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"Scarborough Fair/Canticle" appeared as the lead track on the 1966 Simon & Garfunkel album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme in counterpoint with "Canticle", a reworking of the lyrics from Simon's 1963 anti-war song "The Side of a Hill". [23] The duo learned their arrangement of the song from Martin Carthy, but did not credit him as the arranger.
Scarborough Fair originated from a royal charter granted by King Henry III of England on 22 January 1253. [3] The charter , which gave Scarborough many privileges, stated "The Burgesses and their heirs forever may have a yearly fair in the Borough, to continue from the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary until the Feast of St ...
The song "Scarborough Fair" is considered a relatively recent variant of "The Elfin Knight", and both are officially classified as the same ballad. [7] Mark Anderson (1874–1953), a retired lead-miner from either Newbiggin-by-the-Sea [8] or Middleton-in-Teesdale, [9] County Durham, England, sang "Scarborough Fair" to Ewan MacColl in 1947.
Carthy's arrangement of "Scarborough Fair" would be used by Dylan as the basis of his own composition, "Girl from the North Country". A 19th-century ballad commemorating the death of Sir John Franklin in 1847, "Lady Franklin's Lament", gave Dylan the melody for his composition "Bob Dylan's Dream". Both songs displayed Dylan's fast-growing ...
Scarborough Fair Collection, a museum of fairground mechanical organs and showman's engines in Scarborough, North Yorkshire; Scarborough Faire, also known as Scarborough Renaissance Festival, a Renaissance fair in Waxahachie, Texas; Scarboro Fair, a defunct agricultural show in Scarborough, Ontario; Scarborough Fair, a set of four handguns used ...
Indiana residents have been dubbed Hoosiers for over 150 years, but the origin of this term is hazy. State representatives filed a bill to make the state nickname official in 2023, with one caveat ...
A few months ago, our kitchen-testing expert Monica Petrucci wrote a love letter to the Wonder Oven, a kitchen appliance that can replace just about any other in your home. It bakes, it fries, it ...
Scarborough Renaissance Festival: Texas: Waxahachie; permanent 1521 Town of Scarborough, under King Henry VIII: 1981 35 acres (04a) early April–Memorial Day (7 weekends) 200k (2010) [27] Scarborough Fair: Sherwood Forest Faire: Texas: McDade; permanent 1189–1199, Sherwood Forest; under the reign of Richard the Lion-Hearted; some fantasy ...