Sing Christmas and the Turn of the Year
Mastering: Phil KlumMastering: Steve Rosenthal
Producer: Alan Lomax
20001010
Labels: Rounder
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Disc1
| 1 | Introduction and Hookup / Good King Wenceslas | Alan Lomax / Barry Lankester, O. Nall, Sheila Morton, John Chapman, Jill Wilson & Jill Farmer | 1:07 |
| 2 | A Caroling in the Dark / Good King Wenceslas / Good King Wenceslas / This Is the Truth Sent From Above / The Holly and the Ivy / The Holly and the Ivy | Alan Lomax / Children's Choir / Bryan Newey Skiffle Group / Shirley Collins / The Haddo House Choir / The Skinner's Bottom Glee Singers | 4:58 |
| 3 | A Boscastle Breakdown / Padstow Wassail Song / St. David's Day Dance / I Wonder as I Wander | Charlie Bate and Group / Charlie Bate / Marshfield Paper Boys / Cyril Tawney | 4:09 |
| 4 | We Wish You a Merry Christmas / Narration / Caroling Scene | Wisbech Children's Choir / Alan Lomax / Wisbech Children's Choir | 1:11 |
| 5 | Peace O'er the World | Carolers at the Cheshire Cheese Pub | 0:59 |
| 6 | Introduction to "Ballad of Jesus Christ" | Ewan MacColl | 0:49 |
| 7 | The Ballad of Jesus Christ | Ewan MacColl | 2:10 |
| 8 | Excerpt From the Wakefield Second Shepherd's Nativity Play Pageant / Shepherd's Cradle Song / Coventry Carol / Excerpt From Wisbech Nativity Play | Stephen Kirby, Ronald Soules & Walter Slasher / Hollinwood Girls' Choir / Children from the Wisbech Grammar School / Malcolm Pope | 2:46 |
| 9 | Christmas in London | Charles Chilton & Alan Lomax | 0:43 |
| 10 | The Derby Ram | A.L. Lloyd and Chorus | 1:09 |
| 11 | Christmas Morning Calypso | Fitzroy Coleman | 1:51 |
| 12 | Unite | Rans Boi Highlife Band | 1:41 |
| 13 | Pretty Little Baby | Peggy Seeger | 1:52 |
| 14 | A Reading From Luke 2: 15-19 / Psalm 23 / The Mother's Consecration (Coistrig Mathar) / The Christ Child Lullaby (Taladh An Leinbh Losa) / Saint Mary's Men Are We | Joe Duthie / Peter Buchan and the Crew of the Twinkling Star / Katie Ann Nicholson / Flora MacNeil / Students from the Scalloway Junior Secondary School | 5:26 |
| 15 | The Day We Went to Rothsay-o | Ian McRae & The Joe Gordon Skiffle Group | 1:22 |
| 16 | Regional Hookup: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen | Ewan MacColl / Charlie Bate, Peter Kennedy, P.O. Tawney / Bryan Newey Skiffle Group / Barry Lankester, O. Nall, Sheila Morton, John Chapman, Jill Wilson & Jill Farmer | 1:51 |
| 17 | Cromwell Versus Father Christmas | Alan Lomax | 1:16 |
| 18 | The Jug of Punch / Vinyl Ridge March | The McPeake Trio / Ravenhill Temperance Flute Band | 1:46 |
| 19 | Royal Belfast Hornpipe / Millicent's Hornpipe / The Tenpenny Bit / The Dublin Reel | Gerard O'Kane / Katie Graham / The Rakes / Séamus Ennis & Tom Comac | 2:42 |
| 20 | The Cherry Tree Carol | Shirley Collins | 1:45 |
| 21 | Ar Gyfe Heddiwr Bore (Anglesey Carol) / Hiraeth (On This Day's Morning) | North Wales Singers / Sian Emlyn | 1:39 |
| 22 | Excerpt From the Symondsbury Mummers Play / Donny Brook Fair (Winlaton Sword Dance) | [unknown] / [unknown] | 2:06 |
| 23 | Good King Wenceslas / When the Saints Go Marching In / Good King Wenceslas | Haslington Boys Brass Band / The Happy Wanderers | 2:01 |
| 24 | 'Twas Mary Conceived / The Noble Stem of Jesse | Dominic Behan / Hollinwood Girls Choir | 2:37 |
| 25 | The Lord's Prayer | [unknown] | 1:25 |
| 26 | Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fidelis) / The Gift of Power / Metrical Psalm in Gaelic | The Sale and District Musical Society / Katie Ann Nicholson / [unknown] | 2:16 |
| 27 | No Room at the Inn / Last Month of the Year | Alan Lomax | 2:50 |
| 28 | Hark, What News the Angels Bring / I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In / Wassail, Wassail, All Over This Town / Here We Come a-Wassailing | Carolers at the Cheshire Cheese Public House / Charlie Bate, Peter Kennedy & Others / Shirley Collins / Birmingham Studio Group | 3:06 |