tracks

A Child This Day Is Born
While Shepherds Watched
Leaping And Dancing
The Cherry Tree Carol
Sussex Carol
The Carnal and the Crane
The Carnal and the Crane
King Herod And The Cock
The Miraculous Harvest
Coventry Carol
The Bitter Withy
The Holly And The Ivy
Green Grow'th The Holly
Winter/Spring
Rise Up Jock!
Gower Wassail
Gloucestershire Wassail
Apple Tree Wassail / The Derby Ram
Apple Tree Wassail
The Derby Ram
Sherburne (Original Version)
Kris Kringle
The Cutty Wren
An Orkney New Year's Carol
Carol for New Year's Day
The Wren (The King)
Lord Of The Dance

notes

Recorded by Bill Spence at The Elrod Fennig Folk Museum of American Ephemera and St. Mark's Community Center, Guilderland Center, NY

These songs were originally issued on the following Front Hall Recordings:
Tracks 4, 5, 7 to 9, 12, 19: FHR-013 Nowell Sing We Clear, recorded January 1977.
Tracks 1, 2, 14, 15, 18, 21, 22, FHR-026 The Second Nowell, recorded December 1979.
Tracks 3, 6, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 20: FHR-036 Nowell Sing We Clear, Vol. 3, recorded February 1985.

Complete notes and lyrics may be found at http://www.goldenhindmusic.com/products/ghm-202.html.

credits

Artwork [Holiday Collage] – Jon Henry (4)
Design [Cover] – Mark Schmidt (5)
Fiddle, Harmony Vocals – Fred Breunig
Producer – John Roberts (11), Tony Barrand
Producer [Production Assistance] – Andy Spence (2)
Recorded By – Bill Spence
Vocals, Concertina [English and Anglo Concertinas] – John Roberts (11)
Vocals, Tambourine – Tony Barrand
Whistle [Penny Whistle], Harmony Vocals, Accordion [Button Accordion], Concertina [Anglo Concertina] – Steve Woodruff
Words By – Robert L. May, (tracks: 16)
Written-By – Bob Pegg (tracks: 12), Sydney Carter (tracks: 22), Trad., (tracks: 1 to 11, 13 to 15, 17 to 21)

companies

Copyright (c) – Golden Hind Music
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Golden Hind Music
Recorded At – St. Mark's Community Center, Guilderland Center, NY
Recorded At – Bottom Forty Recording Company

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