Pills to Purge Melancholy (1720)

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The City Waits CD Pills to Purge Melancholy is loved by a few people who have emailed me but I find the quality of the recording to be artificially instrumental and the voices the singers is quite soft and you often can not clearly hear the words of the songs.

I prefer the Ed McCurdy When Dalliance Was in Flower series from the 1950s.  This is much more simply done with the distinctive McCurdy vocal flair.

• The City Waits
  • Thomas Du'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy 
    • Sometimes I am a Tapster New  Time: 2:37
    • Honest Shepher'd, since you're poor  Time: 1:19
    • Blowzabella my bouncing Doxie    Time: 2:10
    • As Oyster Nan stood by her Tub  Time: 2:17
    • There was a Lass of Islington  Time: 3:41
    • Poor Celia once was very fair  Time: 1:40
    • Oh Fie! what mean I Foolish Maid  Time: 1:45
    • What Life can compare with the jolly Town Rakes    Time: 2:40
    • I Hate a Fop that at his Glass  Time: 1:25
    • Would ye have a young Vergin of Fiffteen Years    Time: 1:23
    • Weep all ye Nymphs, your Floods unbind    Time: 1:51
    • A Soldier and a Sailor, a Tinker and a Taylor    Time: 2:05
    • Then Jockey wou'd a Wooing away  Time: 3:18
    • With my Strings of small Wire lo I com    Time: 1:41
    • How vile are the Sordid Intriques of the Town    Time: 1:39
    • Like a Ring without a Finger  Time: 2:26
    • Through the cold shady Woods  Time: 2:35
    • When for Air I take my Mare    Time: 1:54
    • Young Collin, cleaving of a Beam  Time: 1:34
    • One Sunday at St. Jame's Prayers  Time: 1:39
    • There was an old Woman liv'd under a Hill    Time: 2:13
    • Oh! my Panting, panting Heart  Time: 2:25
    • Now listen a while, and I will tell  Time: 4:18
    • Oh Mother, Roger with his Kisses  Time: 1:56
    • Do not rumple my Top-knot  Time: 1:04
    • Come Jug, my Honey, let's to bed    Time: 1:50

Playing time: 69'22"

Performer: The City Waites - Roderick Skeaping, dir.
[Lucie Skeaping (soprano), Richard Wistreich (bass), Roderick Skeaping (violin, bass viol, voice), Mike Brain (recorders, bassoon, harpsichord, voice) Robin Jeffrey (lute, theorbo, cittern, guitar, voice)]

Recording site and date: Valley Recordings, Chipping Manor; April, 1990

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