Ewan MacColl (1915 - 1989)
Singer of traditional songs and contemporary political songs.
(Originally called James Miller. Married to Peggy Seeger.
Step-father of Kirsty MacColl. Brought up in the North of England
by Scottish parents. Born in Salford, but sometimes claimed to be born in Scotland)
(Ewan also recorded with The Critics Group)
Albums.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Scots Street Songs | 1956 |
Riverside | RLP 12-612 |
| Barrack Room Ballads | 1958 |
Topic | 10T 26
|
| Still I Love Him | 1958 | |
|
| Bad Lads and Hard Cases | 1959 |
Riverside | RLP 12-632
|
| [Reissue] | ? | Transatlantic | XTRA1054
|
| [Reissue] | ?1997 | Tradition
Records | TCD 1051
|
| Songs of Robert Burns | 1959 | Folkways |
FW08758 |
| The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Child Ballads) | 1961 | Folkways |
|
| Bothy Ballads | 1961 |
Folkways | FW08759 |
| Broadside Ballads, vols 1 and 2 | 1962 | Folkways |
|
| Four Pence a Day | 1963 | |
|
| British Industrial Folk songs | 1963 | Stinson |
|
| Steam Whistle Ballads | 1964 | Topic | 12T104
|
| Bundook Ballads | 1967 |
Topic | 12T130
|
| Paper Stage 1 | 1969 |
Argo | ZDA98
|
| Paper Stage 2 | 1969 |
Argo | ZDA99
|
| Solo Flight | 1972 |
Argo | ZFB12
|
| At the Present Moment | 1973 |
Rounder | ROUN 4003 |
| Hot Blast | 1978 | Blackthorne | BR1059
|
| Daddy, What did You Do In The Strike? | 1985 | |
|
| Items of News | 1986 | Blackthorne |
BR 1067
|
Multi-volume Albums.
| Title | Year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| The Anthology (2 CDs) (*) | 1997 |
Not Now Music | ? |
(* "Bad Lads and Hard Cases", "Still I Love Him" and "The Songs of Robert Burns")
Compilations.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Naming of Names - Topical Songs | ? | Cooking
Vinyl | COOK 036
|
| The Real MacColl | 1994 | Topic | TSCD463
|
| [Reissue] | 2008 |
Topic | |
| The Folk Collection | 1994? | Topic | TSCD470
|
| Round Cape Horn | 1998? | Topic | TSCD499
|
| Scottish Voices | ? | Topic | TSCD703
|
| The Voice of Folk | ? | Topic | TSCD705
|
| The Legend of Ewan MacColl | 1995 |
Nectar | NTMCD502 |
| Antiquities (2 CDs) | 1998 |
Topic | |
| Black and White:
The Definitive Ewan MacColl Collection | 2000 |
Cooking Vinyl | COOK 038 |
|
The Definitive Collection | 2003 |
Highpoint | HPO 6006 |
|
Ballads: Murder Intrigue Love Discord (2 CDs) |
2009 |
Topic | |
Collaboration - A.L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl, accompanied by Steve Benbow.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Gamblers and Sporting Blades (E.P.) | 1962 | Topic | TOP71
|
Collaborations - Ewan McColl and Bert Lloyd.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Bold Sportsmen All: Gamblers & Sporting Blades | 1960 | Topic |
10T36 |
| [Reissue with bonus tracks] |
1998 | Topic |
TSCD 495 |
| A Sailor's Garland | 1962 | Prestige
International | INT-13043
|
| [reissue] | 1966 | Transatlantic | XTRA
5013
|
| Blow Boys Blow | 1960 | Tradition
Records | TLP1026
|
| [Reissue] | 1967 | Transatlantic | XTRA
1952
|
| [Reissue] | 1996 |
Rykodisk/ Tradition
Records | TCD 1024
|
| Blow Boys Blow: The Tradition Years |
2006 | Empire Musikwerks |
545 450 849-2 |
Collaboration - A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Louis Killen, Ian Campbell, Cyril
Tawney, Sam Larner and Harry H. Corbett.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Blow the Man Down (EP) | 1963 | Topic | TOP98
|
| [Reissue][with bonus tracks] (*) |
1993 | Topic | TSCD464 |
Various artists - Ian Campbell, Bob Davenport, Lou Killen, Redd Sullivan,
Dave Swarbrick, Cyril Tawney.
| Title. | year. | Label. | No.
|
|---|
| Farewell Nancy: Sea Songs and Shanties |
1964 | Topic | 12T110
|
| [Reissued as "Blow The Man Down"] (*) |
1993 | Topic |
TSCD464 |
(* The 1993 album is a combination of tracks from the 1963 "Blow The Man
Down" and tracks from "Farewell Nancy". Extra tracks by Ewan MacColl, Harry H Corbett, Sam Larner, The Watersons,
Bob Hart, A.L. Lloyd ).
