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"Scarborough Fair/Canticle" appeared as the lead track on the 1966 Simon & Garfunkel album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme in counterpoint with "Canticle", a reworking of the lyrics from Simon's 1963 anti-war song "The Side of a Hill". [23] The duo learned their arrangement of the song from Martin Carthy, but did not credit him as the arranger.
Scarborough Fair originated from a royal charter granted by King Henry III of England on 22 January 1253. [3] The charter , which gave Scarborough many privileges, stated "The Burgesses and their heirs forever may have a yearly fair in the Borough, to continue from the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary until the Feast of St ...
The song "Scarborough Fair" is considered a relatively recent variant of "The Elfin Knight", and both are officially classified as the same ballad. [7] Mark Anderson (1874–1953), a retired lead-miner from either Newbiggin-by-the-Sea [ 8 ] or Middleton-in-Teesdale , [ 9 ] County Durham , England, sang "Scarborough Fair" to Ewan MacColl in 1947.
Scarborough Fair Collection, a museum of fairground mechanical organs and showman's engines in Scarborough, North Yorkshire; Scarborough Faire, also known as Scarborough Renaissance Festival, a Renaissance fair in Waxahachie, Texas; Scarboro Fair, a defunct agricultural show in Scarborough, Ontario; Scarborough Fair, a set of four handguns used ...
Simon reunited with Garfunkel in New York, leaving Chitty and his friends in England behind. CBS demanded a new album to be called Sounds of Silence to ride the wave of the hit. [ 56 ] Recorded in three weeks and consisting of rerecorded songs from The Paul Simon Songbook plus four new tracks, Sounds of Silence was rush-released in mid-January ...
Delaware: Scrapple Burgers and Dogs. Delaware State Fair Hot dogs and burgers are state fair staples, but in Delaware, they get a local twist when they're loaded up with a heaping helping of scrapple.
It's been 15 years since Miley Cyrus appeared nearly nude on the cover of Vanity Fair. Now, the singer is sharing behind-the-scenes details about the edgy photo shoot that sparked quite a controversy.
One famous example of the conflict between the desire of artists to assert copyright and the folk tradition is the case of the ballad "Scarborough Fair". "Scarborough Fair" is a traditional British folk song with many variations, which was reworked by Simon and Garfunkel for their 1966 album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme; however, unlike ...