The Carrying Stream – 4
Scottish Folk & European Music with Kirsteen McCue, Professor of Scottish Literature & Song Culture at the University of Glasgow
Discussing the history of Scottish folk music & particularly its influence on the birth of modern music – from Beethoven to Bob Dylan
https://pod.link/1865430519/episode/ZThjODAzZjEtODQ1ZS00OWY2LWI5NzItZjI0NjBhNWU2NTBm
Band practice tomorrow, and we'll be having a go at "The pound a week rise."
A great song, though Ed Pickford got one thing wrong, Lord Robens (then head of the NCB) was never a miner.
Here's the legendary Dick Gaughan singing the song.
Robert Burns’s “Ae Fond Kiss” – a lament for partings, & lost loves – is his most recorded song. Here’s a beautiful version performed by Robyn Stapleton, from her album Songs of Robert Burns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax021N4iaFU
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Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae fareweel, and then forever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I’ll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I’ll wage thee…
—Robert Burns
published in SELECTED POEMS & SONGS (OUP, 2013)
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/selected-poems-and-songs-9780199682324
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🎶 Oh Cry away, cry away, cry away.. 🎶
The Manchester Angel - Traditional English Songs by Ewan MacColl With Peggy Seeger, released on Topic Records in 1966.
Sleeve Notes
Ewan MacColl is Britain's foremost singer of folk songs, as properly distinct from 'folksinger' however one understands the term. Many people associate him chiefly with Scottish songs and modem author-made pieces 'in the folk manner', but in fact his skill and the quality of his imagination are particularly apt also for interpreting the traditional songs of the English countryside. The psychological climate of English song is fairly different from that of Scots song, and the feel of modern 'folk-based' compositions is different again; moreover each has its own suiting ways of performance. We have no other singer who can so successfully move from one climate and style to another.
https://theballadeers.com/ewm_1966_t147_manchester.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfkEWR0AKJo&list=OLAK5uy_kwuSuvZUeSXsT0g1OtoJ4KE1_O3uNMjYU
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