Frankie Armstrong

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The Bird in the Bush 02:57 Tools
The Crafty Maid's Policy 02:15 Tools
The Old Man from over the Sea 02:51 Tools
Lady Margaret 01:56 Tools
The Maid On The Shore 04:07 Tools
The Well Below The Valley (Child 21) 03:30 Tools
Lovely On The Water 02:17 Tools
Tam Lin 09:54 Tools
The Wife Of Usher's Well (Child 79) 06:11 Tools
Tarry Trousers 01:47 Tools
The Young Girl Cut Down In Her Prime 03:25 Tools
The Cruel Mother 04:30 Tools
The Green Valley 02:18 Tools
Low Down In The Broom 02:04 Tools
The Brown Girl 03:02 Tools
The Unquiet Grave 03:17 Tools
The Saucy Sailor 02:43 Tools
The Two Sisters 04:55 Tools
Maid On The Shore 04:09 Tools
Encouragement 03:10 Tools
My Personal Revenge 02:18 Tools
Cattle Call 01:42 Tools
The Frog And The Mouse 02:29 Tools
The Lover's Ghost (Child 248) 05:05 Tools
Millworker 03:10 Tools
The Poet, the Wife & the Monkey 05:05 Tools
Taken by Surprise 02:58 Tools
New Boots 02:19 Tools
Hares On The Mountain (Child 44) 01:32 Tools
William Taylor 05:45 Tools
The Pitmen's Union 03:13 Tools
Little Duke Arthur's Nurse 03:27 Tools
Lady Diamond 04:19 Tools
The Cuckoo 03:07 Tools
Idumea 01:55 Tools
Nothing Between Us Now 04:11 Tools
The Devil And The Farmer's Wife 04:19 Tools
Here's The Tender Coming 01:08 Tools
I Don't Want Your Red, Red Roses 02:30 Tools
Kemp Owen 06:28 Tools
The Month of January 03:51 Tools
Young Orphy 09:07 Tools
Lament for the Hull Trawlers 03:58 Tools
The Broomfield Hill (Child 43) 02:36 Tools
Three Drunken Maidens 01:41 Tools
The Sailor Laddie 01:35 Tools
Liberty For The Sailors 01:19 Tools
Jordan 03:10 Tools
Fair Lizzie (Child 51) 03:10 Tools
The Proud Girl (Child 68) 03:51 Tools
Come Geordie, Hold the Bairn 02:36 Tools
The Nightingale 03:24 Tools
The Whore's Lament 01:54 Tools
The Sailor Boy 02:40 Tools
John Blunt (Child 275) 01:08 Tools
My Daughter, My Son 02:57 Tools
The Frog & the Mouse 02:31 Tools
Demon Lover 05:18 Tools
Prince Heathen 01:08 Tools
Jack the Lad 03:10 Tools
Barbara Allen 05:37 Tools
Young Orphy (Child 19) 09:07 Tools
Clerk Colven (Child 42) 01:08 Tools
Mack the Knife 03:25 Tools
The Collier Lass 03:04 Tools
The Female Drummer 05:13 Tools
Anti Carol 03:41 Tools
Lady Diamond (Child 269) 05:26 Tools
Mr. Fox 04:06 Tools
Lily - Bonus Track 04:06 Tools
The Mouse's Song 02:15 Tools
To The Begging 02:51 Tools
Fair Annie 08:24 Tools
Small Change 05:13 Tools
Mr Fox 02:51 Tools
Green Groweth The Holly 03:04 Tools
Thomas Of Welshbury 03:45 Tools
Lord Bateman 04:25 Tools
Child Waters (Child 63) 11:15 Tools
Parting 03:34 Tools
The Ride 04:24 Tools
The Ballad of Erica Levine 03:38 Tools
I'm Gonna Be an Engineer 04:28 Tools
The May Morning Dew 03:29 Tools
Leap Year 03:35 Tools
The Laird O' Drum 04:54 Tools
The Female Transport 04:25 Tools
Too Much Of A Good Thing 04:25 Tools
The Bedmaking 03:34 Tools
The False Lover Won Back 03:34 Tools
The Voice That Lives Inside You 03:17 Tools
Anti-Carol 04:28 Tools
Madelaine 04:28 Tools
Thou Man Of Grief 02:05 Tools
Little Musgrave 06:04 Tools
To My Countrymen/Proletarian Lullaby 03:34 Tools
Holy Thursday 02:05 Tools