Collaboration - A.L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl (Child Ballads).
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child
Ballads) Vol 1 | 1956 |
Washington | WLP 715 |
|
[Reissued] | ? | Folkways |
FG 3509 |
| The English and Scottish
Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol 2 | 1956 |
Washington | WLP 716 |
|
[Reissued] | ? |
Folkways | FG 3510 |
|
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol 3 |
1956 | Washington |
WLP 717 |
| [Reissued] |
? | Folkways |
FG 3511 |
| The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
(The Child Ballads) Vol 4 | 1956 |
Washinton | WLP 718 |
|
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Vol 5 |
1956 | Washington |
WLP 719 |
| English and Scottish Folk Ballads | 1964 | Topic | 12T103
[reissued TSCD480]
|
Collaboration - A.L. Lloyd, Ewan MacColl, Harry H Corbett with chorus (sea
songs).
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| A Hundred Years Ago (EP) | 1956
[re-issued 1963] | Topic | [TOP99]
|
| The Coast of Peru (EP) | 1956
[re-issued 1963] | Topic | [TOP100]
|
| The Singing Sailor | 1956 |
Topic | TRL 3 |
|
Row Bullies Row |
1957 | Topic |
8T7 |
| [Reissued as "Chants des
Marins Anglais No 1"] |
1957 | Le Chant du Monde |
LDY 4155 |
| The Blackball Line |
1957 | Topic |
8T8 |
| [Reissued as "Chants des
Marins Anglais No 2"] |
1957 | Le Chant du Monde |
LDY 4157 |
| Singing Sailors (*) |
1957 | Wattle |
C5 |
| Shanties and Fo'c'sle Songs
(*) |
1957 | Wattle |
C6 |
| Haul on the Bowlin' and Other
Chanteys and Fo'c'sle Songs Volume I (*) |
1962 | Stinson |
SLP80 |
| Off to Sea Once More and
Other Fo'c'sle Songs and Shanties Volume II (*) |
1963 | Stinson |
SLP81 |
(* These are recordings drawn from earlier albums)
Collaboration - Bob and Ron Copper, Ewan MacColl, Isla Cameron, Seamus Ennis and Peter
Kennedy.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| As I Roved Out | 1953-4 | Folktrax | TFX-253
|
Collaboration - Alan Lomax and the Ramblers (Alan Lomac, Ewan MacColl, Peggy
Seeger, Shirley Collins, Sandy Brown, John Cole, Bryan Daley and Alan Sutton).
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Alan Lomax and the Ramblers (EP) | ? |
Decca | DFE 6267 |
Collaborations - Ewan MacColl and others.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Broadside Ballads 1600 - 1700 volume 1 | ? | Folkways | FW
3043
|
| Broadside Ballads 1600 - 1700 volume 2 | ? | Folkways | FW
3044
|
| The Unfortunate Rake (*) | 1960 | Folkways | FW
3805
|
| Whaler Out of New Bedford (**) |
1962 | Folkways | FS
3850
|
| Music of the World's Peoples Vol 3 (***) |
1955? | Folkways | FW
4506
|
| Singing Streets: Memories or Ireland and Scotland (****) |
1958 | Folkways | FW
8501
|
| Poetry and Song vol 1 | 1966-67? |
Argo | ZDA 50 |
|
Poetry and Song vol 4 | 1966-67? |
Argo | ZDA 53 |
|
Poetry and Song vol 7 | 1966-67? |
Argo | ZDA 56 |
|
Poetry and Song vol 11 | 1966-67? |
Argo | ZDA 60 |
|
Poetry and Song vol 14 | 1966-67? |
Argo | ZDA 63 |
(* Only one track by Peggy and Ewan - "The Trooper cut Down in His Prime". Only one track for Alf Ewards and A.L. Lloyd - "The Unfortunate Rake".
