Songs with Your Hometown in the Title .....

liverpool annie · Jun 21, 2009

( Or the closest town will do !! ) ........... I'll start off .......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBoyhRvMWOc&feature=related

liverpool annie · Jun 21, 2009

Sorry ... I have to add this one !!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mwPuardvZU&feature=related

Jerome · Jun 27, 2009

was that Cilla Black?

liverpool annie · Jul 2, 2009

Yes it was !!

morten · Jul 6, 2009

No, surely that was really sung by Priscilla White??? Finding a suitable song is easy for some people but others are going to have to dig a bit deeper. I don't suppose Annie will allow me "Gollum's Forbidden Pool Song" from Lord of The Rings but what about the theme tune from the "Henry Poole is Here" Soundtrack? No? Ok then - here's my entry- " Mu Kaeed Sinu Poole " by Maarja. It's a really catchy Estonian number. I just can't stop humming it!

liverpool annie · Jul 6, 2009

I understand your dilemma Morten ...... but maybe you could hum this instead !!!!!!!

Three Dorset Songs - Vaughn Williams

Ralph (pronounced "Rafe") Vaughan Williams was born in Gloucestershire in 1872, and was arguably the greatest British composer of the 20th century.
A champion of British cultural heritage in his own way, he died at the age of 85 in 1958, and his ashes are fittingly interred in Westminster Abbey.
Vaughan Williams received his training from Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford, both composers influenced by Brahms. Early Vaughan Williams works have their moments of Brahms and sometimes Wagner, but it is also very original, due to Vaughan Williams' interest in English folksong (he was a major collector). His original pieces and arrangements of British folksongs and hymn tunes are some of the most songful and durable in the English language.

Vaughan Williams influences are diverse. Stravinsky, Brahms, Parry, Debussy, Ravel, Bach, Byrd, and Hindemith -- and yet his style remained unique. He absorbed French impressionism ("In the Fen Country," String Quartet No. 1) and studied for a short time with Ravel (who called him "the only pupil who does not write my music"). But then he came into his own with the incidental music to a production of Aristophanes' "The Wasps," the song cycle "On Wenlock Edge," and the classic "Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis." These works show a Vaughan Williams where his voice is unmistakably his own.

Vaughan Williams composed in almost every genre. He is one of the great setters of English poetry, and vocal music comprises a large part of his output. Major works include "Five Mystical Songs," "Merciless Beauty," "Sancta Civitas," "Serenade to Music," "Hodie," "10 Blake Songs," and "Dona nobis pacem." His several operas have not become stage staples: "Hugh the Drover," "The Poisoned Kiss," "Riders to the Sea," "Sir John in Love," and "Pilgrim's Progress." He is one of the greatest contributors to church music in the 20th century.

At the turn of the century he was among the very first to travel into the countryside to collect folk-songs and carols from singers, notating them for future generations to enjoy. As musical editor of The English Hymnal he composed several hymns that are now world-wide favourites (For all the Saints, Come down O love Divine). Later he also helped to edit The Oxford Book of Carols, with similar success.

Vaughan Williams volunteered to serve in the Field Ambulance Service in Flanders for the 1914–1918 war, during which he was deeply affected by the carnage and the loss of close friends such as the composer George Butterworth. Before the war he had met and then sustained a long and deep friendship with the composer Gustav Holst. For many years Vaughan Williams conducted and led the Leith Hill Music Festival, conducting Bach’s St Matthew Passion on a regular basis. He also became professor of composition at the Royal College of Music in London. The symphonies, in particular, contain much variety and range, with each representing a unique approach to the symphonic form. All have great emotional as well as spiritual power.
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PS .............. Priscilla White .... was quite a singer in her day - at the Cavern !!

liverpool annie · Jul 6, 2009

This one is for Jerome !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fzESGmgdwE

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