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Thread #102313   Message #2071983
Posted By: GUEST
09-Jun-07 - 03:34 AM
Thread Name: Walter Pardon - which song first?
Subject: RE: Walter Pardon - which song first?
Perhaps you might like to try Walter's own favourites:
"J C - If you had the choice Walter… if somebody said to you one night they were going to ask you to sing say half-a-dozen or a dozen songs even, of all your songs, what would be the choice, can you think offhand what you would choose to sing?
W P - The Pretty Ploughboy would be one, that's one; Rambling Blade would be another one, The Rambling Blade would be two, Van Diemen's Land three, Let The Wind Blow High or Low, that'd be four, Broomfield Hill, that's five, Trees They Do Grow High, six, that'd be six".
The songs of 'Powder' were, according to him, "not folk songs" and not worth bothering about.
Walter was a superb singer, far better than most of the revival singers I have heard; with a repertoire of well over 100 traditional songs.
Go on - take a chance - 'Horses' is probably the best CD readily available
Jim Carroll