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2. The Full English (folk music archive) - Wikipedia

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   Launched in June 2013, The Full English is a folk archive of 44,000 records and over 58,000 digitised images; it is the world's biggest digital archive of traditional music and dance tunes. [1] The archive brings together 19 collections from noted archivists, including Lucy Broadwood, Percy Grainger, Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams. [1]

3. Greensleeves - Wikipedia

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   "Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song. A broadside ballad by the name "A Newe Northen Dittye of ye Ladye Greene Sleves" was registered by Richard Jones at the London Stationers' Company in September 1580, [1] [2] and the tune is found in several late 16th-century and early 17th-century sources, such as Ballet's MS Lute Book and Het Luitboek van Thysius, as well as various ...

4. Country Gardens - Wikipedia

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   Country Gardens. " Country Gardens " is an old English folk tune traditionally used for Morris dancing. It was introduced by traditional folk musician William Kimber to Cecil Sharp near the beginning of the twentieth century, then popularised by a diverse range of musicians from Percy Grainger and David Stanhope to Jimmie Rodgers.

5. Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) - Wikipedia

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   Doris Day performing the song in the 1956 film The Man Who Knew Too Much. " Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be) " [a] is a song written by the team of Jay Livingston and Ray Evans that was first published in 1955. [4] Doris Day introduced it in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), [5] singing it as a cue to their ...

6. English folk music - Wikipedia

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   In the strictest sense, English folk music has existed since the arrival of the Anglo-Saxon people in Britain after 400 AD. The Venerable Bede's story of the cattleman and later ecclesiastical musician Cædmon indicates that in the early medieval period it was normal at feasts to pass around the harp and sing 'vain and idle songs'. [1]

7. Wot Cher! Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road - Wikipedia

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   Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road. " Wot Cher! Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road " is a British music hall comedy song written in 1891 by the actor and singer Albert Chevalier. The score was by his brother and manager Charles Ingle. [1] Chevalier developed a stage persona as the archetypal Cockney and was a celebrated variety artist, with the ...

8. Barbara Allen (song) - Wikipedia

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   Barbara Allen (song) " Barbara Allen " (Child 84, Roud 54) is a traditional folk song that is popular throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. It tells of how the eponymous character denies a dying man's love, then dies of grief soon after his untimely death. The song began as a ballad in the seventeenth century or earlier, before ...

9. The Cuckoo (song) - Wikipedia

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   According to Thomas Goldsmith of The Raleigh News & Observer, "The Cuckoo" is an interior monologue where the singer "relates his desires — to gamble, to win, to regain love's affection." [3] The song is featured in the E.L. Doctorow book The March. A soldier suffering from a metal spike stuck in his head sings verses from the song.