perfect renditions

Subject: Review: perfect renditions
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 19 Jul 14 - 11:24 PM

I HAVE A Mental list..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2FHXxAcqhg irish rovers roddy mccorley


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDzPq7os1p8 darcy farrow ian and sylvia darcy farrow

anne byrne croppy boy   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBfsmDi8qZY

cape breton symphony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNr8zarsLUg

there are some other great russian etc. and african i love but don't have time...

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 20 Jul 14 - 07:34 PM

roddy mccorley

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Jul 14 - 08:03 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oius1eEpghU

Russian version of butcher boy..not from a recent translation..they got it from an old Russian woman...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oius1eEpghU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oius1eEpghU

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Jul 14 - 08:04 PM

MacPherson's Rant - Davie Stewart and OH, if they only had "The Merchant's Son & the Beggars Daughter"!

Jeannie Robertson - MacCrimmon's Lament

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Jul 14 - 08:43 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O-11bwa-b0

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 20 Jul 14 - 09:06 PM

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 20 Jul 14 - 09:07 PM

M. Mathieu singing La Marsalleise..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIxOl1EraXA&list=RDSIxOl1EraXA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIxOl1EraXA&list=RDSIxOl1EraXA

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Jul 14 - 09:08 PM

I knew you'd be gobsmacked Mary.

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 21 Jul 14 - 04:52 PM

Bill,
Ian (Jock) Manuel recorded The Merchants Son. In bringing it from Scotland to Hull he didn't realise the original beggar lass was from Hull. Actually it very likely originated in London in the 17thc as The Merchants Son of York and the Beggar Wench of Hull, but at least it mentions Hull.

I read on Mudcat recently that Nic Jones recorded the original ballad.

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Jul 14 - 07:36 PM

ahh.. thanks. But I did mean specifically the recording by Davey Stewart- with accordion on "The Folksongs of Britain" (Peter Kennedy/Alan Lomax), which I have on a Caedmon LP from the 70s. I wish IT were online somewhere.

That rendition just amazed me. "scholars differ"

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: GUEST,eldergirl
Date: 22 Jul 14 - 07:13 AM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBFOntzdEck

Having heard this after the Nic Jones version, sorry to say it beats Nic into a cocked hat..
There's something about Scots female singers.
(no I am not Scots myself)

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: Steve Gardham
Date: 22 Jul 14 - 03:38 PM

I can't think of a single broadside ballad that wasn't knocked into a cocked hat by a later oral version, whether from the 16thc or the 20th.

Jock learnt all of his material pretty much direct from Davy Stewart and Jimmy McBeath. He would have himself bowed to the masters.

Yes, I have Davy's wonderful rendition on Songs of Seduction, side B, track 9.
I adapted Davy's tune when I sang the original for our Yorkshire Garland website recordings at www.yorkshirefolksong.net

Don't bother looking it up. It's not there for entertainment.

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Jul 14 - 03:50 PM

I'm quite happy someone is familiar with and using Davey's basic tune. (Myself, I can't approach that song yet. I can approximate the tune, but it needs a bit more than that. :>)

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 06 Sep 14 - 11:01 PM

another one..Lorna Campbell with Highland Widow's Lament

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFHGUTHsmsQ


click here

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 08:41 AM

Pad the Road Wi Me- Malinky

Fair Flower of Northumberland- Dick Gaughan

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 10:17 AM

That is indeed a fine rendition of "Fair Flower.."

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: Lighter
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 10:22 AM

All renditions on "Jean Redpath's Ballad Book."

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 07 Sep 14 - 05:13 PM

Owen Roe..sung and I believe written by Tommy Makem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWb91E7wotU&list=RDLWb91E7wotU

click here

I am only newly familiar with this song but I love it especially the line about our backs to the sun.

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: GUEST,gillymor
Date: 10 Sep 14 - 08:57 PM

Someday Soon, as close to perfect as any recording I've heard.

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: mg
Date: 07 Sep 15 - 10:49 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh8lbNCM8nE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh8lbNCM8nE

willie archer by silly wizard

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: GUEST,HiLo
Date: 08 Sep 15 - 01:41 AM

Natalie McMaster and Cookie Rankin do a grand version of The Drunken Piper.

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 08 Sep 15 - 05:05 AM

Paul Brady's Lakes of Pontchartrain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad8RVexRUoQ

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Paul Brady & Dolores Keane - Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azg4gqEYNBo

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Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: GUEST,JHW
Date: 08 Sep 15 - 12:10 PM

I've heard many extraordinary renditions

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: mg
Date: 23 Feb 16 - 08:36 PM

some young people dancing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo3gqZg-Tfs

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 24 Feb 16 - 05:36 AM

Roscommon Traveller, Martin McDonagh's version of 'Young Hunting' entitled Lady Margaret - probably one of the most exquisite pieces of ballad singing ever (despite being accompanied by his son chopping wood in the background)
Can't put it up, but available on Tom Munnelly's songs of the Irish Travellers (re-issued by Pavee Point in Dublin a few years ago)
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: mg
Date: 24 Feb 16 - 08:10 PM

corries singing black douglas...don't think i am familiar with this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffo9_hrZcME

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Feb 16 - 08:54 PM

"Die Liebe Farbe."   "Mein Schatz hat's grün so gern..."

This is one of the strophic songs from Die Schöne Müllerin, the cycle of Wilhelm Müller poems set by Franz Schubert. Think classical singers find the strophic songs easy to sing? They're doing it wrong, if they do....strophic songs, sung in or out of "diesen heiligen Hallen" of classical music training, require more attention, not less.

In my perfect-rendition version, the Canadian-UK accompanist Gerald Moore at the piano, and the tenor is a Dane named Axel/Aksel ... darn, I don't know th computer code for this... Schiotz, kind of.

That tenor has a heck of a story. He encouraged the resistance during World War II. Although he sang opera, he was best known for Oratorio and Lieder. Then he suffered mysterious health problems which resulted in the dire diagnosis of a brain tumor. In those primitive days, a brain tumor, located where his was, threatened the nerve which controls the muscles of the jaw and tongue and throat....all they could think to do, in order to save his life and get that tumor excised, was to sever the nerve. And so they did.

That was the end of his public career, he spent the rest of his life teaching. And his jaw never did stop settling sideways below his face.

That backstory makes the sound of his singing that much more haunting. This is an artist who pays attention to every syllable of every word, never mind distinct strophes. I would link if I knew how.

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: keberoxu
Date: 24 Feb 16 - 09:11 PM

Here's the URL anyhow, for Aksel Schiotz and Die Liebe Farbe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hjAcbvgm-s

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: mg
Date: 04 Mar 16 - 05:42 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPCnTIY-t7M ian bruce soldier's return...never heard this song sung...think i got it out of a book once...don't have so many words as him.

Subject: RE: perfect renditions
From: r.padgett
Date: 05 Mar 16 - 01:55 PM

Funny and coincidental that Steve G mentioned Ian (Jock) Manuel as I was listening to the CD of songs recorded not long ago from Hull's Blue Bell Folk Union One 1969 today!

Two tracks by Jock Manuel ~ Lang A~Growing, and The Road to Dundee, these are real traditional songs song with heart feeling and guts ~ and yea maybe not "pretty pretty" keys but my god the man put his life experiences into the performances ~ non of your Jon Boden about these

Ray

I like Jon Boden btw but Folk songs are for folk singers and beware any cross over to country music and pop music