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Fred Jordan

About the artist

Fred Jordan (5 January 1922 – 30 July 2002) was a farm worker from Ludlow, Shropshire, and is noted as one of the great musically untutored traditional English singers. He was first recorded in the 1940s by folk music researcher Alan Lomax and, over subsequent decades endeared himself to the English folk-song revival movement. Jordan was awarded the English Folk Dance and Song Society's highest honour, the Gold Badge, "for distinguished and unique contributions to the folk performing arts" in 1995.

Top songs

  1. We Shepherds Are The Best Of Men
  2. John Barleycorn
  3. The Bonny Boy
  4. The Dark-Eyed Sailor
  5. The Outlandish Knight
  6. Down The Road
  7. John Barteycorn
  8. When Jones's Ale Was New
  9. The Outlandish Knight (Lady Isabel And The Elf Knight)
  10. We're All Jolly Fellows As Follow The Plough
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  1. The Ship That Never Returned
  2. The Farmer's Boy
  3. We're All Jolly Fellows that Follow the Plough
  4. When The Frost Is On The Pumpkin
  5. Three Old Crows
  6. The Watery Grave
  7. Barbara Allen
  8. Polly's Father Lived In Lincolnshire
  9. The Royal Albert
  10. The Banks Of Claudy
  11. The Banks of Sweet Primroses
  12. Six Pretty Maids (The Outlandish Knight)
  13. The Volunteer Organist
  14. Down the Green Groves
  15. We shepherds are the best men
  16. When Joan's Ale was New
  17. The Horn Of The Hunter
  18. Six Pretty Maids
  19. Break the News to Mother
  20. Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight (The Outlandish Knight)
  21. Tormot Hoeing
  22. Seeds of Love
  23. Six Pretty Maids (Outlandish Knight)
  24. Bonny Bunch of Roses
  25. The Bonny Bunch Of Roses
  26. The Seeds Of Love
  27. Dark Eyed Sailor
  28. The Dark Eyed Sailor
  29. Turmot Hoeing
  30. The Banks Of The Sweet Primroses
  31. The Faithful Sailor Boy
  32. Lady Isabel And The Elf Knight
  33. What Put the Blood?
  34. The Outlandish Knight [Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight]
  35. The Field Of Barley
  36. The Worst Girl In The School
  37. The Poor Gypsy Maid
  38. Down The Green Grooves
  39. The Jolly Waggoner
  40. Down By The Riverside
  41. We're All Jolly Fellows As Follow The Plough (Fred Jordan)
  42. Talk About Singing
  43. The Black Sheep Of The Family
  44. An Acre Of Land
  45. The Saucy Sailor
  46. The Banks Of The Sweet Dundee
  47. The Bonny Boy (Fred Jordan)
  48. Napoleon Bonaparte
  49. Turmot-Hoeing
  50. We Shepherds Are The Best Of The Men
  51. Foggy Foggy Dew
  52. Sweet Primroses
  53. We're AII Jolly Fellows As Follow The Plough
  54. The Old Armchair
  55. The Gypsy's Warning
  56. The Galway Shawl
  57. The Spinning Wheel
  58. The Recruited Collier
  59. The Farmer's Boys
  60. 06 - The Dark-Eyed Sailor
  61. When Jones' Ale was new
  62. 09 - The Banks Of Sweet Primroses
  63. 08 - john barleycorn
  64. To Be a Farmer's Boy
  65. We're All Jolly Fellows That Follow The Plough
  66. 18. Track 18
  67. The Rose of Allendale
  68. 01 - We Shepherds Are The Best Of Men
  69. 05 - The Watery Grave
  70. 07 - Three Old Crows
  71. The Rigs Of Rye
  72. The Benefit Concert
  73. Shropshire, England
  74. Fred Jordan - We Shepherds Are The Best Men
  75. Turmoet-Hoeing
  76. Galway Shawl, The
  77. Lady Isabel And The Elf Knight | The Outlandish Knight (Child 004)
  78. Night Visiting Song
  79. The Dark-Eyed Sailor - Fred Jordan
  80. Granny's Old Armchair, The
  81. Napoleon Boneparte
  82. When Jones's Ale Was New - Fred Jordan
  83. Frost on the Pumpkin - a05 - Tormot Hoeing
  84. Frost on the Pumpkin - b01 - The Horn of the Hunter
  85. Frost on the Pumpkin - b02 - When the Frost is on the Pumpkin
  86. Tormot Hoenig
  87. We're All Jelly Fellows As Follow The Plough
  88. We Shepards Are The Best Of Men
  89. Sweet William
  90. 10 - the bonny boy

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