks to the uploader.

I read on wikipedia that this play also contains a performance of the Lyke-Wake Dirge. Did Martin Carthy also sing that in this version? Regardless, I would love to see it but I haven't been able to find it.

Norma Waterson such a great socialist that she sent her daughter to an exclusive public school😅

Nicely edited! Martin has dropped the "That will not do..." verses which makes the song much more immediate and better suited to the scene.

Jarring is "White Hare of Howden" as no hill is nearer to that place than Holme on Spaulding Moor, and that halfway to Hull.

Jeez I thought I'd heard everything on YT by the Watersons but I'm elated to have(eventually) discovered this.11 comments and so few views is a travesty

Him tuning up is better than a lot of folks performing. You go, Martin

Music to my ears anyway.

With a colleague showed the programme to pupils at Ducie High School in Manchester in 1970; first time I'd heard Carthy/Swarbrick. Just finished listening to Eliza Carthy ( 28th Jan 2023) on This Cultural Life - and so it goes round. Great memories.

Superb. Although I didn't see them live till the 70s, the Watersons' three original albums were an important part of my folk music education. One interesting thing I noticed here - on The Jolly Waggoner, they not only have a guitar (as on the record) but also a banjo. Does anyone know which of them played that?

This is a beautiful sea ballad. Thank you. I've been a fan since I first heard the Watersons oh so many decades ago. I am one of those folks who have learned everything I know from recordings & books and have performed ballads & folk songs since teenaged times.I have several of Martin's solo vinyl albums, a bunch of Waterson cassettes and CD's and have recorded his 1960's sound track to the first Moll Flanders on a simple cassette. So thank you again. From Oakland CA 2023

Thank you for posting! - What can we say? This "mode" of expression is so important - especially now, in a world of lies and shallow posers - Martin Carthy is a beacon of what is possible for any serious, caring musicians.

“To all you spectators where’re you may be”

some great throat clearing at 23 mins in.

I remeber them from the Redditch Folk Cub in the 1960s. They visited at least 3 times and were, without any doubt, the favourite visitors.

Just a small correction. It's not a soundboard, I had separate mikes up on stage. It was recorded on a Tandberg half track machine at 7 1/2ips.

This is actually my recording. I'm curious to know how it came into your possession.

Wow! Amazing to see this, thank you. This is what youtube et al, is for. I only knew this from Mrs Aykroyd - Les Barker et al :)

I saw this clip years ago but I can't remember in what context. I think it's from about the time I first got into the duo. Would it be contemporary with the 'Hallelujah' TV program and their QEH concert which I attended. How I wish I'd kept that programme!

what a treasure!

Wow Norma’s gone off to see Mick n Lal & as she passed she broke my heart. I grew up wi punk n pistols but i woz camping out wi mi mates up fields & on the radio John Peel give me a taste of the Watersons but on my second night with Kershawi got Hilda’s cabinet band. & guess what i married a scottish lass called Hilda & when we signed the register we walked out of church to Mick, Lal and Norma singing Hilda’s cabinet band. Thank god the Watersons left an impression . Also send my love to Martin & Elizer xxxx

A wonderful early Martin and Dave, but not their best and that's not their fault. Try John Roberts & Tony Barrand Cutty Wren on an album called Dark Ships in the Forest. Fabulous album.

My favourite singers for over 50 years

thanx so much. early christmas prezzie!

I was 21 when I saw the first of the plays in 1969. I'd read that Martin & Dave were going to in the play in the NME. Unfortunately, I missed part 2 so I never did see them! Thank you for putting it up - it was worth the 52 year wait!!

Even as a 30 year old man, I am very thankful my old man brought me up on this music. I had the pleasure of watching Martin last year, he was still actually very good ( a little forgetful) but can't blame him for that.

Amazing - thank you for posting.

Love Mike Waterson's voice... wonderful harmonies. Music to my ears!

Hi folks. Its great to see London Folk Song Cellar here - at last. We have a collection of most of the episodes. However we are missing tracks from episodes 28, 31 and 36 featuring artists: LFSC 28 - The North West Three, Kathie MacDonald, Trevor Lucas, The Chiltern Ramblers. LFSC 31 - The Taverners, Sandy Denny ("Green grow the laurels"), Bob Cann, Don Partridge, The Leesiders. LFSC 39 - The Watersons, Sydney Carter, Tessa Clifford, Dave Swarbrick and Martin Carthy. Please PM me if you have either transcription discs or tapes of these from LFSC. Many thanks - Chris B.

Great voices and great quality

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Just for the historical record... Peter Vacher wrote 'Brock' Brocklehurst's obituary for The Guardian: www.theguardian.com/music/2010/dec/22/brian-brocklehurst-obituary

thank you.

do you also have "Sweet William" by Mike Waterson from around that era?

Fantastic performance - love Swarb's mando here.

Thank you for posting this. Unfottunately the sound seems rather wonky. Perhpas a tweak or two?

love this song!