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)=
Traditional English Ballads and Songs
- "Spencer the Rover"
- "Creeping Jane"
- "I Wish They'd do it Now"
- "Rambleaway"
- "What a Mouth!"
- "The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter"
- "Silicosis"
- "The Coachman"
- "The Lincolnshire Poacher"
- "Warlike Seamen"
- "Down the Plughole"
- "Shine Your Buttons with Brasso"
- "Martin Said to His Man"
- "Fanny Blair"
- "So Green as the Leaves"
- "Babylon is Fallen"
- "Thyme"
=Across the Western Ocean (1973, 2000)=
Songs of the North Atlantic Sailing Packets
- Introduction
- "New York Girls"
- Captain Samuels on his sailors
- "Blow the Man Down"
- Impressions of a first voyage
- "The Crayfish"
- "The Black Cook"
- "The Limejuice Ship"
- The wreck of the Staffordshire
- "The Flying Dutchman"
- "Get Up Jack, John Sit Down"
- "The Flying Cloud"
- Immigration conditions
- "Heave Away My Johnnies"
- Perils of transatlantic dalliance
- "Maggie May"
- "Peter Street"
- "The Seamen's Hymn"
=Mellow With Ale From the Horn (1975)=
- "Save Your Money While You're Young"
- "Staines Morris"
- "Barbara Allen"
- "Salt River, Colored Aristocracy"
- "Oats and Beans and Barley Grows"
- "Kate and Her Horns"
- "Come Day, go Day (Glyn Hughes)''
- "The Albatross"
- "The Wings of a Goney"
- "The Handsome Cabin Boy"
- "File Foot Flirt"
- "Our Bill"
- "Albert and the Lion"
- "Salvation Band"
=Dark Ships in the Forest (1977, 1997)=
Ballads of the Supernatural, with Fred Breunig & Steve Woodruff
=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
- "A Little Bit of Cucumber" (John Roberts)
- "Don't Have Any More Mrs. Moore!" (Maggi Pierce)
- "My Old Dutch" (David Jones)
- "Lily of Laguna" (Andy Barrand)
- "Sweeney Todd the Barber" (Tony Barrand)
- "Last Neet" (Lou Killen)
- "Sam Hall" (David Jones)
- "When I Take My Morning Promenade" (Murray Callahan)
- "I'm Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy" (Tony Barrand)
- "The Old Armchair" (David Jones)
=A Present from the Gentlemen (1992)=
A Pandora's Box of English Folk Songs
- "Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy"
- "Jackie Munro"
- "Nine Times a Night"
- "A Smuggler's Song"
- "The Three Butchers"
- "The Painful Plough"
- "Dog and Gun"
- "The Draggletail Gypsy/The Princess Royal"
- "The Outlandish Knight"
- "Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford"
- "Our Hamlet"
- "Sam Hall"
- "The Fellow that Played the Trombone"
- Great War Trilogy:
- * "The Valley of the Shadow"
- * "The Old Barbed Wire"
- * “Long, Long Trail"
=Naulakha Redux (1997)=
Songs of Rudyard Kipling
=Heartoutbursts (1998)=
English Folksongs collected by Percy Grainger
- "Brigg Fair"
- "Seventeen Come Sunday"
- "Creeping Jane"
- "Turpin Hero"
- "The White Hare"
- "Rufford Park Poachers"
- "Lord Bateman"
- "The Gypsy's Wedding Day"
- "A Fair Maid Walking"
- "The Lost Lady Found"
- "Sprig of Thyme"
- "Riding Down to Portsmouth"
- "Horkstow Grange"
- "The "Rainbow""
- "William Taylor"
- "Lord Melbourne"
- "Lisbon"
- "Died for Love"
=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"
=As featured performers in an anthology=
- Pleasant and Delightful, Vol 2 – Living Folk (1972)
- Songs and Sounds of the Sea – National Geographic Society (1973)
- Clearwater – Hudson River Sloop Restoration (1974)
- The Audience Pleased – Oberlin College (1976)
- Clearwater II – Hudson River Sloop Restoration (1977)
- Champlain Valley Festival Highlights – Champlain Valley Festival (1990)
- Homeward Bound – Revels (2002)
References
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External links
- [http://www.goldenhindmusic.com Golden Hind Music] (official site)
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Category:1969 establishments in New York (state)
Category:2022 disestablishments in New York (state)
Category:American folk musical groups
Category:Cornell University alumni