What's your favourite Steeleye Span song?

Subject: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 01:27 AM

black leg miner,or maybe dark eye saler, not surew, plenty nice songs there=
anyway, wahts there best cd, i only got 2 and there both compilations.john

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 01:29 AM

female drummer is good as well, plebty good songs, not shure which is best, hard to say.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: LadyJean
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 01:34 AM

Gaudete, or maybe Padstow. I got to hear them do that one the last time they were in town. They were at the Carnegie Music Hall, where the accoustics are wonderful. (Andrew Carnegie brought Lillian Russell in to test them!) Maddie Pryor danced around the hall belting that wonderful song. It was unbelievable.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 01:39 AM

heloo lady jean-did you hear maddy prior sing with june tabor, they make 2 cd's as the silly sisters, i got them both, hey really nice, my favoutritw ones on them is who will play the silver whistle, and, raise your voice and sing out/.
i think they both on different ones, as all my cds is mixeed up, but they both good.,i played them both loads of times, i got all june tanbor solo stuff as well, exept her new one, i deint buy that yet, as i am skint, i will buy it soom, maybe after xmas.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 02:40 AM

They had a Xmas hit a while back with "All Around my Hat". I liked that one.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Big Tim
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 09:45 AM

"King Henry" - mind blowin!

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 10:23 AM

King Henry, The Weary Cutters...oh so many. I hate to say this John but I do not think anyone really spells as badly as you do. It seems like a deliberate ruse to confuse readers. Why? Just an observation.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: ray bucknell
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 11:00 AM

I second the vote for "All Around My Hat!"

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST,James
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 11:03 AM

Best CD..Below The Salt with Parcel of Rogues a close second..I think.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Peace
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 03:36 PM

Sir James, the Rose". It is great. I really love it.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 04:00 PM

Hand weaver is wonderful . Marrowbowns. Low Lands Of Holland. Two Magicians..The spotted cow( first thing I learned on anglo concertina). All things are quite silent( second thing I learned on Anglo) .. Skewball ( Banjo G sus43) Black Leged mined ( banjo G sus4) Please to see the king. General Taylor. Gorer (sp?) Wassail   
                   I would love to hear a Steel Eyed Span cd that was all the original crew without the rock additions. ( I know that misses the point but I still would love to hear them in a realy traditional setting. I loved Matty Pior doing The blacksmith all alone > THat nice early duo record of Matty and Tim was great as was the Silly Sister cd's ( I agree John) .   All the best to all here, Guy

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: DaveA
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 04:23 PM

I saw them live in Melbourne in the early 80s in their folk rock incarnation. "Let Her Go Down" really stopped the show & remains my favourite to this day, followed by "Demon Lover" & "Parcel of Rogues".
Cheers
Dave

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Dave Wynn
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 05:25 PM

Hark the Village Wait. The first and arguably still the best as an album.

Anyone heard Individually Collectively Steeleye Span. A little known album on Mad Hatter label. Someone borrowed mine and I can't find a replacement but it contains songs by the individual members and songs done collectively by Steeleye. Brilliant.!

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Nerd
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 05:39 PM

Their version of Tam Lin is really good; they based the melodies and rhythms on something Bulgarian, having learned that the story has analogues there.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 05:53 PM

Got to be the Weaver and the Factory Maid for me.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Susan of DT
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 06:43 PM

Another vote for King Henry, which I sing frequently. Thirty years ago, a friend said, "Just listen to this, never mind the arrangement." and played me King Henry on Below the Salt. It was the first time I had heard Steeleye. No, I don't like the arrangements, but they have recorded some rare ballads that no one else does.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST,anais
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 06:44 PM

TAM LIN!!!!! the song the changed my life when i was eleven, got me singing while i washed dishes and thinking about where ballads come from. such killer cello in part three and maddy's voice! my vote goes out to the weaver, also maddy's killer version of pirate jenny. her voice and tim hart's blend so nicely together, i am also a big fan of their album together 'summer solstice'.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Cluin
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 07:07 PM

The King

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 07:22 PM

Guest interested in pelling-It would not all fit on, so i took an e, off both words, to make it fit.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST,mp
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 08:04 PM

Sails Of Silver

Let Her Go Down

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 08:11 PM

From: jOhn from Hull
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 07:22 PM

Guest interested in pelling-It would not all fit on, so i took an e, off both words, to make it fit.


Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song? = 40

What's your Favorite Steeleye Span Song? = 40



Doh?

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 08:46 PM

'Padstow' because I love Cornwall.

'Shaking of the Sheets' because I love the Black Joke in the middle. My daughter at the age of 10 could play that really well on her fiddle. She's now 20 and playing/recording with Al Jones of 'Blackfoot Sue' fame. Anyone remember them?

Sal

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: hobbitwoman
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 08:51 PM

I like their version of "All Around My Hat" too, and I also like "Fighting for Strangers". And "Gentleman Soldier".

Annie

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: LadyJean
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 12:19 AM

Silly Sisters 1 is one of my favorite recordings of all time, especially "Silver Whistle".   Silly Sisters 2 is pretty good, but a bit darker.

