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Men of Harlech. " Men of Harlech " or " The March of the Men of Harlech " ( Welsh: Rhyfelgyrch Gwŷr Harlech) is a song and military march which is traditionally said [1] to describe events during the seven-year siege of Harlech Castle between 1461 and 1468, when the castle was held by the Lancastrians against the Yorkists as part of the Wars ...
The "Song of the Volga Boatmen" (known in Russian as Эй, ухнем! [Ey, ukhnem!, "Yo, heave-ho!"], after the refrain) is a well-known traditional Russian song collected by Mily Balakirev and published in his book of folk songs in 1866. It was sung by burlaks, or barge-haulers, on the Volga River. Balakirev published it with only one verse ...
Matt McGinn (Scottish songwriter) Matthew McGinn (17 January 1928 – 5 January 1977) was a Scottish folk singer-songwriter, actor, author and poet. [1] Born in Glasgow in 1928, McGinn was a prolific songwriter and is recognised as an influential figure in the British folk music revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Hine Ma Tov continues to be a popular hymn for several Israeli folk dances and is a common song sung by school children and Jewish and Israeli scouting groups. It has been recorded by artists as diverse as Theodore Bikel, The Weavers, Dalida, Meir Finkelstein, Ishtar, the Miami Boys Choir, Joshua Aaron, the Abayudaya of Uganda and the dub group ...
The Keel Row. " The Keel Row " is a traditional Tyneside folk song evoking the life and work of the keelmen of Newcastle upon Tyne. A closely related song was first published in a Scottish collection of the 1770s, but may be considerably older, and it is unclear whether the tune is Scottish or English in origin.
Pentangle recorded "Let No Man Steal Your Thyme" on their 1968 debut The Pentangle. Shelagh McDonald recorded "Let No Man Steal Your Thyme" on Album (1970); the song was re-released on 2005's Let No Man Steal Your Thyme. Foster and Allen recorded A Bunch of Thyme as a single in 1979 and released an album of the same name in 1980.
See media help. "Laundromat" is a four-minute, 25-second R&B and pop song [2] [5] performed in the style of a slow jam. [6] [7] Billboard 's Chuck Taylor reviewed the single as a pop track, describing it as straddling "the line between straight-up R&B and modern pop". Taylor wrote that, after the opening, "Laundromat" moves into "dreamy vocal ...
Bones Howe. " Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) " (commonly known as " Tom Traubert's Blues " or " Waltzing Matilda ") is a song by American musician Tom Waits . It is the opening track on Waits' fourth studio album Small Change, released in September 1976 on Asylum Records. Written by Waits and produced by Bones Howe ...