many years ago, I wondered who I would marry, sandy denny, or maddy prior. Seeing as I never met either of them, it became a rather moot point. Certainly do love listening to Sandy again, though, so thanx for putting this on
Thank goodness for youtube that folk can experience such quality artists as Sandy! My fear is that all these great artists might be lost over time... sad times indeed!
@harmoniabalanza True, I didn't know she was such a talented instrumentalist - people "only" talk about her as a singer it seems. Did she write these songs as well? No wonder the guys in Led Zeppelin admired her as a musician.
@desert3347 -- Try the album "Sandy" --- and the must have "Liege and Lief" by Fairport Convention (when Sandy was the lead singer) You will not be disappointed.
When you enter her music by listening to her composing skills,especially piano-this is really inspiring me when I play guitar,she really has a brilliant taste of keys and modes or whatever.......-AND THEN......you´re allowed to her singing powers.
She´s more than a legend-she´s right here rearranging my fingers.
Everyone should be made to listen to Sandy on the album Liege and Lief constantly over and over again until they learn what true excellent quality sounds like.
I'll tell ya what's lame..........calling Sandy Denny a wannabe Janis. How pathetic, she was better known in England before Janis was ever known at all in the US and I'm quite Sandy never heard of Janis early in her own career. Get a life moron! Janis was a belter, Sandy was a SINGER!
Last night, something beautiful there in th sky. I did not know what it was, a small burning light...it appeared from nowhere, but I knew that the past was revisiting me, anew, risen, and the birds in the hedgerow sang like they had never
sung before. The light returned,.The land was clean, the hopes of so many were sewn in the hearts of the hills, the nuances of life, kissed like lost forsaken hope..that dream was realised in the end, forever in factGod bless the angel!
Without wishing in any way to be controversial, I would say that Sandy Denny is without doubt (of mine?) the foremost folk/rock artist that has sprinkled magic dust around the UK and enhanced our music culture by footprinting a history that most hopefully, none of us here in this forum will ever forget. Her legacy shall remain in the footprints of UK rock/folk lore, hopefully forever. God Bless XX
My own take on Sandy is that she was a woman of that time. She created an aura in music that must surely have touched the hearts of so many. She must have been so comitted to what she loved. Then finally, there was created through her own talent a folk/rock based hybrid of immense importance that led us out of the dark ages and into and beyond the almost silent but immensley creative era in which Sandy performed. She painted a picture with music, and led us out to the promised land of the 70's
I love Sandy Denny and I have loved her for a long time My only wish was that I could have seen her live. Her voice is amazing and hauntingly beautiful I am mezmerized by it and it takes me to another time and place.
Well the thing about Sandy Denny & nick Drake was probably that they were fairly
introspective, almost shy, but they were burning the new glorious path of folk rock,
and it changed the UK music scene dramatically. UK contemporary have these lost stars to admire for introducing wonderful new musical influences to the UK. Nick and Sandy opened a new UK music vista, and we are all the better for it!
The theme of the Ravens leaving the Tower seems eerie now with the worldwide bird deaths and shifting of migration patterns,etc. What if the Ravens do depart? Doesn't that mean England will fall ? Superstitions aside, this is a miraculous song.
I grew up listening to her music and 40 years on theres nobody ever came close. Her voice had then and still has today, a hold over me that can't be described. The greatest British female singer of her and any age since. LET NOBODY BE MISTAKEN
A Voice of an angel - I particularly like Fotheringay - very haunting. I could listen to her from dawn to dusk and can't help pondering how and why she left us so young
@hummelspatz You're talking bollocks for reasons I don't understand. From Wiki:- In March 1978, while on holiday with her parents in Cornwall, Denny was injured when she fell down a staircase. A month after the fall she collapsed at a friend's home; four days later she died in Atkinson Morley Hospital. Her death was ruled to be the result of a traumatic mid-brain haemorrhage.
Many thanks for these vintage videos of this talented lady. I wish that first song posted here was on her 'best of' cd, which I own. What a talent, who left us too soon.
Have always admired her, but this is the first time I've heard Sandy Denny on her own outside of Fairport Convention. Now even more I so appreciate her exquisite and evocative voice... truly one of a kind. And thanks so much for posting the video!
The finest British female "Folk Music" vocalists of all time. Only 15 days till the huge new box set comes out,can not wait! Have had it on order for ages since I first heard it was coming out as I have been a fan of Sandy since the first vinyl box set in 1985 or so.
