The Corries
Scottish duo playing mainly traditional Scottish folksongs. On the early
albums they were a trio with Paddie Bell. Roy invented the combolin - a multi-fretboard
combination of guitar and mandolin. Roy Williamson (1936 - 1990)
(Roy Williamson is not related to Robin Williamson of the Incredible String Band.
They are the author of the well-known song "Flower of Scotland".)
(Ronnie Browne has recorded solo.)
(Paddie Bell has recorded solo.)
Original Studio Albums.
| Title. | Year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Corrie Folk Trio (*) | 1964 |
Waverley | ZLP 2042
|
| Corrie Folk Trio [re-recorded] |
1965 | Elektra | EKL 291 |
| The Promise Of The Day (*) | 1965 |
Waverley | ZLP 2050
|
| The Promise Of The Day [re-recorded] |
?1966 | Elektra |
EKL 304 |
| [Reissue of the Waverley
version] | ? | EMI Music
For Pleasure | MFP 50154 |
| Those Wild Corries (**) | 1966 |
Fontana | TL 5337
|
| [Reissued as "Cam Ye By Atholl"] |
? | Phillips |
6382 083 |
| Bonnet Belt and Sword | 1967 |
Fontana/ Phonogram | STL 5401
|
| [Reissue] | ? |
Phillips/ Phonogram | 822 084-1 |
| Kishmul's Galley | 1968 |
Fontana | STL 5465
|
| Scottish Love Songs | 1969 |
Fontana | 6309004
|
| Strings and Things | 1970 |
Fiesta | FLPS 1832 |
| [Reissue] | 1970 |
EMI/ Columbia | SCX 6442 |
| [Reissue] |
? |
Moidart | MOICD
014 |
| Sound The Pibroch | 1972 |
EMI/ Columbia | SCX 6511 |
|
[Reissue] | | Moidart |
MOICD 015 |
| A Little Of What You Fancy | 1973 |
EMI/ Columbai | SCX 6546
|
| [Reissue] | ? |
Moidart | MOICD ? |
| Peat Fire Flame | 1977 | Dara | PA
024
|
| Stovies | 1980 |
Dara | PA 036
|
| A Man's A Man | 1980 | |
|
| The Dawning Of The Day | 1982 |
Dara | PA 040
|
(* Credited to "The Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie
Bell".)
(** Credited to "The Corrie Folk Trio.)
Multi-volume Albums.
| Title | Year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| In Concert/ Scottish Love Songs |
1995 | Beat Goes On | |
| Corrie Folk Trio/ The Promise of the Day (1 CD)(*) |
2007 | Moidart |
MOIMC 013 |
| Peat Fire Flame / Stovies (2 CDs) | 1990's | Moidart | MOIMC
018
|
(* Credited to "The Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie
Bell". Originally released on separate albums)
Live Albums.
| Title. | Year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| The Corries In Concert | 1969 |
Fontana | STL 5484
|
| The Best Folk | 1969 |
Fontana | 6852008 |
| 'Live' A Live O | 1972 |
Contour | 6870 539
|
| Live At the Royal Lyceum | 1971 |
EMI | SCX 6468 |
|
[Reissue] | 1980 |
Fiesta | FLPS 1798 |
|
[Reissue] | ? | Moidart | MOICD
014 |
| Live From Scotland vol 1 | 1974 |
Dara | PA 002
|
| Live From Scotland vol 2 | 1975 |
Pan Audio | PA 008
|
| Live From Scotland vol 3 | 1977 |
Pan Audio | PA 015
|
| Live From Scotland vol 4 | 1977 |
Dara/ Pan Audio | PA 027
|
| Scotland Will Flourish | 1985 |
Dara | PA 066
|
|
[Reissue] | 2006 |
Moidart | MOICD 025 |
| Barrett's Privateers | 1987 |
Dara | CPA 083 |
|
[Reissue] | 2007 |
Moidart | MOICD 026 |
|
The Bonnie Blue | 1988 |
Dara | CPA 090 |
Multi-volume live albums.
