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29 Apr 06 - 05:00 PM (#1730144) Subject: The first time I heard ... From: GUEST,Tunesmith I can clearly remember the first time I heard certain songs. Back in 1964(?) I attended a folk music concert at the Hope Hall, Liverpool, and at some point in the evening one of the acts sang " Shoals of Herring", and, when the refrain came around, a group of people sitting near me joined in. I thought it was magical. I also remember the first time I heard " Three Score and Ten"; it was in a folk club in St Austil, Cornwall in the summer of 1967. p.s. The Hope Hall later morphed into the Everyman Theatre and presently hosts a weekly folk club run by Hughie ( ex-Spinner ) Jones. |
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29 Apr 06 - 05:37 PM (#1730176) Subject: RE: The first time I heard ... From: Little Robyn June 1967, at the 3rd Wellington Folk Festival (in NZ), a group sang Wild Mountain Thyme, unaccompanied, in multi-part harmony and it was a WOW! moment. In fact, that was when I switched from singing mainly American folk to actively searching for more British unaccompanied songs. Then we discovered the Watersons, the Young Tradition and the rest, as they say, is history. Robyn |
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29 Apr 06 - 06:56 PM (#1730209) Subject: RE: The first time I heard ... From: GUEST,Wesley S I was walking my dog the first time I heard Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix.It was on a tiny transistor radio. Remember those? |
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29 Apr 06 - 08:12 PM (#1730240) Subject: RE: The first time I heard ... From: Deckman It was in 1962, or 1963, or 1964, or 1965. I'm SURE the next posting will correct me. I was sitting in my living room in Felton, California, listening to the radio and reading a book ... in English. I heard some guy singing "Blowing In The Wind." The radio said his name was Bob Dylan. I said to myself: "MYSELF! I don't know who this guy is, but he's sure GOT IT!" Unfortunatly for me, I've always thought that that was his bestest song ever. But, you know .... I'm REALLY olde! CHEERS, Bob(deckman)Nelson |
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29 Apr 06 - 08:57 PM (#1730272) Subject: RE: The first time I heard ... From: Dave (the ancient mariner) 1970 George Harrisons My Sweet Lord on an old shortwave radio in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean... I loved it because at the time I was in love with a girl called Laura; and because of the crappy quality of shortwave thought thats what he was singing My Sweet Laura... ahhhh memories. (Laura was smart enough to marry someone else a few months later) |
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29 Apr 06 - 09:14 PM (#1730277) Subject: RE: The first time I heard ... From: kendall 1946 Buryl Ives singing Leather wing bat. Later, Brennan on the Moore and Henry Martin. I was hooked. Then the Weavers singing Irene goodnight, and On top of old smokey and I was landed. A slave to folk music to this day. |
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29 Apr 06 - 09:19 PM (#1730281) Subject: RE: The first time I heard ... From: Little Hawk Some first time heard songs that blew my mind... Like A Rolling Stone Now That The Buffalo's Gone Blowin' In The Wind (first heard it by PPM) Hey Joe (Hendrix) Hey Jude My Country Tis of thy People You're Dying Piney Wood Hills Clouds Michael From Mountains Gates of Eden Mr Tambourine Man The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Roads To Moscow Love Chronicles Sounds of Silence And that's just scratching the surface... |
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29 Apr 06 - 09:22 PM (#1730283) Subject: RE: The first time I heard ... From: Rapparee Crossing the Mississippi River (on a bridge) and the Clancy's "Brennan On The Moor" came on over WLS (Chicago). Then PP&M and the Kingston Trio and the Chad Mitchell Trio and then a girlfriend introduced me to Paxton and Ochs and I found Buffy and Lightfoot and the rest on my own. Of course, my g'g' aunt and my grandmother always sang things like "Comin' Round the Mountain" and "Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be" -- and I wish now I'd appreciated them then. And the ones in German, like "Du, Du, Liegst Mir in Herzen" as well. |
