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The Ian Campbell Folk Group

A few of the Ian Campbell Group's records (as well as some of Ian's solo releases) are detailed below:


Ian Campbell Folk Group Ceilidh At the Crown EP (Topic TOP76, 1962)

Side One: The Mason's Apron/Paddy On the Railroad; The Twa Corbies; Our Ship Is Ready; Buy Broom Besoms
Side Two: The Nutting Girl; The Jolly Beggar; The Boatman; A 100 Years Ago

all songs trad unless otherwise indicated


prot.jpg - 5Kb Songs of Protest EP (Topic TOP82, 1962)

Side One: Viva La Quince Brigade; We Will Overcome; The Boys of Wexford
Side Two: The Peat Bog Soldiers; Domovina; The Cutty Wren

all songs trad unless otherwise indicated


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The Crow and the Cradle Single (Topic STOP102, 1963)

Side One: The Crow and the Cradle (Sidney Carter)
Side Two: The Sun Is Burning (Ian Campbell)

The Sun Is Burning sung by Lorna Campbell with banjo accompanimnet by John Dunkerley


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This Is the Ian Campbell Folk Group! (Transatlantic TRA 110, 1963)

Side One: Twa Recruiting Sergeants; Keel Row; The Unquiet Grave; To Hear the Nightingale Sing (Campbell); The Drover's Dream (Campbell); Traditional Medley (instrumental); Rockin' the Cradle (Campbell); The Jute Mill Song (Mary Brooksbank); Johnny Lad
Side Two: Blow Boys Blow; Down in the Coal Mine; Garton Mother's Lullaby (Campbell); The Bells of Rhymney; The Apprentice's Song (Campbell); Rocky Road to Dublin/Drops of Brandy (instrumental); Homeward Bound (Campbell); The Waters of Tyne (Campbell); The Wee Cooper o' Fife (Campbell)

all songs trad unless otherwise indicated

Ian Campbell (vocals), Lorna Campbell (vocals), Dave Swarbrick (fiddle, mandola), John Dunkerley (banjo, guitar) Brian Clark (guitar, autoharp), with Dave Phillips and Brian Brocklehurst

Re-released as Presenting the Ian Campbell Folk Group (Contour 2870 314, 1964)


EFF1 Ian Campbell Folk Group: Edinburgh Folk Festival Vol.1 (Decca LK4546, 1963)
with Ray & Archie Fisher, Ann Briggs, Owen Hand, Lou Killen, Matt McGinn, Hamish Imlach, Nadia Cattouse, Clive Palmer & Robin Williamson, Dolina Maclennan

Side One: Tail Toddle
Side Two: Devil and the Farmer's Wife

all songs trad unless otherwise indicated


EFF2 Ian Campbell Folk Group: Edinburgh Folk Festival Vol.2 (Decca LK4563, 1964)
with Ray & Archie Fisher, Ann Briggs, Owen Hand, Lou Killen, Matt McGinn, Hamish Imlach, Nadia Cattouse, Jill Doyle, Jean Hart, Dolina Maclennan

Side One: Fiddle Tunes
Side Two: Shoals of Herring (MacColl/Clancy)

all songs trad unless otherwise indicated


paddy The Ian Campbell Folk Group EP (Decca DFE 8592, 1964)

Side One: Paddy On the Railroad (MacColl); True love Don't Weep (Sharpe)
Side Two: The John B Sails (Sandburg/Hays); Drill Ye Tarriers Drill (Trad)

Ian Campbell (vocals), Lorna Campbell (vocals), John Dunkerly (bajo, guitar), Dave Swarbrick (fiddle, mandola), Brian Clark (guitar, autoharp)


acrs.jpg Across the Hills (Transatlantic TRA 118, 1964)