| Title | Year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Live From Scotland volumes 1 and 2 |
2001 | Moidart | MOICD 020 |
|
Live From Scotland volumes 3 and 4 (2 CDs) |
2006 | Moidart |
MOICD 022 |
Compilations.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| In Retrospect (*) | 1970 |
Talisman | STAL 5005 |
|
The Best Folk | 1969 |
Fontana | 6852 |
|
These are the Corries | 1970 |
Phillips | 6382 025 |
|
These are the Corries vol 2 - Skye Boat Song |
1972 | Phillips |
6382 059 |
|
16 Scottish Favourites | 1973 |
EMI | GLN 1005 |
|
[Reissue] | 2007 |
EMI Gold | |
|
The Very Best of | 1974 |
EMI EMC | 3114 |
|
[Reissue] | 1980 |
EMI/ MFP | 50478 |
|
[Reissue] | 1990 |
EMI Gold | CC 246 |
|
[Reissued as "Legends of Scotland: the Corries"] |
c 1995 |
Lochshore | |
|
[Reissue] | 1997 |
EMI Gold | CDSL 8285 |
|
[Reissued as "The Corries Collection" with extra tracks] |
1999 |
HMV | HMV5222342 |
|
Spotlight on the Corries (2 LPS) | 1977 |
Phillips | 6625 035 |
|
[Reissue] | 2006 |
Beat Goes On | |
|
The Corries | 1980 |
Ideal Records | TC-IDL-8 OC 254-07 240 |
|
Love From Scotland | 1983 |
Dara | PA 055 |
|
The Corries Collection | 1986 |
Dara | PA 070 |
|
The Compact Collection | 1987 |
Lismor | LCOM 9006 |
|
The Bantam Cock Rides Again | c 1987 |
Dara | CPA 079 |
|
Best of The Corries | 1989 |
Pickwick | PWKS 4054P |
|
Flower of Scotland | 1990 |
Dara | |
|
[Reissue] | 1991 |
Moidart | MOICD 002 |
|
The Corries | 1991 |
EMI CDP | 95746 2 |
|
The Silver Collection 1966 - 1991 | 1991 |
Moidart | MOICD 005 |
|
The Corries Collection | 1999 |
HMV | HMV5222342 |
|
The Comedy Collection | 2003 |
Moidart | MOICD 024 |
| The Battle Songs of Scotland - Scots Wha Hae | | Moidart | MOICD 009
|
| 18 Scottish Favouvites: Traditions | 2007 |
EMI Gold | 3894272 |
(* Credited to "The Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie
Bell".)
Best albums(*).
| Title. | year. |
|---|
| Peat Fire Flame |
1977 |
| Scottish Love Songs |
1969 |
|
Strings and Things | 1970 |
|
Live From Scotland volumes 1 and 2 | 2001 |
(*)Based on my opinion.
Popular downloads.
| Title. |
|---|
| Flower of Scotland |
|
The Black Douglas |
| A Man's A Man |
|
Helen of Kirkconnel |
|
Scots Wa Hae |
|
The Rose of Allendale |
|
I Will Go |
|
? |
|
? |
Anthologies.
| Title. | year. | Label. | No.
|
|---|
| The Hoot'nanny Show (*) | 1964 |
Waverley | ZLP 2025 |
(* with Ray and Archie Fisher, Eleanor Leith, and Dolina McLennan)
Anthology - The Spinners, Robin Hall and Jimmie MacGregor, Martin Carthy,
The Wolftones, The Corries, Julie Felix, Wally Whyton, the McPeakes et al.
| Title.
| year.
| Label.
| number.
|
| Folk Favourites
| 1970 | Contour |
6870 636 |
Anthology - The Corries, Ian Bruce, Ewan MacColl, Alsdair MacDonald, Rod
Patterson, the Whistlebinkies, Ceolbeg, Brian MacNeil, Aileen et al.
| Title.
| year.
| Label.
| number.
|
| The King Has Landed
| 2002 | Greentrax |
? |
Anthology - The Corries, Steeleye Span, Donovan, Dubliners, Rachel Unthank,
Kingston Trio, Spinners et al.
