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70 Golden Nursery Rhymes

70 Golden Nursery Rhymes Various Artists Tempo STMP 9031 (LP, UK, 1979) Longman Video SLL 5001 (video, UK, 1982) Carlton Video 30073 40203 (video, UK, 1982?) The Classic Nursery Rhymes Collection Ocean Music 20103/20104 (CD/DVD, UK, 2010)

Designed and directed by Mike Milburn-Foster
Musical director John Du Prez
Produced by AB + C for Longman Video
Running time: 60 minutes approx.

Musicians

Floella Benjamin, Mike Berry, Martin Carthy, Shirley Collins, Valentine Dyall, Percy Edwards, Bev Sager, Isla St Clair, and the children of Britannia Row

Tracks

1. Humpty Dumpty /
   Mary Mary Quite Contrary /
   Jack and Jill (Martin Carthy) /
   Goosey Goosey Gander /
   Girls and Boys Come Out to Play /
   Ring-a-ring-a-Roses
2. This Is the Way the Ladies Ride /
   Ride a Cock-Horse (Martin Carthy) /
   Dance to Your Daddy /
   One, Two, Buckle My Shoe /
   1, 2, 3, 4, 5
3. Simple Simon /
   Oh Dear What Can the Matter Be? /
   Hot Cross Buns /
   Over the Hills and Far Away (Martin Carthy, Isla St Clair) /
   Tom Tom the Piper's Son
4. The Grand Old Duke of York /
   Little Boy Blue /
   Hey Diddle Diddle (Shirley Collins) /
   Aiken Drum (Martin Carthy)
5. Lucy Locket /
   Wee Willie Winkie /
   Georgie Porgie /
   Little Bo Peep /
   Little Miss Muffet /
   Doctor Foster /
   Old King Cole (Martin Carthy)
6. Yankee Doodle /
   Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush /
   Soldier Soldier /
   Pop Goes the Weasel
7. It's Raining, It's Pouring /
   There Was a Crooked Man /
   Ding Dong Bell /
   Old MacDonald Had a Farm (Martin Carthy)
8. The House That Jack Built /
   There Was a Farmer /
   Baa, Baa, Black Sheep /
   This Little Piggy /
   To Market, to Market (Martin Carthy, Shirley Collins)
9. Pat-a-cake /
   Little Jack Horner (Martin Carthy) /
   Pease Porridge Hot /
   Jack Spratt /
   Taffy Was a Welshman /
   Sing a Song of Sixpence /
   Little Tommy Tucker /
   Polly Put the Kettle on (Shirley Collins) /
   Hickory Dickory Dock /
   Three Blind Mice
10. A Was an Apple Pie /
    Mary Had a Little Lamb /
    See-Saw Margery Daw /
    I Love Little Pussy /
    Monday's Child /
    There Was a Little Girl
11. I Had a Little Nut Tree (Shirley Collins) /
    Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat /
    Oranges and Lemons /
    London Bridge is Falling Down (duet with Martin Carthy) /
    London's Burning
12. The Twelve Days of Christmas (all musicians)
13. There Was an Old Woman /
    Come, Let's to Bed /
    Diddle Diddle Dumpling /
    Bye Baby Bunting /
    Old Mother Hubbard (Shirley Collins) /
    Hush-a-bye Baby /
    The North Wind Doth Blow /
    Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Links and Acknowledgements

The video can now be seen on a YouTube playlist prepared by Kevin Boyd.

Thanks to M.J. Edmunds for a photocopy of the track list and a DVD copy of this video.

The list of songs sung by Martin Carthy was taken from the book of the CD set The Carthy Chronicles, where Over the Hills and Far Away has been reissued. I found the list of Shirley Collins' songs on her website.