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The Liverpool Spinners: Songs Spun in Liverpool

Songs Spun in Liverpool (Topic TOP69)

Songs Spun in Liverpool
The Liverpool Spinners

Topic Records TOP69 (EP, UK, 1962)

Recorded live at Samson and Barlow's, London Road, Liverpool in 1961

Musicians

Tony Davis, vocals, guitar;
Mick Groves, vocals, washboard, guitar;
Cliff Hall,
Hughie Jones,
Jacqueline Macdonald, vocals, mandolin

Tracks

Side 1Side 2
  1. Whip Jamboree (Roud 488)
  2. The Liverpool Barrow Boy
  3. Hayarden
  1. The Champion of the Seas
  2. Judy Drownded
  3. John Peel

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Hughie Jones: Hughie's Ditty Bag

Hughie's Ditty Bag (Fellside FECD81)

Hughie's Ditty Bag
Hughie Jones

Fellside Recordings FECD81 (CD, UK, 1991)

Recorded by Paul Adams and Graham Bell;
Produced by Paul Adams;
Cover photo by Richard Clegg;
Artwork by Mary Blood

Musicians

Hughie Jones, vocals, guitar, banjo;
John McCormick, double bass, vocals;
Phil Hare, acoustic and electric guitars, banjo;
Jez Lowe, Appalachian dulcimer, cittern;
Brian Peters, melodeon, Anglo concertina

Tracks

  1. Champion of the Seas (2.44)
  2. Marques (3.39)
  3. Coal, Coal for Manchester (2.40)
  4. Christmas Time Odd-Job Man (3.05)
  5. The Marco Polo (3.07)
  6. The Navvies' Way (4.11)
  7. Talking Football Pool Blues (3.31)
  8. The Fairlie Duplex Engine (3.33)
  9. The Ellen Vannin Tragedy (4.36)
  10. Stockholm Tar (4.02)
  11. Shortness of Sight (2.54)
  12. Grey-Black Stone of Ffestiniog (3.40)
  13. The Wavertree (3.08)
  14. New York Girls Are Pretty (1.06)

All tracks written by Hughie Jones except
Track 14 trad. arr. Hughie Jones

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Hughie Jones: Seascape

Seascape (Fellside FECD147)

Seascape
Hughie Jones

Fellside Recordings FECD147 (CD, UK, 1999)

Recorded by Paul Adams and Richard Adams;
Produced by Paul Adams and Dan Jones;
Artwork Mary Blood;
Painting “The Wavertree Snugged Down” by John E. Parkin, photograph by Chris Jones

Musicians

Hughie Jones, vocals, 6 & 12 string guitars, banjo, harmonica;
John McCormick, double bass, chorus;
Brian Peters, Anglo concertina, melodeon;
Mark Newport, fiddle;
Neil Reay-Bennett, mandolin;
Dan Jones, keyboard, chorus;
Linda Adams, harmony vocals [16];
Jim Peden, John Higues, chorus

Tracks

  1. According to the Act (Roud 8341) (2.37)
  2. Barney Buntline (Roud 12825) (2.19)
  3. Henry Martin (Roud 104; Child 250) (3.23)
  4. Whip Jamboree (Roud 488) (3.11)
  5. Sally Brown (Roud 2628) (1.20)
  6. Stormalong John (Roud 216) (2.08)
  7. Blood on the Ice (2.03)
  8. Shaw Saville’s Buccaneers (2.16)
  9. The Eddystone Light (Roud 22257) (1.26)
  10. The Shark (Roud 2457) (3.13)
  11. Firing the Mauretania (2.57)
  12. Van Diemen’s Land (Roud 519; Laws L18) (3.10)
  13. The Derbyshire (3.35)
  14. Maggie May (Roud 1757) (2.29)
  15. Johnny Todd (Roud 1102) (2.32)
  16. Liverpool Lou (3.22)
  17. Venezuela (3.11)
  18. The Fireship (Roud 4841) (4.47)
  19. W.C.S.A. (2.40)
  20. Rounding the Horn (Roud 4706) (2.30)
  21. The Leaving of Liverpool (Roud 9345) (5.00)
  22. Bluenose (2.34)
  23. Down Easters (4.06)
  24. Spanish Ladies (Roud 687) (3.37)
  25. Ye Mar'ners All (Roud 1191) (2.37)