So many female vocalists today owe her for her example of pure vocal tones, her smooth voice, her pure musicality. Not to mention her authoring "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?"... Gone too soon.
Thanks for the posting. But are these three rare TV performances all that we have of Sandy performing??? I saw Fairport in Brisbane in 1974 when Sandy sang I cried. I believe there is a rough video of a Fairport + Sandy gig in Bermingham???
@utz14 There is a bit more footage of her on YouTube. Search on "sandy denny gypsy davy" to find a German TV appearance with Fotheringay. Search on "sandy denny birmingham" for those Fairport clips (warning: they're in lousy quality).
You can't put all singers in 1 basket - romantic2. She didn't sing Opera so Maria Callas or Kiri Te Kanawa would blow her off the stage. Likewise Janice Joplin would blast her off a heavy/blues rock platform. egil4950 has it closer to the mark...the Greatest female voice in English folk music. I would vote for that.
She is and was an angel on lease to us humans for but a short time. Fairport is a part of my life for all these many years, and a part of my soul. Problem is, I can't often listen to these tunes (and Sandy Denny's voice) anymore, without crying. Something deep inside - goes way back to Henry's time; when we were swinging swords and fighting the saracen dogs. Oh, like now. Peace Eternal.
Sandy is one of the most phenominal singers and general artistes to have emerged in the UK during the 60s and 70's. A voice to truly make love to. And I did.
If you want to know how Sandy Denny figures into the annals of rock history, let's just put it this way. Led Zeppelin remains the definitive classic rock/hard rock/heavy metal band of all time. They saw the featured artist gimmick of today as cheap, cynical, and cheesy: the way it really is. They eschewed publicity and guest contributors, making it to the top on their own merits. Nevertheless, she remains the only guest vocalist in a Zep tune: the timeless Battle of Evermore
Sorry, but in my opinion "who knows where the time goes " is a sign of someone who knows her stuff and may have professed naivety but was fooling you if you felt that she did not know. However, knowing how fucked up this existance can be, not surprisingly she got lost and let it go.
On NPR (public radio) today there was a spot on her - I had never heard her name. It was said she was one of the several great "phrasers" in her singing - a talent that not all good singers have. I was loving the talk on her, and then they said she died, and I felt terribly sad at the loss. Now I'll go look her up and listen to some more lovely music...
New limited edition box set coming out shortly - 19 CDs, book, facsimile promo stuff etc. Absolutely the last word - no more material available apparently. And only £165 GBP from Amazon.
Can I hear Sandy falling about laughing? Saw her in September 1973 for a quid!
I'm very impressed by the Celtic folk music (Strawbs, Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention, Pentangle), although I live outside of the British Isles. I didn't know that music in my youth although I'm old enough. How talented young musicians they were. How fresh they sound even today. Terrible that Sandy Denny died so young. Her sensitive performances touch listeners again and again, What produced that musical bloom in the sixties and seventies ?
in response to "romantic2", my friend, you are of course entirely correct. sandy will never be surpassed. the most incredible voice this side of heaven.
Just bought the 2-disc anthology of her songs with various groups or just in her own right - totally gorgeous. What I love, apart from her voice, is the fact that many of her own songs aren't as transparent as so many songs by singer-songwriters. There's often a mysterious centre that is hard to fathom. Wonderful.
Although listening to the Radio 2 documentary it seems she did get a bit power mad and crazy towards the end. Pushing her not very talented partner too much and not listening to advice.
Romantic2 . Yes i guess it has been 30 years. Fell down the stairs. I am so removed, she never died in my pin brain. Listen to this is that a voice of one who's dead?
She's buried in the same cemetery as my mother (Putney Vale), and when I visit my mother's grave I usually make a small detour to pay my respects to Sandy as well.
It's very sad how Sandy's brother and mom passed prematurely as well, leaving the dad to mourn his entire family for years prior to his own passing. I offered Sandy and her dad a poem of remembrance on the "Findagrave" online site. Even though I never knew them, somehow I was touched by their lives and the circumstances surrounding their passing. Putney Vale is a lovely final resting place, though inescapably and intrinsically sad in its aspect.
