| Description | Track 1: Introduction, 0.53 mins
Track 2: Roberta Flack sings ‘The First Time I Saw Your Face’, 3.54 mins
Track 3: Ewan MacColl talks about writing ‘The First Time I Saw Your Face’ and songwriting, 3.01 mins
Track 4: ‘The Manchester Rambler’ probably sung by Ewan MacColl, 3.26 mins
Track 5: Ewan MacColl talks about the beginning of his interest in folk music, which came from Icelandic and American folk music, 2.47 mins
Track 6: Ewan MacColl talks about writing the ballad opera ‘Johnny Noble’ and collecting folk songs, 3.08 mins
Track 7: ‘Four Pence A Day’ sung by an unnamed man; Ewan MacColl talks about his involvement with the beginnings of the folk revival, with A.L. Lloyd and Alan Lomax, forming theatre groups such as Theatre of Action and Theatre Union and attempting to create a new kind of popular theatre, 3.42 mins
Track 8: talks about meeting Alan Lomax and the inspiration he took from an essay about folk music by Bartok, 2.49 mins
Track 9: talks about ‘winning a working class audience’, finding folk material, performing in unions; the BBC series ‘Ballads and Blues’ about the connection between American and British folk music, 2.43 mins
Track 10: talks about traditional songs – the heroes are often urban figures, taking the music onto the streets, 2.51 mins
Track 11: talks about his early contact with and dislike of The English Folk Dance and Song Society; 2.32 mins
Track 12: a recording of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger singing ‘I’m a Rover’ after receiving the award of a gold badge from the English Folk Dance and Song Society in 1987, 4.18 mins
Track 13: continues Track 12 - Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl sing a song with chorus ‘The Public’s Not the Public Any More’, 2.42 mins
Track 14: continues Track 13 -Ewan MacColl talks about a song he has written about his father, 1.02 mins
Total: 39.56 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA 1 of 2 KF549C0073980 |