This is where we have sorted our mp3 collection by approximate date.  If a CD or LP is a compilation, it is placed under the approximate decade.  Our field recordings can be found here and a full list of the recordings on this website is here.

1600s. 

  1. Tavern Songs by The Deller Consort
  2. Catches & Glees of the English Restoration

1700s.  There are several compilations which primarily draw from The Pills to Purge Melancholy.

  1. My Thing is My Own by Hesperus
  2. When Dalliance Was in Flower by Ed McCurdy
  3. Pills to Purge Melancholy by City Waits

1799.  The Merry Muses of Caledonia is the songbook for the Crochallan Fencibles drinking club.

  1. The Merry Muses of Caledonia by Ewan MacColl. This book is the drinking songs of the Crochallan Fencibles. 
  2. Robert Burns' The Merry Muses CD. Various artists.

1940s.  Come On Lads: Canteen Songs of World War Two by the Sod's Opera is a good collection of WWII canteen songs.  Most of these songs were derived from the field work of Kenneth Graham who recorded many WWII veteran's songs.

1950s.  Oscar Brand with his Bawdy Songs and Back Room Ballads LPs had the largest and longest impact on field work with many of his LPs being "de-expurgated".

1960s.  Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts.  The second most important commercially recorded group.  Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts extensively toured the US in the 1960s and played on many campuses.

1970s.  John Valby got his start in the early 1970s singing college drinking songs.  By the early 1980s he was known as "Dr. Dirty" and has done many appearance on Howard Stern.

1990s.  Ron and the Rude Boys.  This outstanding five CD collection was started in 1989 with the last recordings in 1996. Although most were taken from book like Jacksing, Rugger Off and Ed Cray's Bawdy Ballads, others were derived from rugby experience.

2000s.  Gross Songs.  This is an interesting CD containing the rarely recorded "Sam Sam the Lavatory Man", "National Embalming School", "Dead Dog Rover", "Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts", and a rather strange "Happy Birthday" to the tune of "The Volga Boatmen".