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The Song and the Story

The Song and the Story Isla St. Clair Clare Records (BBC Enterprises) ISLA 1 (LP, UK, 1981)

This is the soundtrack to the BBC television series of the same name.
Produced by Rick Kemp
Research by Maddy Prior

Musicians

Isla St. Clair, vocals;
John O'Connor, guitars;
Richie Close, keyboards;
Rick Kemp, bass;
Nigel Pegrum, drums and percussion;
Bob Loveday, fiddle

Tracks

Side 1	Side 2
Rogues and Rascals	Miners and Mill Girls
Sovay (Roud 7; Laws N21) Adieu Ye Streams (Roud 8707) A Smuggler's Song Shooting Goschen's Cock-Ups (Roud 902)	Trimden Grange Explosion (Roud 3189) The Bold English Navvy (Roud 516) The Blackleg Miner (Roud 3193) The Weaver and the Factory Maid (Roud 17771)
Farmers and Fishermen	Travelling People
The Plooman Laddies (Roud 3448) Three Score and Ten (Roud 16873) The Machiner's Song (Roud 874) The Fisherman's Wife	The Gallant Frigate Amphitrite (Roud 4706) The Yellow Handkerchief (Roud 954) The Curragh of Kildare (Roud 583) Goodbye to the Thirty-Foot Trailer Copshawholme Fair (Roud 9139)

All tracks trad. except
Tracks 8, 15 Ewan MacColl;
Track 9 Tommy Armstrong

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> Folk Music > Records > Isla St. Clair: Looking Forward to the Past

Looking Forward to the Past

Looking Forward to the Past Isla St. Clair Highland Classics HCLA C104 (CD, UK, February 2004)

Produced by Patrick King and Isla St. Clair;
[3, 5, 7, 9] co-produced with Ian Lynn;
Recorded at Tangmere, Surrey, engineered by Ian Lynn,
and at Reel Life Music, Alyesbury, engineered by Jerry Playle;
Cover design: Steve Ryder;
Photograph of Isla St. Clair: Pete Simkins

Musicians

Isla St. Clair, vocals;
Ian Lynn, keyboards, backing vocals;
Danny Prendergast, guitar, backing vocals;
Jerry Playle, bass, backing vocals

Tracks

1. Songbird (3.20)
2. Who Knows Where The Time Goes? (4.08)
3. Bridge Over Troubled Water (5.09)
4. Lowlands Away (Roud 681) (2.42)
5. Ae Fond Kiss (4.17)
6. The Boatman (Fhír a Bhata) (Roud 4356) (5.10)
7. The Ballad of Danny Boy (4.14)
8. The Border Widow's Lament (Roud 199; Child 106) (3.24)
9. My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose (Roud 12946) (3.29)
10. As Time Goes By (3.44)
11. Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue (2.26)

Track 1 Christine McVie;
Track 2 Sandy Denny;
Track 3 Paul Simon;
Tracks 4-5 trad. arr. Isla St. Clair;
Tracks 6, 8 trad. arr. Isla St. Clair, Jerry Playle, Danny Prendergast;
Tracks 7, 9 trad. arr. Ian Lynn, Isla St. Clair, Patrick King;
Track 10 Herman Hupfield;
Track 11 Richard Leigh