English and Scottish Song (Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger)

MS 4000/5/1/12

English and Scottish Song (Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger)

MS 4000/5/1/12/1 English and Scottish industrial [1958-1960]

songs and songs about crime and Nov 1965

criminals sung by Ewan MacColl

and Peggy Seeger released on Topic

record label

MS 4000/5/1/12/2-3 Ewan MacColl singing from Feb 1961

Percy's Reliques and Pepys Ballads

MS 4000/5/1/12/4 Ewan MacColl singing Hunger Oct 1965

March Parodies

MS 4000/5/1/12/5 Radio programme, 'The British Dec 1973

Oral Tradition'

MS 4000/5/1/12/6 Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger Nov 1977

singing ' Legally Legal ' and

' Companeros '

MS 4000/5/1/12/7-8 Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger [1966]

singing ' The Manchester Angel '

released on Topic record label

MS 4000/5/1/12/9 Ewan MacColl and Dominic Behan [1958; Apr 1965]

singing and released on Folkways

record label; radio programmes of

singing and football commentary

MS 4000/5/1/12/10 Ewan MacColl singing ' Thomas nd

The Rhymer ', previously released

on Riverside record label

MS 4000/5/1/12/11 Peggy Seeger singing and Charles nd

Parker interviewing workers with

visual impairment

English

This series of tapes provides a varied introduction to the work of both Ewan MacColl (1915-1989) and his wife, Peggy Seeger, (born 1935) who both participated fully in left wing political activity, performance, lecturing, music and song writing and the promotion of traditional music and the folk revival. Many of the English and Scottish songs featured here were released on record labels and this has been noted in the descriptions. The second and third tapes record Ewan MacColl singing from Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, first published in 1765 and from Hyder Edward Rollins edition of The Pepys Ballads, which is the largest surviving collection of English ballads printed in London in the seventeenth century and a great source for English popular culture.

Other recordings include radio programmes of ' The British Oral Tradition ' (MS 4000/5/1/12/5) and

' On The Wings Of Song ' (MS 4000/5/1/12/9). The last tape ends with Charles Parker interviewing workers with visual impairment in an engineering shop in Berkshire (MS 4000/5/1/12/11). See also MS 4000/2/124A for tape transcripts, research notes, production papers etc on two BBC documentary films by Philip Donnellan and Charles Parker about the provision of education and care for blind people in the UK, 1967 and MS 4000/2/124B for production papers etc of BBC Radio 4 production ' The Blind Set ', 1968.