The Herring Song, also known as Bolliton Sands, The Red Herring and Jolly red herring is a folk-song (Roud 128) found in various forms and believed to be associated with the once-thriving herring-fishing industry in the North Sea. [1] Several different variants of the song are known. [2] A version of "The Red Herring" which was collected at South Zeal is included in the Baring-Gould manuscripts. [3]
Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives was an American musician, singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades.
Siglufjörður is a small fishing town in a narrow fjord with the same name on the northern coast of Iceland.
The recorded history of music in Estonia dates as far back as the 12th century.
A cumulative song is a song with a simple verse structure modified by progressive addition so that each verse is longer than the verse before. Cumulative songs are popular for group singing, in part because they require relatively little memorization of lyrics, and because remembering the previous verse to concatenate it to form the current verse can become a kind of game.
Esashi is a town in Hiyama Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the capital of Hiyama Subprefecture.
"For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" is a popular song that is sung to congratulate a person on a significant event, such as a promotion, a birthday, a wedding, a retirement, a wedding anniversary, the birth of a child, or the winning of a championship sporting event. The melody originates from the French song "Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre".
Ukrainian hip hop is a major part of the Ukrainian music scene. Refers to all genres of hip hop music in the Ukrainian language. The term Ukr-hop is also sometimes used to refer to any hip hop music made by Ukrainians, including instrumental hip hop, as well as rap songs by members of the Ukrainian diaspora.
The Holy Ground is a local place name in the town of Cobh, County Cork, on the southern coast of Ireland. The song "The Holy Ground" is named after this area.
A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question. It may be either a logical fallacy or a literary device that leads readers or audiences toward a false conclusion. A red herring may be used intentionally, as in mystery fiction or as part of rhetorical strategies, or may be used in argumentation inadvertently.
The Jolly Beggar, also known as The Gaberlunzieman, The Ragged Beggarman or simply The Beggar Man, is a traditional Scottish folk ballad. The song's chorus inspired lines in Lord Byron's poem "So, we'll go no more a roving".
The Jolly Pinder of Wakefield is an English-language folk song about Robin Hood. The oldest manuscript of this English broadside ballad, according to the University of Rochester, dates back to 1557, and a fragment of the ballad appears also in the Percy Folio. Copies of the ballad can be found at the National Library of Scotland, the British Library, and Magdalene College. Alternatively, online facsimiles of the ballad are available for public consumption.
Christmas by the Bay, recorded at the Sail Loft in the Washington Navy Yard, is Burl Ives's last original Christmas album. It includes only one new Christmas song by Ives: "The Sense of Christmas." The other songs are new performances of previously recorded songs: "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"; "A Holly, Jolly Christmas"; "Christmas by the Bay" ; "White Christmas" ; and "The Friendly Beasts". On all of these songs he is accompanied by the United States Navy Band, conducted by Ned Muffley.
"Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre", also known as "Mort et convoi de l'invincible Malbrough", is a folk song in French.
Rooz is the third album by Cornish folk band Dalla. It was released in 2007, also as a download.
Caroline Herring is an American folk and country singer, songwriter and musician. She started singing professionally when she was a graduate student at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. While there she co-founded Thacker Mountain Radio, a literary and musical hour broadcast from Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, and still syndicated on Mississippi Public Radio. Herring began her solo career when she moved to Austin, Texas, in 1999.
VIA is an abbreviation for Vocal and Instrumental Ensemble. It is the general name used for popular music bands that were formally recognized by the Soviet government from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Have a Holly Jolly Christmas is a Christmas album by American folk singer Burl Ives, first released by Decca Records in October 1965. It peaked at #32 on Billboard's Best Bets For Christmas album chart on December 2, 1967.
"The Shoals of Herring" is a ballad, written by Ewan MacColl for the third of the original eight BBC Radio balladsSinging the Fishing, which was first broadcast on August 16, 1960. Ewan MacColl writes that the song was based on the life of Sam Larner, a fisherman and traditional singer from Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk, England. Liam Clancy, who performed the song for decades, tells a more nuanced story, saying that MacColl "tape recorded all the old fisherman up along the east coast of England. And he never used one word of his own. ... He rhymed the lines that the fishermen had given him, and he made it into a song..."
Check This Out is a live album by organist Jack McDuff recorded in Berkeley, California in 1972 and released on the Cadet label.
Brian Dawson was a British folk song collector, musician and singer.