Song Of A Road - A Radio Ballad About The Building Of The M1 Motorway.

Tracklist

1	Introduction	2:18
2	We Usually Finish The Shift In The Pub...	1:05
3	I Think It's The Soil...	2:49
4	We Are The Consulting Engineers...	4:08
5	We Were In A Great Rush When We Did This...	1:51
6	My Name Is...	1:34
7	During That Time A Survey Had Been Made...	1:29
8	It Would Take Quite A Lot Of Men To Do The Work Of Those Machines...	1:41
9	Come All You Gallant Drivers...	5:01
10	I'm A Roving Rambler...	1:09
11	Deep And Straight And Low...	4:01
12	Sixty Tons Of Steel...	4:43
13	What Made You Come Into This Game?...	6:57
14	Just A Road...	2:46
15	Oh Well, That's Just The Way It Is...	3:41
16	When The Muck Has All Been Shifted...	1:46
17	Bring Up Your Black Squad...	3:56
18	Been On The Road So Long...	1:43
19	You Can Talk About Your Concrete...	3:06
20	The Motorway Is On The Final Lap...	1:25
21	We Needed A Way Cut Through The Land...	3:13

Credits

• Banjo, Autoharp, Orchestrated By, Musical Assistance [Musical Director] – Peggy Seeger
• Bass – Jim Bray
• Clarinet – Bruce Turner
• Concertina, Ocarina – Alf Edwards
• Drums – John Armitage
• Guitar – Fitzroy Coleman
• Script By, Recorded By [Actuality Recording], Producer – Charles Parker
• Songwriter, Vocals, Script By, Recorded By [Actuality Recording] – Ewan MacColl
• Trombone – Bobby Mickleburgh
• Trumpet – John Chilton
• Vocals – Cyril Tawney, Isabel Sutherland, Isla Cameron, Jimmie MacGregor, John Clarence, Louis Killen*, William V. Thomas
• Vocals – A. L. Lloyd, Seamus Ennis
• Vocals, Bagpipes [Uilleann Pipes] – Francis McPeake

Notes

First transmitted on the BBC Home Service 5th of November 1959.
Comes with a 20 page booklet of notes on this and the other 7 radio ballads originally broadcast by the BBC between July 1958 and April 1964.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 7 1482208022 4