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compiled by Alan Lomax
compiled by [assistant] Robin Roberts
design Ronald Clyne
edited by Alan Lomax
edited by Peter Kennedy
liner notes Alan Lomax
CSP (A Service of CBS Records)

Edited for the English Folk Dance and Song Society from the Recorded Programs Library of the B.B.C.

Recordings of Phil Tanner, courtesy Columbia Graphophone Company, Ltd., Great Britain.

A1.1. & A1.2. Sung by Stanley Slade with male chorus. Bristol. June 1942. (B.B.C. Bristol, July 1943).
A1.3. Royal Earsdon Team from Backworth Colliery, Northumberland with fiddler Jimmy McKay (B.B.C. Newcastle, January 1948.)
A1.5. Sung by Jim and Bob Copper of Rottingdean, Sussex (B.B.C. Recording by Brian George.)
A1.6. Sung by Fred Perrier and local villagers, accordion, West Lavington, Wiltshire. (Recorded November, 1950.)
A1.7. Recorded at a Village Barn Dance in Dorset, 1951.
A1.8. Sung by Jim Copper of Rottingdean, Sussex. (B.B.C. Recording.)
A1.9. Portland, Dorset, July 1939. (B.B.C.)
A1.11. Learned from lead miners in Teasdale, Yorkshire.
A1.12. Sung by Charger Salmond and friends at the Windwill pub, near Stalham, Norfolk, 1947. (B.B.C.)
A2.1. Wideopen, Newcastle.
A2.2. Played by Jack Armstrong's Band with fiddle, accordion, and piano.
A2.3. Gower, South Wales, Columbia Record. No. RO 102. Copyright, English Folk Dance and Song Society.
A2.4. Performed by a team of men, Symondsbury, near Bridport, Dorset. Christmas, 1951. (B.B.C. Collection - Peter Kennedy).
B1.1. Sung by a crowd with accordion and drum. B.B.C. Published in the Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society Copyright.
B1.2. Sidbury, South Devon, B.B.C. 1951.
B2.1. Learned from John Taylor's recording HMV 2/2973.
B2.2 Columbia RO-101, Gower, Wales.
B2.3. Learnt from Joseph Taylor record.
B2.4. Headington, Oxfordshire, B.B.C.
B3.1. Group of children playing in Sidbury, Devon, B.B.C. Collection (Peter Kennedy). February 1951.
B3.2. Sung by Walter Lucas and the people of Sixpenny Handley, Dorset. B.B.C., 1951.
B3.3. Sung by Mrs. (Aunt Fanny) Rumble, Tilshead, Wiltshire. B.B.C., 1951.
B3.4. Sung by Bunny Palmer, with chorus at a Village Barn Dance, Sidbury, Devon.
B3.5. Sung at the Eel's Foot Pub, East Bridge, Suffolk, B.B.C., 1947.
B3.6. With accordion acc., Boscastle, Cornwall. B.B.C., 1943.
B3.7. Columbia RO-101.

(Sleeve) Printed in U.S.A.

Matrix / Runout: XLP 9449 (Label, Side A)
Matrix / Runout: XLP 9450 (Label, Side B)
Matrix / Runout: XLP-9449--1F T (Runout, Side A)
Matrix / Runout: XLP-9450--3E T (Runout, Side B)