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Gaudete by Collegium Vocale Bydgoszcz The first page of the original version. Gaudete (English: / ɡ ɔː ˈ d iː t iː / gaw-DEE-tee or English: / ɡ aʊ ˈ d eɪ t eɪ / gow-DAY-tay, Ecclesiastical Latin: [ɡau̯ˈdete]; "rejoice []" in Latin) [a] is a sacred Christmas carol, thought to have been composed in the 16th century.
Steeleye Span are a British folk rock band formed in 1969 in England by Fairport Convention bass player Ashley Hutchings and established London folk club duo Tim Hart and Maddy Prior. The band were part of the 1970s British folk revival , and were commercially successful in that period, with four Top 40 albums and two hit singles: " Gaudete ...
Madeleine Edith Prior MBE (born 14 August 1947) is an English folk rock singer, best known as the lead vocalist of Steeleye Span. [1] She was born in Blackpool and moved to St Albans in her teens. Her father, Allan Prior , was co-creator of the police drama Z-Cars .
Steeleye Span is a British folk rock band formed by bassist Ashley Hutchings after he left Fairport Convention in 1969, the original line-up also included duo Tim Hart (guitar, mandolin, vocals) and Maddy Prior (vocals) and husband and wife team Terry Woods (guitar, concertina, mandolin, vocals) and Gay Woods (vocals, bodhran, concertina, autoharp). [1]
The song "All Around my Hat" (Roud 567 [1] and 22518, [2] Laws P31) is of nineteenth-century English origin. [3] In an early version, [citation needed] dating from the 1820s, a Cockney costermonger vowed to be true to his fiancée, who had been sentenced to seven years' transportation to Australia for theft and to mourn his loss of her by wearing green willow sprigs in his hatband for "a ...
In an interview he stated getting the inspiration from Steeleye Span's version. His arrangement is slightly more uptempo and of course pronouncing is different which can be heard especially in sharp r and hard c. 62.106.14.105 ( talk ) 09:58, 30 May 2011 (UTC) [ reply ]
emember "Rumplestiltskin"? An impish man offers to help a girl with the . impossible chore she's been tasked with: spinning heaps of straw into gold. It's a story that's likely to give independent women the jitters; living beholden to a demanding king and a conniving mythical creature is no one's idea of romance.
Johnson left Steeleye Span temporarily in 1977 to work on a concept album, The King of Elfland's Daughter, along with Peter Knight. However, he returned in 1980 to record Sails of Silver . After Tim Hart 's departure from the band in 1980, Johnson became the sole guitarist and a more prominent member, taking on a central role for the albums ...