Harry Cox

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Harry Fred Cox (27 March 1885 - 6 May 1971), was a Norfolk farmworker and one of the most important singers of traditional English music of the twentieth century, on account of his large repertoire and fine singing style.

Roy Palmer's article in the Roy Palmer (2004). "‘Cox, Harry Fred (1885-1971)’". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (1). Oxford University Press. Retrieved on 2006-03-22. concludes:

He is admired for the breadth and variety of his repertory, some 140 items ranging from rough bawdry to high balladry, but above all for his technique, based, according to the BBC producer Francis Dillon, on ‘a carefully placed decoration, a beautifully judged phrasing, an exact control of highly complex rhythm and a singing tone which requires no accompaniment’

[edit] Discography

Solo albums

Folk Songs - England (1956)
Harry Cox - English Folk Singer (1965)
Harry Cox Sings English Love Songs (1965)
The Barley Straw (1975)
Traditional English Love Songs

Compilations.

Seventeen Come Sunday (1975)
What Will Become of England? (2000)
The Bonny Labouring Boy: Traditional Songs and Tunes From a Norfolk Farm Worker (2000)

Anthologies.