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Because It's There
''Because It's There'' is an album by Martin Carthy, released in 1979. It was re-issued by Topic Records on CD in 1995. Track listing All songs "Traditional; arranged by Martin Carthy" unless noted otherwise. The Roud number refers to the Roud index of folk songs number and the Child number is from the Child Ballad numbering. # "Nothing Rhymed" (Gilbert O'Sullivan) – 2:10 # "May Song" (Roud 305) – 2:49 # "Swaggering Boney" (instrumental) – 2:46 # "Lord Randall" (Rou10 Child 12) – 4:16 # " Long John, Old John and Jackie North" (Roud 3100, Child 251) – 6:05 # "Jolly Tinker" (Roud 863)– 3:01 # " Lovely Joan" (Roud 592)– 3:14 # "Three Cripples" (Roud 2422)– 3:06 # "Siege of Delhi" (instrumental) – 4:18 # "Nothing Rhymed" (reprise) (Gilbert O'Sullivan) – 1:18 # " Death of Young Andrew" (Roud 6740, Child 48) – 8:37 Personnel *Martin Carthy – vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin (6), electric guitar (7) * John Kirkpatrick – accordion (1,7,8,10), concertina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Carthy
Martin Carthy MBE (born 21 May 1941) is an English folk singer and guitarist who has remained one of the most influential figures in British traditional music, inspiring contemporaries such as Bob Dylan and Paul Simon, and later artists such as Richard Thompson, since he emerged as a young musician in the early days of the folk revival in the UK during the 1960s and 1970s. Early life He was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England, and grew up in Hampstead, North West London. His mother was an active socialist and his father, from a family of Thames lightermen, went to grammar school and became a trade unionist and a councillor for Stepney at the age of 21. Martin's father had played fiddle and guitar as a young man but Martin was unaware of this connection to his folk music heritage until much later in life. His vocal and musical training began when he became a chorister at the Queen's Chapel of The Savoy. He picked up his father's old guitar for the first time after hearing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lang Johnny More
Lang Johnny More is a traditional ballad and folk song, also known as Lang Johnnie More, Lang Johnnie Muir or other variants. It is Child ballad number 251 (Roud 3100). Synopsis The song concerns a member of a clan of Scottish giants, one of whom, the Johnnie of the title, goes to visit London and falls in love with the king's daughter. The king subdues Johnnie by giving him drops of laudanum and imprisoning him. However Johnnie manages to send a small boy as a messenger back to his relatives in Scotland and two of them come down to London to set Johnnie free. One of them succeeds in bypassing the city gates by punching a hole in the wall and after this feat they are able to find and free their relative unopposed. Their heroic visage and dire threats of retribution convince the king to allow Johnnie to marry his daughter and all of them then go back to Scotland. Versions * Battlefield Band Battlefield Band were a Scottish traditional music group. Founded in Glasgow in 1969, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 Albums
Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ''Chiquitita'' to commemorate the event. ** The United States and the People's Republic of China establish full diplomatic relations. ** Following a deal agreed during 1978, French carmaker Peugeot completes a takeover of American manufacturer Chrysler's European operations, which are based in Britain's former Rootes Group factories, as well as the former Simca factories in France. * January 7 – Cambodian–Vietnamese War: The People's Army of Vietnam and Vietnamese-backed Cambodian insurgents announce the fall of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and the collapse of the Pol Pot regime. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge retreat west to an area along the Thai border, ending large-scale fighting. * January 8 – Whiddy Island Disaster: The Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brass Monkey (band)
Brass Monkey are an English folk band from the 1980s, who reunited in the late 1990s. They were innovative in their use of a brass section which was atypical for English folk music. The band originally consisted of Martin Carthy (vocals, guitar, mandolin), John Kirkpatrick (vocals, accordion, concertina), Howard Evans (trumpet), Roger Williams (trombone), Martin Brinsford (harmonica, percussion, saxophone). Carthy was a well established musician at their formation, having been a member of Steeleye Span and The Watersons, as well as leading a successful solo career. Kirkpatrick had also played with Steeleye Span for a time, and worked with Carthy in the Albion Country Band. The two formed an occasional trio with Evans after all three appeared on Carthy's albums ''Because It's There'' (1979) and '' Out of the Cut'' (1982). Brass Monkey was formed with the addition of Williams and Brinsford after initially being billed as The Martin Carthy Band. In 1984, after recording their fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keith Morris (photographer)
Keith Morris (15 August 1938 – 17 June 2005) was an English rock photographer. Morris was responsible for several iconic images of Marc Bolan. He photographed musical figures including Led Zeppelin, Van der Graaf Generator, Janis Joplin, Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson, The Albion Band, B. B. King, Jimi Hendrix, John Cale, Fred Astaire and album covers such as ''Pictures at an Exhibition'' by ELP. With the new wave of the late 1970s, Morris also photographed The Damned, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Nick Lowe, The Kursaal Flyers and Dr. Feelgood. Career Morris was born in Wandsworth, south west London in 1938 and he studied photography at the Guildford School of Art. He was inaccurately known in the music industry as the only professional to have photographed Nick Drake before his death in 1974. An exhibition of his Drake photographs was exhibited in 2004 at the Redfern's Music Picture Gallery in west London. Morris said: "Although I knew Nick on and off for ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Rowland (drummer)
Bruce Rowland (22 May 1941 – 29 June 2015) was an English rock drummer best known for his memberships of The Grease Band and folk rock band Fairport Convention. He was also a prolific session musician. Early career Rowland was born at Park Royal, Middlesex, on 22 May 1941. In 1968, he played drums on the Wynder K. Frog album "''Out of the Frying Pan''", and in 1969 joined The Grease Band, who were then Joe Cocker's backing band. He played for Cocker's performance at the Woodstock Festival, on Cocker's second album, ''Joe Cocker!'', and on the UK top ten hit single "Delta Lady". In 1970, Cocker and the Grease Band parted company, and Rowland stayed with the latter for their albums ''The Grease Band'' (1971) and ''Amazing Grease''. During this period, Rowland also played session for Shawn Phillips, Andy Mackay, Jackie Lomax, Gallagher and Lyle, and others, also contributing drums to the original recording of ''Jesus Christ Superstar''. He spent some time with Ronnie Lane's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Evans (musician)
