Auld Lang Syne

A song collected from Marina Russell and based on an actual case, that of Private John Frederick White of the 7th Hussars, who was sentenced to 150 lashes of the cat o'nine tails for the offence of striking a colour sergeant with a metal bar while drunk. The sentence was the maximum allowed, and was viciously delivered. White was despatched to hospital, seemingly all right, but died there several days later. His became a cause celebre, and eventually led to the prime minister at the time, several years later that he favoured the abolition of corporal punishment . White's flogging occured in 1846, but the punishment was not withdrawn in the army until 1881, some long time afterwards. 
The song exaggerates the number of lashes but a certain degree of the story is true.

John White

Paul McCartney once said he woke up one morning with "Hey Jude" running through his head. I think he'd gone to sleep listening to Bach...

Hey Johann

For what would have been Helens 90th Birthday today.

Dwelling In Beulahland Helen Schneyer

An excerpt from our 1992 album, Mellophone, by the Old Hat Dance Band, featuring Barry Coope, Mel Dean, Katie Howson, John Howson, Reg Reader, Ted Stevens and Chris Wood.

Mellophone

Silver Wings

An early version of a new song for the forthcoming show "A Whispering Road". 

"Dew Drift Frost Fall" with Jonny Dyer on guitar.

New recording of my song written in March 2012.

"Jonny England"

I wrote this about a year ago, and it's been an absolute joy to spend some time getting it recorded here on Cartmel Fell. 

"Debateable Lands"

A pop song that I wrote, sang and recorded, ca. 1986. As best I can remember I used a Roland Juno 106; an ESQ 1; a Korg DDD1 drum machine; and an early generation emulator. Everything was recorded onto a four track recorder.

Trust Me (1986)

"Go from my window", a very popular folksong in its time. This is an arrangement by John Dowland (1563 - 1626)
guitar : F.Hiemenz

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"just for fun" recording in puzzlepie studio Munich/Türkenfeld  ('88) 
Sound restauration of a compact cassette copy with WaveLab 7 (2012) by FHgitarre
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just found a midi version of the original tune with one of the most popular text versions:
http://mysongbook.de/mtb/r_clarke/songs/gofrom1.htm

"Go from my window" - popular folksong from the 16th century (arranged by John Dowland)

A version of this song that I have been singing for years ... and have no idea where it came from. Any information about it would be welcome!

Here this is a rehearsal recording with Ralph Jordan on guitar and myself on vocal. We were having fun with it, and recorded two endings - a straight "folk" ending and a slightly more experimental jazzy end. Guess which one we preferred!

EDIT: Ten years later, or so, I found the wee small publication "Folk" edition number 1 published in 1962 which I had bought while at university in Wales in the 70s ... and there was the song. Apparently arranged and edited by Frank Purslow and John Pearse. Still on the hunt to find out where it actually came from in the first place!

Blow the Candle Out (Irene Shettle Vocals; Ralph Jordan Guitar)

Irene Shettle

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