All tracks trad. arr. Hughie Jones except
Track 7 anon.;
Tracks 13, 19, 23 Hughie Jones;
Track 16 Dominic Behan;
Track 22 Martins

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Hughie Jones and Friends: Liverpool Connexions

Liverpool Connexions (Fellside FECD198)

Liverpool Connexions
Hughie Jones and Friends

Fellside Recordings FECD198 (CD, UK, 2005)

Recorded and mixed by Robert Hallard;
Mixed by Paul Adams;
Produced by Dan Jones;
Artwork Mary Blood;
Painting “The Brigantine Clio 1894”, Acrylic by Mark Myers;
Photograph by Les Scriver

Musicians

Hughie Jones, guitar, vocals;
John “Count” McCormick, double bass;
Brian Peters, Anglo concertina, melodeon;
Robin Garside, fiddle, mandolin;
Bob Conroy, banjo, Nashville guitar;
Dan Jones, keyboard;
Chris Lock, Linda Adams, Robert Hallard, chorus vocals

Tracks

  1. Mist Over the Mersey (3.46)
  2. The Moles of Edge Hill (2.42)
  3. Down By the Dockyard Wall (5.24)
  4. Blue and Red (1.25)
  5. The Betsy of New York (2.52)
  6. Rend Collecting in Speke (2.21)
  7. Here's to Cheshire (4.46)
  8. Unmooring (2.39)
  9. The Cape Horner (5.04)
  10. Liverpool Lullaby (2.16)
  11. The Derbyshire (3.52)
  12. Seth Davey (3.36)
  13. Shanghai Brown (3.35)
  14. Dirty Old Town (3.01)
  15. Safe in Snug Harbour (3.46)
  16. The King of Edge Hill (2.51)
  17. Alexander Selkirk Is My Name (5.42)
  18. Daughter of Water Street (3.33)

Track 1 Jack Owen;
Tracks 2, 11-12, 16-17 Hughie Jones;
Track 3 Shep Wooley;
Track 4 unknown;
Tracks 5, 15 Bob Conroy;
Track 6 Pete McGovern;
Track 7 Leslie Haworth;
Track 8 trad. arr. Hughie Jones;
Tracks 9, 13 poem Cicely Fox Smith, tune Alan Fitzsimmons;
Track 10 Stan Kelly;
Track 14 Ewan MacColl;
Track 18 Bob Wright

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Other records with Hughie Jones and/or the Liverpool Spinners

Various Artists, Folk Songs: An Anthology (Topic Sampler No 2), LP, Topic TPS145, 1966

The Spinners, The Corries, Julie Felix, Martin Carthy, Shades of Folk, LP, Contour 6870 538, 1970

Various Artists, Folk Favourites, LP, Contour 6870 636, 1970

Various Artists, Focus on Folk, LP, Philips 6382 110, 1971

Various Artists, Voices: English Traditional Songs, CD, Fellside FECD87, 1992

Various Artists, Beware of the Press-Gang!!, 2 CD, Lancashire Maritime Festival LMFCD-04-1, 2004

Various Artists, Flash Company: A Celebration of 25 Years of Fellside Records (1976-2001), 2 CD, Fellside FECD156, 2001

Various Artists, Landmarks: 25 Years of a Leading Folk Music Label, 3 CD, Fellside FECD203, 2006

Various Artists, Three Score and Ten: 70 Years of Topic Records, 7 CD, Topic TOPIC70, 2009