Side One: Across the Hills (Rosselson); Come Kiss Me Love (Campbell); The Blind Man (trad arr Campbell); I Know My Love (McPeake); Derby Ram (Cecil Sharp); Mary Mild (trad); Remember Me (Campbell)
Side Two: The Cockfight (trad arr Campbell); Gypsey Rover (trad arr Campbell); Cho Cho Losa (trad); The Keeper (Sharp); Instrumental Medley (trad); Collier Laddie (trad arr Campbell); We're No Awa To Bide Awa (trad arr Campbell)

Ian Campbell (vocals), Lorna Campbell (vocals), Dave Swarbrick (fiddle, mandola), John Dunkerley (banjo, guitar) Brian Clark (guitar, autoharp)


Shanties Sea Songs and Shanties: Farewell Nancy (Topic 12T110, 1964)
with Cyril Tawney, Louis Killen, Bob Davenport, Dave Swarbrick

Wild Goose; Lovely Nancy


Topic Sampler 1 Folk Songs: An Anthology. Topic Sampler 1 (Topic 12T114, 1964)
with Louis Killen, A L Lloyd, Isla Cameron, Maggie Barry, McPeake Family, Enoch Kent, Anne Briggs, Celebrated Working Men's Band, Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger

Cutty Wren


coald.gif - 4Kb Coaldust Ballads(Transatlantic TRA 123, c1965)

Side One: Come All Ye Gallant Colliers (MacColl); Down In the Coalmine (Geoghehan); The Canny Miner Lad (Campbell); Sandgate Girl's Lament; Rap Her to Bank; The Blantyre Explosion; Instrumental Medley; Pay Friday (Anderson)
Side Two: The Collier's Rant; Geordie Black (Rowland Harrison); The Sandgate Dandle; Drunken Bella Roy (Robert Nunn); Blackleg Miners; My Miner Lad; Cushy Butterfield (George Ridley); The Plodder Seam (MacColl);; Collier Laddie

All tracks traditional unless otherwise stated

Ian Campbell (vocal), Lorna Campbell (vocal), Dave Swarbrick (fiddle, mandolin) and unknown others


Kelly Kelly the Boy from Killane Single (Transatlantic TRA SP 2, 1965)

Side One: Kelly the Boy from Killane
Side Two: The Boys of Wexford


contemporary Contemporary Campbells(Transatlantic TRA 137, 1965)

Marilyn Monroe (Sydney Carter/Rory McEwen); Dirty Old Town (Ewan MacColl); Thirty Foot Trailer (Ewan MacColl); My Donal (Owen Hand); Battle of the Somme (PM Robertson); Hard Life on the Cut (Ian Campbell); Net Hauling Song (Ewan MacColl); Death Come Easy (Harvey Andrews); Rights of Man (trad); Liverpool Lullaby (Stan Kelly); Four Pounds a Day (Stan Kelly); The Dove (trad); Bloody Orkney (trad); The D-Day Dodgers (Hamish Henderson)

Ian Campbell (vocal), Lorna Campbell (vocal), Brian Clark (guitar, vocal), Dave Swarbrick (fiddle, mandolin) and John Dunkerley (banjo, autoharp)


Singing The Singing Campbells (Topic 12T120, 1965)
with Betty Campbell, Dave Campbell, Winnie Campbell, Bob Cooney

Side One: My Wee Man's a Miner; Me an' Mi Mither; We Three Kings
Side Two: The Cruel Mither; Lang a 'Growin'; Will Ye Gang Love; I Wish I Wish; McGinty's Meal an' Ale

All songs traditional


Topic Sampler 2 Folk Songs: An Anthology. Topic Sampler 2 (Topic TPS 145, 1966)
with The Spinners, Johnny Handle, Stan Kelly, Hedy West, Ewan MacColl, Dominic Behan, A.L. Lloyd, The Watersons, Shirley Collins, Tom Paley, Ray & Archie Fisher.

