#folksong — Public Fediverse posts
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A topical protest song:
NOT NEARLY LONG ENOUGH
(C) 2026 by Dan Schatz
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iAkzcB8Ha1U
#music #protest #resist #USSLincoln #sailors #folksong #IranWar #Iran #war -
"The Twelfth of Never" is a popular song adapted from an old #English #folkSong in 1956 by #JerryLivingston and #PaulFrancisWebster. Various recording artists have had chart hits with "The Twelfth of Never", including #JohnnyMathis, #CliffRichard, #DonnyOsmond and #SlimWhitman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGhqR3VIn1M -
"The Twelfth of Never" is a popular song adapted from an old #English #folkSong in 1956 by #JerryLivingston and #PaulFrancisWebster. Various recording artists have had chart hits with "The Twelfth of Never", including #JohnnyMathis, #CliffRichard, #DonnyOsmond and #SlimWhitman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGhqR3VIn1M -
"The Twelfth of Never" is a popular song adapted from an old #English #folkSong in 1956 by #JerryLivingston and #PaulFrancisWebster. Various recording artists have had chart hits with "The Twelfth of Never", including #JohnnyMathis, #CliffRichard, #DonnyOsmond and #SlimWhitman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGhqR3VIn1M -
"The Twelfth of Never" is a popular song adapted from an old #English #folkSong in 1956 by #JerryLivingston and #PaulFrancisWebster. Various recording artists have had chart hits with "The Twelfth of Never", including #JohnnyMathis, #CliffRichard, #DonnyOsmond and #SlimWhitman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGhqR3VIn1M -
"The Twelfth of Never" is a popular song adapted from an old #English #folkSong in 1956 by #JerryLivingston and #PaulFrancisWebster. Various recording artists have had chart hits with "The Twelfth of Never", including #JohnnyMathis, #CliffRichard, #DonnyOsmond and #SlimWhitman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGhqR3VIn1M -
"La Bamba" (pronounced [la ˈβamba]) is a Mexican #folkSong, originally from the state of #Veracruz. The song is best known from a 1958 adaptation by #RitchieValens, a #top40 hit on the U.S. charts. Valens's version is ranked number 345 on #RollingStone magazine's list of "The #500GreatestSongsOfAllTime" and is the only song on the list not written or sung in English. The oldest recorded version known is that of Álvaro Hernández Ortiz.
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"La Bamba" (pronounced [la ˈβamba]) is a Mexican #folkSong, originally from the state of #Veracruz. The song is best known from a 1958 adaptation by #RitchieValens, a #top40 hit on the U.S. charts. Valens's version is ranked number 345 on #RollingStone magazine's list of "The #500GreatestSongsOfAllTime" and is the only song on the list not written or sung in English. The oldest recorded version known is that of Álvaro Hernández Ortiz.
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Well put - and I have to plug this, which Hazel performed when I was at Halsway last year: