Brand,Oscar Roll Your Leg Over: Bawdy Songs & Backroom Ballads CD

Songwriter, author, song collector, disc jockey, talent scout, and folk singer - these are just some of the many musical hats that the late Oscar Brand wore during a career that began in the 1940s and ended only with his death, at the age of 96, in 2016. During that long career, Oscar recorded prolifically - particularly in the 1950s and 1960s - when he cut almost 100 albums in total, including as many as ten volumes of the "Bawdy Songs" that make up this new 2CD set from Jasmine. These were incredibly popular and, for their time, incredibly risqu?, full of the double entendre and frequent explicit language that you didn't hear in popular music of the day. In this collection you will hear the first four volumes complete, as originally released between approximately 1955 and 1958. If popularity dictates, there is more than enough repertoire for a second similar collection. The popular 1960s huge selling UK "Rugby Songs" albums were based entirely on Oscar's concept and included many of the same songs, incidentally. None of these albums have ever been issued on CD before, and all have been out of print on vinyl for decades. Their reappearance on Jasmine after many years of semi-obscurity will delight all who may have come across them in their youth, and - more importantly - restores to catalogue historically important material by one of America's true national treasures.

1. Roll Your Leg Over (Version 1) 2. No Hips at All 3. One Eyed Reilly 4. Blow the Candle Out 5. Sam Hall 6. Limericks 7. The Chandler's Wife 8. Her Name Was Lil 9. Bell Bottom Trousers 10. The Sergeant 11. Old Joe Clark 12. Around Her Neck She Wore a Yellow Ribbon 13. Four Nights Drunk (A.K.A Our Goodman) 14. The Fireship (A.K.A. the Rakish Kind) 15. Rollin Down the Mountain 16. Zulaika 17. The Winnipeg Whore 18. Chris Colombo 19. Ball O'Yarn 20. Squire of Great Renown 21. A Gob Is a Slob 22. (More) Limericks 23. Erie Canal 24. Crusher Bailey 25. It's the Same the Whole World Over 26. The Hermit 27. The Foggy Foggy Dew 28. Derby Ram 29. Black Eyed Susie 30. Seven Old Ladies Locked in a Lavatory 31. We Go to College 32. The Jolly Tinker 33. Bella 34. Cats on the Rooftops 35. Humoresque 36. Ring Dang Doo 37. Roll Your Leg Over (Version 2) 38. Three Prominent Bastards 39. Red Wing 40. The Ball of Ballynoor 41. She'll Do It Again 42. Kafoozalem 43. The Bastard King of England 44. Cindy 45. Tom Bolynn 46. Plymouth Town 47. Two Maidens 48. Basket of Oysters 49. Green Grow the Rushes 50. The Cuckoo's Nest 51. Sweet Violets 52. How the Money Rolls in 53. I Used to Work in Chicago 54. The Old Sea Chest 55. The Wayward Boy 56. Don't Call Me 57. Roll Me Over in the Clover