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What's your favourite Maddy Prior song?

17 Jul 12 - 08:51 AM (#3377629)
Subject: What's your favourite Maddy Prior song?
From: GUEST,Claire M (Permanant GUEST!)

What's your favourite Maddy Prior song??

Hiya,

…..... as in anything that's not with Steeleye Span?

Mine's 'Fabled Hare'. Heard it when I was very little and nothing could convince me that I couldn't become a hare if I sang it, or that she couldn't – because she sang "I shall ….", I didn't realise she wasn't singing about herself.

...(Y)_
...('-.-)
.o(")(") 

I eventually made the connection that the woman singing that song was the same one on Dad's tape – that eventually went wrong from being overplayed.


I'm still a bit mystical now. What's your favourite ??


17 Jul 12 - 09:04 AM (#3377638)
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Maddy Prior song?
From: GUEST,HiLo

Very hard to choose m but I think it would be Lass of Loch Royal from the Silly Sisters Album.


17 Jul 12 - 09:14 AM (#3377641)
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Maddy Prior song?
From: MGM·Lion

Why not with Steeleye Span? She was always good but IMO did her best work with them. Handweaver & Factory Maid, with two other songs interpolated, e.g.; with that wonderful final sequence of three Maddys singing "When I was a weaver" in harmony.

~Michael~


17 Jul 12 - 09:32 AM (#3377646)
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Maddy Prior song?
From: Will Fly

I loved her singing on "Hark The Village Wait" (Steeleye Span) - particularly "All Things Are Quite Silent".


17 Jul 12 - 11:08 AM (#3377716)
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Maddy Prior song?
From: GUEST,Treacle Bolly

Non-Steeleye: Her voice chimes like the purest bells on the track "Allelujah" on the "Going for Glory" album. Also love "The Sovereign Prince" on "Changing Winds".

Steeleye: Combining with Gay Woods on songs on "Hark the Village Wait", but too many to choose from !


17 Jul 12 - 11:45 AM (#3377733)
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Maddy Prior song?
From: DebC

I have a tie between "Marigolds" and "Bewcastle".

Debra


17 Jul 12 - 01:19 PM (#3377810)
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Maddy Prior song?
From: Georgiansilver

Me too for Marigold... but also this..... Somewhere along the Road   OK so it's with Steeleye Span... so what?


17 Jul 12 - 01:21 PM (#3377813)
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Maddy Prior song?
From: Acorn4

"Long Shadows" is also good. Think it might be the first one she wrote.


17 Jul 12 - 01:46 PM (#3377831)
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Maddy Prior song?
From: GUEST,tony Rath aka Tonyteach

Many favourites - one which and a friend sing is When I was On Horseback


17 Jul 12 - 02:24 PM (#3377856)
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Maddy Prior song?
From: GUEST,kenny

"Lord Gregory" - from "Silly Sisters" - but that's a difficult choice from so many possibilities.


17 Jul 12 - 03:03 PM (#3377884)
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Maddy Prior song?
From: Reinhard

"Marigold" followed by "Harvest Home" in the season's cyle on Year.


17 Jul 12 - 03:47 PM (#3377900)
Subject: RE: What's your favourite Maddy Prior song?
From: Georgiansilver

Marigold/Harvest Home