Roberts and Barrand

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{{Infobox musical artist

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| alias = John Roberts and Tony Barrand

| origin = Cornell University

| genre = Traditional folk music

| years_active = 1969—2022

| label = [http://www.goldenhindmusic.com/ Golden Hind Music]

| associated_acts = Nowell Sing We Clear
John Roberts

| website = http://www.goldenhindmusic.com/

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Roberts and Barrand was a musical group formed in 1969 by John Roberts and Tony Barrand while they were graduate students in psychology at Cornell University.{{Cite web |title=John Roberts & Tony Barrand - Golden Hind Music |url=http://www.goldenhindmusic.com/artists/bio_rb.html}} Much of their repertoire is traditional English music (including many prominent recordings of sea shanties), although they have also recorded other English-language and contemporary folk songs.

The duo also performed as members of the four-man act Nowell Sing We Clear.

Tony Barrand died on 29 January 2022, at the age of 76.{{cite web| url=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=453561612879742&id=100046777218228| title=Tony Barrand passed away this morning, peacefully.| author=Nowell Sing We Clear| date=January 29, 2022| publisher=Facebook}} John Roberts died on 3 February 2025, at the age of 80.{{Cite web |last=Dean |date=2025-02-03 |title=John Roberts Dies 3 Feb 2025 |url=https://seashanties4all.com/john-roberts-dies-3-feb-2025/ |access-date=2025-03-24 |website=Maritime Music Directory International |language=en-CA}}

Discography

=Spencer the Rover is Alive and Well... (1971, 2001)=

=Across the Western Ocean (1973, 2000)=

Songs of the North Atlantic Sailing Packets

  1. Introduction
  2. "New York Girls"
  3. Captain Samuels on his sailors
  4. "Blow the Man Down"
  5. Impressions of a first voyage
  6. "The Crayfish"
  7. "The Black Cook"
  8. "The Limejuice Ship"
  9. The wreck of the Staffordshire
  10. "The Flying Dutchman"
  11. "Get Up Jack, John Sit Down"
  12. "The Flying Cloud"
  13. Immigration conditions
  14. "Heave Away My Johnnies"
  15. Perils of transatlantic dalliance
  16. "Maggie May"
  17. "Peter Street"
  18. "The Seamen's Hymn"

=Mellow With Ale From the Horn (1975)=

=Dark Ships in the Forest (1977, 1997)=

=Live at Holsteins! (1983)=

=An Evening at the English Music Hall (1984)=

with Maggi Pierce, David Jones, Andy Barrand, Louis Killen, and Murray Callahan

Recorded Live at the Troy Music Hall, Troy, New York, 1974

  1. "A Little Bit of Cucumber" (John Roberts)
  2. "Don't Have Any More Mrs. Moore!" (Maggi Pierce)
  3. "My Old Dutch" (David Jones)
  4. "Lily of Laguna" (Andy Barrand)
  5. "Sweeney Todd the Barber" (Tony Barrand)
  6. "Last Neet" (Lou Killen)
  7. "Sam Hall" (David Jones)
  8. "When I Take My Morning Promenade" (Murray Callahan)
  9. "I'm Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy" (Tony Barrand)
  10. "The Old Armchair" (David Jones)

=A Present from the Gentlemen (1992)=

=Naulakha Redux (1997)=

=Heartoutbursts (1998)=

=Twiddlum Twaddlum (2003)=

Live in Concert

  • "Anchor Song"
  • "The Golden Vanity"
  • "High Barbary"
  • "Jonah and the Grampus"
  • "A Pilgrim¹s Way"
  • "Old Bangum"
  • "Who Killed Cock Robin?"
  • "Two Foxes"
  • "All Through The Ale"
  • "The Rawtenstall Annual Fair"
  • "Nell"
  • "The Nutting Girl"
  • "Claudy Banks"
  • "The Week Before Easter"
  • "The Cockerham Devil"
  • "Row on"

References

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