Good Humour For The Rest Of The Night

This latest addition to Topic's now-essential Voice of the People series features 60 recordings of traditional dance music from Northumberland and Cumberland. In 1954, there were no other collectors, corporate, professional or amateur, prepared to explore the nature of English traditional dance and traditional dance music, and the only precedent in recording traditional dance music on location was set by Peter Kennedy; the fruits of the pioneering field trip he undertook that year are presented here / great tunes, great style, subtle decoration and great rhythm – warm and entertaining – a potential eye/opener for the newcomer and an object lesson for some old/timers. Of equal importance, Peter laid down some basic material for the subsequent construction of a history and an appreciation of traditional music and dance in the Border hills. Track Listing: Disc 1: The Soldier's Joy (Country Dance) The Ribbon Country Dance We All Go Ahunting Today Ned's Father's Strathspey The Ladies' Hornpipe Barbara Bell The Coquet Reel The Lads of North Tyne (Hornpipe) The Mosstroopers Polka The Wild Hills of Wannies (Waltz) My Love She's But a Lassie Yet (Jew's harp) The Clinch Polka (melodeon) The Clinch Polka (duet) George Foreman's Hornpipe The Sylph (Country Dance) Highland Laddie (Country Dance) The Keel Row (Country Dacne) The Heel and Toe Polka: Duncan Gray Proudlock's Hornpipe Patrick Conroy's March Patrick Conroy's Waltz No.1 Patrick Conroy's Waltz No.2 The Rollicking Irishman (Jig) Corn Rigs (Country Dance) Jake Hutton's Strathspey Durham Rangers/The Rights of Man Circassian Circle: Good Humour The Tune for Step/dancing Russian Ballet Nancy Drops of Brandy (Country Dance) The Maltese Schottische Roxburgh Castle (Country Dance) The Lancers, Figure 1 The Lancers, Figure 2 The Lancers, Figure 3 The Lancers, Figure 4 The Lancers, Figure 5 The Last Figure of The Lancers The West End (Hornpipe) Corn Rigs (Country Dance) The Garden House (Polka) Louden's Bonny Woods and Braes (Schottische) The Gilsland Hornpipe Peter Robson's Polka The Roman Wall (Jig) Billy's Father's Polka The Circassian Circle: The Whinshields Hornpipe The Circassian Circle: Whinham's Reel The Triumph (Country Dance) Corn Rigs (Country Dance) The Ribbon Dance (Country Dance) Cock Your Leg Up The Self (Country Dance) The Circassian Circle, First Figure The Circassian Circle, Second Figure: Bonnets of Dundee Roxburgh Castle (Country Dance) Caddam Woods Jack Heron's Waltz The Circassian Circle