This is where I have sorted my mp3 collection into approximate date. If
a CD or LP is a compilation, it is placed under approximate decade.
1700s. There are several compilations which primarily draw
from The Pills to Purge Melancholy.
- My Thing is My Own by Hesperus
- When Dalliance Was in Flower by Ed McCurdy
- Pills to Purg Melancholy by City Waits
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1799.
The Merry Muses of Caledonia is the songbook for the drinking
club The Crochallan Fencibles.
-
The Merry Muses of Caledonia by Ewan MacColl. This book is the drinking songs
of the Coclian Festivals.
-
Robert Burns' The Merry Muses CD. Various artists.
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1950s.
Oscar Brand with his
Bawdy Songs and Back Room Ballads LPs had the largest and longest impact
on field work with many of his LPs being "de-expurgated".
1960s.
Doug Clark
and the Hot Nuts. The second most important commercially recorded
group. Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts extensively toured the US in the
1960s and played on many campuses.
1970s. John Valby
got his start in the early 1970s singing college drinking songs. By
the late 1970s he was known as "Dr. Dirty".
1990s.
Ron and the Rude
Boys. This outstanding five CD collection was started in 1989 with
the last recordings in 1996 gives some unusual songs. Most were taken
from book like
Jacksing,
Rugger Off
and Ed Cray's Bawdy Ballads but others
were derived from rugby experience.
