Various - Sing Christmas And The Turn Of The Year (CD)

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The live Christmas Day 1957 broadcast on BBC Radio. Alan Lomax and others can be heard doing introductions throughout the broadcast

Format: CD

Media Condition:  Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Country:    US  
Released:  2000
Genre:       Folk World & Country
Style:         Folk, Holiday

Track listing:

1a. Alan Lomax - Introduction
1b. Birmingham Studio Group - Good King Wenceslas 1:07
2a. Alan Lomax - Caroling In The Dark
2b. Birmingham Studio Group - Good King Wenceslas
2c. Brian Newey Skiffle Group - Good King Wenceslas
2d. Shirley Collins - This Is The Truth Sent From Above
2e. The Haddo House Choir - The Holly And The Ivy
2f. The Skinner's Bottom Glee Singers - The Holly And The Ivy 4:58
3a. Charlie Bate - Boscastle Breakdown
3b. Charlie Bate - Padstow Wassail Song
3c. Marshfield Paper Boys - St. David's Day Dance
3d. Cyril Tawney - I Wonder As I Wander 4:09
4a. Wisbech Children's Choir - We Wish You A Merry Christmas
4b. Alan Lomax, Wisbech Children's Choir - Narration/Caroling Scene 1:11
5. Carolers At The Cheshire Cheese Pub - Peace O'er The World 1:00
6. Ewan MacColl - Introduction To The Ballad Of Jesus Christ 0:49
7. Ewan MacColl - The Ballad Of Jesus Christ 2:10
8a. Stephen Kirby, Ronald Soules, Walter Slasher - Excerpt From Shepherd's Nativity Play
8b. Hollinwood Girls' Choir - Shepherd's Cradle Song
8c. Wisbech Grammer School - Coventry Carol
8d. Malcolm Pope - Excerpt From Wisbech Nativity Play 2:46
9. Alan Lomax, Charles Chilton - Christmas In London 0:43
10. A. L. Lloyd, Princess Louise Folksong Club - The Derby Ram 1:09
11. Fitzroy Coleman - Christmas Morning Calypso 1:51
12. Rans Boi's Ghana Highlife Band - Unite 1:41
13. Peggy Seeger - Pretty Little Baby 1:52
14a. Joe Duthie - Reading From Luke 2:15-19
14b. Peter Buchan, The Crew Of The Twinkling Star - Psalm 23
14c. Katie Ann Nicholson - The Mother's Consecraton
14d. Flora MacNeil - Christ Child Lullaby
14e. Students From The Scalloway Junior Secondary School - Saint Mary's Men Are We 5:26
15. Ian McRae (2), The Joe Gordon Skiffle Group - The Day We Went To Rothsay-o 1:22
16. Ewan MacColl, Charlie Bate, Brian Newey Skiffle Group, Birmingham Studio Group - Regional Hookup: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 1:51
17. Alan Lomax - Cromwell Versus Father Christmas (Story) 1:16
18a. The McPeake Family Trio - The Jug Of Punch
18b. Ravenhill Temperance Flute Band - Viny Ridge March 1:46
19a. Gerard O'Kane - Royal Belfast Hornpipe
19b. Katie Graham - Millicent's Hornpipe
19c. The Rakes (4) - The Tenpenny Bit
19d. Seamus Ennis - The Dublin Reel 2:42
20. Shirley Collins - The Cherry Tree Carol 1:45
21a. The North Wales Singers - Anglesey Carol
21b. Shân Emlyn - Hiraeth 1:39
22a. Two Unidentified Actors - Excerpt From The Symondsbury Mummers Play
22b. Unidentified Caller And Dancers - Donny Brook Fair (Winlaton Sword Dance) 2:06
23a. Haslington Boys Brass Band - Good King Wenceslas
23b. Happy Wanderers - When The Saints Go Marching In 2:01
24a. Dominic Behan - T'was Mary Conceived
24b. Hollinwood Girls Choir - The Noble Stem Of Jesse 2:37
25. Unidentified Welsh Choir - The Lords Prayer (In Welsh) 1:35
26a. The Sale And District Musical Society - O Come All Ye Faithful
26b. Katie Ann Nicholson - The Gift Of Power
26c. Unidentified Precentor & Congregation - Metrical Psalm In Gaelic 2:16
27. Alan Lomax - No Room At The Inn (Story)/Last Month Of The Year 2:50
28a. Carolers At The Cheshire Cheese Pub - Hark, What News The Angels Bring
28b. Charlie Bate - I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In
28c. Shirley Collins - Wassail, Wassail, All Over This Town
28b. Birmingham Studio Group - Here We Come A-Wassailing 3:04

Credits: 

Art Direction, Design - J Sylvester Design
Coordinator - Matthew Barton
Coordinator [Series] - Bill Nowlin
Liner Notes - Ken Hunt
Mastered By - Phil Klum
Photography By - Brian Shuel
Photography By - Colin Tait
Photography By - Peggy Seeger
Photography By - The Alan Lomax Archive
Producer [Collection] - Anna L. Chairetakis
Producer [Collection] - Jeffrey A. Greenberg
Producer [Original Broadcast] - Charles Parker (2)
Producer [Sound Restoration/Remastering] - Steve Rosenthal
Transferred By - Adrian Consentini
Written-By [Original Broadcast] - Alan Lomax