''The Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie Bell'' is the eponymous 1964 album by

The Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie Bell ''The Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie Bell'' is the eponymous 1964 album by The Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie Bell. Musical style The most vigorous song on this album is "Greenland Fisheries" with Ronnie Browne shouting "There She Blows" at the start ...

Musical style

The most vigorous song on this album is "Greenland Fisheries" with Ronnie Browne shouting "There She Blows" at the start of the song, at the top of his voice. "Jock O' Braidislee" is sung unaccompanied by Ronnie Browne. Paddie Bell sings "Lord Gregory" with only her banjo for accompaniment. The album begins with four songs associated with the game of two balls and a wall.

Track listing

#The Singing Games. (a) The Windy City (

I'll Tell Me Ma "I'll Tell Me Ma" (also called "The Wind") is a traditional children's song. It was collected in various parts of the United Kingdom in the 19th century and again appears in collections from shortly after the turn of the 20th century. In Ireland ...

) (b) Call on the one you love (c) 1 2 3 O'Leary (d) I'm No Goin' Tae Barry's Trip # Lock The Door, Lariston # Jock o' Braidislee (solo by Ronnie Browne) #Doodle Let Me Go (Yellow Girls) (vocal by Paddie Bell) # The Lass O' Fyvie #The Itinerant Cobbler # Lord Gregory (vocal by Paddie Bell) hild Ballad 76#McPherson's Farewell #Coorie Doon (vocal by Paddie Bell)(written by

Matt McGinn Matthew McGinn (17 January 1928 – 5 January 1977) was a Scottish folk singer-songwriter, actor, author and poet. Born in Glasgow in 1928, McGinn was a prolific songwriter and is recognised as an influential figure in the British folk music ...

) #Greenland Fisheries ''Note'': The 2002 CD re-release included their entire second album '' The Promise of the Day'' as tracks 11 - 24.

Personnel

Roy Williamson Roy Murdoch Buchanan Williamson (25 June 1936 – 12 August 1990) was a Scottish people, Scottish songwriter and folk musician, most notably with The Corries. Williamson is best known for writing "Flower of Scotland", which has become the de fa ...

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vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

concertina A concertina is a free-reed musical instrument, like the various accordions and the harmonica. It consists of expanding and contracting bellows, with buttons (or keys) usually on both ends, unlike accordion buttons, which are on the front. The ...

Ronnie Browne Ronald Grant Browne ("The Voice") (20 August 1937 in Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland) is a Scottish folk musician and songwriter, who is a founding member of The Corries. Biography Browne was born in Edinburgh to John Albert ' ...

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guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

Paddie Bell Patricia Margaret Bell (née Simpson, 8 April 1931 – 3 August 2005) professionally known as Paddie Bell, was a Scottish folk singer and musician, born in Northern Ireland. Biography Bell was born as Patricia Margaret Simpson, in Belfast, Nort ...

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banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

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acoustic bass The acoustic bass guitar (sometimes shortened to acoustic bass or initialized ABG) is a bass instrument with a hollow wooden body similar to, though usually larger than a steel-string acoustic guitar. Like the traditional electric bass guitar a ...

(track 8) ''Note'': Acoustic guitars,

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

, and bandurría are also heard but no credits are given.

External links

The Corries Official Website
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