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The Fisher Family: Traditional & New Songs From Scotland

The Fisher Family: Traditional & New Songs From Scotland (Topic 12T137)

Traditional & New Songs From Scotland
The Fisher Family

Topic Records 12T137 (LP, UK, 1966)
Topic Records TSDL137 (digital download, UK, December 2009)

Recorded by Bill Leader at the Fisher Family’s home in Monkseaton, Northumbria in 1965;
Notes by Norman Buchan;
Photograph by Joe Boyd

Musicians

Archie, Ray, Cindy, Joyce, Audrey and Priscilla Fisher: vocals;
Archie Fisher: guitar accompaniment

Tracks

Side 1

  1. Come All Ye Fisher Lassies (1.51)
  2. Schoolday˚s Over (1.27)
  3. The Rigs o’ Rye (3.25)
  4. Donal Ogue (Young Dan) (2.53)
  5. For Our Lang Biding Here (1.45)
  6. Joy of My Heart (1.55)

Side 2

  1. Hey Ca’ Through (1.08)
  2. What’s Poor Mary Weeping For / Bonny Lassie O (1.57)
  3. I Am a Miller tae My Trade (2.43)
  4. I Am a Freeborn Man (2.05)
  5. The Birken Tree (2.12)
  6. Aince Upon a Time (1.29)

All tracks trad. except
Tracks 1-2, 10 Ewan MacColl;
Track 6 Hugh S. Roberton;
Track 7 Robert Burns;