Westpalmscott, it was July 20, 1999. You can view photos of the family gravesite at Putney Vale if you google the "findagrave" and then search for the family name at that location. They are all together in death. It reminds me of the Bronte family in the Yorkshire moors, except Anne who was buried at Scarborough.
close... I remember the best compliment I ever heard from Stevie Wonder with regard to Amos Garrett's solo on Maria Muldaur's "midnight at the oasis". He said it's the second best solo I've ever heard. When asked what the best one was, Stevie answered "I haven't heard it yet". Sandy was wonderful
@apemanstreetwalker I would agree wholeheartedly with your choice for a runner-up. Kate is no doubt a superior musician, (and, thank god, has lived to have a long career!) and EVERY woman who's made a record in the last 30 years owes her. But think about absolute purity of sound and expression of lyrics... it's still Sandy!
At 60 years of age - the voice of a dead woman who I never met can still reduce me to tears,
Bless you Sandy if only you had known the depth of feeling people had for you.
PDSJohn 1 week ago in playlist Sandy Denny
many years ago, I wondered who I would marry, sandy denny, or maddy prior. Seeing as I never met either of them, it became a rather moot point. Certainly do love listening to Sandy again, though, so thanx for putting this on
fubar50cat 2 weeks ago
I want a Sandy Denny action figure. :(
Tengent 4 weeks ago
1:46 Beautiful
cadmus98 1 month ago
I give omage to her just making cover of her songs om ny channell: watch 'em!!!
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maxghezzi 1 month ago
come ,come back fair maid.....you are missed more than ever
drydry50 2 months ago
linda voz suave
annylove5 2 months ago
What a voice. Thanks for sharing this
gazrobbo53 2 months ago
Thank goodness for youtube that folk can experience such quality artists as Sandy! My fear is that all these great artists might be lost over time... sad times indeed!
bloodhound63 2 months ago
Her voice melts me - even after all these years.
QMPhilosophe 2 months ago 2
Singers are musicians.
harmoniabalanza 3 months ago
Her voice - so gorgeous
corinne54 3 months ago
Yes, that's true among her fans, , but she is not popularly known or appreciated. Nearly everyone I mention her to has never heard of her,
and these are middle-aged, educated music fans. And many who do know of her just don't grasp how good she really was.
harmoniabalanza 3 months ago
@harmoniabalanza True, I didn't know she was such a talented instrumentalist - people "only" talk about her as a singer it seems. Did she write these songs as well? No wonder the guys in Led Zeppelin admired her as a musician.
HuntersMoon73 3 months ago
search nicolas and the iceni narrow road. they write beautiful classical and folk music which has echoes of denny and drake.
Blake788 4 months ago
This is one of the most underrated artists
of the last 50 years. Period.
If you happen to know anything about music technically,
listen a while--she reinvented English traditional music;
her modal influences come from way before even the 17th century.
harmoniabalanza 4 months ago
@harmoniabalanza
P>S> and if you really dig in to her lyrics (it'll take awhile),
you'll see that she channeled the history
of England into poetry/ musical form. The spiritual shadow of
the factual history.
harmoniabalanza 4 months ago
@harmoniabalanza Sandy Denny isn't underrated, her genius is well established.
Threepwoodist 3 months ago
What a voice......If I was God, I would make her Irish
oldiron2007 5 months ago
@oldiron2007
Why?
harmoniabalanza 3 months ago
@harmoniabalanza ....It was a silly comment, I was drinking at the time
oldiron2007 3 months ago
Truly a wonder. I stumbled upon her years ago and love her.
Thank you, Sandy.
rhynostino2 5 months ago
i only know her from the battle of evermore
AngieAcidic 6 months ago
OMG, I've just Stumbled onto This Most Amazing Singer!
Music Is My Drug of Choice and I've Nevwer heard of Her!!
I Can't Believe What I Am Hearing.
A Poet........A Musician........
desert3347 6 months ago
@desert3347 -- Try the album "Sandy" --- and the must have "Liege and Lief" by Fairport Convention (when Sandy was the lead singer) You will not be disappointed.
libertycityeric 5 months ago in playlist Sandy Denny
@libertycityeric Since I've Been Listening To Sandy and Fairport, I Now Remember This
Group and Beautiful Lead Singer..............Her Voice Is Like "Judy Collins" Full Of Emotion!
