Roberts and Barrand

Roberts and Barrand

Company type	Partnership
Industry	Music
Founded	1969
Founder	John Roberts, Tony Barrand
Defunct	2022
Headquarters	Ithaca, New York , United States
Products	Folk music recordings, live performances
Website	www.goldenhindmusic.com

Roberts and Barrand was a folk music partnership established in 1969 by John Roberts and Tony Barrand while they pursued graduate degrees in psychology at Cornell University. Their musical selections primarily showcased traditional English tunes, especially sea shanties, along with other contemporary and English-language folk songs.

In addition to their duo performances, they were members of the quartet known as Nowell Sing We Clear.

Tony Barrand died on January 29, 2022, aged 76. John Roberts passed away on February 3, 2025, at the age of 80.

Spencer the Rover is Alive and Well... (1971, 2001)

A collection of Traditional English Ballads and Songs

1. "Spencer the Rover"
2. "Creeping Jane"
3. "I Wish They'd do it Now"
4. "Rambleaway"
5. "What a Mouth!"
6. "The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter"
7. "Silicosis"
8. "The Coachman"
9. "The Lincolnshire Poacher"
10. "Warlike Seamen"
11. "Down the Plughole"
12. "Shine Your Buttons with Brasso"
13. "Martin Said to His Man"
14. "Fanny Blair"
15. "So Green as the Leaves"
16. "Babylon is Fallen"
17. "Thyme"

Across the Western Ocean (1973, 2000)

Songs reflecting the North Atlantic sailing packets

1. Introduction
2. "New York Girls"
3. Captain Samuels on his sailors
4. "Blow the Man Down"
5. Impressions from a maiden voyage
6. "The Crayfish"
7. "The Black Cook"
8. "The Limejuice Ship"
9. The wreck of the Staffordshire
10. "The Flying Dutchman"
11. "Get Up Jack, John Sit Down"
12. "The Flying Cloud"
13. Immigration conditions
14. "Heave Away My Johnnies"
15. Hazards of transatlantic romance
16. "Maggie May"
17. "Peter Street"
18. "The Seamen's Hymn"

Mellow With Ale From the Horn (1975)

Track list:

1. "Save Your Money While You're Young"
2. "Staines Morris"
3. "Barbara Allen"
4. "Salt River, Colored Aristocracy"
5. "Oats and Beans and Barley Grows"
6. "Kate and Her Horns"
7. "Come Day, go Day (Glyn Hughes)"
8. "The Albatross"
9. "The Wings of a Goney"
10. "The Handsome Cabin Boy"
11. "File Foot Flirt"
12. "Our Bill"
13. "Albert and the Lion"
14. "Salvation Band"

Dark Ships in the Forest (1977, 1997)

Supernatural ballads featuring Fred Breunig & Steve Woodruff

1. "Oak, Ash, and Thorn"
2. "The Broomfield Wager"
3. "The Wife of Usher's Well"
4. "Tom of Bedlam"
5. "The Dreadful Ghost"
6. "The Foggy Dew"
7. "The Derby Ram"
8. "The Maid on the Shore"
9. "Reynardine"
10. "The False Lady"
11. "Polly Vaughn"
12. "The Two Magicians"

Live at Holsteins! (1983)

Eat Bertha's Mussels album content:

1. "John Barleycorn"
2. "The Man that Waters the Workers' Beer"
3. "Garners Gay"
4. "Three Drunken Maidens"
5. "Congleton Bear"
6. "The Rolling Mills of New Jersey"
7. "Eat Bertha's Mussels"
8. "Boozing"
9. "The Ballad of the Cowpuncher"
10. "Newman's Ale"
11. "The Man at the Nore"
12. "The Barley Mow"

An Evening at the English Music Hall (1984)

Featuring Maggi Pierce, David Jones, Andy Barrand, Louis Killen, and Murray Callahan

Captured live at Troy Music Hall in Troy, New York, during 1974

1. "A Little Bit of Cucumber" (John Roberts)
2. "Don't Have Any More Mrs. Moore!" (Maggi Pierce)
3. "My Old Dutch" (David Jones)
4. "Lily of Laguna" (Andy Barrand)
5. "Sweeney Todd the Barber" (Tony Barrand)
6. "Last Neet" (Louise Killen)
7. "Sam Hall" (David Jones)
8. "When I Take My Morning Promenade" (Murray Callahan)
9. "I'm Shy, Mary Ellen, I'm Shy" (Tony Barrand)
10. "The Old Armchair" (David Jones)

A Present from the Gentlemen (1992)

A diverse collection of traditional English folk tunes

1. "Adieu Sweet Lovely Nancy"
2. "Jackie Munro"
3. "Nine Times a Night"
4. "A Smuggler's Song"
5. "The Three Butchers"
6. "The Painful Plough"
7. "Dog and Gun"
8. "The Draggletail Gypsy/The Princess Royal"
9. "The Outlandish Knight" (Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight)
10. "Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford"
11. "Our Hamlet"
12. "Sam Hall"
13. "The Fellow that Played the Trombone"

Great War Trilogy:

• "The Valley of the Shadow"
• "The Old Barbed Wire"
• "Long, Long Trail"

Naulakha Redux (1997)

A compilation of Rudyard Kipling's songs

1. "Ford o' Kabul River"
2. "Tommy" (Kipling poem)
3. "Sir Richard's Song"
4. "The Land"
5. "Philadelphia"
6. "Cells"
7. "Mandalay"
8. "An Astrologer's Song"
9. "The Ballad of Minepit Shaw"
10. "Song of the Men's Side"
11. "The Liner She's a Lady"
12. "Frankie's Trade"
13. "We Have Fed Our Sea"
14. "A Carol"
15. "Danny Deever"
16. "Follow Me 'Ome"

Heartoutbursts (1998)

English folk songs gathered by Percy Grainger:

1. "Brigg Fair"
2. "Seventeen Come Sunday"
3. "Creeping Jane"
4. "Turpin Hero"
5. "The White Hare"
6. "Rufford Park Poachers"
7. "Lord Bateman" (Young Beichan)
8. "The Gypsy's Wedding Day"
9. "A Fair Maid Walking"
10. "The Lost Lady Found"
11. "Sprig of Thyme"
12. "Riding Down to Portsmouth"
13. "Horkstow Grange"
14. "\"Rainbow\""
15. "William Taylor"
16. "Lord Melbourne"
17. "Lisbon"
18. "Died for Love"

Twiddlum Twaddlum (2003)

Recordings from live performances including:

• "Anchor Song"
• "The Golden Vanity"
• "High Barbary"
• "Jonah and the Grampus"
• "A Pilgrim’s Way"
• "Old Bangum"
• "Who Killed Cock Robin?"
• "Two Foxes"
• "All Through The Ale"
• "The Rawtenstall Annual Fair"
• "Nell"
• "The Nutting Girl"
• "Claudy Banks"
•  "The Week Before Easter"
•  "The Cockerham Devil"
•  Row on

Appearances as featured artists in compilations

• Pleasant and Delightful, Vol 2 – Living Folk (1972)
• Songs and Sounds of the Sea – National Geographic Society (1973)
• Clearwater – Hudson River Sloop Restoration (1974)
• The Audience Pleased – Oberlin College (1976)
• Clearwater II – Hudson River Sloop Restoration (1977)
• Champlain Valley Festival Highlights – Champlain Valley Festival (1990)
• Homeward Bound – Revels (2002)

External links

• Golden Hind Music (official website)