LORD BATEMAN
Created on 20/10/2002Latest update on 02/09/2024
Artist: Joseph Taylor
Author: traditional
Label: Gramophone
Year: 1908
Percy Grainger wax cylinder recording in 1906 in Brigg, Lincolnshire (released in 1908). Reissued on Leader LP Unto Brigg Fair in 1972 (see also Brigg Fair and Died For Love). Cecil Sharp scored a version in Somerset in 1905.
Covers:
- 1908:
Mr. Thomson [also from Lincolnshire, also recorded by Percy Grainger and saved up for that same Leader LP; he picked up the ballad's storyline where Joseph Taylor's version ended]
- 1951:
- 1954:
Thomas Moran & Jeannie Robertson [Seamus Ennis recording coupled with a Peter Kennedy recording on Rounder cd Classic Ballads Of Britain And Ireland Vol 1 in The Alan Lomax Collection (2000)]
- 1955:
Charlotte Higgins [as Susie Pirate (Lord Bateman)]
- 1955:
Isabel Sutherland [who'd recorded Charlotte Higgins]
- 1956:
- 1960:
- 1963:
- 1967:
John Reilly [as Lord Baker; reissued on Voice Of The People series Vol 17]
- 1968:
DK Wilgus & Tom Munnelly [on The Bonny Green Tree, a collection of John Reilly songs]
- 1971:
Sandy Denny [outtake The North Star Grassman And The Ravens]
- 1972:
- 1973:
- 1974:
- 1975:
Campbell MacLean [as Young Belcham]
- 1977:
June Tabor [John Peel session]
- 1983:
Planxty [as Lord Baker; vocal: Christy Moore]
- 2000:
Susan McKeown [idem]
- 2002:
Sinéad O'Connor [idem; 12 minute version with Christy Moore]
- 2007:
Storyline of this ballad is supposed to trace the saga of crusader Gilbert Beket and his Arabian bride, the parents of St. Thomas à Becket (1300s). Child ballad 53, Roud folksong index #40.
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