This album features rare early recordings by the English Singers - of madrigals - some of which date back to medievil times.
Marion Kerby - John Jacob Niles (of the museum fame) present early recordings of songs he had found when searching in the eastern U.S.A.
All these records were recorded by the Roycroft record label of East Aurora New York in the late twenties.
Ca the Yowes is a haunting Celtic ballad - enjoy!!
151 2753 SING WE AND CHANT IT(Thomas Morley) Ballet ENGLISH SINGERS w/recit
151 3445 SING WE AND CHANT IT(Thomas Morley) Ballet ENGLISH SINGERS w/o recit
151 2754 THE TURTLE DOVE(arr. Vaughan Williams) ENGLISH SINGERS
152 2762 IN GOING TO MY NAKED BED(Richard Edwards) ENGLISH SINGERS
152 2806 JUST AS THE TIDE WAS FLOWING (arr. Vaughan Williams) ENGLISH SINGERS
153 2763 THREE FAIRIES (Henry Purcell) ENGLISH SINGERS
153 2767 SILVER SWAN(Orlando Gibbons) ENGLISH SINGERS
154 2770 NOW IS THE MONTH OF MAYING(Thomas Morley) ENGLISH SINGERS
154 2771F BRIGG FAIR(arr. Percy Grainger) ENGLISH SINGERS
155 2755 WASSAIL SONG(arr. Vaughan Williams) ENGLISH SINGERS
155 3028 SINCE FIRST I SAW YOUR FACE(Thomas Ford) ENGLISH SINGERS
155 3463 THE PIPER O'DUNDEE ENGLISH SINGERS
156 2801 DOWN IN YON FOREST(arr.Vaughan Williams) ENGLISH SINGERS
156 3007 ALL CREATURES ARE NOW MERRY-MINDED(John Bennet) ENGLISH SINGERS
156 3444 HARD BY A CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN ENGLISH SINGERS
157 3009 HOLLY AND THE IVY(Rutland Broughton) ENGLISH SINGERS
157 3012 CORPUS CHRISTI(Peter Warlock) ENGLISH SINGERS
158 3010 WE'VE BEEN AWHILE A-WANDERING(arr. Vaughan Williams) ENGLISH SINGERS
158 3077 HARK ALL YE LOVELY SAINTS ENGLISH SINGERS
158 3464C AN ACRE OF LAND(arr. Vaughan Williams) ENGLISH SINGERS
159 2805 A FARMER'S SON(arr. Vaughan Williams) ENGLISH SINGERS
159 3443C SUMMER IS ICUMEM IN(John of Fornsete) ENGLISH SINGERS
160 3008 CA' THE YOWES (Robert Burns - arr. Vaughan Williams) ENGLISH SINGERS
160 3022 THOUGH AMARYLLIS DANCE IN GREEN(William Byrd) ENGLISH SINGERS
161 3023 O CHRIST WHO ART THE LIGHT(William Byrd) ENGLISH SINGERS
161 3465 IN DULCI JUBILO(R.I. Pearsall) ENGLISH SINGERS
161 3027 HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID ENGLISH SINGERS
162 2802 DARK-EYED SAILOR(arr. Vaughan Williams) ENGLISH SINGERS
162 3025 IT'S OF A LAWYER FINE AND GAY(arr. Vaughan Williams) ENGLISH SINGERS
Marion Kerby - John Jacob Niles
172 3446 HE'S GOT THE WHOLE WORLD IN HIS HANDS
172 3555 JUST LIKE A TREE PLANTED NEAR THE WATER(we Shall Not Be Moved) Marion Kerby - John Jacob Niles
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