| Title.
| year.
| Label.
| number.
|
| The Original Folk Album | 2008 |
EMIGOLD |
? |
Anthology - The Corries, Cilla Fisher, Isla St Clair, McCalmans, The Cast,
Black Eyed Biddy, Davy Steele and Drinkers' Drouth, Catherine-Ann McPhee et al.
| Title.
| year.
| Label.
| number.
|
| People and Songs of the Sea
| 2009 | Greentrax |
CDTRAX338 |
DVDs.
| Title | year. | Label.
|
|---|
| The Corries and other Folk | 1983 |
|
| The Lads Among the Heather vol 1 | 2004 |
|
| The Lads Among the Heather vol 2 | 2005 |
|
| Corries on the Road | 2007 |
Gavin Browne Productions |
Singles.
| Title. | year. | Label.
| Number |
|---|
| Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie Bell (EP) (*) |
1963 | Waverley |
ELP 129 |
| Yon Folk Songs Is For
The Burds (EP) (*) | 1963 |
Waverley | ELP 131 |
| More
Folk Songs for the Burds (EP) (*) | 1963 |
Waverley | ELP 132 |
|
Love is Teasing/ O Waly Waly | 1964 |
Waverley | |
| How Shall I
Get There?/ October Song | 1966 |
Fontana | |
|
Frosty Winds (EP) (*) | 1965 |
Parlophone | GEP 8947 |
|
Lord of the Dance/ Kishmul's Galley |
1969 |
Fontana | |
| Flower of Scotland/ The Roses of Prince Charlie |
1974 | Dara |
SPA 003 |
| Wha Wouldna Fecht forCharlie/
Derwqentwaters Farewell |
1976 | EMI | |
|
Scotland Will Flourish/ The Massacre of Glencoe |
1978 | Dara |
SPA 092 |
| Mothers, Daughters, Wives/ The Green
Fields of France |
1990 | BBC | |
|
Flower of Scotland (EP) |
1998 | | |
(* Credited to "The Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie Bell".)
Hit albums.
| Title. | year. | Highest position.
|
|---|
| Scottish Love Songs | 1969 | 46
|
| Sound The Pibroch | 1972 | 39
|
Album Tracks.
The Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie Bell. Recorded in mono.
Recorded 1965. Released on vinyl in
1965. Released on CD in 1997, packaged
together with "The Promise of the Day". Produced by W Gordon Smith.
Sound Engineer: Colin Watson.
Running time about 35 minutes. Roy Williamson (vocals), Ronnie
Browne (vocals), Bill Smith (vocals), Paddie Bell (vocals). Roy plays concertina
on "Greenland Fisheries". Guest: Robin Brock plays acoustic bass on
track 8.
Acoustic guitars, bandurria and mandolin are audible.
| Title.
| Author.
|
| 1. The Singing Games. (a) The Windy City [I'll Tell Me
Ma] (b) Call on the one
you love (c) 1 2 3 O'Leary (d) I'm No Goin' Tae Barry's Trip
| Trad/Trad/Trad/Trad
|
| 2. Lock The Door, Lariston
| Trad
|
| 3. Jock O' Braidislee (solo by Ronnie Browne) [Child
Ballad 114] | Trad
|
| 4. Doodle Let Me Go (Yellow Girls) (vocal by Paddie Bell)
| Trad
|
| 5. The Lass O' Fyvie
| Trad
|
| 6. The Itinerant Cobbler
| Trad
|
| 7. Lord Gregory (vocal by Paddie Bell) [Child Ballad 76]
| Trad
|
| 8. McPherson's Farewell
| Trad
|
| 9. Coorie Doon (vocal by Paddie Bell)
| Matt McGinn
|
| 10. Greenland Fisheries
| Trad
|
The Promise of the Day .... Recorded in stereo. Recorded
1965. Released on vinyl in
1965. Released on CD in 1997, packaged
together with "The Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie Bell". Produced by W Gordon Smith.
