Artist: Edna Thornton
Author: Edward Elgar/Arthur Christopher Benson
Label: HMV
Year: 1902
From Coronation Ode, composed for the coronation of king Edward VII in 1902, using the melody of Edgar's Pomp And Circomstance March # 1. Words (by A.C. Benson) were suggested by the future King. Written following the victory in South Afica (Boer Wars). Title comes from a line in Shakespeare's Othello (Act III, Scene 3).
Covers:
Vera Lynn [became a Dame, just like Clara]
Adolf Lohmann [as Pelgrimstocht Der Mensen]
John Cale [in Damn Life]
Night Of The Proms classic and prior to 2010 the official anthem for England during Commonwealth Games.
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Arnold Rypens
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