The Chas McDevitt Skiffle Group - Featuring Nancy Whiskey and Shirley Douglas [CD]

Cat. no: JASMCD2779
Format: CD
Barcode: 604988277920
Release Date: 04 Aug 2023
Genre: Easy Listening / Pop

Chas McDevitt's Skife Group joined forces with Scottish Folk singer Nancy Whiskey in January 1957 to record 'Freight Train', a record which went on to become one of Skife's biggest hits, making the UK Top 5 and the US Top 40

It sold well over a million copies, winning Skife a second Gold disc (at that stage, only Lonnie D's 'Rock Island Line' had gone Gold). Although they only chalked up one other UK chart entry, 'Green Back Dollar', Chas's Group laid down a memorable body of recorded work, which has been in demand among collectors over the subsequent decades.

This compilation pulls together everything they recorded between 1956 and 1959, including "The Intoxicating Miss Whiskey" LP, plus sides recorded with Shirley Douglas following Nancy's departure.

The seven bonus track 'rarities' include two singles they recorded under a pseudonym, plus a trio of Nancy Whiskey solo sides.

Tracks: Freight Train / Cotton Song / It Takes A Worried Man (To Sing A Worried Song) / The House Of The Rising Sun (New Orleans) / Green Back Dollar / I'm Satisfed / Face In The Rain / Sporting Life / Poor Howard / The Fireman's Not For Me / The Riddle Song / Bad Man Stack-O-Lee Version 1 / Farewell / Every Day Of The Week / My Old Man / Sing, Sing, Sing / Johnny- O / Bad Man Stack- O- Lee Version 2 / Across The Bridge / Deep Down / Real Love / Juke Box Jumble / Teenage Letter / Sad Little Girl / The Cranes Skife Group - Don't You Rock Me Daddy- O / The Cranes Skife Group - Banana Boat Song / The Cranes Skife Group - Freight Train / The Cranes Skife Group - Cumberland Gap / Nancy Whiskey - He's Solid Gone / Nancy Whiskey - Ella Speed / Nancy Whiskey - The Old Grey Goose

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