Song Of A Road - A Radio Ballad About The Building Of The M1 Motorway by Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, Charles Parker, released on Topic Records in 1999 but broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1959.

A radio ballad is a sound-tapestry woven of four basic elements: songs, instrumental music, sound effects and the recorded voices of those with whose lives each program deals.

After the relatively contained Ballad of John Axon, the scope of the second radio ballad widened considerably. The construction of Britain's first motor-highway, the M1 or, as it was then known, the London-Yorkshire motorway, then stood at 57 miles of muddy road and a workforce of 19,000 men. From the simple telling of a story, the team now had a much more ambitious subject with its shadowy chronology, complex background and multitudinous tradesmen, labourers, management and administrators.

https://ewanmaccoll.bandcamp.com/album/the-radio-ballads-song-of-a-road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOjWsoy6IME

#EwanMcColl #PeggySeeger #RadioBallad #Motorway #BBC #Music #SpokenWord

Ted Tocks Covers

The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face

Originally posted on April 15, 2018

Remembering Roberta Flack

The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave
To the dark and the endless skies, my love
To the dark and the endless skies

#EwanMacColl #PeggySeeger #RobertaFlack #GordonLightfoot

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2018/04/15/the-first-time-ever-i-saw-your-face/

The Manchester Angel - Traditional English Songs by Ewan MacColl With Peggy Seeger, released on Topic Records in 1966.

Sleeve Notes

Ewan MacColl is Britain's foremost singer of folk songs, as properly distinct from 'folksinger' however one understands the term. Many people associate him chiefly with Scottish songs and modem author-made pieces 'in the folk manner', but in fact his skill and the quality of his imagination are particularly apt also for interpreting the traditional songs of the English countryside. The psychological climate of English song is fairly different from that of Scots song, and the feel of modern 'folk-based' compositions is different again; moreover each has its own suiting ways of performance. We have no other singer who can so successfully move from one climate and style to another.

https://theballadeers.com/ewm_1966_t147_manchester.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfkEWR0AKJo&list=OLAK5uy_kwuSuvZUeSXsT0g1OtoJ4KE1_O3uNMjYU

#EwanMcColl #PeggySeeger #FolkSong #Manchester #TopicRecords #Music

Here comes Jack with his ten months' pay.

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1569-321c-2172-00b099040179

Two-Way Trip by Peggy Seeger And Ewan Mac Coll, released on Folkways in 1961.

PREFACE by Ewan MacColl

I mostly sing Scots and English songs. The Scots material was part of the background of ray childhood, the English I began to acquire during my adolescence and have gone on adding to my store ever since. The Scots songs are closest to me, with the Liverpool shanties and forebitters running them a close second.
As for American folkmusic, my first contact with it was during the late thirties when I heard some of the Library of Congress recordings broadcast in the first B.B.C. folksong series. I can still remember the tremendous impact they made on me, and still recapture something of the initial excitement that was roused in me by hearing Woodie Guthrie, Blind Willie Johnson. Texas Gladden..

[read in full below]

https://ewanmaccoll.bandcamp.com/album/two-way-trip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdyUqIfGa1Y&list=RDLdyUqIfGa1Y&start_radio=1

#PeggySeeger #EwanMacColl #Folkways #folkmusic #traditionalsongs #ScotishBallads #childeballads #MattyGroves