Thanks.......
desert3347 5 months ago
Ahh. My favourite female singer of all time. Now back singing with the other angels. We were truly blessed.
freemanlee1 6 months ago 6
When I read comments like alienintruders it gives me hope! Young people finally discovering real music! RIP Sandy we love and miss you XX
underslunky1 6 months ago
Her untimely death was a terrible loss to her-- but an even greater loss to the world.
armybart65 6 months ago
A great loss to the world.
armybart65 6 months ago
Uma voz que me apetece ABRAÇAR!
Querida Sandy!
Vocês acreditam que quando a oiço, me vêm as lágrimas aos olhos?
monalisa3214 6 months ago
When you enter her music by listening to her composing skills,especially piano-this is really inspiring me when I play guitar,she really has a brilliant taste of keys and modes or whatever.......-AND THEN......you´re allowed to her singing powers.
She´s more than a legend-she´s right here rearranging my fingers.
Rahoorkhuitable 7 months ago
Sandy is really amezing
kAyA1562011 7 months ago
A master of genius RIP
lilywondertwin 7 months ago
Darling Sandy....we miss your beautiful voice, face and presence....you left your mark on us all.........a peaceful rest to ya, My Dear.....
glynna0071 7 months ago
christine mc vie should sing sandy's tunes. they have almost the same voice
addsomemusic 7 months ago
I thought she sang too much like an angel. I guess she does.
tribegoddess 8 months ago
@tribegoddess She is an Angel!
monalisa3214 6 months ago
The picture on Wikipedia does not look like her. What a performer..beautiful and tragic. Wish I knew her.
modelleg 8 months ago
like it , great vocals, cheers The Makem Folk Singer
TheMakemFolksinger 8 months ago
Everyone should be made to listen to Sandy on the album Liege and Lief constantly over and over again until they learn what true excellent quality sounds like.
From there on everything else is ordinary.
PDSJohn 8 months ago
im going to download one of her albums !!!!!!!
FlyingDavie 8 months ago
@COPMMUSIC
I'll tell ya what's lame..........calling Sandy Denny a wannabe Janis. How pathetic, she was better known in England before Janis was ever known at all in the US and I'm quite Sandy never heard of Janis early in her own career. Get a life moron! Janis was a belter, Sandy was a SINGER!
bigmamou 8 months ago
what a love she was! x
paulakhs 8 months ago
Last night, something beautiful there in th sky. I did not know what it was, a small burning light...it appeared from nowhere, but I knew that the past was revisiting me, anew, risen, and the birds in the hedgerow sang like they had never
sung before. The light returned,.The land was clean, the hopes of so many were sewn in the hearts of the hills, the nuances of life, kissed like lost forsaken hope..that dream was realised in the end, forever in factGod bless the angel!
Blobcave 9 months ago
go and buy all her albums and those she sang with Fairport Convention also - you will be a better person
anthonynewsome 9 months ago
What a great voice-a great talent. every song sounds great. i hope she see's us listening from were she is.
kocean1 9 months ago
Without wishing in any way to be controversial, I would say that Sandy Denny is without doubt (of mine?) the foremost folk/rock artist that has sprinkled magic dust around the UK and enhanced our music culture by footprinting a history that most hopefully, none of us here in this forum will ever forget. Her legacy shall remain in the footprints of UK rock/folk lore, hopefully forever. God Bless XX
Blobcave 9 months ago
My own take on Sandy is that she was a woman of that time. She created an aura in music that must surely have touched the hearts of so many. She must have been so comitted to what she loved. Then finally, there was created through her own talent a folk/rock based hybrid of immense importance that led us out of the dark ages and into and beyond the almost silent but immensley creative era in which Sandy performed. She painted a picture with music, and led us out to the promised land of the 70's
Blobcave 9 months ago
The only woman ever asked to sing on a Led Zeppelin song. (Battle of Evermore) They should have had Sandy sing on more tracks!
rocktenniscat 9 months ago
Remembering Sandy today. April 21, 1978 she flew up to sing with the angels....
rocktenniscat 9 months ago
Soo good. Amazing voice and she has such a natural flow to her music. A natural born musician if I ever saw one.
