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Maying Songs (of varying traditionality)

Cover image is from Bodleian Broadside Ballads shelfmark Harding B 15(332a)

Miri it is While Sumer Ilast- Ensemble Belladonna

May Song- Lisa Knapp

Swinton May Song- The Watersons

The First of May- John Kirkpatrick

The Queen of May- Shirley Collins

To Hear the Nightingale Sing- Ian Campbell Folk Group

Hal-an-Tow- The Watersons

Down by the Green Groves- Peter Bellamy

The Pleasant Month of May- Jackie Oates

Jack in the Green- Magpie Lane

Gathering Rushes in the Month of May- Anne Briggs

Hail! Hail! The First of May- Beggar’s Velvet

Padstow May Song- John Graham Donaldson

May Morning- Waterson-Carthy

The Cambridgeshire May Song- Jean Ritchie

Sumer is Icumen In- The Captain’s Daughter

16 tracks; 49 mins. [Spotify] 

Roddy McDowall as Mordred in the original Broadway production of Camelot (1961)

"The girl I was to marry… they've sent her to a breeding colony."

1937.

Hans Conried “Do Mi Do Duds (The Dressing Song)” The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)

“…not beautiful, but it should be seen by those who are bent on observing all sides of life.”