> Folk Music > Records > Ray and Archie Fisher: Far Over the Forth
Ray and Archie Fisher: Far Over the Forth
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Far Over the Forth Topic Records TOP67 (7" EP, UK, 1962) |
All tracks were included in about 1965 on the compilation LP Bonny Lass Come O'er the Burn (Topic 12T128).
Musicians
Ray Fisher, vocals;
Archie Fisher,vocals, guitar
Tracks
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> Folk Music > Records > The Fisher Family
The Fisher Family
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The Fisher Family Topic Records 12T137 (LP, UK, 1966) |
Recorded by Bill Leader in 1965;
Notes by Norman Buchan;
Photograph by Joe Boyd
Musicians
Archie, Ray, Cindy, Joyce, Audrey and Priscilla Fisher, vocals;
Archie Fisher, guitar accompaniment
Tracks
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> Folk Music > Records > Ray Fisher: The Bonny Birdy
Ray Fisher: The Bonny Birdy
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The Bonny Birdy Trailer LER2038 (LP, UK, 1972) |
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This is more or less the 1971 Steeleye Span line-up with Ray Fisher replacing Maddy Prior.
Musicians
Ray Fisher,
vocals [1-8],
guitar [2-3, 6-7];
Martin Carthy,
guitar [1, 4, 8],
vocals [4];
Tim Hart,
dulcimer [1, 4],
vocals [4];
Peter Knight,
fiddle [1, 4],
mandolin [4];
Ashley Hutchings,
electric bass [1, 4];
Colin Ross,
fiddle [2],
Northumbrian small pipes [7];
Alistair Anderson,
concertina [2];
Stefan Sobell,
guitar [5];
Liz Sobell,
harmonium [5];
Bobby Campbell,
fiddle [8]
Tracks
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> Folk Music > Records > Ray Fisher: Traditional Songs of Scotland
Ray Fisher: Traditional Songs of Scotland
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Traditional Songs of Scotland Saydisc Records CD-SDL 391 (CD, UK, 1991) |
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Recorded at Valley Recordings, Littleton-on-Severn, December 1990 and June 1991.
Recorded by Gef Lucena (Saydisc) and David Wilkins (Valley Recordings)
Musicians
Ray Fisher, voice, guitar [1, 5, 10-13, 15];
Colin Ross, Scottish small pipes [4, 8, 12], fiddle [4, 5, 13];
Martin Carthy, guitar [3, 6-7, 16-17, 19];
John Kirkpatrick, button accordion [2, 9, 18], melodeon [7], Anglo concertina [14]
Tracks
- Night Visiting Song (4.28)
- Wark o' the Weavers (5.38)
- Lady Keith's Lament (4.23)
- The Gallowa Hills (4.00)
- Coulter's Candy (3.07)
- Willie's Fatal Visit (5.14)
- Twa Recruiting Sergeants (3.54)
- Floo'ers o' the Forest (4.28)
- MacGinty's Meal and Ale (5.54)
- Baron o'Brackley (4.26)
- Gipsy Laddies (5.05)
- Lang Biding Here (2.47)
- Jute Mill Song (3.13)
- Hie, Jeannie Hie (3.19)
- Johnny My Man (2.56)
- My Laddie's Bedside (3.14)
- What Can a Young Lassie (3.21)
- Nicky Tams (4.13)
Recording out-takes
- Now Westlin' Wind
(4.32)
released on the Hokey Pokey anthology All Through the Year
All track trad. arr. Ray Fisher except
Track 13 Mary Brooksbank
Acknowledgements
Thanks to John Carper for the information and to Alistair Banfield for the Musical Heritage Society cover picture.