OH! I have Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band's CDs, they're wonderful.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST,Elfcall
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 03:30 AM

Elfcall of course! - thanks for asking jOhn

Elfcall

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: The DeanMeister
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 03:56 AM

Guest, before you laugh at jOhn, who I happen to know can spell better than most, at least those of us who still speak the Queen's English can spell the word favourite.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: poetlady
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 04:03 AM

I like most Steeleye Span songs and have a good many favourites, which change with my mood. Overall, I think I like The Lowlands of Holland the best.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: John P
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 10:22 AM

This week's list:
Boys of Bedlam
King Henry
Wiltshire Wedding
Sir James the Rose
Rosebud in June
Two Magicians
Fighting For Strangers
The Black Freighter
Dogs and Ferrets
The Blacksmith
My Johnny Was a Shoemaker
When I Was On Horseback
Skewball
Cold, Haily, Windy Night
The King
Rogues in a Nation

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: John P
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 10:24 AM

Favorite albums:
Below the Salt
Parcel of Rogues
Please To See the King
Ten Man Mop

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST,JohnB
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 03:38 PM

I like too many to think about a specific one.
The only album I did not buy was "Rocket Cottage" I thought it was crap at the time. I wish I had bought it now.
Now we are Six, Below the Salt are a couple of favourites.
Picked up a compilation recently with Maddy doing "Twanky Dillo" with just a drum accompanyment absolutely brilliant.
"Somewhere Along the Road" is one of my favourites, although that is just Maddy I think not SES. Rick Kemp did write it though.
JohnB

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: RolyH
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 04:11 PM

Favourite track - Captain Coulston ( from Ten Man Mop)

Favourite novelty track - Rave On ( I had that single for ages before I realised the 'skip' was there on purpose.)

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 07:19 PM

I just thought I'd better say that I had an interesting conversation with Rick Kemp's daughter tonight. Well, one of his daughters.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST,anais
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 08:51 PM

i though rocket cottage would be terrible, but i found it for fifty cents at a yard sale and adore steeleye span so i bought it anyway! much of it is really quite good. still i will stick by hark! the village wait as far as entire albums go.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: red max
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 08:20 AM

The live version of The Wife of Usher's Well on the "Original Masters" album is pretty good

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 12:38 PM

King Henry I think... especially with the verses I added...

:-)

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Big Tim
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 03:55 PM

Wow! Clinton Hammond and I agree on something! Well,since nearly everybody else is defining the singular "favourite" as plural! - I'd like to add "Gamble Gold" and "Wife of Ushers Well".

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Guy Wolff
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 07:05 PM

John P I realy liked your list and you put in lots of songs I was trying to remember . Thanks and our taste buds seem to be related. All the best , Guy

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 11:09 AM

From: jOhn from Hull
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 07:22 PM

Guest interested in pelling-It would not all fit on, so i took an e, off both words, to make it fit.


Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song? = 40

What's your Favorite Steeleye Span Song? = 40

From: The DeanMeister
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 03:56 AM

Guest, before you laugh at jOhn, who I happen to know can spell better than most, at least those of us who still speak the Queen's English can spell the word favourite


DeanMeister - actually either is acceptable in the Oxford/English Dictionary - I presume you are in the UK

N.B. I was not having "a Laugh" at jOhn (sic) simply pointing out the reason he gave didn't make sense - and if, as you say, John can spell better than most - what reason is there for the bad spelling and punctuation in his posts????? effect or effected?

and if the former why make an excuse??????

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Fran
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 11:23 AM

The Song Will Remain

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 12:10 PM

To hell with the Queen's English. "Favourite is a prissy affectation in the USA. Andy

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Matt_R
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 12:27 PM

Alison Gross, of course. That distortion guitar at the end gets me every time. Rick Kemp is god.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST,JTT
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 03:17 AM

Bet Amazon will be baffled as Steeleye Span CDs join hundreds of Wish Lists at the same time!

Guest, you're jeering at prissy affectations when Andy and spelling are obviously not good friends. There are people who can spell and there are people who have given up the fight. Leave the man alone!

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST,Longarm
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 03:26 AM

Why hasn't anyone come up with 'The Pricali(phonectic spelling!)Bush'
The 'Tme' album from which it is off is one of their best.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST,Guest count not spell
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 05:17 AM

Guest GTT ----- Differents Guest ----- confusing ain't it...


not having a go guest


Guest

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: clueless don
Date: 15 Dec 03 - 10:28 AM

Three-way tie:

One Misty, Moisty Morning

All Around My Hat

Dogs and Ferrets

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 09:11 PM

guest-why dony you just get lost, so, i spelled it wrong, so waht, did you never spell anything wrong in your lif?
you are rubbish person, always moaning, blar, blar,m blar
if you was here i would through some orange peel at at you, and domt tell me i spelled orange peel wrong, vecause i;m not really bothred,
if i wanted to know all about spelling, i would have joined a spelling site.john

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 09:13 PM

ps, no wonder nobody likes you, tou moan to much!

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST,Seaking
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 12:27 AM

'Long Lankin' and 'My love'

-and about fifty others..

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST,allen woodpecker
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 07:55 AM

jOhn from hull posts to threads all the time, and his spelling, grammar, punctuation are always uniformly terrible. The thing is, I reckon he's doing a Ronnie Barker. He doesn't have a stutter, but in Open all Hours he did a really convincing one - so jOhn is winding y'all up most righteously. Now there's another John from Hull who can't string a bloody sentence together, and he's Deputy Prime Minister!
So let jOhn from hull get on with it - I reckon he's a comical genius, making fools of everyone who despairs of his written English. Good on you, jOhn - a more convincing impression of a dyslexic you'd never want to see.
p.s. On the subject of the thread, I'd say "All things are quite silent". a.w.

Subject: RE: Wahts your' favourit Stealeye Span song?
From: GUEST,Alsyan
Date: 17 Dec 03 - 04:50 PM

Perhaps jOhn's problem is more with typing and not so much with spelling? And so what, either way?