I have been sorting out my old collection of vinyl records, ready for digitization and came across one which I believe is quite rare. The album was produced in 1971 by Traditional Sound Recordings of Macclesfield, titled, “The Parting Glass” by Jon Rennard a Leeds based folk artist of some talent, who was killed that year. The album, his last, being a salute to Jon’s life, so tragically shortened by a car crash. The record came to me via my ex-wife who was a great fan of him, in fact I did wonder if there was a bit more to it than that, but as she, sadly died of cancer, earlier this year I shall never know; it was an area we did not visit, it being before I met her. I recall folk evenings being very popular in the late sixties early seventies, and the album was taken from live recordings at Bate Hall Folk Club, Macclesfield in November 1970.
I would like to know more of Jon Rennard and if anyone has a copy of his first album, “Brimbledown Fair”, please let me know.
Tags: Jon Rennard, Leeds Folk Singer
Hi, I saw your posts on the Jon Rennard thread on mudcat. I knew both John and Marsh and I have both LPs, The Parting Glass and Brimbledon Fair. If you have read the whole thread you will see that a copy of Brimbledon Fair was sold on ebay for £31 plus postage in 2007. At about that time someone was also asking on ebay for a copy of that LP.
Jean
I also have copies of the obituary notices and some of the press reports of the accident if they would be of any use to you.
Jean
Thanks for the info Jean, I’ll reply by email to you.