Madeleine 11:19 Tools
Polly Garter's Song 06:04 Tools
Nine Times a Night 04:28 Tools
The Poet, The Wife And The Monkey 05:06 Tools
Doors to My Mind 04:28 Tools
Bridget and the Pill 02:05 Tools
Banks of Green Willow 02:05 Tools
Little Mugrave 06:09 Tools
Stuffed Peppers (Humpin') 02:32 Tools
Effects Of Love 03:29 Tools
The Ballad Of Erica Livine 05:06 Tools
Hares On The Mountain - Child 44 01:33 Tools
Pirate Jenny 04:05 Tools
The Garden Of Love / All That Is Different 05:31 Tools
Clerk Colven - Child 42 11:19 Tools
Lily 11:19 Tools
The Well Below The Valley - Child 21 03:32 Tools
The Proud Girl - Child 68 03:32 Tools
Song Of The Moldau 11:19 Tools
Lily (Bonus Track) 11:19 Tools
Child Waters - Child 63 11:19 Tools
The Song Of The Little Wind 02:06 Tools
The Love Market 02:42 Tools
Humpin' (AKA Stuffed Peppers) 04:05 Tools
Young Orphy - Child 19 04:05 Tools
Fair Lizzie - Child 51 04:05 Tools
Clerk Colven (feat. John Kirkpatrick) - Child 42 04:05 Tools
The Broomfield Hill - Child 43 04:22 Tools
Lady Diamond - Child 269 04:22 Tools
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Frankie Armstrong (born January 13, 1941 in Workington, Cumbria, England) is a singer and voice teacher. She moved to Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire as a young child. She began singing in a group with her brother singing Elvis Presley and Little Richard numbers, and in 1957 joined the Stort Valley Skiffle Group which a few years later changed its name to the Ceilidh Singers as its repertoire moved towards folk music. The group founded the Hoddesdon Folk Club. In 1963 she began working with Louis Killen and performing solo, then in 1964 she joined The Critics Group under Ewan MacColl, Peggy Seeger. In 1965 sang at the Edinburgh Festival "Poets In Public", with John Betjeman, Stevie Smith and Ted Hughes. Her first recording, in 1965, was at the invitation of Bert Lloyd who as director of Topic Records was putting together a recording of erotic songs with Anne Briggs, released as The Bird in the Bush. In the mid-1970s Armstrong pioneered workshops based on traditional styles of singing. But she also was a member of the Feminist Improvising Group (FIG), co-founded in 1977 by vocalist Maggie Nicols, bassoonist Lindsay Cooper, keybordist Cathy Williams, cellist and bassist Georgina Born and trumpeter Corinne Liensol and collaborated within the accomplished FIG after 1978 also with free jazz pianist (and partly percussion playing) Irène Schweizer, saxophonist (and film maker) Sally Potter, trombonist and violist Annemarie Roelofs, flutist and saxophonist Angèle Veltmeijer and saxophonist and guitarist Françoise Dupety. She worked as a singer in the folk scene and the women's movement, and she was a trainer in social and youth work. Involved with folk and political songs starting in the 1950s, she has also performed and/or recorded with, amongst others, Blowzabella, the Mike Westbrook Band, Henry Cow, Ken Hyder's Talisker, John Kirkpatrick, Brian Pearson, Leon Rosselson, Dave Van Ronk and Maddy Prior. She is ALIVE and still teaching. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.