Tertius Louw

My favourite SA Folk albums

Album National Folksong Festival
Recorded Live At Wits University
Tracks:
Hard ain't hard/ Sally don't you grieve (Mel, Mel&Louis)/ The hangman (Leon)/ The oxdrivers song (Leon&Mike)/ Single girl (Jill)/ The stuttering lovers (Des&Keith)/ Le Roi Des Buveurs (Des)/ The Three Ravens (Keith&Jill) Land of oden (Mel, Mel&Louis)/ Bimini bay/ Time of man (Des&Keith)/ Cool tattoo (Leon&Brenda)/ Four strong winds (Leon&Mike)/ Daar's 'n gat in die emmer (Des)/ Go tell it on the mountain (The Company)
Release info:
CBS, ald 6836, 1965

Album We Three
At The Beverley Hills
Tracks:
Ham 'n eggs/ Shenandoah/ I never will marry/ Alabamy bound/ Juice of the barley/ Frankie and Johnny/ Four strong winds/ Mary don't you weep/ Ramblin, boy/ Ramblin' gambler/ Bottle of wine/ Green rocky road
Release info:
RCA VICTOR, 32-030, 1965

album Nick Taylor
Folk Songs
Tracks:
Greenback dollar/ Where have all the flowers gone/ Cumberland mountain bear chase/ Chilly winds/ Seasons in the sun/ 25 Minutes to go/ Risin' of the moon/ Moonshiner/ Jane/ Dark as a dungeon/ 500 miles/ Cottonfields
Release info:
RCA VICTOR, 32-031, 1965

Des Lindberg
Live
Tracks:
Twenty summers/ The eddystone light/ I know where I am going/ There but for fortune/ Lord Rendall/ Ramblin' boy/ Roddy McCorley/ Mary Hamilton/ The frozen logger/ Dink's song/ Liefdeslied/ Die gezoem van die bye/ Michael row the boat ashore
Release info:
CBS, ald 6925, 1966

album Keith Blundell
It Was A Very Good Year
Tracks:
Dance, boatmen, dance/ Mountains of men/ It was a very good year/ Rothsea 'O/ Kissin's no sin/ Tie me Kangaroo down/ One more town/ Go down the river/ Widdicombe fair/ Bayeza/ Dooley
Release info:
RENOWN, nlp 290, 1967

album Chapter Three
Ramble Away
Tracks:
Devil's land/ Ramble away/ Irish rover/ The bells of rhymney/ Darcy farrow/ Two brothers/ Bonnie ship the diamond/ Cold and lonely hours/ Marco Polo/ Rue/ Wrecking crew/ I loved a lass/ Early morning rain
Release info:
CONTINENTAL, zb 8173, 1967

album Mel, Mel And Julian
Miscellanea
Tracks:
Sixteen miles/ There is a ship/ No money down/ Gypsy rover/ Fare thee well Kirsten/ If your man gets busted/ Washington at valley forge/ Pack up your sorrows/ Beverly/ Sinner man/ Irish rover/ Walkin' down the line
Release info:
CBS, ald 8058, 1967

album Ian And Ritchie
Look Across The River
Tracks:
Look across the river/ Travelling song/ Scarlet ribbons/ Garden of my home/ I'm not saying/ Sweet talkin'/ Bowling green/ Hey! what about me/ Take me back/ Sound of silence/ Land of my heart/ Little green apples
Release info:
RENOWN, nlp 298, 1967

album South African Folk Scene
Tracks:
The city/ True love is a tear (Clem Tholet)/ Who rang the bell/ Never give up trying (R Gough)/ Mile and a half/ Kimberley wind song (M Sears)/ No one won the boer war (R McCucham-D Manier)/ Master Jack/ Picture perfect (David Marks)/ Blind man/ Second dream (Colin Shamley)/ Walk by the river (L Shore)/ Go away bird/ The candle that burns (John Edmond)
Release info:
SAFMA 3, limited pressing of 100 records, 1968

album Clem Tholet
Two Sides To Every Story
Tracks:
You can't be free/ Evangeline/ Zambesi, Zimbabwe/ Be with me in the morning/ Somebody else's song/ 79 Montague heights/ Tripping in the country/ Power and glory/ The msasas are turning/ Tsanga
Release info:
TEAL, tlc 2014, 1978

Tertius Louw, Summer 2001


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