Buy Broom Besoms


newim.jpg New Impressions of The Ian Campbell Folk Group (Transatlantic TRA 151, 1966)

Side One: Lord of the Dance (Carter); Berwick Brose (Come to Berwick Johnnie/Brose and Butter); The Snow Is Falling (Campbell/Dunkerley); The Bold Benjamin; New York Gals; The Shoemaker; Baron O' Brackley; Aye Waukin O'
Side Two: Lover Let Me In (Campbell); Greensleeves; Can Ye Sew Cushions; farewell to Tarwathy; Gulls O' Invergordon (unknown); The Laird O' Windy Wa's; The Card Song

Ian Campbell (vocals), Lorna Campbell (vocals), John Dunkerley (banjo, guitar, accordion), Brian Clark (guitar, vocals), George Watts (flute, piccolo, clarinet) with Ken Ingerfield, Jack Fallon, Brian Brocklehurt (all bass)


bbrfl.jpg The Best of British Folk Music (XTRA 1031, c1967)
with Luke Kelly; Isla Cameron; Owen Hand; Bert Jansch; The Dubliners; Alex Campbell; Sidney Carter; Leon Rosselson

Side One: Ian Campbell Folk Group: Mary Anne; Lorna Campbell: The Grey Cock
Side Two: Ian Campbell Folk Group: The Canny Miner

All tracks traditional


bestsf.jpg The Best of Scottish Folk Music (XTRA 1053, 1967)
with Hamish Imlach; Luke Kelly; Isla Cameron; Owen Hand; Matt McGinn; Bert Jansch; Alex Campbell

Side One: Lorna Campbell: Highland Widow's Lament
Side Two: Ian Campbell: We're Nae Awa to Bide Awa

All tracks traditional


circ.jpg The Circle Game (Transatlantic TRA 163, 1968)

Side One: The Iron Road (Ewan MacColl); Private Harold Harris (David Morgan); The Circle Game (Joni Mitchell); The Lady Came from Baltimore (Tim Hardin); The Old Man's Song (Campbell); Wooed and Married (trad arr Campbell); North Sea Holes (Ewan MacColl)
Side Two: Paddy Lay Back (trad); Do You Remember? (Leon Rosselson); Willie's Gone (trad arr Campbell); I'm Not Saying (Lightfoot); I Think It's Going to Rain Today (Randy Newman); Doctor Junk (Joni Mitchell); On the M1 (Harvey Andrews)

Ian and Lorna Campbell, Brian Clark, John Dunkerley with George Watts and Dave Pegg


Prospect A Prospect of Scotland. Topic Sampler 5 (Topic TPS 169, c1968)
with Isabel Sutherland, Dolina MacLennan, Jeannie Robertson, Norman Kennedy, Alex Stewart, Ray & Archie Fisher, Winnie Campbell, Ewan MacColl, Belle Stewart, The Exiles

Side One: Lorna Campbell and the Ian Campbell Folk Group: The Boatman
Side Two: Winnie Campbell: Bogie's Bonnie Belle


icfg.jpg Ian Campbell and the Ian Campbell Folk Group with Dave Swarbrick
(Music for Pleasure, MFP Stereo 1349, 1969)

Side One: Beggin' I Will Go; Sugar Candy; Wild Colonial Boy; Sleepytoon; Here Come the Navvies (Campbell); The Jolly Herring
Side Two: The Fireman's Song (Bilston); The Praties They Grow Small; The Kerry Recruit; The Barrin' O' the Door; Eight Shillings a Week; The Coast of Peru

all songs traditional, arranged by Ian Campbell unless otherwise indicated

Ian Campbell (vocals), Lorna Campbell (vocals), Brian Clark (vocals, guitar), Dave Pegg (contrabass, mandola); Andy Smith (banjo, guitar), Dave Swarbrick (fiddle, mandolin)


samp.jpg The Ian Campbell Group Sampler (Transatlantic TRA SAM 4, 1969)

