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The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 [1] references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud. [2] Roud's Index is a combination of the Broadside Index (printed sources before 1900) and a "field-recording index" compiled by Roud.
The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) listed 187,800 records in the growing Folksong database as at October 2012 (which total includes all of the songs in the Broadside database that have 'traditional' origins). [1] The purpose of the index is to give each song a unique identifying number.
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The song is known world-wide thanks to the interpretation of South African singer Miriam Makeba (herself a Xhosa). In her discography the song appears in several versions, both with the title Qongqothwane and as The Click Song. The song was written and originally performed by The Manhattan Brothers who made it famous across Africa. Miriam was ...
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Ava DuVernay’s latest drama “Origin” has added an original song to its Oscar prospects. New Zealand Māori artist Stan Walker performed the new song, “I Am,” at a private film screening ...
Another version of this song, in the form of a vaudeville song called Sweet Maggie Gordon, [5] was published in New York from 1880. [6] The song tells a story of a man who is madly in love with a woman of this name and how he longs to be with her. [7] In 1938, a song called Sweet Peggy Gordon was recorded by Herbert Halpert in Sloatsburg, New ...