The other tracks are by Harry Cox, Dave Van Ronk, Rosalie Sorrels, Kenneth S
Goldstein, Alan Lomax, and Pete Seeger)
(** Ewan MacColl, A.l. Lloyd and Peggy Seeger)
(*** Only one track track by Ewan MacColl - "As I Went out one May Morning")
(**** Ewan MacColl and Dominic Behan)
Anthology - tracks from Folkways and Elektra labels.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| The Folk Box (box set) | 2004 | Elektra | EKL
9001
|
| The Folk Collection | ? | Topic | TSCD707/8
|
Anthology - Topic Sampler. (Louis Killen, AL Lloyd, Ian Campbell Group, Ewan
MacColl et al)
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Folk Songs - An Anthology | 1964 |
Topic | TPS114
|
Anthology - John MacDonald, Harry Cox, Fairport Convention, Albion Band,
Ewan MacColl, Tir-Na-Nog, Straight Furrow et al.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| A Celebration of Great British Folk (2 CDs) (*) |
2009 |
Topic | TSCD653
|
Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Shuttle and Cage | 1958 |
Topic | 10T13 |
|
Second Shift | 1958 |
Topic | 10T25 |
|
The Jacobite Rebellions | 1960 |
Folkways | FW08756 |
| Popular Scottish Songs |
1960 |
Folkways | FW 8757 |
|
Classic Scots Ballads | 1961 |
Tradition | TLP 1015 |
| Chorus From The Gallows |
1961 | Topic |
TSCD 502 |
| Songs of Two Rebellions - The Jacobite
Wars of 1715 and 1745 | 1960 |
Folkways | FW08756 |
|
[Reissued as "Jacobite Songs - The Two Rebellions 1715 and 1745"] |
1962 | Topic | 12T79 |
|
[Reissued as "The Jacobite Rebellions"] |
1998 | Ossian |
OSS CD 103 |
| The Amorous Muse | 1966 |
Argo | ZFB66
|
| The Manchester Angel | 1966 |
Topic | 147
|
| The Angry Muse | 1968 | Argo | ZFB65
|
| The Wanton Muse | 1968 | Argo |
ZFB67 |
| Saturday Night at The Bull and Mouth | 1977 | Blackthorne | BR
1055
|
| Cold Snap | 1977 | Blackthorne | BR
1057
|
| Kilroy Was Here | ? | Blackthorne | BR
1063
|
| [Reissue] | 1980 |
Folkways | CD FW 8562 |
| Freeborn Man | ? | Blackthorne | BR
1065
|
| [Reissue] | ? |
Rounder | ROUN 3083 |
| Items of News | 1986 | Blackthorne | BR
1067
|
| Scottish Drinking and Pipe Songs (*) |
1984 | Bescol | |
|
[Reissue] | 2004 |
Music Digital | |
| Naming of Names | 1989 |
Cooking Vinyl | COOKCD 036
|
| [Reissue] | 2000 |
Cooking Vinyl | |
|
Traditional Songs and Ballads of Scotland | ? |
Ossian | OSS CD 103 |
|
Scottish Traditional Songs | ? |
Ossian | OSS CD 105 |
(* Not actually sung by McColl and Seeger. This is an anthology of songs and tunes recorded by them)
Compilations - Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger.
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| The World of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger |
1969 | Argo | SPA102
|
| The World of Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger volume 2 (*) |
1971 | Argo | SPA-A132
|
| Folk on 2: Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger |
2000 | Cooking Vinyl |
MASH CDE 002 |
(* From the Radio Ballads)
Ewan MacColl/ The Radio Ballads (1958 - 1964)(*).
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Ballad of John Axon (recorded 1958) | 1965 |
Argo | RG 474 |
| [Reissue] | 1999 |
Topic | TSCD801 |
| Song of a Road | 1959 | | |
| [Reissue] | |
Topic | TSCD802 |
| Singing The Fishing | 1960 | | DA
142
|
| [Reissue] | 1999 |
Topic | TSCD803 |
| The Big Hewer | 1961 | | DA
140
|
| [Reissue] | 1999 |
Topic | TSCD804 |
| The Body Blow | 1962 | |
|
| [Reissue] | 1999 |
Topic | TSCD805 |
| On The Edge | 1963 | | DA
136
|
| [Reissue] | 1999 |
Topic | TSCD806 |
| The Fight Game | 1964 | | DA
141
|
| [Reissue] | 1999 |
Topic | TSCD807 |
| The Travelling People | 1964 | | DA
133
|
| [Reissue] | 1999 |
Topic | TSCD808 |
(* Mixture of documentary, drama and song. Broadcast on BBC radio)
Ewan MacColl/ The Long Harvest (*)
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| The Long Harvest 1 | 1966 |
Argo | DA 66
|
| The Long Harvest 2 | 1967 |
Argo | DA 67 |
| The Long Harvest 3 | 1968 |
Argo | DA 68 |
| The Long Harvest 4 | 1969 |
Argo | DA 69 |
| The Long Harvest 5 | 1970 |
Argo | DA 70 |
| The Long Harvest 6 | 1971 |
Argo | DA 71 ARG 2953
|
| The Long Harvest 7 | 1972 |
Argo | DA 72 |
| The Long Harvest 8 | 1973 |
Argo | DA 73 |
| The Long Harvest 9 | 1974 |
Argo | DA 74 |
| The Long Harvest 10 | 1975 |
Argo | DA 75 |
(* Traditional Ballads)
Ewan MacColl/ Blood and Roses (*)
| Title. | year. | Label. | number.
|
|---|
| Blood and Roses | 1979 | Blackthorne |
|
| Blood and Roses 2 | 1981 | Blackthorne |
|
| Blood and Roses 3 | 1982 | Blackthorne |
|
| Blood and Roses 4 | 1982 | Blackthorne |
|
| Blood and Roses 5 | 1983 | Blackthorne |
|
(* Traditional Ballads)
Best albums(*).
| Title. | year. |
|---|
| Blow Boys Blow | 1967 |
|
Definitive Collection | 2003 |
|
Songs of Two Rebellions - The Jacobite
Wars of 1715 and 1745 | 1960 |
|
Black and White:
The Definitive Ewan MacColl Collection | 2000 |
(*) Based on critical opinion.
