Singers and songs which stunned me .

Subject: RE: Singers and songs which stunned me .
From: GUEST,LTS pretending to have lunch
Date: 31 Mar 09 - 08:18 AM

Um..... how can I put this....









Mozart's 'Coronation Mass', sung by the Dorchester Choral Society, August bank holiday, 1989. took me 9 days to come down from that high and was worth missing Towersey for. Got me totally hooked on Mozart, and was seconded only by another Mozart moment - singing the 'Requiem' in St Martin-in-the-Field, London with East London Chorus, in 2004.

Can't remember the first folk song, my granfer was always humming tunes, many of which I now recognise as folk songs.

LTS

Subject: RE: Singers and songs which stunned me .
From: jacqui.c
Date: 31 Mar 09 - 07:59 AM

All Around My Hat - Steeleye Span - thirty-five years ago.
Ellen Vannin - The Spinners - thirty-five years ago.
The Bloody Gardener - Martin Carthy - nine years ago.
Miners Lullaby - four years ago.
Oystershell Road - Gordon Bok - three years ago.
The Lockkeeper - Kendall Morse - one year ago.

Subject: RE: Singers and songs which stunned me .
From: Banjiman
Date: 31 Mar 09 - 07:51 AM

4 days ago..... a new (to me) song by The Young'uns I think written by Sean Cooney (Plastic Cod'ead on here) about the bombardment of Hartlepool during WW1 ... from a Childs point of view. Hopefully he'll pop along and tell me what it is called. Simply Stunning!

2 Years ago: Southern Girls Reply (anon) sung by Jeff Warner & collected by his parents. Love it!

3 Years ago: Down In Mississipi (J.B. Lenoir)as sung by Sara Grey. Powerful song and great banjo playing.

Nearly 2 years ago: First time the Mrs sang me "The Visitor". I just knew she had written a great song. Still raises the hairs on the back of my neck.

40 years ago (when I was about 4): Fiddlers Green/ Three Score & Ten as done by The Broadside. Still remember singing them with the rest of the family in the back of my Dad's Morris 1000 Traveller while going (slowly) over the road to Applecross.

I could go on..........

Subject: RE: Singers and songs which stunned me .
From: Will Fly
Date: 31 Mar 09 - 07:49 AM

Kendall, I'm lucky enough to have got a ticket for one of the dates (in July) on Eric Bogle's last UK tour. I first saw him in a country pub (the Laughing Fish) in a village in Sussex (Isfield) in 1982, I think. He sang "The Band played Waltzing Matilda" then - and I'm sure he'll play it when I see him in July - 27 years later!

Subject: RE: Singers and songs which stunned me .
From: kendall
Date: 31 Mar 09 - 07:44 AM

The sun is burning. It's about a nuclear explosion. Powerful message.

...twisted sightless wrecks of men go groping on their knees and cry in pain...(Ian Campbell)


And, of course, The Band played Waltzing Matilda; one of the most powerful songs I have ever heard.(Eric Bogle)

No Man's Land (Eric Bogle) ...for Willy McBride it all happened again, and again, and again and again..

And my favorite poem...home they go up the windy streets; they're thinking their men are homeward bound with anchors hungry for English ground; but the bloody fun of it is, they've all drowned... (The Loch Arcray by John Masefield)

Subject: RE: Singers and songs which stunned me .
From: Kampervan
Date: 31 Mar 09 - 07:43 AM

30 years ago, Young Tradition singing Ratcliffe Highway
40 years ago Messrs Carthy and Swarbrick with Broomfield Hill
15 years ago Rosie Stewart and Moutains of Pomeroy
Quite recently, Bob Fox singing Trimden Grange.

That's what's so fantastic about this music, the greats are not all in the past.

K/van

Subject: RE: Singers and songs which stunned me .
From: The Sandman
Date: 31 Mar 09 - 07:26 AM

Maggie Holland,singing The Death Of Blair Peach.
Nic Jones singing Canadeeio,TheJuke box as she Turned.
Jeannie Robertson singing My Son David.
Lou Killen,Flying Cloud.
Sara Carter singing the golden vanity, RoscoeHolcomb across the rocky mountains
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Subject: RE: Singers and songs which stunned me .
From: Will Fly
Date: 31 Mar 09 - 07:14 AM

Diane - I think you've just solved a 40-year old mystery. All I knew was that he was indeed called Stefan and that he played what was then, to me, this wonderful fingerstyle guitar, and that his singing of the "Golden Vanity" was assured and captivating. I was just 20 at the time, but I can still see him at Leeds University Folk Club - and wishing I had a camera to capture his playing!

Subject: RE: Singers and songs which stunned me .
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 31 Mar 09 - 06:28 AM

I wonder if the "unknown" singer in Leeds was Stefan Sobell?

A truly sparkling moment was hearing a then unknown Jim Moray in a radio interview (c 2003?) singing Early One Morning over a counterpoint of Young Collins. I went to his website to post congratulations and within minutes rather a lot of others had done the same.

Subject: RE: Singers and songs which stunned me .
From: Will Fly
Date: 31 Mar 09 - 06:20 AM

40-odd years ago - the Dransfield brothers in York: "The Rout Of The Blues" and their version of "Scarborough Fair" - and the rest!

40-odd years ago - Davy Graham at the Cousins: "Better Git It In Your Soul" and "Angi" - and the rest!

40-odd years ago - Rev. Gary Davis in Manchester: "Buck Dance" - and the rest!

50 years ago - Big Bill Broonzy in Bristol: "Guitar Shuffle", etc...

40-odd years ago - unknown singer in Leeds: "The Golden Vanity"

40-odd years ago - Dave Swarbrick in Lancaster: "The Cuckoo's Nest"

Subject: RE: Singers and songs which stunned me .
From: The Borchester Echo
Date: 31 Mar 09 - 06:17 AM

At the turning of the century I was a lad of six

This is Old Man's Lament by Ian Campbell.
I'd bracket it with Billy Bragg's Between The Wars.

Subject: Singers and songs which stunned me .
From: Betsy
Date: 31 Mar 09 - 06:10 AM

As a part release from the 1954 definition Thread I thought I would like to recall the Singers and songs which got me going to and kept me going to Folk Clubs.
I emphasise the FIRST time, as some of these songs may have been hammered to death by now
40-odd years ago Vin Garbutt Black Velvet Band
40-odd years ago - Jim Sharp singing " At the turning of the Century .........." It may be called the Old man's song - (writer unknown to me).
30-Odd years ago an unbelievable R.McTell song performed by Dave Burland - Streets of London.
30-Odd years ago Tony Capstick performing Jimmy Clay (writer unknown to me).
Happy formative years for me.
I still remember the pleasure and anarchy of singing the Wild Rover 45 years ago but unfortunately it doesn't arouse the same sentiment these days.
Have you got any to mention ?