Beautiful. This song I learned myself when I was a chorister, as a kid. This is a perfect rendition of Steeleye Span's excellent version. A trip down Memory Lane and STILL most impressive! 🎶🎄✨🌟👍
Great stuff - as a fan of S.S. since he mid 70's. I briefly met Rick and Maddy in the mid 90's when we were part of a performance benefit concert at the Albert Hall. More of a moment for me, rather than them, I'm thinking..
Marvellous! Oh to be able to go back to the 70's and see that line up again! Saw them several times at Sheffield City Hall and going to see them again on 8th November in Doncaster. 👌
I have never seen them live. I am so glad this was posted on YT! In the '70s Steeleye Span received a good amount of airplay in the NYC area. So I knew who they were. I love that there is available footage of their performances! Great dancing!!!
It was great to watch this video. Unfortunately for whatever reason Steeleye Span has always performed this song live at a faster tempo than the album version and neglect to include the gritty lead guitar strums. The album version has a real dark feeling to it. By all means this is a good watch, but to hear the best you need to hear the album version.
Seeing Maddy Prior dance across the stage brings back great memories of catching their live performances. I have seen Steeleye perform this at almost all concerts I have went to. A great all time classic Scottish ballad. Great and sad to see Tim Hart in his Steeleye prime. A must see is Tim Hart's final performances with Maddy at Cecil Sharp House in October 2008 while Tim was seriously ill.
Thursday 7th November 2024. 14.33pm. Dear Sir/Madam. Good-afternoon. How are you? I trust you are well. This is the official song of The Bull Of Sudan. The Uncrowned Champion Of England and Northern Ireland. I welcome all comers, none barred. THANK YOU GOOD-LUCK TAKE CARE.
I can remember Maddy playing the spoons and the whole group telling a truly appalling joke, then, after their regular set, going offstage and appearing in rock'n'roll gear to sing Buddy Holly's 'Rave on'. Great days from a great band!
How true My wife bought us tickets to see Steeleye Span once thinking she was going to see Steely Dan That was the first and last time that she listened to English Folk-Rock!
I always knew steely Dan was a fake band, so these are the real musicians that played for them in the studio, huh? And everyone criticizes the monkeys and Milli vanilli, ha! 😁
such ia cool band ... i only heard that most known album from cartrips as child .... But they allways makse me think of another outfit that is wat more obscuyr, very similiar and you wonder, why they, "Fiddlers dram" only made one album, its here on youtube i it´s entirity and its one good song after another .... their hit is their worrst i think and doesnt sound like rock....Roadtrip to bangor i think its called, it´s a little cheeky with lyrics like "cracking open a bottle of cide, laying back spreading her fanny ...
Maddy Prior dancing on the piano when I saw them open for Jethro Tull remains one of the highlights of my concert compendium.
She's awesome 😎
An Enchantress!!!
I always loved when Maddy danced.
I use this song to interest (some) students to history. The song is from ~1720s, and opens up a whole history. Well played by SS!!
What a sound, Maddy, what a voice ! fantastic. Best ever !
That drum beat. Ancestral Celtic Northern European memory.
Stammen Sie aus Afrika?😂
@@spackretiredThey're from Germany. Why did you say Africa? Which, by the way, is a huge and diverse continent and not a country.
Soberba interpretação do grupo e com uma voz da Maddy Prior a seduzir...fabulosos!!! Steeleye Span forever and ever!!!
Beautiful. This song I learned myself when I was a chorister, as a kid. This is a perfect rendition of Steeleye Span's excellent version.
A trip down Memory Lane and STILL most impressive!
🎶🎄✨🌟👍
Great stuff - as a fan of S.S. since he mid 70's.
I briefly met Rick and Maddy in the mid 90's when we were part of a performance benefit concert at the Albert Hall. More of a moment for me, rather than them, I'm thinking..
Saw Maddy dancing in a pub in Fulham one night in 1971-ish. Magical!
those years ending with an "ish" are the best to live in
@@HrLBolle ?
@@paulmcmahon1129 any time ending of ish gotta be better than everything official
😊😊😊♥️
Marvellous! Oh to be able to go back to the 70's and see that line up again! Saw them several times at Sheffield City Hall and going to see them again on 8th November in Doncaster. 👌
Thank you, this is amazing. I love Steeleye Span
I saw them about this time I would have been about 25. A great band!
Love to see Maddy dancing 😍
I have never seen them live. I am so glad this was posted on YT! In the '70s Steeleye Span received a good amount of airplay in the NYC area. So I knew who they were. I love that there is available footage of their performances! Great dancing!!!
Maddy is so cool , then and now 😎
It was great to watch this video. Unfortunately for whatever reason Steeleye Span has always performed this song live at a faster tempo than the album version and neglect to include the gritty lead guitar strums. The album version has a real dark feeling to it. By all means this is a good watch, but to hear the best you need to hear the album version.
