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"Lines" is a song written by the American singer-songwriter Jerry Fuller, first recorded by the American pop group The Walker Brothers as their twelfth UK single in 1976. Fuller later recorded and released his own version to some minor success in the US (#90) [ 2 ] and Canadian Country charts (#60) [ 3 ] in 1979.
"White Line" is a song co-written and recorded by American singer Emmylou Harris. It was released in January 1985 as the lead single from Harris' album The Ballad of Sally Rose, which was her first of entirely self-composed material. "White Line" was a top 20 US country song and reached the top ten of the Canadian country chart.
A live video of the band performing the song in London, which was filmed in February 2020, premiered on May 14, 2020, as part of their Re-Live at Home series. [5] In March 2022, the song was featured on the deluxe edition of their fourth studio album, Below, titled "The Lines (Live From the Journey Below)". [6]
The original English ballads upon which Reynardine are based, most of which date to the Victorian era, are generally found under the title The Mountains High.In the original story, Ranordine (also given as Rinordine, Rinor Dine, Ryner Dyne, Rine-a-dine, Rynadine, Retterdyne, Randal Rhin or Randal Rine) is a bandit or outlaw who encounters a young woman in the wilderness and seduces or abducts her.
The song charted in the Top Ten in both the UK and the US, peaking at number 8 in the UK [8] and number 7 in the US. [9] It was on the Hot 100 for 23 weeks, nearly a full month longer on that chart than any other ELO song. Billboard ranked it as the No. 15 song of 1977. In 1977, the song reached number 1 in New Zealand and Canada.
A accompanying music video directed by the duo Nono + Rodrigo premiered alongside the song. An orchestral version was released on 8 October 2024 to the singer's official YouTube channel. David sang "Silverlines" at televised performances on Che tempo che fa and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
The ballad literature includes on the one hand laments for the lost shrine and, on the other, suggestions that, as alleged by religious reformers, pilgrims were looking for encounters of a sexual nature. Ophelia in Hamlet sings a version of the Walsingham lyrics in which a woman asks about her pilgrim lover. [2]
In the late 1970s or early 1980s, Peter Jones discovered a collection of century-old letters in his parents' attic in Bethesda, Maryland. [1] [2] The letters had been sent by his great-great-great grandfather, Byran Hunt, to his son, Jones' great-great grandfather, John Hunt, [a] who had emigrated from Kilkelly, County Mayo, to the United States in 1855 and worked on the railroad.