The Drunken Sailor and other Kids Favorites is an album by Tim Hart

Tim Hart

Tim Hart was an English folk singer and multi-instrumentalist, best known as a founding member of electric folk band, Steeleye Span.-Early years:...

 and Friends.

This album is even more fun than Tim Hart's first collection "My Very Favorite Nursery Rhymes". There is a greater variety in treatment - "Hush Little Baby" is sung as a calypso, with the tune of "Island in the Sun" on oil-drums creeping in at the end. Melanie Harold's "A Fox Jumped Up" has a bouncy hodown fiddle, though there is no credit given for any fiddler. Brian Golbey does a comic-lugubrious version of "Clementine" with steel guitar accompaniment. (Brian had also been present on the first "Silly Sisters" album.) "What shall We Do With Drunken Sailor" is out-an-out disco a la Boney M. "Who Killed Cock Robin" has Maddy Prior

Maddy Prior

Maddy Prior is an English folk singer, best known as the lead vocalist of Steeleye Span.-Early life:...

 double tracking in a very high pitched voice. Notable uilleann pipes player Davy Spillane

Davy Spillane

Davy Spillane is a songwriter and a player of uilleann pipes and low whistle.early yearsDavy was born in Dublin in 1959 . At the age of 12 he started playing the uilleann pipes. His father encouraged him and inspired him with his love of all music genres...

 plays, apprioriately, on the Irish song "Cockles and Mussels". Maddy does a duet with Melanie Harold on "Michael Finnegal", to the sound of mandolas and mandolins (or perhaps they are synthesisers).

EMI released an hour-long cassette called "Favorite Nursery Rhymes" in 1985. It contained all these tracks except "Widdecombe Fair" and "Curly Locks". It also contained all but two tracks from "My Very Favorite Nursery Rhymes". In their place there was a new track - "Humpty Dumpty". In 1989 EMI/Music For Pleasure released a 3-CD set called "The Children's Collection". One CD consisted of a different selection of these tracks. The same two tracks were missing from "The Drunken Sailor", but all the tracks from "My Very Favorite Nursery Rhymes" were present. Running time about 35 minutes. Despite the commercial appeal of these tracks they have not been publicly available since 1989. Producer Tim Hart. Engineer Dave Bascombe, Jerry Boys. Recorded 1983

Track listing

LP - side one

1. Over The Hills And Far Away (Trad)
2. A Fox Jumped Up
   The Fox (folk song)
   The Fox is a traditional folk song. It is also the subject of at least two picture books, The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night: an old song, illustrated by Peter Spier and Fox Went out on a Chilly Night, by Wendy Watson...
   
   (Trad)
3. Clementine (Trad)
4. Three Jolly Rogues Of Lynn
   Three Jolly Rogues
   - Synopsis :A miller, a weaver and a tailor lived in King Arthur's time . They were thrown out because they could not sing. All three were thieves...
   
   (Trad)
5. Who Killed Cock Robin?
   Cock Robin
   "Who Killed Cock Robin" is an English nursery rhyme, which has been much used as a murder archetype in world culture. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 494.-Lyrics:...
   
   (Trad)
6. Cockles and Mussels (Trad)
7. Hush Little Baby (Trad)

LP - side two

1. What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?
   Drunken Sailor
   Drunken Sailor is a traditional sea shanty also known as What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?It begins with the question, "What shall we do with a drunken sailor, early in the morning?" Each verse thereafter suggests a method of sobering—or castigating, or simply abusing—the sailor.The song...
   
   (Trad)
2. The Riddle Song (Child Ballad 1) (Trad)
3. Michael Finnigan (Trad)
4. Widecombe Fair (Trad)
5. Froggy's Courting
   Frog Went A-Courting
   "Frog Went A-Courtin'" is an English language folk song. Its first known appearance is in Wedderburn's Complaynt of Scotland under the name "The frog came to the myl dur", though this in Scots rather than English...
   
   (Trad)
6. Curly Locks (Trad)

Good News

Park Recordshttps://parkre.secureconnection.com/index.php have re-released Tim Hart's Very Favorite Nursery Rhyme Record; a 2 CD album containing 32 tracks. I believe this was done to help pay for his cancer treatment, hopefully the money will now be used towards some sort of memorial for Tim.

Track listing

CD1

1. Oh The Grand Old Duke Of York
2. Sing A Song Of Sixpence
3. Once I Caught A Fish Alive
4. Medley
5. Little Bo Peep
6. Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
7. Old MacDonald Had A Farm
8. There Was An Old Woman Tossed Up In A Basket
9. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
10. Boys And Girls Come Out To Play
11. Nick Nack Paddy Wack
12. Baa, Baa Black Sheep
13. Bobby Shaftoe
14. Hush-A-Bye-Baby
15. Humpty Dumpty
16. Lavenders Blue (Dilly Dilly)
17. London Bridge Is Falling Down
18. Oranges And Lemons
19. Oh Dear What Can The Matter Be

CD2

1. Over The Hills And Far Away
2. A Fox Jumped Up
3. Clementine
4. Three Jolly Rogues Of Lynn
5. Who Killed Cock Robin?
6. Cockles And Mussels
7. Hush Little Baby
8. What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?
9. The Riddle Song
10. Michael Finnigan
11. Widdicombe Fair
12. Froggy’s Courting
13. Curly Locks

Personnel

• Maddy Prior - vocals
• Melanie Harrold - vocals
• Brian Golbey - vocals
• Gina Fullerlove - French horn
• B.J. Cole - steel guitar
• Rick Kemp - bass
• Spike Fullerlove - vocals
• Tamsey Kaner - cello
• Lea Nicholson - concertina
• Steve Noble - percussion
• Debbie Paul - vocals
• Andy Richards - synthesiser
• Beverly Jane Smith - vocals
• Davy Spillane
  Davy Spillane
  Davy Spillane is a songwriter and a player of uilleann pipes and low whistle.early yearsDavy was born in Dublin in 1959 . At the age of 12 he started playing the uilleann pipes. His father encouraged him and inspired him with his love of all music genres...
  
  - uillean pipes
• The Livingston Hooray Ensemble - chorus