Sound Engineer: Colin Watson.
Running time about 35 minutes. Roy Williamson (vocals, concertina), Ronnie
Browne (vocals), Bill Smith (vocals), Paddie Bell (vocals). Guests: Archie Fisher plays
banjo. Mansel Davis plays acoustic bass on ??.
Acoustic guitars, bandurria and mandolin are audible.
| Title.
| Author.
|
| 1. My Love She's But A Lassie Yet
| Traditional
|
| 2. Shoals O' Herrin'
| Ewan MacColl
|
| 3. The Trooper and the Maid [Child Ballad 299]
| Trad
|
| 4. Whistling Gypsy
| Trad
|
| 5. Queen Mary (vocal by Paddie Bell)
| Trad
|
| 6. The Leaving of Liverpool
| Trad
|
| 7. Uist Tramping Song
| Bannerman / MacDonald
|
| 8. Johnnie Lad
| Trad
|
| 9. Roddy McCorly
| Trad
|
| 10. Verdant Braes O' Screen
| Trad
|
| 11. Around Cape Horn
| Trad
|
| 12. Fear A Bhata (vocal by Paddie Bell)
| Trad
|
| 13. Killiecrankie
| Trad
|
| 14. Jock Hawk's Adventures In Glasgow
| Trad
|
Peat Fire Flame. Recorded 1977. Released on vinyl in
1977 on Dara (PA 024). Released on CD in 2000 on Moidart (MOICD 018), packaged
together with "Stovies". Recording Engineers: Alan Spence and Colin
Nicholson.
Running time 38 minutes 13 seconds. Roy Williamson (vocals), Ronnie
Browne (vocals). There is multi-tracking to include Roy and Ronnie on guitars,
Northumbrian pipes, harmonicas, whistles, flutes, concertina, mandolins, boranns
(i.e. bodhrans), fiddle and combolins.
| Title.
| Author.
|
| 1. Leezie Lindsay
| Ronnie Browne/ Roy Williamson
|
| 2. Braw Braw Lads
| Trad
|
| 3. The Peat Fire Flame
| Trad
|
| 4. Mormond Braes
| Trad
|
| 5. Come By The Hills
| Trad
|
| 6. The White Cockade
| Trad
|
| 7. The Barge of Gorrie Crovan
| Trad
|
| 8. Turn Ye Tae Me
| Trad
|
| 9. Eriskay Love Lilt
| Trad
|
| 10. The Wee Cooper O' Fife
| Trad
|
| 11. Lord Gregory (vocal by Roy)
| Trad
|
| 12. The Poacher
| Trad
|
Stovies. Recorded at various live concerts. Released on
vinyl in 1980 on Dara (PA 036). Released on CD in 2000 on Moidart (MOICD 018),
packaged together with "Peat Fire Flame". Recording Engineers: Alan
Spence, Colin Nicholson and Roy Ashby.
Running time 49 minutes 06 seconds. Roy Williamson (vocals), Ronnie
Browne (vocals). They play guitars, pipes, harmonicas, whistles, flutes,
concertina, mandolins, boranns (i.e. bodhrans), fiddle and combolins.
| Title.
| Author.
|
| 1. The Bloody Sarks
| Ronnie Browne/ Scobie
|
| 2. The Bonnie Moorhen
| Trad
|
| 3. Birnie Boozle
| Trad
|
| 4. Country Western Medley (*)
| Roy Williamson
|
| 5. The Broom O' The Cowdenknowes
| Trad
|
| 6. The Bantam Cock
| Jake Thackray
|
| 7. Dumbarton's Drums
| Trad
|
| 8. The Standard On The Braes O' Mar
| Trad
|
| 9. Lucille (*)
| Bowling/ Bynum
|
| 10. Arkinholm
| Weir/ Williamson
|
| 11. The Blackbird
| Trad
|
| 12. The Bricklayer's Song
| Cooksey
|
| 13. Welcome Royal Charlie
| Roy Williamson
|
(* parodies of country and western songs)
Last updated on 14/02/2010