I Don't Need That Kind Of Love

Never In My Life

To A Songbird

I Met A Man

Lately You Say

If You So Desire

This is the last song that Gaynor recorded, at home in Ammanford on Sunday 3rd May 2015 with her two sons, Aiden and Dorian. The song was originally written in the late 60s.

You Are Something Special To Me

Recorded and written in the mid 1980s in Bristol. "If I never make it out of here alive, then please bury me up on the hill, 'cause it's the only place I've ever wanted to lie, it's the only bed that's real."

The Party's Too Loud

Gaynor wrote this song in the late 70s, originally as a carol called 'Mary's Lament'. She rewrote it, and this version was recorded at the Edith Cavell School in Hackney on 12th May 1979. Gaynor is the soloist, accompanied by the upper school  choir.

Sweet Companion

This track was recorded at home in Bristol in the mid-late 80s. The painting is by her dear friend Simon Pierse.

Take A Morning (Like This Morning)

This song was recorded in Ammanford sometime in the noughties with her friends from the folk club Jim and Nicky.

Where There's Life (There's Always Room For Changes)

Songs by Gaynor Jenkins / Canaday.

Gaynor released a split LP in 1977 with Californian singer songwriter Dev Singh, called "The Reason I Like You', recorded in San Francisco, and released on Rampur Records. 2000 copies were circulated.

Other songs will appear here that have been recorded in different places and different times over the years, firstly 'You Are Something Special To Me', which is the last song she recorded before she passed away in August 2015 aged 62.

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