Monty0699 9 months ago
great! She has a great talent! =P
isasasiqueira 9 months ago
WYGAKYL THANK YOU FOR THE WISE QUOTE, ABOUT THIS MAGNIFICENT BARD SANDY DENNY.
vita9n 9 months ago
An amazing talent whose life was cut all too short...........
milbury55 9 months ago
Gibsons sounded so much more alive than Martins. My 2 cents
solerso68 10 months ago
1:46 O.o
0adireita 10 months ago
I am in tears
garrington120 10 months ago
I love Sandy Denny and I have loved her for a long time My only wish was that I could have seen her live. Her voice is amazing and hauntingly beautiful I am mezmerized by it and it takes me to another time and place.
bgumhold1 10 months ago
Her voice... the only voice in the world that touches me deeply
AnnetteVogel 10 months ago
Simply gorgeous ,,,
alex497 10 months ago
Simple and gorgeous ....
alex497 10 months ago
one of the most overrated musicians ever
Myrna4Loy 11 months ago
@Myrna4Loy
you mean underated I am sure
kerpin09 11 months ago
truly the voice of an angel never fails to move me
cardiffmadmarshy 11 months ago
sandy you bunble of awsomeness
doodlinin 11 months ago
Well the thing about Sandy Denny & nick Drake was probably that they were fairly
introspective, almost shy, but they were burning the new glorious path of folk rock,
and it changed the UK music scene dramatically. UK contemporary have these lost stars to admire for introducing wonderful new musical influences to the UK. Nick and Sandy opened a new UK music vista, and we are all the better for it!
Hey, what a fantastic legacy, bless them both.
Blobcave 1 year ago 12
@Blobcave So true :)
TheVelvetBride 1 year ago
unearthly.
tapper1477 1 year ago
Ah, sweet! Alas she was taken from us so soon and fought such demons.Their have been few like her;. Thanks.
galileo1956 1 year ago
Ah, sweet! Alas she was taken from us so soon and fought such demons.Their have been few like her; Loreena comes oh so close. Thanks.
galileo1956 1 year ago
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had i only known her then,for alas i thought only joni mitchell capable of touching my soul this way
texasredneckhippy 1 year ago
had i only known her then,for alas i thought only joni mitchel capable of touching mysoul this way
texasredneckhippy 1 year ago
I had no idea she played piano too. What a great song!
MrAttPatt 1 year ago
how can anyone with a heart and ears dislike this?? beautiful..
towser06 1 year ago
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philsteakfreeman 1 year ago
The theme of the Ravens leaving the Tower seems eerie now with the worldwide bird deaths and shifting of migration patterns,etc. What if the Ravens do depart? Doesn't that mean England will fall ? Superstitions aside, this is a miraculous song.
philsteakfreeman 1 year ago
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splendidhuman 1 year ago
I grew up listening to her music and 40 years on theres nobody ever came close. Her voice had then and still has today, a hold over me that can't be described. The greatest British female singer of her and any age since. LET NOBODY BE MISTAKEN
splendidhuman 1 year ago
No, those are just flaws in the recording - sounds like spots where the original videotape was stretched.
Today would have been her 64th birthday.
kinseymilkbone 1 year ago
(not to mention 5:57)
Agalynet 1 year ago
1:46, is that pitch correction ?
Anyway, great great singer.
SylvainBrunerie 1 year ago
(and 4:12)
SylvainBrunerie 1 year ago
Oh my, what a lady, You are so missed
oldiron2007 1 year ago
just proud to be one of the 400,000 that is watchin this video. Luv Sandra Denny.
TheCokemandogman 1 year ago
What is there about her voice that gives us chills, huh? Can you single out the
piece of vocal performance that does that. How does that work? Wow. wow. Ow.
buddy6713 1 year ago
A Voice of an angel - I particularly like Fotheringay - very haunting. I could listen to her from dawn to dusk and can't help pondering how and why she left us so young
14zuluboy 1 year ago
if you like this (and I do), be sure to check Eva Cassidy as well... it would seem that great voices die young.
hummelspatz 1 year ago
@hummelspatz Eva Cassidy died????? How.?
aaronmonkeylover 1 year ago
@aaronmonkeylover
She died in 1996 of melanoma (skincancer), check wikipedia...
hummelspatz 1 year ago
@hummelspatz You're talking bollocks for reasons I don't understand. From Wiki:- In March 1978, while on holiday with her parents in Cornwall, Denny was injured when she fell down a staircase. A month after the fall she collapsed at a friend's home; four days later she died in Atkinson Morley Hospital. Her death was ruled to be the result of a traumatic mid-brain haemorrhage.
