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Frankie Armstrong

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Frankie Armstrong (born January 13, 1941 in Workington, Cumbria, England) is a singer and voice teacher. With a repertoire ranging from traditional ballads to music-hall and contemporary songs, often focusing on the lives of women, and involved with folk and political songs from the 1950s, she has performed and/or recorded with Blowzabella, The Orckestra (with Henry Cow and the Mike Westbrook Brass Band), Ken Hyder's Talisker, John Kirkpatrick, Brian Pearson, Leon Rosselson, Dave Van Ronk and Maddy Prior.

Top songs

  1. The Bird in the Bush
  2. The Maid On The Shore
  3. Lady Margaret
  4. The Old Man from over the Sea
  5. The Crafty Maids Policy
  6. Lovely On The Water
  7. The Crafty Maid's Policy
  8. The Well Below The Valley (Child 21)
  9. The Man From Over the Sea
  10. The Young Girl Cut Down In Her Prime
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  1. Tam Lin
  2. Tarry Trousers
  3. The Unquiet Grave
  4. Low Down In The Broom
  5. The Green Valley
  6. The Wife Of Usher's Well (Child 79)
  7. The Cruel Mother
  8. The Brown Girl
  9. The Saucy Sailor
  10. The Two Sisters
  11. Encouragement
  12. The Frog And The Mouse
  13. Maid On The Shore
  14. Cattle Call
  15. My Personal Revenge
  16. Millworker
  17. Kemp Owen
  18. Bread And Roses
  19. Clerk Colven
  20. Little Duke Arthur's Nurse
  21. I Don't Want Your Red, Red Roses
  22. Taken by Surprise
  23. New Boots
  24. Lady Diamond
  25. Lily - Bonus Track
  26. Lament for the Hull Trawlers
  27. The Pitmen's Union
  28. Three Drunken Maidens
  29. Nothing Between Us Now
  30. Idumea
  31. Young Orphy
  32. The Poet, the Wife & the Monkey
  33. William Taylor
  34. The Lover's Ghost (Child 248)
  35. The Whore's Lament
  36. Come Geordie, Hold the Bairn
  37. The Month of January
  38. Hares On The Mountain (Child 44)
  39. Here's The Tender Coming
  40. The Cuckoo
  41. Jack the Lad
  42. My Daughter, My Son
  43. The Devil And The Farmer's Wife
  44. Mr. Fox
  45. The Female Drummer
  46. The Collier Lass
  47. The Sailor Boy
  48. The Sailor Laddie
  49. The Proud Girl (Child 68)
  50. Regiginleif
  51. The Ride
  52. The Ballad of Erica Levine
  53. Liberty For The Sailors
  54. The Broomfield Hill (Child 43)
  55. Fair Lizzie (Child 51)
  56. Mack the Knife
  57. John Blunt (Child 275)
  58. Demon Lover
  59. The Nightingale
  60. Jordan
  61. Young Orphy (Child 19)
  62. Barbara Allen
  63. Clerk Colven (Child 42)
  64. Prince Heathen
  65. Thomas Of Welshbury
  66. To The Begging
  67. Lady Diamond (Child 269)
  68. We Are Women
  69. Earth, Air, Fire And Water
  70. Parting
  71. Anti Carol
  72. The Frog & the Mouse
  73. To My Countrymen/Proletarian Lullaby
  74. Clerk Colven - Child 42
  75. Madeleine
  76. Fair Annie
  77. The False Lover Won Back
  78. Green Groweth The Holly
  79. The May Morning Dew
  80. Little Mugrave
  81. Leap Year
  82. Small Change
  83. Cats of Coven Lawn
  84. The Mouse's Song
  85. The Voice That Lives Inside You
  86. The Laird O' Drum
  87. Child Waters (Child 63)
  88. Thou Man Of Grief
  89. Lizzie Wan
  90. Lord Bateman

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