Howard Evans (29 February 1944 in Chard, Somerset – 17 March 2006), was a British trumpeter. Having played in the band of the Welsh Guards and the London Symphony Orchestra, Evans moved into theatre work. He was a member of the line-up of the Albion Band which played for 'Larkrise' at the National Theatre. As a result of this, he was recruited as a member of the newly formed Home Service. Along with John Kirkpatrick, Evans played on Martin Carthy's albums ''Because It's There'' (1979) and ''Out of the Cut'' (1982) and toured with Carthy and Kirkpatrick sporadically during 1982 and 1983 in a line-up which, with the addition of Martin Brinsford and Roger Williams Roger Williams (21 September 1603between 27 January and 15 March 1683) was an English-born New England Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation ..., later became Brass Monkey. In 1965 he married Jacqueline Allen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kirkpatrick (musician)
John Michael Kirkpatrick (born 8 August 1947) is an English player of free reed instruments. In London John Kirkpatrick was born in Chiswick, London, England. As a child he sang in the choir and played piano. In 1959, he joined the Hammersmith Morris Men, in the second week of their existence, beginning a career-long love of folk music. In 1970, he became a regular at a folk club in the Roebuck pub in Tottenham Court Road and led the resident group, Dingle's Chillybom Band. The club hosted a film show of Morris dancing and Ashley Hutchings turned up. It was the beginning of a long musical relationship. In 1972 he teamed up with Ashley and others on the album ''Morris On''. In 1972, Kirkpatrick recorded his first solo album ''Jump at the Sun'' which included Richard Thompson on acoustic guitar. In Shropshire In 1973, Kirkpatrick moved to Shropshire and married Sue Harris. After seeing a dance team called Gloucestershire Old Spot Morris Dancers, he formed Shropshire Bedlam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Andrew
"Young Andrew" is a folk song catalogued as Child ballad 48. Synopsis Andrew seduces Helen and tells her he will fulfill his promise to marry her only if she brings him her father's gold. She does. He robs her not only of it but all her clothing. She goes home, naked. Her father is furious. Her heart breaks, killing her, and her father regrets it. Meanwhile, Andrew encountered a wolf in the woods, and it killed him; the gold still lies by his body. Variants This ballad contains motifs from both "Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight" (Child 4) and " The Fair Flower of Northumberland" (Child 9). This tale is found in German, Polish, and Danish variants.Francis James Child, ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'', v 1, p 432, Dover Publications, New York 1965 See also *List of the Child Ballads The Child Ballads is the colloquial name given to a collection of 305 ballads collected in the 19th century by Francis James Child Francis James Child (February 1, 1825 – Septemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovely Joan
Lovely Joan is a traditional England, English folk song/ballad (Roud Folk Song Index, Roud #592), and the tune to which it is sung. Its melody was used as the counterpoint tune used in British composer Ralph Greaves's arrangement of ''Fantasia on "Greensleeves"'' from Ralph Vaughan Williams's opera ''Sir John in Love''.'' Lyrics The words to "Lovely Joan," as printed in ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'', are as follows: :A fine young man it was indeed, :He was mounted on his milk-white steed; :He rode, he rode himself all alone, :Until he came to lovely Joan. :"Good morning to you, pretty maid." :And, "Twice good morning, sir", she said. :He gave her a wink, she rolled her eye. :Says he to himself, "I'll be there by and by." :"Oh don't you think those pooks of hay :A pretty place for us to play? :So come with me like a sweet young thing :And I'll give you my golden ring." :Then he pulled off his ring of gold. :"My pretty little miss, do this behold. :I'd freely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Child Ballad
The Child Ballads are 305 traditional ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, anthologized by Francis James Child during the second half of the 19th century. Their lyrics and Child's studies of them were published as ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads''. The tunes of most of the ballads were collected and published by Bertrand Harris Bronson in and around the 1960s. History Age and source of the ballads The ballads vary in age; for instance, the manuscript of "Judas" dates to the thirteenth century and a version of " A Gest of Robyn Hode" was printed in the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. The majority of the ballads, however, date to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although some are claimed to have very ancient influences, only a handful can be definitively traced to before 1600. Moreover, few of the tunes collected are as old as the words. Nevertheless, Child's collection was far more comprehensive than any previous col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverside Studios
Riverside Studios is an arts centre on the banks of the River Thames in Hammersmith, London, England. The venue plays host to contemporary performance, film, visual art exhibitions and television production. Having closed for redevelopment in September 2014, Riverside Studios reopened in August 2019 with one of the first television broadcasts from Studio 1 being Channel 4's UK election coverage. Film studio In 1933, a former Victorian iron foundry on Crisp Road, London, was bought by Triumph Films and converted into a relatively compact film studio with two stages and a dubbing theatre. In 1935 the studios were taken over by Julius Hagen (then owner of Twickenham Studios) with the idea of using Riverside as an overflow for making quota quickies. However, by 1937 his company had gone into liquidation. Between 1937 and 1946, the studios were owned by Jack Buchanan and produced such films as ''We'll Meet Again'' (1943) with Vera Lynn and ''The Seventh Veil'' (1945) with James Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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