The Watersons: London Folk Song Cellar, 1966 & 1967
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- The Watersons - recorded live in the basement of Cecil Sharp House, London, 1966 and 1967.
On these recordings, The Watersons were: Mike, Lal & Norma Waterson and John Harrison.
LFSC 6 (probably April 1966 - sourced from a Transcription Disc):
00:00 The Roving Ploughboy [The Ploughboy]
03:35 The Holbeck Moor Cockfight
05:29 The Jolly Waggoner
08:17 The Oak And The Ash [North Country Maid]
11:23 The Punch Ladle [Fathom The Bowl]
LFSC 21 (probably December 1966 - off-air recording sourced from New Zealand)
14:30 The White Hare of Howden
16:51 Rap Her to Bank
18:58 Two Old Bachelors / 20:08 I've Been To Bristol / 20:34 Three Queens of Po-li-o
21:08 Six Actors Bold
24:54 Poor Old Man
26:47 Hal-an-Tow
LFSC 39 (probably December 1967 - off-air recording sourced from New Zealand):
30:31 Carhampton Tree-Wassailing Song [Apple Tree Wassail]
33:02 The White Cockade
[The following songs are missing from this recording of LFSC 39]
Dido, Bendigo
Malpas Wassail Song
London Folk Song Cellar was produced by the BBC World Service and distributed worldwide by the BBC Transcription Service on acetate discs. Few recordings survive in the public domain and the ones that do are of varying quality, but a dedicated group of collectors continue to seek out the best quality recordings from around the world. Luckily, one of those collectors regularly keeps me updated with the latest finds.
The April 1966 episode is sourced from a Transcription Disc. The December 1966 and December 1967 episodes are off-air recordings sourced from New Zealand.
London Folk Song Cellar was presented by Robin Hall and Jimmie MacGregor.
Produced by Maude Hamill in collaboration with Peter Kennedy of the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
Thanks to Chris J Brady for making me aware of these and for helping to preserve the available recordings.
Martin Carthy’s only solo appearance on LFSC can be found here:
• Martin Carthy: London ...
For more Martin Carthy news, information, photos, trivia and mild obsession (but not necessarily in that order!) go to:
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THE MARTIN CARTHY BROADCAST ARCHIVE is an ongoing project to catalogue six decades of radio & TV appearances:
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This album is such a treasure! Thank you for posting! Walking through the forests on this is like stepping back in time.
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
My favourite singers for over 50 years
The sounds of my youth...
Love Mike Waterson's voice... wonderful harmonies. Music to my ears!
Mike's voice is so unique I love it and can spot it from miles
what a treasure!
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.
Great voices and great quality
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
Thanks. I actually now have the two missing tracks from the end of this, so I’ll be making a new, slight longer version soon. Been busy so haven’t had a chance yet, but keep an eye out and it should be up soon.
Amazing - thank you for posting.
“To all you spectators where’re you may be”
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?
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.
Jarring is "White Hare of Howden" as no hill is nearer to that place than Holme on Spaulding Moor, and that halfway to Hull.
Norma Waterson such a great socialist that she sent her daughter to an exclusive public school😅
If the Tories continually underfund state schools people with the means will send their children to the best schools they can. Obvious.
What's less obvious is how to not be a sneering tool about the recently departed. That they don't teach.