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Alex Campbell
1925 - 1987, Scottish folksinger
Some of Alex Campbell's are detailed below, and there are more on the
next page.
With thanks to Susanne Kalweit and Jim McLean.
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The Best Loved Songs of Bonnie Scotland (Society SOC 936, 1963)
Side One: The Nut Brown Maiden; Wi' a Hundred Pipers; The Skye Boat Song; The Bluebells of Scotland; Ye Banks and
Braes; Johnny Cope; Come O'er the Stream, Charlie; Will Ye No Come Back Again
Side Two: The Dundee Weaver; Twa Heids Are Better Than Yin; The Piper O' Dundee; The Land O' the Leal; Gin I Were
Where the Gadie Runs; The Wark O' the Weavers; Leezie Lindsay; The Wee Cooper O' Fife
all songs traditional
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An Alex Campbell Folk Session (Society SOC 960, 1964)
Side One: Johnny Lad; The Gentleman Soldier; The Bonny Ship the Diamond; The Gresford Disaster; Tae the Beggin'
I Will Go; Engine 143; Turra Merket
Side Two: Captain Kidd; Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go; Willie More; The Calton Weaver; Tramps and Hawkin' Lads; I
Wished I Was a Rock; Drinkin's Ower Risky (new words by Alex Campbell)
all songs traditional unless otherwise indicated
Alex Campbell (vocal, guitar, banjo) with Hennessy, Tony McCarthy, Ian McCann, Johnny Orange
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Way Out West E.P. (Society, 1964)
With Gerry Cochrane and David Laibman
Side A: The Wabash Canonball; The Streets of Laredo
Side B: The Old Chisholm Trail; Jesse James
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Favourite Songs of Bonnie Scotland (Presto PRE 676, 1965)
Side One: The Piper O' Dundee; Bluebells of Scotland; Marie
Hamilton; Ye Banks and Braes; Rothesay-O; Lezzie Lindsay
Side Two: Highland Laddie; Will Ye No Come Back Again; Gin I Were
Where the Gadie Runs; My Love Is Like a Red Red Rose; The Round Tree;
Wi' a Hundred Pipers
Alex Campbell and his Folk Group with Peter Maynard (bass) and
Ian McCann (guitar, banko and mandoline)
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Alex Campbell, Colin Wilkie and Shirley Hart Sing Folk (Presto PRE 648, 1965)
Side One: The Bonnie Ship the Diamond; The Blarney Stone; Johnny
Lad; The Buffalo Skinners; Drinkin's Ower Risky; Tae the Beggin' I Will
Go
Side Two: The Gallows Tree; Pleasant and Delightful; The Carlton
Weaver; Johnny Harg; The Gentleman Soldier
Alex Campbell, Colin Wilkie, Shirley Hart with John Pearse, Ian
McCann, Peter Maynard, hennessy, Tony McCarthy and Johnnie Orange
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Alex Campbell in Copenhagen (Storyville (Denmark), 1965)
Includes Been on the Road.
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Alex Campbell and Friends (Saga EROS 8021, 1967)
Side One: Down In the Mine (Dark As a Dungeon) (Travis);
Midnight Special; Corn, Bread, Peas and Black Molasses; Freight
Train; The False Bride; Don't Think Twice (Dylan); Chilly
Winds; Blue Sleeves
Side Two: Dick Derby; You Never Wanted Me (Frank); Been
On the Road So Long (Campbell); Dinks Song; This Train; Tell
Old Bill; Freedom
with Sandy Denny, The Johnny Silvo Folk Group (Johnny Silvo,
David Moses, Roger Evans), Cliff Aungier and Paul McNeill
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Alex Campbell 'Live' (Saga EROS 8028, 1968)
Side One: Introductions including Et Maintenant;
Wild Rover; Victoria Dines Alone; The Nightingale; The Durham
Lockout; New York Gals
Side Two: Pack Up Your Sorrows; All For Me Grog; Hold On To Me
Babe; The Blackbird; The Heavenly Shore; The Coal-Owner & the
Pitman's Wife; Pleasant and delightful
with David Moses (bass) and Roger Evans (guitar)
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The Scottish Breakaway (Hallmark HM.573, 1968)
Side One: Scottish Breakaway; Instr: Scotland the Brave; Wee Magic
Stane (McEvoy); Jute Mill Song; Jeannie MacPherson; Blantryre
Explosion
Side Two: Jolly Beggarman; Freedom Come All Ye (title erroneously
given as Weary Life); Maid to the Mill; Weel May the Keel Row;
MacPherson's Rant (Campbell); Rob Roy Macgregor
All songs 'Copyright Control' except where indicated
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Alex Campbell Sampler (Transatlantic TRA SAM 6, 1969)
Side One: Been on the Road So Long (Campbell); I'm A Rover; The
Overgate; Round Cape Horn; Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Guthrie); My Old
Gibson Guitar (Campbell)
Side Two: Love Is Teasing; Glesca Peggy; John Gordon; Kissing in
the Dark; My Singing Bird; Why O Why (Guthrie); Don't You Put Me
Down (Campbell)
all songs 'Trad. arr Campbell' unless otherwise indicated
This possibly has Martin Carthy playing on it, but uncredited.
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Alex Campbell (Xtra, 1969)
A selection of songs from other albums.
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Scottish Folk Scene (2 LP, Metronome Records DALP 2/1955, no year)
with Eddie Furey, Ian Campbell Folk Group,
Archie Fisher,
Hamish Imlach, The Johnstons, Luke Kelly, Watt Nicoll
Side One: I'm a Rover (trad arr Campbell)
Side Two: Mormond Braes (trad arr Campbell)
Side Four: Love Is Teasin' (trad arr Campbell)
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Alex Campbell At His Best (Boulevard 4073, 1972)
Side One: The Girl In Tenessee; Highland Laddie; Rail Roading
& Rambling; Rothesay O; Marie Hamilton; Advertised In Boston
Side Two: Daddy Fox; Skye Boat Song; Bluebells of Scotland;
The Whale Fishers Farewell; Railroad Bill; John Hardy
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