CDs and Tapes of the Music of the D-Major Singers

A link to the home page of the D-Major Singers is at end of this page. There is also ordering information at end of page.

2000 Edition CD: Songs of the People of Colonial America

This CD is 73 minutes long and contains 25 songs and ballads.
The "Child" number refers to the ballad collection published in the 1890s by Francis James Child.

§ Welcoming song based on "Green Grow the Rushes"
§ Home Came the Old Man (Child 274) § The Bonnie Lass o'Fyvie-O § Go Tell Aunt Rhody
§ The Butcher Boy § Saw You My Maggie § A Bunch of Thyme § The Prickley Bush (Child 95)
§ The Friar in the Well (Child 276) § Oh, No, John § The Gypsy Davy (Child 200) § Hi Barbaree (Child 285)
§ Eileen Aroon § A Roving § Bonnie George Campbell (Child 210) § Home, Dearie, Home
§ A Jug of Punch § Reynardine § Lord Randal (Child 12) § Minnie Picken § Old Soldiers of the King
§ The Baffled Knight (Child 112) § Rosin, the Beau § Ginny's Gone to Ohio § The Pig

2003 Edition CD: Songs by the Waters of Colonial America

This CD is 80 minutes long and contains 28 songs and ballads.

§ The tree in the wood § In good old colony times § John Hielandman
§ The farmer’s curst wife (Child 278) § Jordan (Watts/Billings)
§ Fare thee well, you sweethearts § Mary Hamilton (Child 173) § The female drummer
§ The man behind the plow § The Liberty Song (Dickinson) § Johnnie has gone for a soldier (Siúil a Ghra)
§ The bonnie wee lassie who never said no § Spanish Ladies § The Creel (Child 281)
§ The fox § Barbara Allen (traditional Appalachian version, Child 84) § Glory be to God on high (Moravian hymn)
§ The cherry tree carol (Child 54) § Hares on the mountains (Child 44) § John Barleycorn
§ The nightingales sing § The Wife of Usher’s Well (Child 79) § Green grows the laruel
§ The Derby Ram § Henry Martin (Child 250) § Dried Apple Pie
§ The two sisters (Child 10) § The mule song

2008 Edition CD: Singing in the Houses of 18th-Century America

This CD is 80 minutes long and contains 28 songs and ballads.

§ Oh Music, Sweet Music (round) § Chester (Billings) § Mattie Groves (Child 81)
§ Early One Morning § Geordie (Child 209) § Our God Our Help in Ages Past (Watts)
§ Barbara Allen (Irish version, Child 84) § A Beggin’ I Will Go § Fear a’Bhàta
§ I Sing the Mighty Power of God (Mozart) § The Outlandish Knight (Child 4) § C’Est L’Aviron
§ Greensleeves § Bailiff’s Daughter of Islington (Child 105) § The Seeds of Love
§ The Mermaid (Haydn) § Drink to me Only with Thine Eyes § The Sow Took the Measles
§ The Trooper and the Maid (Child 299) § Soldier, Soldier, Would you Marry Me? § Perrie, Merrie, Dictum (Child 46a)
§ Nun Danket Alle Gott § The Bonnie Lass of Fenario
§ Ca the Yowes to the Yowes (an earler Irish version, not Robert Burns’ song)
§ Whistle, Daughter, Whistle § Down Among the Dead Men § Working on the New Railroad (Single Girl)
§ Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht (1818 version, two voices and guitar)

“The recording is of crystal clarity by singers with excellent diction and an emotional tie to the music. If you first experience the D-Major Singers live, the recording will replicate the performance experience at home. If your first contact is this compact disc, you will want to hasten to their next performance.”
Randall Gabrielan, Executive Director, Monmouth County (NJ) Historical Commission, reviewing the 2003 disc.

The tapes of the music of the D-Major Singers:

There are four tapes, made in 1991, 1992, 1994, and 1997. Each is one hour long and together they contain 79 songs, ballads, and tunes. Each selection on each tape is chosen as the best of the recordings made at several parties. In some songs, there is audience participation. Each tape includes a four-page description of the songs and their sources, plus discussions of various aspects of old songs and ballads.

Songs on the Tapes.

Volume I: 1991.
§ Punch and Ale (round) § Home Came the Old Man (Child 274) § A Bunch of Thyme § Dried Apple Pie
§ Bar the Door (Child 275) § The Sow Took the Measles § Old Soldiers of the King § Reynardine
§ The Female Drummer § The Pig § A Roving § The Mule (from Packie Manus Byrne)
§ The Creel (Child 281) § The Two Sisters (Child 10) § The Riddle (Child 46a) § John Barleycorn
§ Lord Randal (Child 12) § Oh, No, John § Rosin, the Beau § Working on the New Railroad (Single Girl)
Volume II: 1992.
§ O, Music (round) § Why Shouldn't My Goose (round) § Cambric Shirt (Child 2) § Seeds of Love
§ Farmer's Curst Wife (Child 278) § Jolly Beggarman (Child 279a) § Man Behind the Plow
§ Gypsy Davy (Child 200) § Fare Thee Well, You Sweethearts § Fathom the Bowl § Wanton Seed § Chester
§ Outlandish Knight (Child 4) § Friar in the Well (Child 276) § Girl I Left Behind Me § The Fox
§ Waly, Waly § Yankee Doodle § Bastard King of England
Volume III: 1993-4.
§ Ten Commandments (cumulative song) § Bishop of Canterbury (Child 45) § The Antediluvians
§ Green Grows the Laurel § John Hielandman § The Nightingales Sing § Barbara Allen (Child 84)
§ Oyster Girl § Barley Mow § The Tree in the Wood § Our God, Our Help in Ages Past
§ Knight & Shepherd's Daughter (Child 110) § How Happy the Soldier § Bonnie George Campbell (Child 210)
§ Saw You, My Maggie? § Nutting Girl; § Wooden-Legged Parson § Minnie Picken § Derby Ram
Volume IV: 1995-7.
§ In Good Old Colony Times § Fear a'Bhata (Boatman) § Ca the Yowes to the Knowes
§ Sweet William's Ghost (Child 77) § The Milkmaid § Bonnie Wee Lassie Who Never Said No § Felix the Soldier
§ Edward (Child 13) § The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn § The Prickely Bush (Child 95)
§ Come Sound His Praise Abroad § The Bonnie Lass O'Fyvie-O § The Butcher Boy
§ The Foggy Dew § A Jug of Punch § True Lover John (Child 248) § Polly Vaughan
§ Home, Dearie Home § The Baffled Knight (Child 112) § Old Daddy Fox

Cost: Direct sale, Tapes $5, CD $10 (includes sales tax).

Mail order, tapes: $5 each plus $2.50 shipping for one, $1 additional for each thereafter.
Mail order, CDs: $10 for each CD plus $2.50 shipping for one, $1 additional for each thereafter.

Shipping: Any combination of tapes and CDs: $2.50 for the first, $1 for each thereafter.

Make checks out to "Pete Brady," 844 Church Lane, Middletown NJ, 07748. (732)-671-9249
Inquiries: ptbrady@aol.com (Pete Brady), or at my home address.

D-Major Singers home page.

We hope you will enjoy our recordings! (Revised 28 December 2008)