1. MARY'S MALTEASER to the tune COASTLINE REEL. Alan Davies

The dance was composed for Mary Allitt on the occasion of her birthday,
at the request of members of the Walsall and Lichfield Clubs, on February 2, 1997 at the Coastline Hotel in Malta .

Brian usually composes at the piano in the front room of his home in Thornton Hough.
On this occasion, however, he was in Malta as musician for Alan Davies
and the composition went straight onto a piece of Hotel notepaper in the Hotel bedroom.

2. GLENTON PARK . Jan Dale.

Tom and Winifred Cook's newly built house is in Glenton Park . An arrangement in typical Cracknels style.

3. SMOKE RINGS. Tom Cook.

We've all given it up, but Brian leads this dream of the
Caterpillar puffing Smoke Rings in Walt Disney's “ Alice in Wonderland”.

4. SLEEPING IN THE ATTICK to the tune PENRUDDOCK. Philippe Callens.

Written on August 15 th 1996 for Hilde Dewaelheyns and Luc Vermeiren
after they had turned their attic into a bedroom for Philippe. Revised early December 1996.

Inspiration for the dance came from Philippe's trip to Amsterdam , and Fried de Metz Herman's “The First Lady”.

Penruddock is a village that Brian visited near Keswick in the Lake District .

5. HEIBRAND. Tom Cook.

Heibrand is the name of a house to the North East of Antwerp, Belgium,
where the Anglo-American Dance Service held their Autumn Dance Weekend in November 1995
at which Brian was musician.

6. ROWEN to the tune SHIMMERING WATERS. Jan Dale.

Brian's accordions lead the strings in this retrospective. Rowen is a small village in the Conwy Valley , North Wales ,
where Jan and John Dale dance.

Shimmering Waters was inspired by the lakes (Llyns) Crafnant and Geirionydd, above the Conwy valley.

7. HACKINS HEY to the tunes WALTON'S MOUNTAIN & JOHN BOY. Tom Cook.

Hackins Hey is a street in Liverpool .

Brian never missed an Episode of the TV Serial “The Waltons”.
So he wrote Walton's Mountain. John Boy was written especially for this publication as an alternative tune.
Having exactly the same chord sequence as Walton's Mountain,
John Boy can be played at the same time, as a Counter!

8. THE PRINTER'S MEASURES to the tune THE WEIND. Peter André.

The violins of Graham and David lead with occasional comments from Brian.
Dedicated by Peter to Margaret Morris and Marion Loveman.

Whilst discussing the new dance with his friend Brian Wedgbury,
Peter was looking for a title for this dedication to the two Margarets, the two ‘Ms'.
Brian immediately pointed out that an ‘EM' is a measurement in the printing trade, for spacing material.

A Weind is a winding, vehicular free passageway and a road name near Thornton Hough.

9. LOBELIA 1. Tom Cook.

Lobelia is a small herbaceous plant with blue, scarlet, white or purple flowers.
This is the first of two arrangements of Lobelia, the dances requiring different tempos and feels.
Both Tom Cook and Jan Dale composed a dance to the tune Lobelia, unbeknown to each other.
Both dances had their debut on the same day.

10. REVERIE. Tom Cook.

Wordsworth's “Daffodils” inspired this tune.

‘For oft when on my couch I lie, In vacant or in pensive mood', ……..

11. ANOTHER ENID 'S WHIRLAROUND. Alan Davies.

The tune was composed overnight and over a bottle of sherry whilst Alan was staying with Brian,
immediately prior to the 1996 Neston “Day of Dance” at which both dance and tune were premiered.

12. THE OCTAGON to the tune DALEGARTH. Charles Bolton.

The Octagon was so named because the Roundabouters Folk Dance Club,
one of Charles' local groups in Stevenage , meet in an eight-sided hall.

Dalegarth is the Eastern terminus of the Ravenglass & Eskdale Narrow Gauge railway, in the Lake District .

13. LOBELIA TWO. Jan Dale.

(See 'Lobelia 1' above)

14. THE NEW ARRIVAL. Tom Cook.

Brian wrote this to celebrate the arrival of his first Grand-daughter, Fiona.

15. JANUARY GIRL or HERE'S HARRIET. Tom Cook.

The Title celebrates the birth of Brian's second Grand-daughter in January 1995.

16. NESTON FORTY-FIED. Graham Jones.

The Dance was composed by Graham for the 40 th Anniversary of Neston Folk Dance Group
and Brian dedicated the music to Dorothy Jones, the Group's Secretary for forty years.