Photo of Shirley by Katie Vandyck      



 


"Shirley Collins is without doubt one of England's greatest cultural treasures"
- Billy Bragg

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Shirley's CDs and copies of 'America Over The Water' are available from this site. Click on 'For Sale' above.

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Within Sound

 

CD 1

 
Tracks Arrangements
 1. Dabbling In The Dew
 2. The Bonny Labouring Boy
 3. Turpin Hero
 4. The Cuckoo
 5. Just As The Tide Was Flowing
 6. I Drew My Ship
 7. The False True Love
 8. Sweet England
 9. Higher Germanie
10. Long Years Ago
11. Newcastle
12. Dance To You Daddy
13. The Irish Girl
14. The Foggy Dew
15. She Moves Through The Fair
16. Locks And Bolts
17. Geordie
18. The False Bride*
19. Cotton Eyed Joe/ What Shall We Do With The Baby
20. Pretty Saro**
21. Dearest Dear***

 All tracks trad arr Shirley Collins (Cacophony Music) except:

 * Trad arr Copper Family (Coppersongs)

 ** Trad arr and tune composed by Shirley Collins

 *** Trad arr Shirley Collins and Davy Graham

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

CD 2

 
Tracks Arrangements
 1. Nottamun Town*
 2. Reynardine**
 3. When A Man's In Love***
 4. The Sweet Primeroses
 5. Don In Yon Forest
 6. George Collins
 7. The Streets Of Derry
 8. Two Brethren****
 9. Tyburn Tree#
10. Bonnie Boy
11. Richie Story
12. Over The Hills And Far Away
13. Polly Vaughan#
14. Whitsun Dance##
15. God Dog###
16. The Gower Wassail##
17. The Blacksmith##
18. The Bonny Cuckoo##
19. I Sing Of A Maiden That Is Makeless +
20. A Virgin Most Pure ++
21. Is It Far To Bethlehem +++
22. The Cherry Tree Carol#

 Trad arr Shirley and Dolly Collins (Cacophony Music)

 * Trad arr Shirley Collins and Davy Graham

 ** Trad arr Shirley Collins (Cacophony Music) 

 *** Trad words, piano arr Matyas Seiber (Cassell and Co)

 **** Trad arr Copper Family (Coppersongs)

 # Words trad arr and tune composed by Shirley Collins (Cacophony Music)

 ## Trad arr Shirley and Dolly Collins (Shapiro Bernstein)

 ### Robin Williamson

 + Words trad arr and tune composed by Dolly Collins (Cacophony Music)

 ++ Trad arr Bellamy Collins Collins Wood and Wood (Cacophony Music)

 +++ Frances Chesterton tune trad arr Shirley and Dolly Collins (Cacophony Music)

 
 

 

CD 3

 
Tracks Arrangements
 1. Plains Of Waterloo*
 2. Geordie*
 3. Polly On The Shore**
 4. The Bold Fisherman***
 5. Just As The Tide Was Flowing****
 6. Banks Of The Bann****
 7. Poor Murdered Woman****
 8. Murder Of Maria Marten****
 9. Staines Morris#
10. One Night As I Lay On My Bed##
11. The Blacksmith Courted Me##
12. Down By The Seaside##
13. Banks Of The Mossom###
14. Come All You Little Streamers +
15. The Little Gypsy Girl +
16. Horn Fair +
17. Fare Thee Well My Dearest Dear ++
18. Bonny Kate ++
19. Edi Beo Thu Hevene Quene +++
20. The Hunt Is Up ~
21. Hopping Down In Kent ~

  * Trad arr Shirley and Dolly Collins (Shapiro Bernstein)

 *** Trad arr Copper Family (Coppersongs)

 **** Trad arr Shirley Collins (PLD Music)

 # Trad arr Dransfield Hutchings Kirkpatrick Mattacks and Thompson (RykoMuscic)

 ## Trad arr Shirley and Dolly Collins (Cacophony Music)

 ### Trad arr Shirley Collins (Cacophony Music)

 + Trad arr Etchingham Steam Band (Cacophony/Really Wicked Music

 ++ Trad arr Shirley Collins (Shapiro Bernstein)

 +++ Trad arr Shirley Collins and John Sothcott (Shapiro Bernstein)

 ~ Trad arr Albion Dance Band (Island Music)

 
 
 

 

CD 4

 
Tracks Arrangements
 1. Honour Bright*
 2. The Moon Shines Bright**
 3. Never Again***
 4. Gilderoy**
 5. Mariner's Farewell****
 6. Come All You Little Streamers**
 7. All Things Are Quite Silent#
 8. The Bonny Labouring Boy#
 9. The Captain With The Whiskers##
10. Just As The Tide Was Flowing#
11. Come My Love###
12. Green Fields +
13. The Golden Glove ++
14. Lord Allenwater +++
15. Christ Made A Trance ~
16. Bedfordshire May Carol ~
17. The Tillington Poachers +++
18. The Oakham Poachers ++
19. Poor Sally Sits A-Weeping~~
20. Lost In A Wood~~~

 * Austin John Marshall and Robert Kirby

 ** Trad arr Shirley and Dolly Collins (Topic Music)

 *** Richard Thompson (Island Music)

 **** Words Samuel Taylor Coleridge Music Jeremiah Clarke Arr Brian Gulland Richard Harvey and Austin John Marshall

 # Trad arr Shirley and Dolly Collins (Cacophony Music)

 ## Words trad tune composed by Shirley Collins (Cacophony Music)

 ### Words FC Ball tune trad arr Shirley and Dolly Collins (Cacophony Music)

 + Peter Bellamy (Free Reed Music)

 ++ Trad arr Julie Carter and Jim Younger Cacophony Music)

 +++ Trad arr Shirley Collins Julie Carter and Jim Younger (Cacophony Music)

 ~ Trad arr Collins Carter Younger and Quinn (Cacophony Music)

 ~~ Trad arr Dolly Collins (Cacophony Music)

 ~~~ Trad arr Shirley Collins (Cacophony Music)

 
 

Other Musicians

       
Dolly Collins
Davy Graham
Oliver Brookes
Heather Wood
Peter Wood
Roger Powell
Barry Dransfield
John Harrington
Pat Donaldson
John Sothcott
Dave Pegg
Choir Annie Power
Brian Gulland
Jim Younger
John Hasted
Bram Martin
Royston Wood
Eleanor Sloan
Dave Bland
Maddy Prior
Tim Renwick
Geoff Singleton
Roger Brenner
John Tams
Tony Fernandez
Gillian Elkins
Richard Harvey
Dan Quinn
Seamus Ennis
Christopher Hogwood
Steve Ashley
Terry Cox
Richard Thompson
John Kirkpatrick
Francis Baines
Vic Gammon
Colin Sheen
Philip Pickett
John Mealing
Bert Jansch
Winsome Evans
Iris Bishop
Perry Friedman
David Munrow
Roderick Skeaping
Alan Lumsden
Simon Nicol
Dave Mattacks
Bob Stewart
Ian Holder
Martin Nicholls
Graeme Taylor
Robert Kirby
Martin Jenkins
Peter Bellamy
Gary Holder
Robin Hall
Adam Skeaping
Richard Lee
John Fordham
Ashley Hutchings
Nic Jones
Bill Molan
Terry Potter
John Rodd
Michael Gregory
Music Works Band
Nigel Portman-Smith
Julie Carter

 

Further details of Within Sound available from Mr Fledg'ling