Tag: english folk songs
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“Kingdom Coronation”… A new video ‘celebration’
“Kingdom” 1976. A song from the album by the folk jazz group Dando Shaft. Eight original songs and three trad. arrangements. This song was written just about fifty years ago. Late ’73 through to ’75 Jenks and Coopz were on the road playing pubs and clubs around the UK. They were given the opportunity…
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Martin Carthy – Scarborough Fair (15/11/22)
The art of the Folk Song intro. Martin is a musical treasure. During a trip to Ireland to perform at a TV awards do, Martin and Eliza Carthy performed a few songs at a private, unadvertised gathering for a friend, Dan McDonald. Here is a song – with long introduction – from Martin, from his…
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Quiet Riot “Bigger Bombs”
The only studio recording of the Coventry band Quiet Riot. “the other night”, Thursdays at the Freemasons Tavern. Many great nights. “The Bomb Song” was recorded at Woodworm Studios in 1983. Writen by Dave Cooper it features Dando Shaft members Mart Jenkins, Kev Dempsey and Ted Kay as well as Rob Armstrong, Bub’s White,…
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Folk Songs 1
Price: [MP3 $8.99] (as of – Details) This is the first in a series of four albums recording all 80 of the folk songs in English that Ralph Vaughan Williams arranged for voice and piano or violin. 57 of the 80 songs have not previously been recorded in these arrangements, so there is a good…
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A Midsummer’s Night Dream
Price: (as of – Details) Two CDs. Digitally remastered and expanded edition. Recorded by students at the start of their summer holidays, Oberon’s self-financed, 99-copies-only 1971 album A Midsummer’s Night Dream is one of the rarest, most expensive artefacts to emerge from the primordial soup of the early Seventies British underground scene. More importantly, it…
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Martin Jenkins – Sweet Mother Earth (with help from the boys)
Always here with us. At this time we remember..Our friend Martin Jenkins . Thanks to his loving son Ray Jenkins for this arrangement of “Mother Earth” Beautiful. Source
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Dando Shaft-Cold Wind
From The Dando Shaft Anthology This is for people’s personal enjoyment only. “The six-man Ice Team for The Coldest Journey will be confronting amongst the most inhospitable conditions on the planet, operating in near permanent darkness and enduring temperatures as low as -90°C. Below is an overview of the conditions and terrain they can expect to…
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John Martyn – Small Hours (1978)
John Martyn at Reading University singing Small Hours from ‘One World’ 20/10/1978 “A guy walks out, sits down, and announces, “I’m the warm up band.” We started booing. Then he starts playing through Floyd’s surround sound in an open air stadium. When he’s through we were shouting for more. This guy single-handedly blew a few…
