The Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie Bell
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Line-Up
- Roy Williamson (vocals, concertina)
- Ronnie Browne (vocals, guitar)
- Bill Smith (vocals)
- Paddie BellPaddie BellPaddie Bell was an Irish folk singer and musician.She was born in Belfast, but was a resident of Edinburgh, Scotland most of her life. She sang with The Corries Folk Trio from 1962 and was a founder member. The band later became The Corries after she left when she got pregnant in 1965...
(vocals, banjo)
Note: Acoustic guitars, mandolin and bandurra are also heard but no credits are given.
Guest: Robin Brock plays acoustic bass on track 8. Recorded in mono 1965. Produced by W Gordon Smith. Running time: about 35 minutes.
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Today it is hard to believe how popular sea shanties were in the mid-sixties. The most vigorous song on this album is "Greenland Fisheries" with Ronnie Browne shouting "There She Blows" at the start of the song, at the top of his voice. "Jock O' Braidislee" is sung unaccompanied by Ronnie Browne. Paddie Bell sings "Lord Gregory" with only her banjo for accompaniment. The album begins with four songs associated with the game of Two balls and a wall.
Tracks
- 1. The Singing Games. (a) The Windy City (I'll Tell Me MaI'll Tell Me Ma"I'll Tell Me Ma" is a well known children's song. It was collected in various parts of England in the 19th century and again appears in collections from shortly after the turn of the 20th century...
) (b) Call on the one you love (c) 1 2 3 O'Leary (d) I'm No Goin' Tae Barry's Trip - 2. Lock The Door, Lariston
- 3. Jock O' Braidislee (solo by Ronnie Browne)
- 4. Doodle Let Me Go (Yellow Girls) (vocal by Paddie Bell)
- 5. The Lass O' FyvieThe Bonnie Lass o' FyvieThe Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie is a Scottish folk song about a thwarted romance between a soldier and a girl. Like many folk songs, the authorship is unattributed, there is no strict version of the lyrics, and it is often referred to by its opening line There once was a troop o' Irish dragoons...
- 6. The Itinerant Cobbler
- 7. Lord GregoryThe Lass of Roch Royal-Synopsis:A woman comes to Gregory's castle, pleading to be let in; she is either pregnant or with a newborn son. His mother turns her away; sometimes she tells her that he went to sea, and she goes to follow him and dies in shipwreck. Gregory wakes and says he dreamed of her...
(vocal by Paddie Bell) [Child Ballad 76] - 8. McPherson's Farewell
- 9. Coorie Doon (vocal by Paddie Bell)(written by Matt McGinnMatt McGinnMatt McGinn was a Scottish folk singer-songwriter and poet.Matthew McGinn was born in Ross Street at the corner of the Gallowgate in Calton, Glasgow in 1928, one of a family of nine. At the age of 12 he was sent to an approved school for two years...
) - 10. Greenland Fisheries
- Tracks 11 - 24 are available on the 2002 CD re-release. They were not part of the original album. These tracks are listed as tracks 1 - 14 on "The Promise of the Day", their second album.