With Young People in Mind

by Richard Dyer-Bennett

Overview

Ostensibly this might have been geared toward children, but it's actually for the most part traditional English ballads and American folk songs that were pretty typical of Dyer-Bennet's repertoire. Thus it's a folk album that could be appropriate for either kids (not necessarily real young ones) or adults, sung and performed plainly by Dyer-Bennet on guitar. There are a few selections more suited for children's singing than others, like "The Tailor and the Mouse," a traditional English children's song, "Little Pigs" (with the animal noises common to several children's folk albums, such as those by Pete Seeger), and "The Hole in the Bottom of the Sea." It's dated in its stilted 1950s folk way, but is pleasant, and differentiated from some other similar recordings of the era by the gentle British Isles lilt in Dyer-Bennet's vocals. Could famous British radio DJ John Peel, who changed his name from John Ravenscroft, have gotten the idea from the English fox-hunting song "John Peel," performed here? The album was reissued on CD by Smithsonian Folkways in 2000. ~ Richie Unterberger

Product Details

Release Date:	01/25/2000
Label:	Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
UPC:	0093074505328
Rank:	175648

Tracks

1. Come All Ye
2. Old Bangum
3. Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn
4. Aunt Rhody
5. Froggie Went A-Courtin'
6. John Peel
7. The Leprechaun
8. The Piper of Dundee
9. Bow Down
10. The Tailor and the Mouse
11. I Went Out One Morning in May
12. Green Corn
13. Buckeye Jim
14. Little Pigs
15. Three Craw
16. The Hole in the Bottom of the Sea

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Richard Dyer-Bennett   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

J. Gordon Holt   Engineer
Harvey Cort   Producer,Producer
Randy Kling   Mastering
Peter Seitel   Editorial Assistant
Gordon J. Holt   Engineer
D.A. Sonneborn   Reissue Production Supervisor
Richard Dyer-Bennett   Song Notes
Traditional   Composer
Martin Rosenzweig   Cover Design
SueEllen Lawton   Layout Design,Reissue Design
Clemens Kalischer   Photography
Mary Monseur   Reissue Production Coordination
Carla Borden   Editorial Assistant
Pete Reiniger   Reissue Sound Supervisor
Anthony Seeger   Reissue Production Supervisor