A radio ballad by Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker
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A Radio Ballad on the building of the first stage of The London-Yorkshire Motorway told by the men who designed and built it and set into song by Ewan MacColl WITH H Isla Cameron, John Clarence, Seamus Ennis, Lou Killen, A. L. Lloyd. Jimmie Macgregor, Francis McPeake, Isabel Sutherland, Cyril Tawney, William V. Thomas John Armitage (drums), Jim Bray (bass), John Chilton (trumpet). Fitzroy Coleman (guitar), Alf Edwards (concertina and ocarina), Francis McPeake (uileann pipes), Bobby Mickleburgh (trombone), Peggy Seeger (banjo and auto harp), Bruce Turner (clarinet)
ORCHESTRATION AND MUSIC DIRECTION, PEGGY SEEGER TECHNICAL DIRECTION UNDER GEOFFREY LEONARD PRODUCTION BY CHARLES PARKER AT 8.0
'SONG OF A ROAD'
by Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker 'We built canals, ice laid the tracks 01 railways here to hell and back, And note tee're going to have a crack At the London-Yorkshire Highway'