FAVOURITE BALLADS OF YESTERYEAR

The songs in this collection form part of a rich, yet sometimes unfairly derided, heritage of music made popular in the Victorian era throughout the English-speaking world. The recording contains all the great singers of Victorian and Edwardian ballads with many favourites on one quality CD. The Floral Dance Moss Peter Dawson I Hear You Calling Me Marshall/Harford John McCormack Passing By Purcell/Herrick Paul Robeson On the Road to Mandalay Speaks/Kipling Lawrence Tibbett My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose Trad. Robert Wilson The Green Hills of Somerset Coates/Weatherly Joan Hammond Leave My Heart in an English Garden Parr-Davies/Hassall Webster Booth All in the April Evening Roberton/Tynan Glasgow Orpheus Choir I’ll Walk Beside You Murray/Lockton Josef Locke Glorious Devon German/Boulton Peter Dawson Macushla McMurrough/Rowe Josef Locke The Mountains of Mourne French/Collison Jack Daly The Old House O’Connor Father Sydney McEwan Trees Rasbach/Kilmer Nelson Eddy Londonderry Air Trad./