RatherLargeAllan 1 year ago
@RatherLargeAllan
I was referring to the death of Eva Cassidy, not Sandy Denny. If only you'd read back 3 posts before commenting on my testicles :-)
hummelspatz 1 year ago
thank you. Wonderful.
shemanic1 1 year ago
my aftername is denny:D
mw2freakchris 1 year ago
<3
gorseydog 1 year ago
Many thanks for these vintage videos of this talented lady. I wish that first song posted here was on her 'best of' cd, which I own. What a talent, who left us too soon.
Tim
MrTOT7 1 year ago
LongLine Sustained. Honor and Thanks
612franklin 1 year ago
Love her.....still
Jade860 1 year ago
she is hard to beat. her version of farina's "quiet joys of brotherhood" would reduce
our band (burly north carolinians all) to tears. the whisky helped a bit...
sleethmitchel 1 year ago
@sleethmitchel I'll drink to that brothers!
RatherLargeAllan 1 year ago
One of the great voices of all time, one of the greatest poets, songwriters and talents.
HSFootballMoms 1 year ago
The voice will always live to haunt us who heard and then to enchant those who come after us.
powellallan 1 year ago
stunning
stevieseven 1 year ago
She was so awesome and so unrecognized even today...beautiful voice.
fatthead360 1 year ago
A lustrous 19 CD Sandy Denny box set was released on Nov1st. If anyone would like to buy it for me (only £188.00) i'll accept most gracefully hahaha.
teliesin77 1 year ago
Have always admired her, but this is the first time I've heard Sandy Denny on her own outside of Fairport Convention. Now even more I so appreciate her exquisite and evocative voice... truly one of a kind. And thanks so much for posting the video!
matonmongo 1 year ago
@matonmongo she was great with fairport but her album, "sandy denny", showed
her song writing ability to good advantage.
sleethmitchel 1 year ago
The finest British female "Folk Music" vocalists of all time. Only 15 days till the huge new box set comes out,can not wait! Have had it on order for ages since I first heard it was coming out as I have been a fan of Sandy since the first vinyl box set in 1985 or so.
colm47 1 year ago
Have to agree with romantic2, of all the music i have laughed and wept to over the years, Sandy's voice is eternal, ethereal and timeless..
SPERANZA65 1 year ago
We will never let your music die, my dear, it has cut me deep. Rest your rest, my dear soul.
wygakyl 1 year ago 18
@wygakyl
She is at rest.
daffo001 8 months ago
Fantastic
mhicdhughil 1 year ago
thanxxx a million, shame this isn't on the "live at the bbc" dvd. sandy's voice will live on forever!!!
EngelNr666 1 year ago
@EngelNr666 Don't understand. This *is* on "Sandy Denny Live At the BBC" and in better picture quality than you find here.
gildasderhuys 1 year ago
So many female vocalists today owe her for her example of pure vocal tones, her smooth voice, her pure musicality. Not to mention her authoring "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?"... Gone too soon.
wrkn4Him 1 year ago 2
I feel like i've just discovered the female Nick Drake. Im going to buy one of her albums.
atlienintruder 1 year ago 8
@atlienintruder im gonna download one of her albums !!!!
FlyingDavie 8 months ago
Thanks you so much.
utz14 1 year ago
Thanks for the posting. But are these three rare TV performances all that we have of Sandy performing??? I saw Fairport in Brisbane in 1974 when Sandy sang I cried. I believe there is a rough video of a Fairport + Sandy gig in Bermingham???
utz14 1 year ago
@utz14 There is a bit more footage of her on YouTube. Search on "sandy denny gypsy davy" to find a German TV appearance with Fotheringay. Search on "sandy denny birmingham" for those Fairport clips (warning: they're in lousy quality).
gildasderhuys 1 year ago
That voice never ceases to touch my soul!
vogonpoet4242 1 year ago
i enjoyed that
dublinirishkelt 1 year ago
You can't put all singers in 1 basket - romantic2. She didn't sing Opera so Maria Callas or Kiri Te Kanawa would blow her off the stage. Likewise Janice Joplin would blast her off a heavy/blues rock platform. egil4950 has it closer to the mark...the Greatest female voice in English folk music. I would vote for that.
