TREVOR CROZIER'S BROKEN CONSORT LP Scrumpy & Western

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Trevor Crozier's Broken Consort "A Parcel Of Old Crams" LP on UK issue Argo Decca Records # ZFB 80 stereo.... Laminated jacket has seam separations along the top and the bottom, but is easily reglued, original shrinkwrap was still on this, but openned, overall condition is very good plus to near mint, it shines as new! ... The vinyl is MINT, and looks unplayed..Lots more Psych and rare LPs up now - see my other auctions!  I use the strict Goldmine Magazine guidelines for grading records, and most dealers think I rate TOO tough!!! Mailed in a special hard cardboard LP mailer..Sent media rate for $3.00 in the USA, or Priority in the USA for $6.00. For overseas rates, please use the US Postal Service Internet site for rates and restrictions...Most LPs with the mailer weigh about one pound, give or take one ounce...

"A Parcel of Old Crams" - Trevor Crozier's Broken Consort
Side 1: Don't Tell I, Tell 'Ee / Zummer's Evemen Dance / Edi Beo Thu Heven Queene / By Jarge / Who Liveth So Merry / Pudden / Thousands Or More / If The Piddletrenthide Jugband Hit The Charts
Side 2: Dead Dog Scrumpy / Soldiers Three / The Humours Of Earls Court / Ungarescha (A Hungarian Dance) / The West Country Wager / Parson's Farewell and All In A Garden Green (two Playford "Dancing Master" tunes) / Tavistock Goosey Fair / Farewell She

Trevor Crozier - Scrumpy & Western Troubadour

Trevor Crozier was one of those multi-talented and fascinating people with seemingly endless interests that he is almost impossible to categorise. However, his influence on Scrumpy & Western music is undeniable. The fact that he co-wrote one of Scrumpy & Western's greatest classic songs Don't Tell I, Tell 'Ee would be enough justification alone for including him in these pages.

However, his involvement in Scrumpy & Western didn't end there. He recorded a few records which have become classics in the genre and are now much sought after by collectors - see below for further details. But this was just one of his musical interests - he was also at various times during his career involved in such diverse music as skiffle, jug-band music, trad jazz, medieval music and many types of folk music including Irish, English and Breton. Over the years he built up a considerable reputation as a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, singer and entertainer as he performed at pubs, clubs and folk festivals.

Perhaps his diversity of interests owed something to his much-travelled youth - born in Southampton in Hampshire, England, he spent time living in various parts of Africa; Cornwall; Devon; France; London and Ireland (and probably other places).

Trevor was a member of the legendary House Of David Jug Band while at Trinity College Dublin in the 1960s - he was a contemporary there of that other songwriter with Scrumpy & Western connections, Ian Whitcomb. After leaving university he formed the equally legendary Broken Consort, immortalised for their strange amalgam of medieval and Scrumpy & Western music.

When Broken Consort lived up to their name and split up, Trevor (who was then living in Brittany, France) formed the Celtic folk group Lyonesse.

But back to Trevor's Scrumpy & Western credentials! As well as writing arguably one of the greatest songs in the Scrumpy & Western canon Don't Tell I, Tell 'Ee, he penned a few other songs recorded Scrumpy & Western artists including The Wurzels, Adge Cutler and The Yetties. His songs include The Piddletrenthide Jug Band, Dorset Is Beautiful, The Verger, Trouble Over Bridgwater (recorded in a slightly different version by US folk singers Simon & Garfunkel in the early 1970s) and the classic he recorded himself Dead Dog Scrumpy.

Not content with staying in music, Trevor was spotted in a TV documentary having branched out into - of all things - the growing and marketing of loofahs in Africa! Sadly, this true eccentric and unique entertainer met an untimely death in a motorcycle accident in Malawi. As long as scrumpy drinkers gather together to sing Don't Tell I, Tell 'Ee, he will live on, like Adge Cutler before him, in song.  "So if ever you're in Devon and you goes into a bar
Just ask fer Dead Dog Scrumpy - it's the best there is by far.
Refuse all imitations, you'll sleep just like a log -
You can always recognise it by the hair of the dog!"

Trevor Crozier - Dead Dog Scrumpy
The Broken Consort (Trevor&Anne Crozier,Vic Gammon,Roger Bootle,Malcolm Perkins,David Green,Eli Bickerstaffe,Bob Common,"Knuckes"O'Garrick).Primary 3 helped form basis for The Giles Farnaby Dream Band the next year & hung with The Druids,etc!