Agreed
@@MrElecterik Just to prove the point :) ruclips.net/video/xLBGqJAdY8k/видео.html
As a musician you often get carried away.
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I agree...slower is better
Drumm guy had a lot of work and he delivred it. Respect.
brilliant band i saw them back in the seventies!
They will be at the New Forest Festival in July
Seeing Maddy Prior dance across the stage brings back great memories of catching their live performances. I have seen Steeleye perform this at almost all concerts I have went to. A great all time classic Scottish ballad. Great and sad to see Tim Hart in his Steeleye prime. A must see is Tim Hart's final performances with Maddy at Cecil Sharp House in October 2008 while Tim was seriously ill.
Oh God! Saw them so many times. Never failed to deliver ❤❤❤❤
Thank you.
The most beautiful voice ever, Freddy Mercurcry your eyes out.
Seeing Maddy dancing is something wonderful! But the band is great!
Fun to see Peter on mandolin, and Tim on dulcimer.
That's not a dulcimer , but a slide guitar!
It's a dulcimer!@@tommyrawlings3046
@@tommyrawlings3046it’s a Mountain Dulcimer, as opposed to the one you play with the hammers.
Yeah I've always loved this band there special ❤️ 😊
Great performance; my favorite line-up of the band.
Any group is diminished without Ashley Hutchings
Thursday 3rd October 2024.
17.15pm.
Thank you. Bull 🦬🦬🦈
Absolutely brilliant fab voice seen these live on the rocket cottage tore
Tuesday 3rd September 2024.
21.35pm.
Thank you Jem. Thank you Steeleye Span.
Wonderful 😊
Love it.
Wednesday 11th September 2024.
10.35pm.
Thank you Jem (Champion). x
her soul. Geez they rock!
I love the way Maddie says "France" as though it was obscene although I know she doesn't feel that way generally
Thursday 12th September 2024.
21.14pm.
Thank you Mr James Jem Mace (Former Heavyweight Champion Of The World).
My parents would have loved to hear this.... Maybe they had, actually... Well, tonight I'll have a drink with their ghosts and enjoy this with them.
Beautiful ❤️
I like the amplified dulcimer ! 🎉
Super cool amplified mandolin tone!
Tuesday 3rd September 2024.
06.16am.
Thank you. x
Magnifici!
Im filming a skateboard 🛹 video and am using this song 😎.
(studio 🎙️...) but this live version is amazing!
Thursday 7th November 2024.
14.33pm.
Dear Sir/Madam. Good-afternoon. How are you? I trust you are well. This is the official song of The Bull Of Sudan. The Uncrowned Champion Of England and Northern Ireland. I welcome all comers, none barred.
THANK YOU GOOD-LUCK TAKE CARE.
what can be better to a great performance than Maddy stepdancing across the stage
I can remember Maddy playing the spoons and the whole group telling a truly appalling joke, then, after their regular set, going offstage and appearing in rock'n'roll gear to sing Buddy Holly's 'Rave on'. Great days from a great band!
A Jacobite song ridiculing King George & his wives and praising the Highlander leaders.
Confound them!
smh keep politics out of music /s
Good to know that tidbit about history. Thank you 😊
Are you mad? This song is literally a political rant!! That’s it’s whole reason for existing…..
Jacobite one day, Jacobite for Ever.
Long live the House of Hanover!!!
@@spackretired😂
Nothing quite like some early 18th century politics for sheer ....... pointlessness.
Long live the House of York!
Tuesday 3rd September 2024.
07.22am.
Thank you Darling ..... x
This version is soo FAST. But still has the humour and fun element. 🙂
Thursday 31st (Halloween) October 2024.
05.15am.
x
What language is Maddy Prior singing in? Olde English?
scots, it's a dialect of english spoken in parts of scotland
Lowland Scots.
Always got their name mixed up with Steely Dan.
How true
My wife bought us tickets to see Steeleye Span once thinking she was going to see Steely Dan
That was the first and last time that she listened to English Folk-Rock!
I always knew steely Dan was a fake band, so these are the real musicians that played for them in the studio, huh? And everyone criticizes the monkeys and Milli vanilli, ha! 😁
What? Are you high?
such ia cool band ... i only heard that most known album from cartrips as child .... But they allways makse me think of another outfit that is wat more obscuyr, very similiar and you wonder, why they, "Fiddlers dram" only made one album, its here on youtube i it´s entirity and its one good song after another .... their hit is their worrst i think and doesnt sound like rock....Roadtrip to bangor i think its called, it´s a little cheeky with lyrics like "cracking open a bottle of cide, laying back spreading her fanny ...
Hi, Fiddlers DRam went on to be OysterBand and made many many great albums :)
@@spanfan7669 No way ?!? i have to check em out, thanks