- Oscar Brand
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- God Bless The Bastard King Time: 2:32
- The Woodpecker's Hole Time: 1:55
- None Is Bigger Than Mine Time: 1:04
- Maryanne Mccarty Time: 2:00
- Hi Ho Kafoozalum Time: 1:57
- De Ye Ken John Peel Time: 2:25
- The Finest Fucking Family Time: 1:34
- My Name It Is Sam Hall Time: 2:30
- The Hairs On Her Dicky Dido Time: 2:05
- Frigging In The Rigging Time: 2:28
- The One-eyed Riley Time: 1:52
- All About Turds Time: 1:57
- The Ball Of Kerriemuir Time: 3:37
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Selections:
Side 1
1. God Bless the Bastard King 3:16
2. The Woodpecker's Hole 2:35
3. None is Bigger Than Mine 1:20
4. Maryanne McCarty 2:40
5. Hi Ho Kafoozalum 2:33
6. Do Ye Ken John Peel 3:14
7. The Finest Fucking Family 1:58
Side 2
8. My Name It Is Sam Hall 3:21
9. The Hairs on Her Dicky Dido 2:51
10. Frigging in the Rigging 3:21
11. The One-Eyed Riley 2:27
12. All About Turds 2:38
13. The Ball of Kerriemuir 5:02
Copyright: Gypsy Hill Music (BMI)
Arrangements by Oscar Brand and The Fabulous Road Apples
This is my 55th LP but this one was recorded with a feeling of marvelous abandon and liberation. Why, after all the funny children's albums, historical albums, laughing and crying albums, religious albums, and political albums was this such a wonderfully special experience? Because I was finally free.
The songs have been free for hundreds of years, despite
interdictions and bluenosed proscriptions, visited upon the singers for centuries. The songs were
free, the
singers were not. The authorities hanged the singers, tortured the singers,
even put
them before Congressional committees. When I recorded my Bawdy Songs series
years
ago, I was requested very determinedly to perform some delicate operations
before
they could be made available to the public. To my shame I became a secret
abortionist.
But that was yesterday.
Today, I give you the songs as they were sung by thousands of citizens as simple as you and I, or as distinguished as Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. The songs are as traditional as "Silent Night" or "Yankee Doodle". They're as American as the British drinking song from which was made "The Star Spangled Banner". And they deserve your attention—for they are not antiques despite their age and pedigree. They are as young as today and as free in heart as the people who sang them, whispered them, and conveyed them through the centuries as part of our American heritage. It is true that for the most part they are products of male chauvinism and an environment more primitive than our own, but I no longer have the stomach to alter these gems to suit some censor.
THESE ARE THE REAL BAWDY SONGS-ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES!
OSCAR BRAND.
The Fabulous Road Apples
Jaguar Jack Moon — piano
Guido Pascanti — guitar, flute
Ronald MacDonald — saxophones, flute, clarinet, bagpipes
Leo the Bop — harmonica, vibes
Horace De Bussy Walnut III — bass
Mendel Krutz — drums
Produced by Sneakers and the Duke.
Oscar Brand and the Fabulous Road Apples are under the personal management of Lew Linet — New York.