BAWDY BALLADS OF OLD ENGLAND: The City Waites

Catalog Number: RRC1175
Label: Regis Records
Format: CD

Categories: Vocal Music
Budget Periods: Baroque, Medieval, Renaissance

Available: 15
Price: $8.99

Bawdy Ballads of Old England

The City Waites

Includes 28 page booklet, full texts and 24 tracks. Previously on Musica Oscura.

	Track Listing	Time
1	Diddle Diddle or The Kind Country Lovers	3:22
2	The Fair Maid of Islington	4:09
3	Green Stockings	2:21
4	The Jovial Lass or Dol and Roger	4:19
5	Mundanga Was	2:49
6	Lady of Pleasure	1:37
7	The Old Wife	2:06
8	The Beehive	2:33
9	Blue Petticoats or Green Garters	2:02
10	The Gelding of the Devil	6:54
11	The Maid's Complaint for Want of a Dil Doul	5:27
12	Oyster Nan	2:20
13	The Frolic	2:06
14	The Husband who met his Match	5:27
15	The Jovial Broom Man	2:56
16	The Disappointment	3:49
17	The Lusty Young Smith	2:28
18	Greensleeves and Yellow lace	2:31
19	The Jolly Brown Turd	1:37
20	Two Rounds: Tom Making a Manteau; When Celia was Learning	3:16
21	Lady Lie Near Me	1:31
22	Oh how you Protest	1:33
23	A Ditty Delightful of Mother Watkin's Ale	3:41
24	Miss Nelly	2:30

It is no good having lewd words one cannot hear, even if they are all included in the booklet...so full marks for the City Waites and their swinging dialect style...items here are sometimes accompanied, sometimes not, but they are made here into lively entertainment.
Penguin Guide 3 Stars

A taste of the broadside ballad culture which pervaded the Restoration and all to easily forgotten...The Maid's Complaint is a remarkably spontanious scene, led by soprano Lucie Skeaping complete with a bunch of drunks who join in, late...Good fun but not very clean!
Gramophone