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29 Apr 06 - 09:22 PM (#1730284) Subject: RE: The first time I heard ... From: Deckman Hey Kendall ... Don't ferget "I gave My Love Cherry!" CHEERS, Bob |
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30 Apr 06 - 09:06 AM (#1730481) Subject: RE: The first time I heard ... From: jacqui.c 1961 - I was 13 going on 14 and the song on the church youth club record player was Ebony Eyes. I've been a fan of the Everley Brothers ever since.... In the early 70's the film 'Play Misty For Me' was on the TV and I really fell for the theme song - 'First Time Ever I Saw Your Face', sung by Roberta Flack. More recently, at the Hertford Folk Club one of our regulars, Pete, would do a version of John O'Dreams that could quieten the room in about ten seconds flat. Wonderful song when well sung! |
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30 Apr 06 - 11:53 AM (#1730547) Subject: RE: The first time I heard ... From: Big Tim 1949, Co. Donegal. My father Barney came cycling up the Hill with a "wireless" tied to the handlebars. My folks got the thing going and somebody was singing "Wonderful Copenhagen". I was three years old and it was the first song that I remember hearing. |
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30 Apr 06 - 12:16 PM (#1730560) Subject: RE: The first time I heard ... From: fat B****rd ....Bob Dylan was in 1964.I was off work, got up in the afternoon and heard (admittedly on Pirate Eadio) a horrible whining noise through all the interference. "That was Bob Dylan with My Back Pages" said the announcer. "Christ" said I "Is that 'im ?" |
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30 Apr 06 - 12:53 PM (#1730583) Subject: RE: The first time I heard ... From: Cats Many years ago, I 'gave up' Folk Music as nothing I heard inspired me any more. I gave up singing, I gave up going to folk clubs. One day I was on the Torpoint Ferry and the navy decided to play boats, which means the ferry stops mid channel to let the ships out. Hot summer day, on the water, waiting and waiting... get the picture. I found under the seat of my 2CV a battered old tape which I had no idea was there. It had one song on it ~ Rod Shearman's 'Big Fella'. After I stopped crying I played it over and over again and decided I was wrong and there was good stuff out there. I had learned it by the time the ferry eventually pulled into Plymouth! The odd thing is, though, that I never found that tape again, I don't know where it had come from nor where it went... needless to say you have Uncle Rod to thank [or not] for me singing again. |
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30 Apr 06 - 07:41 PM (#1730902) Subject: RE: The first time I heard ... From: David C. Carter I was watching a play on the BBC.I think it was called something like-Mad House On Vine Street,can't quite remember exactly.There was this strange guy with a guitar, singing a song about a Swan On The River.Didn't know who it was,but I went to a record store the following week,and there it was;Freewheeling Bob Dylan. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. The Weight. Visions Of Johanna. Pastures Of Plenty. Like A Rolling Stone. Love Minus Zero. Can't recall them all. |
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03 May 06 - 08:41 AM (#1732805) Subject: RE: The first time I heard ... From: Wolfgang I heard 'James Larkin' in a pub in Dingle town I heard 'Farewell to the Rhonddha' in Slattery's in Dublin I heard 'The Holly bears a berry' in the German radio and it was a sound I immediately fell in love with but I didn't get the name of the group. I described the sound to everybody I met and about five years later found the name of the group: Watersons. Some more stories but those songs I still recollect where or when I heard them first mostly are still dear to me. Wolfgang |
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03 May 06 - 12:45 PM (#1732940) Subject: RE: The first time I heard ... From: Barry Finn Us early teens use to hang out on the West Dennis beach on Cape Cod in the summer time, probably around 64 or 65. We'd sing beach boys stuff & two brothers that played guitar would play. Some how the House of the Rising Sun crept in & I was out looking for folk music, ending up at the Newport Folk Festivals a few yrs later. It took another ten yrs before I started more than just singing along though. Barry |