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"The Sweet Trinity" (Roud 122, Child 286), also known as "The Golden Vanity" or "The Golden Willow Tree", is an English folk song or sea shanty.The first surviving version, about 1635, was "Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing In The Lowlands (Shewing how the famous Ship called the Sweet Trinity was taken by a false Gally & how it was again restored by the craft of a little Sea-boy, who sunk the Gally)".
The Golden Vanity is a musical setting of an adaptation by Colin Graham of a traditional folk song, also known as "The Sweet Trinity", for boys' voices (five soloists and chorus) and piano by the English composer Benjamin Britten (1913–76). The composer described it as a vaudeville. The boys act out parts as well as sing; Britten wrote on the ...
The B-side was a version of the English folk song "The Golden Vanity". The single reached number one in the UK Singles Chart on 31 March and maintained that position for four weeks. [ 11 ] It also reached number one in Ireland, Australia and New Zealand and on the Canadian CHUM Chart , selling over a million copies in total.
The Golden Vanity 5017-B, R-4174 Harmonica The Coast of Old Barbary 5015-B, R-4176 Harmonica Haul Away Joe 5015-B, R-4176 House of the Rising Sun: 5020-B, R-4163 Ground Hog 5018-B, R-4164 State of Arkansas 5019-B, R-4165 I Ride an Old Paint 5020-A, R-4169 Vocals / Guitar Hard Ain't It Hard 5019-B, R-4170 Harmonica The Dodger Song 5018-A, R-4171
In 1995 Steeleye recorded "The Golden Vanity" for the Time album, but it did not appear on it. It was released on the anthology The Best of British Folk Rock. Similarly they recorded "General Taylor" for Ten Man Mop but the song did not appear on it. [34] It resurfaced on the compilation album Individually and Collectively instead.
The Golden Vanity. The Golden Vanity may refer to: An alternative name for the traditional folk song "The Sweet Trinity". The Golden Vanity (Britten), a 1966 setting of the traditional folk song by Benjamin Britten.
Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Ballads. Deep Sea Chanteys and Whaling Ballads are two albums recorded then combined for release as a 1941 album by the Almanac Singers. The lineup of the group at the time was Millard Lampell, Lee Hays, Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. The group received a $250 advance for both albums and bought a Buick for a cross ...
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo. Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo is a song cycle composed by Benjamin Britten (1913–76) for tenor voice and piano in 1940, and published as his Op. 22. [1] It was written for himself and his life-partner, the tenor Peter Pears (1910–86). The manuscripts of the songs are dated between April and October 1940; but ...