Glasgow Street Songs - Volume 2 & ...and the Bonnie Lass O' Fyvie—Robin Hall and Jimmie MacGregor Discography at theBalladeers

		Side One Three Craw If You Will Marry Me Duke Street Jail You Canna Shove Your Granny off a Bus The World Must Be Coming To an End Side Two Johnnie Lad The Wee Magic Stane ROBIN HALL—vocal and guitar *JIMMY [sic] MACGREGOR*—vocal, guitar and mandolin Recorded January 26, 1959 (Side A) and January 30, 1959 (Side B) in London Engineer: Bernard Mattimore Supervised by Paul Carter and Colin Pomroy
Glasgow Street Songs - Volume 2 1959—Collector JES 5 EP

Excerpts from the sleeve notes:
“Nothing can better illustrate the nature of the present folk-song revival as compared to that of fifty years ago than the songs and singers on this disc.”

“No ‘folksy’ background for Robin Hall and Jim Macgregor. Both are from that grimiest and most industrial of all grimy and industrial cities, Glasgow. Both are young—in their twenties: both are concerned with songs that come straight from the life around them: both are concerned with making folk-song live, and so they have not much truck with over-pretentiousness or pomposity in this field—listen to You Canna Shove Your Granny off A Bus.”

Side One
The Bonnie Lass O' Fyvie
Collier Laddie

Side Two
Skippin' Barfit Thro' the Heather
Jinkin' You, My Johnnie Lad

ROBIN HALL—vocal and guitar

Recorded October 22, 1958 (Skippin),
January 27, 1959 (Johnnie Laddie),
and January 30, 1959 (Bonnie Lass and Collier Laddie), in London

Engineer: Bernard Mattimore
Supervision: Colin Pomroy and Paul Carter

...and the Bonnie Lass O' Fyvie
1959—Collector JES 6 EP

Excerpts from the sleeve notes:

In the four songs on this disc we can see something of the range of this mass of love-song. They arc sung by Robin Hall, who is already well known for his recordings of Scottish folk-song (Collector JES. 2, 3 and 5), and the integrity of his pleasing and unassuming handling of them.

“Jinkin You, my Johnnie Lad—This song has two distinct lines of transmission. One, a version of which was first published by Peter Buchan in 1828, is the ‘Johnnie Lad’ of the streets and the children (sung by Robin on JES. 5). The other, of which this is a variant collected by Hamish Henderson, is normally found in country districts. In this version the two lines appear to be coming together, as shown in the last verse.”

NORMAN BUCHAN