Roberts and Barrand
Roberts and Barrand | |
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Also known as | John Roberts and Tony Barrand |
Origin | Cornell University |
Genres | Traditional folk music |
Years active | 1969—2022 |
Labels | Golden Hind Music |
Website | http://www.goldenhindmusic.com/ |
Roberts and Barrand was a musical group formed in 1969 by John Roberts and Tony Barrand while they were graduate students in psychology at Cornell University.[1] Much of their repertoire is traditional English music, although they have also recorded albums of traditional sea shanties.
The duo also performed as members of the four-man act Nowell Sing We Clear.
Barrand died on 29 January 2022, at the age of 76.[2]
Discography
[edit]Spencer the Rover is Alive and Well... (1971, 2001)
[edit]Traditional English Ballads and Songs
- "Spencer the Rover"
- "Creeping Jane"
- "I Wish They'd do it Now"
- "Rambleaway"
- "What a Mouth!"
- "The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter"
- "Silicosis"
- "The Coachman"
- "The Lincolnshire Poacher"
- "Warlike Seamen"
- "Down the Plughole"
- "Shine Your Buttons with Brasso"
- "Martin Said to His Man"
- "Fanny Blair"
- "So Green as the Leaves"
- "Babylon is Fallen"
- "Thyme"
Across the Western Ocean (1973, 2000)
[edit]Songs of the North Atlantic Sailing Packets
- Introduction
- "New York Girls"
- Captain Samuels on his sailors
- "Blow the Man Down"
- Impressions of a first voyage
- "The Crayfish"
- "The Black Cook"
- "The Limejuice Ship"
- The wreck of the Staffordshire
- "The Flying Dutchman"
- "Get Up Jack, John Sit Down"
- "The Flying Cloud"
- Immigration conditions
- "Heave Away My Johnnies"
- Perils of transatlantic dalliance
- "Maggie May"
- "Peter Street"
- "The Seamen's Hymn"
Mellow With Ale From the Horn (1975)
[edit]- "Save Your Money While You're Young"
- "Staines Morris"
- "Barbara Allen"
- "Salt River, Colored Aristocracy"
- "Oats and Beans and Barley Grows"
- "Kate and Her Horns"
- "Come Day, go Day (Glyn Hughes)
- "The Albatross"
- "The Wings of a Goney"
- "The Handsome Cabin Boy"
- "File Foot Flirt"
- "Our Bill"
- "Albert and the Lion"
- "Salvation Band"
Dark Ships in the Forest (1977, 1997)
[edit]Ballads of the Supernatural, with Fred Breunig & Steve Woodruff
- "Oak, Ash, and Thorn"
- "The Broomfield Wager"
- "The Wife of Usher's Well"
- "Tom of Bedlam"
- "The Dreadful Ghost"
- "The Foggy Dew"
- "The Derby Ram"
- "The Maid on the Shore"
- "Reynardine"
- "The False Lady"
- "Polly Vaughn"
- "The Two Magicians"
Live at Holsteins! (1983)
[edit]Eat Bertha's Mussels
- "John Barleycorn"
- "The Man that Waters the Workers' Beer"
- "Garners Gay"
- "Three Drunken Maidens"
- "Congleton Bear"
- "The Rolling Mills of New Jersey"
- "Eat Bertha's Mussels"
- "Boozing"
- "The Ballad of the Cowpuncher"
- "Newman's Ale"
- "The Man at the Nore"
- "The Barley Mow"
An Evening at the English Music Hall (1984)
[edit]with Maggi Pierce, David Jones, Andy Barrand, Louis Killen, and Murray Callahan
Recorded Live at the Troy Music Hall, Troy, New York, 1974
- "A Little Bit of Cucumber" (John Roberts)
- "Don't Have Any More Mrs. Moore!" (Maggi Pierce)
- "My Old Dutch" (David Jones)
- "Lily of Laguna" (Andy Barrand)
- "Sweeney Todd the Barber" (Tony Barrand)
- "Last Neet" (Lou Killen)
- "Sam Hall" (David Jones)
- "When I Take My Morning Promenade" (Murray Callahan)
- "I'm Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy" (Tony Barrand)
- "The Old Armchair" (David Jones)
A Present from the Gentlemen (1992)
[edit]A Pandora's Box of English Folk Songs
- "Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy"
- "Jackie Munro"
- "Nine Times a Night"
- "A Smuggler's Song"
- "The Three Butchers"
- "The Painful Plough"
- "Dog and Gun"
- "The Draggletail Gypsy/The Princess Royal"
- "The Outlandish Knight"
- "Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford"
- "Our Hamlet"
- "Sam Hall"
- "The Fellow that Played the Trombone"
- Great War Trilogy:
- "The Valley of the Shadow"
- "The Old Barbed Wire"
- Long, Long Trail"
Naulakha Redux (1997)
[edit]Songs of Rudyard Kipling
- "Ford o' Kabul River"
- "Tommy"
- "Sir Richard's Song"
- "The Land"
- "Philadelphia"
- "Cells"
- "Mandalay"
- "An Astrologer's Song"
- "The Ballad of Minepit Shaw"
- "Song of the Men's Side"
- "The Liner She's a Lady"
- "Frankie's Trade"
- "We Have Fed Our Sea"
- "A Carol"
- "Danny Deever"
- "Follow Me 'Ome"
Heartoutbursts (1998)
[edit]English Folksongs collected by Percy Grainger
- "Brigg Fair"
- "Seventeen Come Sunday"
- "Creeping Jane"
- "Turpin Hero"
- "The White Hare"
- "Rufford Park Poachers"
- "Lord Bateman"
- "The Gypsy's Wedding Day"
- "A Fair Maid Walking"
- "The Lost Lady Found"
- "Sprig of Thyme"
- "Riding Down to Portsmouth"
- "Horkstow Grange"
- "The "Rainbow""
- "William Taylor"
- "Lord Melbourne"
- "Lisbon"
- "Died for Love"
Twiddlum Twaddlum (2003)
[edit]Live in Concert
- "Anchor Song"
- "The Golden Vanity"
- "High Barbary"
- "Jonah and the Grampus"
- "A Pilgrim¹s Way"
- "Old Bangum"
- "Who Killed Cock Robin?"
- "Two Foxes"
- "All Through The Ale"
- "The Rawtenstall Annual Fair"
- "Nell"
- "The Nutting Girl"
- "Claudy Banks"
- "The Week Before Easter"
- "The Cockerham Devil"
- "Row on"
As featured performers in an anthology
[edit]- Pleasant and Delightful, Vol 2 – Living Folk (1972)
- Songs and Sounds of the Sea – National Geographic Society (1973)
- Clearwater – Hudson River Sloop Restoration (1974)
- The Audience Pleased – Oberlin College (1976)
- Clearwater II – Hudson River Sloop Restoration (1977)
- Champlain Valley Festival Highlights – Champlain Valley Festival (1990)
- Homeward Bound – Revels (2002)
References
[edit]- ^ "John Roberts & Tony Barrand - Golden Hind Music".
- ^ Nowell Sing We Clear (January 29, 2022). "Tony Barrand passed away this morning, peacefully". Facebook.
External links
[edit]- Golden Hind Music (official site)