EAW Sock Hop Challenge/Showcase Thingy CXIII
Scarborough Fair – (Cover) Simon & Garfunkel (1965)
EAW Sock Hop Challenge Showcase Thingy CXIII: June 9 – June 16
I want to say thank you very much to my new friend
Michael
Please go visit and say hi! He very kindly agreed to make this backing track especially for me.
This song is
For Bruce… Cos. 
Thanks for always being there for me.
Theme Post a song from 1955 -1965, …
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The song tells the tale of a young man, who tells the listener to ask his former lover to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her back. Often the song is sung as a duet, with the woman then giving her lover a series of equally impossible tasks, promising to give him his seamless shirt once he has finished.
As the versions of the ballad known under the title “Scarborough Fair” are usually limited to the exchange of these impossible tasks, many suggestions concerning the plot have been proposed, including the hypothesis that it is a song about the Plague. In fact, “Scarborough Fair” appears to derive from an older (and now obscure) Scottish ballad, The Elfin Knight (Child Ballad #2), which has been traced at least as far back as 1670 and may well be earlier. In this ballad, an elf threatens to abduct a young woman to be his lover unless she can perform an impossible task (“For thou must shape a sark to me / Without any cut or heme, quoth he”); she responds with a list of tasks that he must first perform (“I have an aiker of good ley-land / Which lyeth low by yon sea-strand”).
As the song spread, it was adapted, modified, and rewritten to the point that dozens of versions existed by the end of the 18th century, although only a few are typically sung nowadays. The references to “Scarborough Fair” and the refrain “parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme” date to nineteenth century versions, and the refrain may have been borrowed from the ballad Riddles Wisely Expounded, (Child Ballad #1), which has a similar plot. – Wikipedia…”
At last:
I did want to post this in the decades challenge for 1960 but ran out of time.
I am in heaven..or clouds …Your are beautiful inside , outside, magical with your singing interpretations…SAWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET too
Janet I found this on youtube and downloaded it to have it , because it was just so gorgeous but I couldn’t sign in to leave a comment for what ever reason I swear I must have 3 youtube accts. and it wouldn’t take any of them lol, and this is just perfect for the challenge besides I get to watch you sing so gorgeously in HQ and just stare at those lovely blue eyes leaves me in a trance
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See I was so long winded Mike beat me to the first position
The comments are acting very strange on youtube Walt – just lately they throw any reply you put to say thank you or whatever on the front page in a long stream and then throw the original posters response on another page – really frustrating – so now I try to make a text comment like a viewer rather than a reply… GRRR.
Sonsi had problems with a few songs also not allowing her to comment, yet I have enabled comments.
Thank you for trying.
Well, I’ll try this again. When I tried to comment earlier, there were technical problems with the server.
I said that I had just gotten up at 0400 here in Texas and you sing me a lullaby.
But, it was marvelous, as always.
Janet! I’m so mad that nothing is showing up here…I can’t see or hear anything–the same thing happens when I try to listen to Adam’s songs. BOO-HOO!!!
Janet that really was beautiful. You have this angelic on screen vibe. Really cool. Pouty little Queen Mum angel. How’s that? lol
Seriously…just outstanding!
Janet- This was just magical! There is something about this being sung by someone Irish, or in this case Scottish, that just adds so much by that distinctive accent. Didn’t remember how high your voice was. Very pretty and soft on this one. Your eyes are as blue as Judy Collins…
Janet,
This is beyond beautiful….loved my listen….purrrrrrfect to calm my afternoon!!
Kathy
Very relaxing after a long day on the road. Just what I needed. Wonderful performance Janet.
Oh Janet…. this is perfection!
So beautiful! *sigh*
A perfect lullabye for me!
Wonderful Wonderful!
Janet this is most beautiful. Your voice is so mellow and sweet just like the birds on an early spring morning. Beautiful as always. Thanks:)))))))))))
Janet, this is incredible!! I love your voice on this!
Ah, exquisitely lovely, as I knew it would be!!
This song was made for your voice and as always you aced it…Wonderful sing Janet, just wonderful
I thought I’d already heard this …maybe it was on YouTube …so ethereal Janet you must really truly secretly be a fairy with a sparkling wand …weaving musical magic amongst us mortals …LOL I’ve only had coffee today …honestly this is gorgeous
Janet this was beautiful, a wonderful rendition of a classic English song ( by a very talented Scottish lady ). Loved it my friend
Aww..I have always loved this relaxed and mellow-mood song! Beautiful!! So so peaceful.YES. Hugs Dani xo