If it ain't Baroque...

Let's start the week off with a dose of Elizabethan bawdy songs, courtesy of Ed McCurdy, Erik Darling, and Alan Arkin and entitled "When Dalliance Was in Flower (and Maidens Lost Their Heads)". This 1956 disc is volume one of what became a three-disc series. This, and the succeeding volumes, were based on 'Songs of Wit and Mirth' or 'Pills to Purge Melancholy' edited by Thomas D'Urfey and printed in London in 1719, and set to music by McCurdy.

When Dalliance Was in Flower (and Maidens Lost Their Heads)-Side One
1. Go Bring Me A Lass
2. The Trooper
3. A Young Man and a Maid
4. A Wanton Trick
5. There Was a Knight
6. Two Maidens Went Milking One Day
7. A Lusty Young Smith
8. Tom and Doll

When Dalliance Was in Flower (and Maidens Lost Their Heads)-Side Two
1. A Riddle
2. A Maiden Did A-Bathing Go
3. The Jolly Tinker
4. Old Fumbler
5. The Three Travelers
6. Kitt Hath Lost Her Key
7. To A Lady
8. The Four Able Physicians
9. Sylvia The Fair

This is the cover for the disc that I have - it is the second version of the album:


This is the original cover: