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Recordings of Charlie Philpot

On 28th April 1962 Russell Wortley recorded Charlie Philpot in Yoxford, Suffolk and his original recordings are now housed in the British Library's Sound Archive. All recordings are copyright: Diana Hillman.

The list of tunes recorded are given as:
C777/14 S2 C3 Irish washerwoman
C777/14 S2 C2 Posthorn gallop [Trumpet hornpipe] & Sailor's hornpipe
C777/14 S2 C1 Redwing / Che sera, sara
C777/14 S1 C19 Devil among the tailors / English breakdown / Waltz
C777/14 S1 C18 Loch Lomond / The blue-bells of Scotland / [Tiptoe through the tulips] / O what a beautiful morning (Oklahoma)

C777/14 S1 C17 The girl I left behind me / Waltz / Mountains of Mourne / The dark-eyed sailor

For further information follow this link to the British Library's 'Sound & Moving Image Catalogue'

http://cadensa.bl.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=Ij7WrGVJwW/WORKS-FILE/120180057/38/30026/X/BLASTOFF

type in - Russell Wortley in: 'and words or numbers' and Yoxford in: 'place'.

Two of these recordings are available on:

VTDC12CD 'I thought I was the only one'

Dulcimer playing in East Anglia

Archival recordings & a film of Billy Bennington

2015

Track: 27. Unidentified tune

Track: 28. Sailor's Hornpipe