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#folksong — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #folksong, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Here is Dick Gaughan performing “Scots Wha Hae”, to an audience that includes Dr Maya Angelou – from the documentary ANGELOU ON BURNS (first shown on BBC2, 1996)

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    youtube.com/watch?v=qx8hEoJNVdM

    #Scottish #literature #Bannockburn #BattleofBannockburn #history #18thcentury #RobertBurns #poem #poetry #song #folksong #MayaAngelou

  2. "Wooden Heart" is a pop song recorded by #ElvisPresley. The composition is based on a German #folkSong "#MussIDenn" (lit. Must I then) and it was featured in the 1960 Elvis Presley film #GIBlues. The song was a #hitSingle for Presley in the #UKSinglesChart, reaching No. 1 for six weeks in March and April 1961.
    youtube.com/watch?v=ujuEnYuUf6w

  3. "Wooden Heart" is a pop song recorded by #ElvisPresley. The composition is based on a German #folkSong "#MussIDenn" (lit. Must I then) and it was featured in the 1960 Elvis Presley film #GIBlues. The song was a #hitSingle for Presley in the #UKSinglesChart, reaching No. 1 for six weeks in March and April 1961.
    youtube.com/watch?v=yFxMaeaBjGg

  4. Douglas Kay & Martin Philip – AKA the folk duo The Sorries – recorded a podcast about “Killiecrankie”, discussing the publication of the song, the figures & events which inspired it, & how it played a pivotal role in bringing the pair together

    scottishsongguide.com/2015/09/

    #Scottish #literature #song #folksong #Jacobite #18thcentury #19thcentury #RobertBurns #JamesHogg #Scots #Scotslanguage #Scotstober #gled

  5. The bauld Pitcur fell in a furr,
    And Clavers gat a clankie, O,
    Or I had fed an Athol gled
    On the braes o’ Killicrankie, O…

    —“Killicrankie”, from James Hogg’s JACOBITE RELICS OF SCOTLAND (1819). Verses 1–3 are attributed to Robert Burns; Hogg may have written the rest

    #Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #RobertBurns #JamesHogg #song #folksong #Jacobite #Scots #Scotslanguage #Scotstober #gled