BUSHES AND BRIARS

Created on 13/12/2023
Latest update on 25/04/2024

Artist: Mrs. Humphreys
Author: traditional
Label: EFDSS
Year: 1903

Roud #1027. One of the earliest, maybe even the very first recording made by Ralph Vaughan Williams (with phonograph in Essex), released in 1998 by the English Folk Dance and Song Society on anthology A Century Of Song, along with four other recordings made in the early 1900s.

Covers:

1907:

George Dowder [Henry Hammond recording in Dorset]

1959:

Alfred Deller & The Deller Consort

1966:

Isla Cameron [and in '67 in film Far From The Madding Crowd; that recording came out in '87 on BBC album Through Bushes And Briars]

1970:

London Madrigal Singers

1974:

June Tabor

1978:

Barry Skinner [title track lp]

1978:

Barry Dransfield [in medley with a very similar Swedish air]

1991:

Swingle Singers [a cappella]

1993:

Eliza Carthy & Nancy Kerr [follow another Vaughan Williams notation]

1998:

London Gay Men's Chorus

2005:

Coope, Boyes & Simpson

2011:

Sarah Calderwood [with the Melbourne Symphony Orch.]

2024:

Sam Lee

Not to be confused with the eponymous Sandy Denny song from her album Sandy (Island - '72).

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