JEANNIE ROBERTSON scots traditional singer TOPIC LP '59
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Description
Artist: JEANNIE ROBERTSON
Title: THE GREAT SCOTS TRADITIONAL BALLAD SINGER
Format: LP
Label: TOPIC Records, UK (12T96)
Year: 1959
Style: folk, Scottish folk
Info: Rare original pressing LP with dark blue and silver labels.
Comes in original flipback picture sleeve and has plain white die-cut paper inner sleeve. There are no notes enclosed in the sleeve as stated on rear cover.
Jeannie Robertson is a monumental figure in Scottish traditional song whose influence and importance as a preserver of folklore will sustain for as long as traditional ballads are sung.
Regina Christina Robertson was born into a traveller family in Aberdeen on October 21, 1908. Her father, Donald, who died a year later, was a piper and her mother, Maria, was a singer with a vast store of songs and stories.
There was music going back generations on both sides of the family and as Jeannie grew up in the traveller life, spending six months of the year in Aberdeen and spring and summer on the roads up Deeside and down Donside, there were musical gatherings round both hearthside and campsite. Music wasn’t just entertainment. The songs and stories formed guides to traveller history and lessons in life.
Jeannie began to learn songs in earnest during the First World War. Her stepfather, James Higgins, and brothers William, Robert and David had been called up and Jeannie’s mother couldn’t sleep through worry. So Maria and her brother would sing into the early hours to take their minds off the war.
Jeannie listened as Maria told the story behind each song before singing it, a practice that as she grew into womanhood gave Jeannie’s singing such authority. It wasn’t long before Jeannie earned her first fee as her maternal grandfather, who was renowned as a fine singer himself, loved to listen to her singing and would give her a shilling for a song.
When, in 1953, folklorist Hamish Henderson visited Aberdeen, looking for traditional singers and collecting songs, Bobby Hutchinson, who had often attended ceilidhs at Jeannie and her husband, Donald Higgins’ Causewayend flat, pointed him in Jeannie’s direction.
So began Jeannie’s transition from a singer who sang at family gatherings and to relieve the stresses of a hard life into a tradition bearer of international standing.
Eight tracks:-
-side 1:
THE BONNY WEE LASSIE WHO NEVER SAID NO
WHAT A VOICE
MY PLAIDIE'S AWA'
THE GIPSY LADDIES
-side 2:
WHEN I WAS NEW BUT SWEET SIXTEEN
MacCRIMMON'S LAMENT
ROY'S WIFE OF ALDIVALLOCH
LORD LOVAT
Vinyl in excellent condition and looks exceptionally clean with hardly any signs of wear, and plays very nicely indeed. There are some spindle marks on the labels but not a large amount, so this record has been played and enjoyed but very well looked after, considering it is over 50 years old!
Side A label has one small pen mark on it.
Sleeve in very good condition with just average general wear and no outstanding faults.
Inner sleeve in excellent condition with no splits.
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308 (GS 5.3.7 (308))
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