Title: A World Of Our Own - The UK & Irish Folk Explosion Of 1965 / Various
Artist: World of Our Own: Uk & Irish Folk Explosion of 65
Label: Strawberry
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5013929435933
Genre: Folk
Release Date: 2026-05-01
Number of Discs: 3
Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM - IMPORT

Three disc set highlighting the UK folk explosion of 1965. Featuring 86 tracks by the key UK scene setters and a host of American visitors. The emergence of Bob Dylan in the few years previous to 1965 sent shockwaves through the UK folk scene with his impact immediate and felt far and wide but by 1965 UK folkies were developing their own thing. There were those that looked back to the folk tradition but brought it up to date so as to be more in line with contemporary tastes, such as The Ian Campbell Folk Group, Shirley Collins, Dominic Behan, The Dubliners, Martin Carthy, and The Watersons, among others. By this time pop music had also succumbed to the folk influence as can be evidenced by singles released by the likes of Donovan, The Seekers, Chad And Jeremy, Unit Four Plus Two, Peter And Gordon, and many others. 1965 was also the year when female folk singers came to the fore in the UK with Julie Felix becoming massively popular. Crowned "Britain's First Lady of Folk", Felix became the first folk artist to sell out the Albert Hall and also become the first pop artist to perform at Westminster Abbey. Marianne Faithfull released folk material in May 1965 and Vashti Bunyan's debut single also arrived that month. That year we also saw key releases by artists whose work would provide the bridge from folk to rock. Davy Graham was a brilliant guitarist who fused traditional folk music with a variety of wide-ranging influences, creating something new and vital. Bert Jansch was another trailblazing guitar-player whose idiosyncratic style was absorbed by many that followed. Both artists' work would be massively influential on the likes of The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, and many others. Although the UK was making it's own way there was still some US involvement as can be evidenced by visiting artists who recorded here, such as Paul Simon, Jackson C. Frank, and Jesse Fuller. There are also plenty of covers of US songs included here with the likes of Dorris Henderson, Dave Helling, The Malcolm Price Trio, Patrick Small, Dedicated Man's Jugband, and more, all sourcing material from America.

Tracks:
1.1 Shirley Collins ; Davy Graham - Reynardine
1.2 Jon Mark - Baby I Got a Long Way to Go
1.3 The Southland Trio - Once I Had a Sweetheart
1.4 Bert Weedon - Colour Him Folky
1.5 Hedy West - the Wife of Usher's Well
1.6 The Malcolm Price Trio -The Long Black Veil
1.7 Alex Campbell - the Night Visiting Song
1.8 David H. Lee - the Road That Carries Me Home
1.9 The Ian Campbell Folk Group - Geordie Black
1.10 Harry Boardman - Hard Times
1.11 The Freewheelers - Why Do You Treat Me Like a Fool
1.12 Maureen Craik - Bonny at Morn
1.13 New Faces - So Small
1.14 Bert Jansch - Needle of Death
1.15 Louis Killen - the Bramble Briar the Wedgwoods - Peace
1.16 The Seekers - a World of Our Own
1.17 Judi Smith - Leaves Come Tumbling Down
1.18 Dave Helling - It Ain't Me Babe
1.19 Chad ; Jeremy - Donna, Three City Four - Sally
1.20 Free and Easy Hamilton Folk 4 - Ballad of
1.21 A Teenage Queen Dominic Behan - Master McGrath
1.22 Davy Graham - Maajun (A Taste of Tangier)
1.23 Jesse Fuller - Move on Down the Line
1.24 The Dubliners - McAlpine's Fusiliers
1.25 The McKinleys - Give Him My Love
1.26 The Nightshift - the Lavender Tree
2.1 Marianne Faithfull - the Most of What Is Least
2.2 Unit Four Plus Two - Wild Is the Wind
2.3 Fred Wedlock - Franklin
2.4 Dorris Henderson with John Renbourn - the Leaves Are Green
2.5 Patrick Small - Man of Constant Sorrow
2.6 The Gentle Folk - That's My Song
2.7 Lyn and Graham McCarthy -Seven Doves
2.8 Glenfolk 4 - My Singing Bird
2.9 Bob ; Carole Pegg - Ballad of the Five Continents
2.10 Anne Mavius- She Moves Through the Fair
2.11 Dave Sless - Pretty Polly
2.12 Barbara Ann - Black Is the
2.13 Colour of My True Love's Hair
2.14 Harvey Andrews - Harvest of Hate
2.15 Bev ; Richard Dewar -Fare Thee Well
2.16 Greta Ann - Children's Song
2.17 Spike Woods - the Quiet Beast
2.18 Alan Klein - It Ain't Worth the Lonely Road Back
2.19 The Slade Brothers - Love and Comfort
2.20 The Levee Breakers - Wild About My Loving
2.21 Peter and Gordon - I Told You So
2.22 Craig - Ain't That a Shame (Dark Blues)
2.23 Paul Simon - the Sound of Silence
2.24 Trisha - the Darkness of My Night
2.25 Donovan - Universal Soldier
2.26 Jennifer Lewis ; Angela
2.27 Strange - Bring It to Me
2.28 Lonnie Donegan-Farewell
2.29 Leonore Drewery - the First Time Ever
2.30 The Green Ginger Three -Oh Miss Mary
2.31 Dedicated Men's Jugband -Boodle-Am-Shake
3.1 Nico - I'm Not Sayin'
3.2 Crofters - Pill Ferry
3.3 The Southern Folk Four -The Travelling People
3.4 Vashti Bunyan - I Want to Be Alone
3.5 Sandy ; Jeanie - Honey Babe Blues
3.6 Martin Carthy -Scarborough Fair
3.7 Paul Evans - Across the Hills
3.8 Julie Felix - Someday Soon
3.9 The Ludlows - the Last Thing on My Mind
3.10 Josh MacRae - Baron James McPhait
3.11 Steve Benbow - the Gallows Pole
3.12 The Overlanders - Room
3.13 Enough for You and Me Micha - the Serpent
3.14 Dana Gillespie - You're a Heartbreak Man
3.15 Mick Softley - I'm So Confused
3.16 The Settlers - Woman Called Freedom
3.17 The Watersons - Hal-An-Tow
3.18 Ramblers Two - Mountains and the Sea
3.19 Tommy Yates - Long Time Gone
3.20 Bob Davenport ; the Rakes - the Hexamshire Lass
3.21 The Karlins - Who Would?
3.22 Jackson C. Frank - Blues Run the Game
3.23 Corrie Folk Trio and Paddie Bell - I Saw Three Ships
3.24 Justin Hayward - London Is Behind Me
3.25 Gordeanna McCulloch -The Dowie Dens O' Yarrow
3.26 The Chantelles - Weeping Willow
3.27 The Exiles - Tae the Beggin'
3.28 Vernon Haddock's Jubilee Lovelies - Stealin'
3.29 Benny Hill - What a World