Side One: The Cockfight; The Collier's Rant; Rap Her Te Bank; I Know My Love (McPeak); Campbell's Fancy/The Mason's Apron (trad); Highland Widow's Lament; Lover Let Me In (I Campbell)
Side Two: Come Kiss Me Love (I Campbell); Highland Harry; Pay Friday; Mary Mild (trad); The Banks Hornpipe (trad); One Eyed Reilly (I Campbell); The Card Song

all songs traditional, arranged by Ian Campbell unless otherwise indicated


Great Scots Sampler The Great Scots Sampler (Transatlantic TRA SAM 17, 1970)
with Hamish Imlach, Matt McGinn, Watt Nicoll

Side One: A Man's a Man for A' That
Side Two: Keach In the Creel

All songs traditional unless otherwise noted


sun.jpg The Sun Is Burning - The Songs of Ian Campbell (Argo ZFB 13, 1971)

Side One: Come Kiss Me, Love; The Snow Is Falling; Old Man's Tale; I Don't Know; Alexander Somerville, Dragoon; The Sun Is Burning
Side Two: Lover, Let Me In; A Hard Life On the Cut; I Just Can't Wait; The Man In Black; Apprentices Song; Talking Blackbird

All songs written by Ian Campbell


someth.jpg Something To Sing About (Pye Records PKL 5506, 1972)

Side One: The Apprentice Song-unf. (Ian Campbell); The Haymakers; The Greasy Wheel (trad/words Ian Campbell); The Iron Horse; The Durham Lockout (Tommy Armstrong); The Sheffield Grinder; The Testimony of Patience Kershaw (Frank Higgins); Medley of Children's Street Songs Side Two: The Flash Frigate (Compiled by Stan Hugill); Ask a P'liceman (Rogers/Durandeau); Rigs of London Town; No Courage In Him; The Girl I Left Behind Me; The Cutty Wren (A.L.Lloyd); Leave Them A Flower (Wally Whyton)

all songs traditional unless otherwise indicated

Ian Campbell (vocals), Lorna Campbell (vocals), Dave Swarbrick (fiddle, mandola), John Dunkerley (banjo, guitar) Brian Clark (guitar, autoharp), with Spike Heatley (double bass) and Derek Craft (flute, piccolo)


If It Wasnae for Your Wellies! (XTRA 1144, 1974)
with Billy Connolly, Hamish Imlach, Bobby Eaglesham, Matt McGinn, Watt Nicoll

Side Two: One Eyed Reilly


Transatlantic Best of Scottish Folk Best of Scottish Folk (Transatlantic MTRA 2003, 1978)
with Hamish Imlach, Alex Campbell, Owen Hand, The McCalmans, Isla Cameron, Watt Nicoll, Archie Fisher, Dave Swarbrick, Matt McGinn

Side One: Ian & Lorna Campbell: Keach In the Creel
Side Two: Highland Widow's Lament

All songs traditional except where indicated


flksce.gif Scottish Folk Scene (2 LP, Metronome Records DALP 2/1955, no year)
with Alex Campbell, Eddie Furey, Archie Fisher, Hamish Imlach, The Johnstons, Luke Kelly, Watt Nicoll

Side Two: Battle of the Somme (Robertson); A Man's A Man (trad)
Side Three: Highland Harry (trad)
Side Four: Can Ye Sew Cushions (trad)


And Another Thing And Another Thing (CD Celtic Music CMCD 070, 1993)

Odour of Success; Assegai; Them and Us; Failure; Man's World; All Aboard; Gallery; Good Morning Blue; The Man Who Played the Pipes; It's Over Now; Street Song

All Songs written by Ian Campbell

Ian Campbell (vocals) with: Lorna Campbell (vocals), David Campbell (vocals), Duncan Campbell (vocals), Robin Campbell (synthesiser, backing vocals), Aiden Forde (fiddle, guitar, backing vocals), Neil Cox (guitar, backing vocals), Angus Clark (bass guitar), Mick Bisiker (piano, guitar), Ted Bunting (sax),


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