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Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger
The Fight Game

Album UK 1967 on Argo Record Company Limited label
Spoken Word, Folk, World and (Radioplay, Field Recording)

A radio-ballad is a sound tapestry woven of four basic elements: songs, instrumental music, sound effects, and the recorded voices of those with whose lives each programme deals. The radio-ballads were a joint creation by Ewan MacColl, Charles Parker and Peggy Seeger. These programmes were revolutionary at the time, using as they did the actual spoken words of the 'informants'. Up until this time, this 'actuality' (as the trio dubbed it) was transcribed and then interpreted by trained radio speakers. The radio-ballads led you effortlessly from song to music to sound effect to the spoken word and back again, revealing the effort of a way of life upon those who lead it. They are entertaining, informative, musical, poetic and educational. There were eight radio-ballads, created between 1957 and 1964.

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	Ewan MacColl voc, 1915-1989 GB vocals, written by, music by, script by, recorded by, actuality, album by
	Charles Parker voc, album by
	Peggy Seeger bj, g, voc, *1935 GB guitar, banjo, vocals, orchestrated by, directed by, written by, music by, script by, dulcimer, appalachian, album by
	Brian Daly g, GB acoustic guitar, electric guitar
	Jim Bray b, GB double bass
	Alfie Kahn p, sax, 1914-1996 GB harmonica, clarinet, piccolo flute, flute
	Alf Edwards acc, GB trombone, concertina, english
	Johnny Lambe tr, trumpet
	Ronnie Hughes tr, *1925 GB trumpet
	Dave Swarbrick vn, man, 1941-2016 GB violin, fiddle
	Bob Davenport voc, *1932 GB vocals
	Gordon McCulloch voc, g, bj, h, GB vocals
	John Reavey vocals

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