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Ewan MacColl

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Ewan MacColl (born James Henry Miller in Salford, Lancashire, on 25 January 1915; died 22 October 1989) is recognised as the father of the British folk revival. The writer of classics such as "Dirty Old Town" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (which won him a Grammy in 1972), MacColl partnered Peggy Seeger and was father to musicians Kirsty MacColl, Neill MacColl and Calum MacColl, and grandfather to Bombay Bicycle Club's Jamie MacColl. Innovative and inspiring, both collecting traditional songs, as well as writing new ones.

Top songs

  1. Dirty Old Town
  2. The ballad of Ho Chi Min
  3. The Shoals Of Herring
  4. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
  5. The Manchester Rambler
  6. Ballad Of Accounting
  7. Turpin Hero
  8. Song of the Iron Road
  9. The Press Gang
  10. Go Down Ye Murderers
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  1. Lord Randall - Child 12
  2. My Old Man
  3. Ye Jacobites by Name
  4. Black And White
  5. The Driver's Song
  6. Join the British Army
  7. The Maid Gaed Tae The Mill
  8. The Moving On Song
  9. The Joy Of Living
  10. Brother Did You Weep
  11. Kilroy Was Here
  12. Looking For A Job
  13. Sheath And Knife
  14. Nobody Knew She Was There
  15. Derek Bentley
  16. Cam Ye O'er Frae France
  17. The Foggy Dew
  18. Minorie
  19. Johnny Lad
  20. Highland Muster Roll
  21. Johnnie O'Breadisley (Johnie Cock)(Child No. 114)
  22. Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation
  23. Green Grow The Rashes, O
  24. The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face
  25. Aikendrum
  26. Fourpence A Day
  27. The Elfin Knight
  28. Johnny Cope
  29. Farewell To Sicily
  30. Van Diemen's Land
  31. Cam Ye O'er Fra France
  32. Hughie The Graeme
  33. The Black Velvet Band
  34. A Man's a Man for A' That
  35. Row Bullies Row
  36. La Prima Volta (First Time Ever I Saw Your Face)
  37. Such a Parcel O'rogues in a Nation
  38. The Banks of Newfoundland
  39. Glasgow Peggy
  40. I Loved a Lass
  41. The Banks of the Nile
  42. Galloway Tam
  43. The Handsome Cabin Boy
  44. Paddy Doyle
  45. A Braw Wooer
  46. Mormond Braes
  47. I Maun Hae a Wife
  48. The Four Loom Weaver
  49. Tibbie Dunbar
  50. Johnny O'Breadiesley
  51. The Blantyre Explosion
  52. One Night As I Lay On My Bed
  53. The Trooper and the Maid
  54. Four Loom Weaver
  55. Lord Thomas and Fair Annie
  56. Homeward Bound
  57. The Monymusk Lads
  58. The False Lover Won Back
  59. The Grey Cock
  60. The Lag's Song
  61. Landlady, Count the Lawin
  62. Johnnie Cope
  63. The Maid Gaed to the Hill
  64. Jack Tar
  65. The Gresford Disaster
  66. To The Begging I Will Go
  67. O That I had Ne'er been Married
  68. South Australia
  69. To Daunton Me
  70. Haughs O'cromdale
  71. The Gairdener Chyld
  72. Whiskey Johnny
  73. She's Fair and Fause
  74. Haul on the Bowline
  75. There's Cauld Kail in Aberdeen
  76. The Bramble Briar
  77. The Coal-Owner and the Pitman's Wife
  78. Wae's me for Prince Charlie
  79. The Big Hewer
  80. Jimmy Wilson
  81. Sheep Crook and Black Dog
  82. Wha'll Mow Me Now?
  83. The Dusty Miller
  84. Stormalong
  85. I Hae a Wife O' My Ain
  86. Hughie Grame
  87. The Haughs of Cromdale
  88. The Dreadnought
  89. The Baron Of Brackley
  90. Shoals of Herring

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