SONGS AGAINST THE BOMB Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, Fred Dallas, Topic 1959 UK LP

	£		53
	$		70

ITEM DETAILS

ARTIST - VARIOUS ARTISTS
TITLE - "SONGS AGAINST THE BOMB"
FEATURING - Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger, Fred Dallas, Betty Dallas, The London Youth Choir, Ron Fielder etc.
FORMAT - vinyl LP (album)
LABEL - Topic Records
CATALOGUE NUMBER -12001
YEAR - 1959
OTHER DETAILS - an original and very rare 1959 UK LP on the Topic label, in a matt (unlaminated) 'unfinished' gatefold sleeve. Original poly-lined paper sleeve is still attached to the right-hand gatefold.

There is no printing on the sleeve rear (other copies seem to have had the track-listing, catalogue number and Topic Records address to the right-hand side of the rear cover). This copy is plain on the back - please see above pictures.

Track listing below taken from the net as it is not on this sleeve!

Matrix Numbers: MP/LP-12001/1 & MP/LP-12001/2

Recorded live at the Ballads and Blues (Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger) and at the Partisan Coffee House (London Youth Choir with Fred & Betty Dallas).

Track 3 Fred Dallas
Track 6 Ewan MacColl
Track 8 words by John Brunner, tune the American Union song Miner's Lifeguard; arranged by John Hasted
Track 9 Koki Kinoshita; English text Ewan MacColl; arr. Alan Bush
Track 10 a Negro Spiritual arr. John Hasted
Track 11 words MacColl, Seeger; tune traditional shanty A Hundred Years Ago
Track 12 Ewan MacColl; freely based on the old English folksong The Cuckoo is a Pretty Bird; arr. Leon Rosselson
Track 13 Fred Dallas arr. Wendy Edwards

TRACKS

SIDE ONE
1) Brother Won't You Join In The Line? - Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger and Jack Elliott (1958)
2) The Crooked Crosses - Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger
3) Strontium 90 - Fred & Betty Dallas with Ron Fielder (banjo) (1959)
4) Hey Little Man (Sinner Man) - Fred & Betty Dallas
5) Doomsday Blues (St. James Infirmary Blues) - Fred Dallas (1958) (sung in the film 'Aldermaston')
6) The Ballad Of The Five Fingers - Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger (1957) (from the play 'So Long At The Fair')
7) There Are Better Things to Do - Peggy Seeger (banjo) with Jack Elliott (guitar) (1958)

SIDE TWO
1) The H-Bomb's Thunder - The London Youth Choir, soloists Wendy Edwards & Ron Fielder (banjo) with Leon Rosselson (guitar) (1958)
2) Song Of Hiroshima - The London Youth Choir, soloist Wendy Edwards (1955)
3) Hoist the Window - The London Youth Choir, soloist Marlene Tallman with Leon Rosselson (guitar) and Ron Fielder (banjo) (1952)
4) That Bomb Has Got To Go - Ron Fielder, Ray Edwards and members of the Robin Hood Singers (1959)
5) The Dove - Margaret McKeown with Leon Rosselson (guitar) (1954)
6) The Family Of Man - The London Youth Choir, soloist Ron Fielder (banjo), Margaret McKeown, Marlene Tallman and Ray Edwards, with Leon Rosselson (guitar) (1957)

CONDITION

COVER - VG+ condition

• front and rear are generally EX, with a small bend in the bottom right corner (see pictures above)
• the thin spine is a bit 'wooly' and shows signs of wear and rubbing.
• inside in generally clean with the original poly-lined paper sleeve is still attached to the right-hand gatefold.
• please view pictures above for more details.

• Side 1 has one quite long (tracks 1-4, at about 6 o'clock) but very light surface mark, and just a few VERY light hairlines, otherwise EX.
• Side 2 has 3 light (non-feelable) surface marks quite close together at about 4 o'clock - 2 are on track 1 and the other at the start of track 2.None affect play on my deck. Otherwise there are just a few very light hairlines on Side 2.
• overall, a decent copy of a 55 years old, rare LP!

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