Singles.
| Title.
| year.
| Label.
| No
|
| Van Dieman's Land/ Lord Randall
| ?
| HMV
| B10259
|
| Sir Patrick Spens/ Eppie Morrie
| ?
| HMV
| B10260
|
| Parliamentary Polka/ Song of Choice
| ?
| Blackthorne
| BR 20535
|
| Housewife's Alphabet/ My Son
| ?
| Blackthorne
| BR 10525
|
Popular downloads.
| Title. |
|---|
| Dirty Old Town |
|
Song of the Iron Road |
|
The Shoals of Herring |
| The Press
Gang |
Album Tracks.
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Volume 2 Running time
?? minutes ?? seconds. Recorded in
1956. Ewan MacColl (vocals), A.L. Lloyd
(vocals). Each sings solo.
LP - Side one
| Title
| Author
| Singer | Timing |
| 1. Eppie Morrie (Child 223) | Trad
| EM | 3:38 |
| 2. Sir Hugh (Child 155) | Trad |
ALL | 3:17 |
| 3. The Shepherd Lad (Child 112)
| Trad
| EM | 3:22 |
| 4. Robin Hood and the Tanner (Child 126) | Trad
| ALL | 3:34 |
| 5. Richie Story (Child 232) | Trad
| EM | 5:40 |
LP - Side two
| Title
| Author
| Singer | Timing |
| 1. Get Up and Bar the Door (Child 275) | Trad
| EM | 3:52 |
|
2. The Outlandish Knight (Child 4) | Trad
| ALL | 5:34 |
|
3. The Bonnie Hoose O' Airlie (Child 199) | Trad
| EM | 5:35 |
|
4. The Rantin Laddie (Child 240) | Trad
| EM | 3:53 |
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Volume 3 Running time
?? minutes ?? seconds. Recorded in
1956. Ewan MacColl (vocals), A.L. Lloyd
(vocals). Each sings solo.
LP - Side one
| Title
| Author
| Singer | Timing |
| 1. The Broomfield Hill (Child 43) | Trad
| EM | 2:39 |
| 2. The Prickly Bush (Child 95) |
Trad | ALL | 3:56 |
| 3. Johnnie O'Breadisley (Child 114)
| Trad
| EM | 4:10 |
| 4. George Collins (Child 85) | Trad
| ALL | 4:24 |
| 5.
The Trooper and the Maid (Child 299) | Trad
| EM | 4:24 |
LP - Side two
| Title
| Author
| Singer | Timing |
| 1. The Cooper O'Fife (Child 277) | Trad
| EM | 1:27 |
|
2.
Fair Margaret and Sweet William (Child 74) | Trad
| ALL | 4:18 |
|
3. Glasgow Peggie (Child 228) | Trad
| EM | 3:06 |
|
4. The
Broom of Cowdenknowes (Child 217) | Trad
| EM | 11:03 |
The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (The Child Ballads) Volume 5 Running time
?? minutes ?? seconds. Recorded in
1956. Ewan MacColl (vocals), A.L. Lloyd
(vocals). Each sings solo.
LP - Side one
| Title
| Author
| Singer | Timing |
| 1. The Battle of Harlaw (Child 163) | Trad
| EM | 2:39 |
| 2. The Dover Sailor (Child 295) |
Trad | ALL | 3:56 |
| 3. Amang the Blue Flowers and the Yellow (Child 25)
| Trad
| EM | 4:10 |
| 4. The Golden Vanity (Child 286) | Trad
| ALL | 4:24 |
| 5.
The Douglas Tragedy (Child 7) | Trad
| EM | 4:24 |
LP - Side two
| Title
| Author
| Singer | Timing |
| 1. The Dowie Dens O' Yarrow (Child 214) | Trad
| EM | 1:27 |
|
2. Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford (Child 144) | Trad
| ALL | 4:18 |
|
3. The Gairdner Child (Child 219) | Trad
| EM | 3:06 |
|
4. Gil Morice (Child 83) | Trad |
EM | 8:37 |
Websites
www.ewan-maccoll.info/
www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/emindex.htm (link dead)
Books: "Class Act: The Cultural and Political Lifeof Ewan MacColl" by Ben
Harker (2007)
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Last updated on 25/12/2010