Most beautiful song ever written?

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: kendall
Date: 31 Aug 11 - 07:44 AM

Don't know. Never heard him sing it.

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: GUEST,HughM
Date: 31 Aug 11 - 08:04 AM

An Ataireachd Ard
Cearcall a'Chuain
Fear a'Bha\ta
Coshieville

(and I'm not even Scottish!)

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: GUEST,Nick E
Date: 31 Aug 11 - 08:28 PM

Fear a'Bha\ta is a heart breaker, I relay love Stan Rogers 45 Years, not so much the tune but the genuine sentiment.

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: Songwronger
Date: 18 Dec 11 - 06:31 PM

Been hearing some beautiful songs lately (Christmas carols). I forget from year to year how beautiful some of them are. Amazing pieces of work.

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: kendall
Date: 18 Dec 11 - 08:56 PM

Barney Fife couldn't carry a note with a co signer.

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 19 Dec 11 - 03:24 PM

The Flower Duet by Delibes
Bess You Is My Woman, Now by Gershwin
Just One More Day sung by Otis Redding

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 19 Dec 11 - 04:32 PM

'Til the Following Night by Screaming Lord Sutch!!

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: Arkie
Date: 19 Dec 11 - 04:41 PM

One thing I love about threads like this, is all the great suggestions and the material to build a list of music that I must hear.

I do not think the following have been added yet:


The Song of the Wandering Aengus
Cornflower Blue
Palace Grand
Star of the County Down
Loch Tay Boat Song
Plasir d'Amour
Si Bheag Si Mhor
The Water is Wide

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: GUEST,Captain Swing
Date: 19 Dec 11 - 06:13 PM

The Land O' The Leal

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Dec 11 - 07:50 PM

I'm going add another vote for Martina McBride's "From the Ashes" written by my buddy, Austin Cunningham...

B~

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: GUEST,Peter Trout
Date: 20 Dec 11 - 02:21 PM

"God only knows" Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys

Peter

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: Commander Crabbe
Date: 20 Dec 11 - 08:07 PM

As beauty rests in the eye (or ears) of the beholder (listener), there must be many beautiful songs.

I can go with Elmore on "Do you think that I do not Know"

I can also suggest "Pe In Eirinn I" as sung by Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh

Pe in Eirinn I

Merry Christmas

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: mrdux
Date: 21 Dec 11 - 01:11 AM

a few more for you:

Joseph Canteloube's setting of "Baïlèro (Chant de bergers de Haute-Auvergne)"

Au bord de l'eau, and Après un rêve -- Gabriel Fauré

À Chloris -- Reynaldo Hahn

My Ain Countrie -- Jean Redpath

The Nearness of You -- Hoagy Carmichael

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: freda underhill
Date: 21 Dec 11 - 07:55 AM

Anything by Sean Keane

and if I'm not mistaken, here's Alison introducing hi m in this one..

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: freda underhill
Date: 21 Dec 11 - 08:29 AM

Here is an exquisite song by John Warner,
Newell highway, sung by Nancy Kerr

An Australian choir, Ecopella, singsa some very beautiful songs about the environment including All the wild wonders. Ecopella is conducted by Miguel Heatwole, an Australian singer and composer who is also a member of Triantan, a trio who sing Scottish and Irish songs in Gaelic and English.

The most intensely beautiful version of "last Farewell to Stirling" is sung by Anthony Woolcott of triantan, you will never hear a more beautiful rendition.


freda

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: glueman
Date: 21 Dec 11 - 08:38 AM

Is my team still ploughing? Butterworth
Wood Street, Judy Hauff
Spem in alium, Tallis

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: freda underhill
Date: 21 Dec 11 - 08:53 AM

Here's another John Warner one,
Anderson's Coast

and here's contender - James and Nancy singing jez lowe's the Bergen

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: Neil D
Date: 21 Dec 11 - 11:58 PM

I don't know how to pick just one as the most beautiful. In the realms of classical and religious music there are hundreds of contenders. Even in the narrower field of Christmas music there are many beautiful melodies. I can't think of a more beautiful tune than "Gaudete". At the other end of the spectrum, and this may seem counterintuitive, I think Tom Waits has written some intensely beautiful songs. In spite of his ravished voice and reputation for gritty retrospectives on the seedier side of life, on repeated listening songs like "Innocent When You Dream", "Time" and "Jersey Girl" are just striking. Such a wide spectrum of beautiful songs is why I say it is impossible to chose just one.

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: GUEST,solstice boy
Date: 22 Dec 11 - 12:14 AM

you lot intellectualise to much..


"Most beautiful song ever written" ???

it's the song that most affected your emotions when you were a raw inexperienced unspoilt by the horrible grown up world child..


in my case..

"Ring of Bright Water"..

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 22 Dec 11 - 03:44 AM

In my case its 'Who can fart the loudest?'

I intend to write the song next week. This mighty work will be an audience participation piece,geared to live performance and terrifically loud smelly farts - when evrybodys been eating sprouts over the Holy Festival.

When I unleash beauty of this song on the world, the earth will probably split open, the four horsemen of the apocalypse gallop out, and then gallop back in - when the smell hits them.

Just thought, I'd better warn you in advance.....

Subject: RE: Most beautiful song ever written?
From: GUEST,solstice boy
Date: 22 Dec 11 - 03:57 AM

Big Al..

if you can fart "Ring of Bright Water"...?????


[and there's over 40 years of childhood dreams loaded in that song..]