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Songs and Southern Breezes

Songs and Southern Breezes (Topic 12T317)

Songs and Southern Breezes
Country Singers from Hampshire and Sussex
Various Artists

Topic Records 12T317 (LP, UK, 1977)

This album complements Bob Copper's book Songs and Southern Breezes (William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1973). His subject is, in his words, “the living essence of old English country life”. To the words and photographs which so tellingly evoke that life in the book, Topic here adds the still more vivid testimonies of the singers themselves, in their songs of the Southern countryside. [blurb on the album sleeve]

Originally recorded for the BBC by Bob Copper between September 1954 and November 1957;
Produced for Topic Records by Tony Engle;
Notes by Bob Copper;
Sleeve design by Tony Engle, based upon the jacket illustration of Bob Copper's book.

Musicians

Noah Gillette [1], Hastings, Sussex;
George Attrill [2], Gladys Stone [11], Leslie Johnson [12], Fittleworth, Sussex;
Jim Swain [3], Angmering, Sussex;
George Fosbury [4], Enos White [13], Axford, Hampshire;
Ben Butcher [5, 14], Popham, Hampshire;
Mrs. Chapman [6], Frank Boyd [7-8], North Waltham, Hampshire;
Fred Hewett [9-10], Mapledurwell, Hampshire;
Victor “Turp” Brown [15-17], Cheriton, Hampshire

Tracks

Side 1Side 2
  1. [NG] The Bonny Bunch of Roses (Roud 664; Laws J5) (4.42)
  2. [GA] Epsom Races (Roud 383) (2.39)
  3. [JS] The Banks of the Mossem (Roud 1646) (2.45)
  4. [GF] False Lanky (Roud 6; Child 93) (3.42)
  5. [BB] Cruel Lincoln (Roud 6; Child 93) (R2.59)
  6. [Mrs C] The Silver Pin (Roud 573) (2.15)
  7. [FB] The Chiner's Song (Roud 874) (2.14)
  8. [FB] God Bless the Master (Roud 1066) (1.17)
  1. [FH] The Prickle-Holly Bush (Roud 144; Child 95) (3.33)
  2. [FH] Three Maidens A-Milking Did Go (Roud 290) (1.36)
  3. [GS] Her Servant Man (Roud 539; Laws M15) (4.06)
  4. [LJ] Rolling in the Dew (Roud 298) (2.44)
  5. [EW] George Collins (Roud 147; Child 85) (2.36)
  6. [BB] In Sheffield Park (Roud 860) (1.43)
  7. [TB] The Streams of Lovely Nancy (Roud 688) (1.37)
  8. [TB] Abroad As I Was Walking (Roud 1646) (1.42)
  9. [TB] Six Jolly Miners (Roud 877) (1.47)