JorgeBarka 1 year ago
No comment. Torno a posar el primer disc...
soniahernandezs 1 year ago
Sandy brings back memories. She is the greatest voice in English folk music, ever.
egil4950 1 year ago
chills....
rojolane 1 year ago
A truly amazing and brilliant talent. Hauntingly Beautiful and Timeless.
hazybasementmusic 1 year ago
She is and was an angel on lease to us humans for but a short time. Fairport is a part of my life for all these many years, and a part of my soul. Problem is, I can't often listen to these tunes (and Sandy Denny's voice) anymore, without crying. Something deep inside - goes way back to Henry's time; when we were swinging swords and fighting the saracen dogs. Oh, like now. Peace Eternal.
arhatyellow 1 year ago 2
I remember to Sandy Danny very well, I had 2 albums - unfortunatelly she passed too early. The web makes it possible to listen to her songs again.
Ixtulu 1 year ago
Sandy is one of the most phenominal singers and general artistes to have emerged in the UK during the 60s and 70's. A voice to truly make love to. And I did.
wornpick1 1 year ago
so rare to see her on film ,the joy of her always make the heart fly thk you Sandy
ludvalley109 1 year ago
you will always be missed
auldnickdevlin 1 year ago
She was so beautiful and a wonderful voice,magical.
I'm told CONSORTIUM the band wrote a tribute to her called "She gave life" on the REBIRTH album. I know that they thought she was the best ever.
travellingirl1 1 year ago
oh god...
somaditya75 1 year ago
Amazing, beautiful & deeply moving as ever. Thank you Sandy.
Davidftz 1 year ago
If you want to know how Sandy Denny figures into the annals of rock history, let's just put it this way. Led Zeppelin remains the definitive classic rock/hard rock/heavy metal band of all time. They saw the featured artist gimmick of today as cheap, cynical, and cheesy: the way it really is. They eschewed publicity and guest contributors, making it to the top on their own merits. Nevertheless, she remains the only guest vocalist in a Zep tune: the timeless Battle of Evermore
JackOfferlott 1 year ago
Sorry, but in my opinion "who knows where the time goes " is a sign of someone who knows her stuff and may have professed naivety but was fooling you if you felt that she did not know. However, knowing how fucked up this existance can be, not surprisingly she got lost and let it go.
logonif 1 year ago
She's incredible. Just to remember those lyrics is hard work enough!
drobbi 1 year ago
I always wondered who was the female voice in that Zeppelin song.....
marcolfino 1 year ago 2
On NPR (public radio) today there was a spot on her - I had never heard her name. It was said she was one of the several great "phrasers" in her singing - a talent that not all good singers have. I was loving the talk on her, and then they said she died, and I felt terribly sad at the loss. Now I'll go look her up and listen to some more lovely music...
ytcarol 1 year ago
@ytcarol Yeah, I heard that too. 31. So sad...
mike1981val 1 year ago
I think the songs in this performance are better than the studio albums. So the audio dropouts
are *really* annoying. Just wanted to let you guys know that there's much better quality,
dropout-free versions of this performance here, in 3 separate videos:
/watch?v=0CiGOfpBquE North Star
/watch?v=LmimGqce3UE Crazy Lady
/watch?v=4RgsJ0dVsR4 Late November
A nice bonus is that the version of Crazy Lady is the complete song, which it isn't here on
mogtwitch2000's post. Enjoy!
RockStarSoul 1 year ago
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RockStarSoul 1 year ago
Led Zeppelin brought me here.
DerekBayRoberts1 1 year ago
Thanking you most sincerly for the post , oh memorys memorys of a long time ago
God rest her but the foot staps of a different time
padraigpurseal 1 year ago
The "First Lady" of Folk Rock.
MITCHWILD 1 year ago
Magickal !! a truly amazing voice with so much in it :)
blyndzenyth2 1 year ago
New limited edition box set coming out shortly - 19 CDs, book, facsimile promo stuff etc. Absolutely the last word - no more material available apparently. And only £165 GBP from Amazon.
Can I hear Sandy falling about laughing? Saw her in September 1973 for a quid!
caley956 1 year ago
JyHiable,
the good question is not what produced the musical bloom in the sixties and seventies, but what stopped it in the eighties.
(And that was disco music, with no doubt.)
ramonfw 1 year ago
I'm very impressed by the Celtic folk music (Strawbs, Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention, Pentangle), although I live outside of the British Isles. I didn't know that music in my youth although I'm old enough. How talented young musicians they were. How fresh they sound even today. Terrible that Sandy Denny died so young. Her sensitive performances touch listeners again and again, What produced that musical bloom in the sixties and seventies ?
