Jimmie Macgregor
Barrack Room Ballads
1958 - Topic 10T26 LP [10"]
Ewan McColl with Jimmie Macgregor
Side One
Join the British Army
The Ghost Army of Korea
The Ballad of Wadi Maktilla
The Young Trooper Cut Down in his Prime
Bless em All
Side Two
Any Complaints
The Second Front Song
Seven Years in the Sand
Farewell to Sicily [1]
Browned off
When this Ruddy War is Over
Credits
Ewan MacColl: vocals
Peggy Seeger: banjo and guitar
Jimmie MacGregor: guitar
John Cole: harmonica
Alternate releases
Barrack Room Ballads: 196(?) - Topic 10T26 10" LP
re-issue - cover courtesy of Alistair Banfield
…Balladeers notes
Nineteen songs from these (recording) sessions were released over the years on at least 4 different titled records on 3 labels. None of these releases contain all 19 songs. The original LP was Bless 'Em All and other British Army Songs on the "Riverside" label, this album was (fully) re-issued as British Army Songs on "Washington" records, both with 18 tracks. Barrack Room Ballads contians the fewest of the songs, with eleven.
In addition, Barrack Rooms Ballads was re-issued on "Topic" in the early 60's with a different cover. According the Alistair Banfield, "The first cover had the Bishops Bridge Road address on the back and is notorious for laminate lift and losing all of the info printed on the laminate on the back. This first issue was whitish with a yellow centre of a picture of a lamp (top). The second issue was a screen print of a boot with the new address on Nassington Road printed on the back. It's very difficult to date it exactly, but I'd say between 1962 and 1964 as a guess. The actual moving date was 1960 I believe and I have more than one copy with very slight differences which suggest that there was more than one run of screen printing and thus possibly more than one batch produced. What also happened was that they over ordered on vinyl sometimes and had the records without sleeves from 1958. They would then run off the number of sleeves that were required. It is therefore not an entirely exact science to date the record issue from either the record or sleeve because they might be quite different."
1 omitted from Bless 'Em All and other British Army Songs and British Army Songs
According to the Peggy Seeger website, Bundook Ballads is a re-issue and expansion of Barrack Room Ballads.
My thanks to Alistair Banfield, and "johnross" from the Mudcat disscusion fourm for the additional information.