JACK ORION
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Artist: A.L. Lloyd
Author: trad./A.L. Lloyd
Label: Topic
Year: 1966
With Dave Swarbrick on fiddle on lp First Person. Child #67, Roud #145 (also as Glasgerion). Song about a Welsh bard and harper from the 9th century, so legendary he was quoted by Chaucer five centuries later (1380s). The tune was Bert Lloyd's.
Covers:
- 1966:
Bert Jansch [album title track]
- 1968:
Martin Carthy [also with Swarb]
- 1970:
Trees [as Glasgerion]
- 1970:
- 1978:
- 2011:
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- 1958
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- 1958
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- 1960
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- 1961
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- SANTA ANNA
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