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SHIRLEY COLLINS 9 Titles


Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #

COLLINS, SHIRLEY	English Songs Volume 2	7"	FLEDG'LING	WING 1004EP
$10.00 IN STOCK Restocked, last copies... RSD 2016 release. Limited edition of 800. At the beginning of Shirley Collins's recording career in 1959, she recorded a series of limited 7" EPs for the Collector Records label, which have since become quite rare. This remastered reissue of English Songs Volume 2 (the third of her Collector EPs) is presented in a front-laminated, flipback sleeve, just like the original, and an inner sleeve illustrated with rare photographs. This is the first time this iconic record has been made available as a vinyl EP since its original release. "Shirley Collins is without doubt one of England's greatest cultural treasures." --Billy Bragg

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COLLINS, SHIRLEY	The Bonny Cuckoo	7"	FLEDG'LING	WING 1003EP
$12.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL Fledg'ling Records continues its ongoing series of Shirley Collins's early recordings on 7" vinyl EP with the release of some previously unreleased early recordings. These four spectral, magical performances were recorded by Alan Lomax in London on October 20, 1957. Collins sings two songs -- "Bonny Cuckoo" and "Bonny Labouring Boy" -- unaccompanied and with her own banjo accompaniment. These very rare recordings have been carefully remastered from the only known surviving acetate and are packaged in a front-laminated flipback sleeve with a beautifully illustrated inner bag showing rare Shirley Collins photographs and ephemera.

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
COLLINS, SHIRLEY	English Songs	7"	FLEDG'LING	WING 1002EP
$12.00 NOT IN STOCK At the beginning of Shirley Collins's recording career, in 1959, she recorded a series of limited 7" EPs for Collector Records, which have since become quite rare. This remastered edition of English Songs (the second of her Collector EPs), its first reissue as a vinyl EP, is presented in a front-laminated, flipback sleeve, just like the original, and an illustrated inner bag with period reviews from the archives. This release, along with a reissue of The Foggy Dew EP (WING 1001EP), precedes a concert to celebrate Shirley Collins's 80th birthday, on Sunday, July 5th, 2015, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London. "What comes through is sincerity, purity of instinct, and a tremendous depth of feeling." --Alan Lomax

Artist	Title	Format	Label	Catalog #
COLLINS, SHIRLEY	The Foggy Dew	7"	FLEDG'LING	WING 1001EP
$12.00 NOT IN STOCK At the beginning of Shirley Collins's recording career, in 1959, she recorded a series of limited 7" EPs for Collector Records, which have since become quite rare. This remastered edition of The Foggy Dew (the first of her Collector EPs), its first reissue as a vinyl EP, is presented in a front-laminated, flipback sleeve, just like the original, and an illustrated inner bag with period reviews from the archives. This release, along with a reissue of the English Songs EP (WING 1002EP), precedes a concert to celebrate Shirley Collins's 80th birthday, on Sunday, July 5th, 2015, at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London. "What comes through is sincerity, purity of instinct, and a tremendous depth of feeling." --Alan Lomax

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COLLINS, SHIRLEY	Sweet England	CD	FLEDG'LING	FLED 3080CD
$15.50 IN STOCK "Sweet England, along with its sister album False True Lovers (FLED 3029CD), was recorded in the spring of 1958 when I was twenty-two years old. I had been living for the previous two years in London with Alan Lomax, the American folklorist, working for him as editorial assistant on his book The Folk Songs of North America and on his field recordings from America, Great Britain, Italy and Spain. The tracks that make up these two albums were recorded by Peter Kennedy and Alan in two days at Peter's home 'studio' in Belsize Park. English traditional music, at its best, expresses and provides everything in song that I need and feel, both musically and emotionally. Sweet England represents the first shaky steps of a journey that I have been on all my life, and that, happily, I still am." --Shirley Collins from the new sleeve-notes. Fledg'ling Records are very proud to present a remastered edition of this classic recording from the infancy of the mid-20th century folk revival. Guest musicians are Guy Carawan, Ralph Rinzler and John Hasted. Sweet England is a stunning collection of British and American traditional song, capturing a turning moment in the English folk song revival of the 1950s. Including a stunning, new digipak design with new sleevenotes from Shirley Collins.

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COLLINS, SHIRLEY	The Sweet Primeroses	CD	TOPIC	TSCD 476
$15.50 IN STOCK 1995 reissue of these early recordings, from 1963-67. "These limpid versions of Southern English songs established Shirley Collins as a unique and influential voice on the folk scene. A landmark recording of the English folk-song revival. For the first time the fragile beauty of Shirley Collins' singing, sister Dolly's sensitive settings for portative pipe-organ and the two sisters' remarkable empathy for southern English folk song were united in one glorious recording." Includes the original 1967 Topic LP, plus 4 bonus tracks from the 1963 Heroes In Love EP. Shirley Collins (vocals), Dolly Collins (pipe-organ), The Young Tradition (chorus).

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COLLINS, SHIRLEY	The Power Of The True Love Knot	CD	FLEDG'LING	FLED 3028CD
$17.00 NOT IN STOCK Released by Fledg'ling in 2000. This classic 1967 recording finally appears on CD. Produced by Joe Boyd with exquisite arrangements by Dolly Collins and contributions from Robin Williamson and Mike Heron of The Incredible String Band, and Bram Martin (cellist on The Beatles' "Eleanor Rigby"). The songs on this record belong to ladies fair and tender, the ballad-heroines with lily hands, riding through meadows distracted, saving or losing their virtue, getting pregnant, eloping with gypsies, dying of remorse, twined in the True-Lover's Knot. Shirley Collins (vocals, banjo, dulcimer); Dolly Collins (pipe organ); Bram Martin (cello); Robin Williamson (tin whistle, chanter, percussion); Mike Heron (percussion).

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COLLINS, SHIRLEY	Adieu To Old England	CD	FLEDG'LING	FLED 3023CD
$17.00 LOW STOCK LEVEL Released by Fledg'ling in 1999, originally released on Topic. Another classic Shirley Collins recording, this time from 1974 and long out-of-print. Beautiful interpretations of Southern English songs and toasts with some fine arrangements by Dolly Collins. Featuring Shirley Collins with Albion Morris Men (dancing); Dolly Collins (flute organ); John Harrington (concertina); Ian Holder (accordion); Bill Molan (melodeon); Simon Nicol (electric guitar); Terry Potter (mouth organ); Geoff Singleton (fiddle); Bob Stewart (plucked psaltery); Roger Swallow (drums); John Watcham (Anglo concertina); Bill Molan, Geoff Singleton & John Harrington (vocals & percussion).

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COLLINS, SHIRLEY	False True Lovers	CD	FLEDG'LING	FLED 3029CD
$17.00 IN STOCK Released by Fledg'ling in 2001. Shirley Collins' debut album (and probably her rarest), False True Lovers was first released in 1959 on the prestigious Folkways label and was previously never released outside of North America. With the help of Washington's Smithsonian Institute, the label was able to return to the original Alan Lomax-produced tapes to produce this sparkling transfer to CD. Recorded when Shirley was just eighteen, False True Lovers is a stunning collection of British and American traditional song, capturing a turning moment in the English folk song revival of the 1950s.