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Reminds me of a childhood summer and playing in the street whilst my recently widowed mother played Kathleen Ferrier to soothe her grieving soul. This song wafted out of the window from the Dansette record player and left a lasting impression on me.

celticzephead 1 month ago

The British science fiction series Blake's 7 used this song in one of its episodes.

Blake, a man from the far future when earth is just a distant memory, stumbles upon a collectors house that was a replica house and garden in the 1950s England.

Playing on the gramophone was the last disk of this version of Blow The Wind Southerly.

A priceless relic.

Blake listened in awe and was deeply effected.

To know that this one song could sing for millennia to so many is wonderful.

dubldeka 1 month ago

The most amazing contralto voice ever bar none. There will never, ever be another to compare!

joneseyhelen 3 months ago

I love this. Thanks for posting.

TheGezzagirl55 3 months ago

We love Jussi Bjorling here in Sweden. But the whole world must love Kathleen... if they only were so happy that they could listen to this!

trannel9988 3 months ago

@trannel9988 I had not heard of Jussi Bjorling until your post. I have just listened to some of his recordings. What a wonderful voice.

hawkmoon03111951 3 months ago

The funny story behind this recording: The label (Decca) announces: Phyllis Spurr, piano acc. - but PS was stuck that day in a traffic jam, time was costly, so KF offered to sing it unaccompanied. Thanks God, it was accepted!

Bluetooth6483 4 months ago

Some of you may remember listening to "Down Your Way|" on the radio with Brian Johnson. Kathleen Ferrier's "Blow the Wind Southerly" was always, always, being requested to be played on that programme. Always!

jemtrimmer 5 months ago

Wonderful ! O how I love her voice. From Russia.

murmanivanov 5 months ago

Wonderful ! O how I love her voice/ From Russia/

murmanivanov 5 months ago

LOL! Off to wave my wand over my supper dirty dishes :-))

Katietoo 7 months ago

Really!!!! When I've asked peers that, they think 'I'm away with the fairies' - how great!!! I know this would be too much but you did you ever learn the sea-shanty "Spanish Ladies"? That programme formed my lifelong love of folk.

Katietoo 7 months ago

@Katietoo Pehaps we're both away with the fairies. No I never learnt that one. Did learn 'Bobby Shafto', 'Dashing away with the smoothing iron', 'Early one morning' and 'Among the leaves so green o' from that programme.

hawkmoon03111951 7 months ago

Incomparable! Re: your primary school folk songs - was it by listening to the BBC Radio Schools' Broadcast by any chance, pls? Have tried to find, on the 'net references and possible lists of folk songs we learnt from the BBC booklets produced to go with each new series - but to no avail, alas :-( Thanks, for sharing.

Katietoo 7 months ago

@Katietoo Yes it was the BBC. If I remember rightly we used to listen to it twice a week at about 11 in the morning. I think they were about 20 minutes. I do remember 'Men of Harlech' being one of the songs we sang along to and voted into first place for that term.

hawkmoon03111951 7 months ago

Wonderful.

RiaLake 7 months ago

Cried my eyes out to this one. Evocative of my now dead parents. I looked it up as I just decided to call my latest artwork Blow the Wind Southerly as it was done at Southerly Point in Cornwall.Yep Miss Aiden taught this one at Normandy CPC in the fifties. Awesome

drdownundermum 7 months ago

Stunning. What an inspirational version.

GalindaWannabe08 9 months ago

Lovely!

vaux99100 9 months ago

She speaks to me from 60 years ago, clearly, personally, in a voice for all time.

I will meet her in time to come. There is no such voice now. This is ethereal and cleanses my soul. G-d bless the memory of Kathleen Ferrier. She enriched the world.

sjperelman 9 months ago