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Various Artists: Second Wave

Second Wave (Transatlantic TRA 126)

Second Wave
Various Artists

Transatlantic Records TRA 126 (LP, UK, May 1965)

Recorded at Pye Studios, London, engineer Ray Prickett;
Produced by Nathan Joseph;
Cover design Brian Shuel

Musicians

Harvey Andrews, vocals, guitar;
Bob & Carole Pegg, vocals;
Spike Woods, vocals, guitar;
Dave Sless, vocals, guitar

Tracks

Side 1Side 2

Harvey Andrews

  1. Harvest of Hate (2.11)
  2. Ice Cream Man (2.08)
  3. Kids Colour Bar (3.10)
  4. Buy Me a Rifle (1.43)
  5. College Days (2.06)

Bob & Carole Pegg

  1. Ballad of the Five Continents (3.41)
  2. Jimmy Murphy
  3. The Chesapeake and the Shannon

Ian “Spike” Woods

  1. The Quiet Beast
  2. The Motorbike Kid
  3. The Big Bird (3.12)
  4. Talking Cowman Blues (2.13)
     

Dave Sless

  1. Pretty Polly (4.17)
  2. Strange Fruit
  3. Geordie (4.09)

Tracks 1-5 Harvey Andrews;
Track 6 Alex Atterson, James Causley, Bob & Carole Pegg;
Tracks 7-8 trad. arr. Pegg;
Tracks 9-12 Ian Woods;
Tracks 13, 15 trad. arr. Dave Sless;
Track 14 Lewis Allen (a pseudonym of Aber Meeropol)

Tracks 1, 12 reissued on Footprints in the Snow (2 CD, 2004);
Tracks 6, 11, 13 reissued on Transatlantic Folk Box Set (3 CD, 2006);
Track 15 reissued on Scarborough Fair: The Best of English Folk (3 CD, 2006);
Tracks 1-5 reissued on Harvey Andrews: I'm Resigning from Today (2 CD, 2007);
I don't know of any CD reissues of tracks 7-10 and 14.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Wilfried Unverricht for the track list and to Alistair Banfield for a preliminary cover picture.