Track Listing

1. I Start Counting - Kirchin, Basil
2. Singing Low - Moore, Barbara Singers
3. Merry Ocarina - Arvay, Pierre
4. Tiffany Glass - Smith, Orriel
5. Folk Guitar - Vasori, Claude
6. Twinkle Twinkle - Casson, Christopher
7. Cuckoo - Birkby, Arthur
8. Spin Spider Spin - Zeitlin, Peggy
9. Winds Of Space - Smith, Orriel
10. Elf - Moore, Barbara Singers
11. Troll - Tilsley, Reg
12. My Mother Said - Casson, Christopher
13. Hey Robin - Moore, Barbara Singers
14. Oh Dear What Can The Matter Be - Casson, Christopher
15. Teddy Bears Picnic - Piggleswick Folk

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33465 in Music
• Released on: 2006-07-03
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

Rather Special Folk
Jonny Trunk just keeps on delivering the goods from the early Wicker Man soundtrack release through to The Clangers music to the Kes score, his own fine recordings and now this wonderful set of sparkling childlike collection of folky oddities. There seems less and less things you can trust in these days but Trunk records ain't gonna let you down.
This collection touches and confuses you like ghosts of your childhood visiting from out of the past. It conjures up days when the sun was too bright to focus, days where raindrops raced each other down living room windows while wishing you could be out playing and tales of brave men and the sweet damsels they loved.
From Basil Kirchin's 'I Start Counting' theme you know you've entered a special place with this collection. The Barbara Moore Singers tracks are especially beautiful their telling of the life and times of Robin Hood 'Hey Robin' being particularly poignant. Reg Tilsley's The Troll may not be many people's idea of folk but is another beauty that would on its own justify buying this.
A really rare and magical compilation.

Great title
Who could resist buying this - what an evocative title. However, in terms of inventing and back-dating a genre, it covers a multitude of songs which all slipped through the cracks, but now sit more or less together as children's music from the 60s and 70s. However, I must warn you discerning fans of acid folk out there (you know who you are by your beards) that this sometimes sounds a bit like all those easy listening comps (inflight entertainment, this is easy - remember when library music and old theme tunes reigned the reissue and compliation movement, before those beards got out of control?). However, there are lots of nice moments that "strange adults", as the liner notes put it, will find to enjoy. I love the song about the "pretty little maiden, singing low" and the one about "looking through Tiffany glass". However, I'm afraid to say that I don't want to hear the Teddy Bears Picnic or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, however it is performed, and these versions hardly transform them. Maybe they remembered that children were also part of the target audience. However, even my angelic and beautiful little nieces might find it hard to sit through "I Start Counting" which is surely for the adults only. So a great idea, and some choice cuts (dare I say it, for your ipod) but perhaps there just isn't really a very deep mine of fuzzy felt folk after all. Perhaps the clangers and bagpus cds are fuzzy felt folk?

By the way, i gave it 4 stars as it looks like the other reviewer misrated their review. How generous I am!

antique songs for children's carousels
You've looked up Fuzzy Felt Folk on Amazon; you're gonna love it then.
This has been my favourite of various attempts at the spooky folk compilation.
That the magic-childhood-weirdness angle is the identified credo makes for a better realised album.
For me, that's what all of them have been about - from Votel's Folk is not a four letter word, to Stanley's Gather in the mushrooms etc.
Most all have been pretty good - but this one towers.
This one's got an extra dimension.
I Start Counting, Singing Low, Tiffany Glass, The Elf, The Troll... are all carried along, not just by kid-scaring folk, but by a bobbing easy/loungey vibe. Think: a touch of Johnny Harris's session bass-player, and a twist of all-British tv interlude music.

It's right up my street - let's hope it's UP YOURS

Just off to order as much Basil Kirchin as I can.