JyHiable 1 year ago
Simply the best female vocalist for at least fifty years. I have unashamedly been in love with Sandy's voice for 40 years.xx
CallumCakes 1 year ago
in response to "romantic2", my friend, you are of course entirely correct. sandy will never be surpassed. the most incredible voice this side of heaven.
michael50ist 1 year ago
She had an amazing voice.
Natemoore7 1 year ago
Just bought the 2-disc anthology of her songs with various groups or just in her own right - totally gorgeous. What I love, apart from her voice, is the fact that many of her own songs aren't as transparent as so many songs by singer-songwriters. There's often a mysterious centre that is hard to fathom. Wonderful.
AlanSturgess 1 year ago 4
Sandy FOREVER!!!
miladesintra 1 year ago
the perfect female voice
VargVikingoPagano 1 year ago 2
Heaven had to have her.
modelleg 1 year ago 10
suprising how a whole band's noise's are compromised by the simple way
chippy783 1 year ago
Denny at her creative peak. Too bad the footage is a bit marred
westpalmscott 1 year ago
Tkx to youtube who can bring us these glimpses of the late great sandy d
dtb19 1 year ago
So damn good!
rocktunes 1 year ago
*genuflect*
NewRightLondon 1 year ago
The last piece on this offering was featured on the famous EL Pea double album from Island records.
What a great track, My copy of EL PEA is distroyed but it is a piece of history and this track from Sandy Denny was part of that , wonerfull
306bad 2 years ago
I ameant to buy El Pea and never got round to it
LEEDSPETER001 1 year ago
i've got it :-) bought it about 15 years ago...2nd hand, of course :-)
routeoz 1 year ago
Although listening to the Radio 2 documentary it seems she did get a bit power mad and crazy towards the end. Pushing her not very talented partner too much and not listening to advice.
sunbeam11 2 years ago
Romantic2 . Yes i guess it has been 30 years. Fell down the stairs. I am so removed, she never died in my pin brain. Listen to this is that a voice of one who's dead?
JTho658351 2 years ago
She's buried in the same cemetery as my mother (Putney Vale), and when I visit my mother's grave I usually make a small detour to pay my respects to Sandy as well.
JekyllBoote 2 years ago 7
It's very sad how Sandy's brother and mom passed prematurely as well, leaving the dad to mourn his entire family for years prior to his own passing. I offered Sandy and her dad a poem of remembrance on the "Findagrave" online site. Even though I never knew them, somehow I was touched by their lives and the circumstances surrounding their passing. Putney Vale is a lovely final resting place, though inescapably and intrinsically sad in its aspect.
irelephant 2 years ago
I understand that Neil Denny lived to be very old. When did he pass ?
westpalmscott 1 year ago
Westpalmscott, it was July 20, 1999. You can view photos of the family gravesite at Putney Vale if you google the "findagrave" and then search for the family name at that location. They are all together in death. It reminds me of the Bronte family in the Yorkshire moors, except Anne who was buried at Scarborough.
irelephant 1 year ago
Spellbinding.
She's been gone 30 years. At that remove, is it safe to say it?
The Greatest Female Singer of All Time.
romantic2 2 years ago 45
@romantic2
yes!
almaq69 1 year ago
@romantic2 She sounded brilliant to me then and now she sounds pure magic. And thank you mogtwitch2000 for giving us this poignant glimpse.
pentelikos 1 year ago
close... I remember the best compliment I ever heard from Stevie Wonder with regard to Amos Garrett's solo on Maria Muldaur's "midnight at the oasis". He said it's the second best solo I've ever heard. When asked what the best one was, Stevie answered "I haven't heard it yet". Sandy was wonderful
strat8383 1 year ago
@romantic2 it goes without saying
dvrsweet1 1 year ago
@romantic2 Bold statement but well respected
sg72646 1 year ago
@romantic2 - gets my vote.
ChomFa 1 year ago
@romantic2 Someone after my own heart, others sing but Sandy touches me like no other...all the best
utz14 1 year ago
@romantic2 Kate Bush would give her a run but yes this makes me cry :)
apemanstreetwalker 1 year ago
@apemanstreetwalker I would agree wholeheartedly with your choice for a runner-up. Kate is no doubt a superior musician, (and, thank god, has lived to have a long career!) and EVERY woman who's made a record in the last 30 years owes her. But think about absolute purity of sound and expression of lyrics... it's still Sandy!
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