Songcatcher - Emmy Rossum singing Barbara Allen

[IcedTeaCanonthedesk]

OMG in , total shock that this is Fiona from Shameless . I watched this before , then Shameless and never put the two together .

[norestrictions12]

"Mah granny gave it tuh me.."

Cute. lol

[clmcshea]

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[Sleven859]

Does anyone where I can find her singing this whole song?

[ShawDAMAN]

this one song is better than most of the film work she has done. if she had an album of songs like this I'd buy it. alas. ;p

[scrabjan1]

@ShawDAMAN I was blown away by this movie and the singing. As someone wrote no better instrument than a pure, strong voice. Also love Matty Groves and Pretty Saro-Iris Dement.

[ShawDAMAN]

@scrabjan1 yes 'pretty saro' was great too.

[kampuskop]

People....

This song is NOT by Emmylou Harris.

It is several hundred years old.

It's an old English folf ballad.

Harris may have recorded a version of it but this song is way older than the USA it'self.

[PatMcDonald41]

Oh, why did this end ….. ? It is beautiful ….. where is the rest?

[ImperialistRunningDo]

You don't interrupt a song to ask fool questions. That's just rude. Thime enough to look dumb when the song is over.

[smileygirlishere2008]

Appalachian ballads? Barbara Allen dates back to 17th century Europe, likely England or Scotland.

[iberightbackpig]

@smileygirlishere2008 They're appalachain ballads because we brought them over with us and keep passing them down. Yes they were originally english, but we were the only ones who keep them pure by passing them down.

[Dutchy1965]

Appalachian ballads - can't beat'em

[thelastamericandude]

What's this from?

[MrUfos8mycow]

@thelastamericandude

The movie 'Songcatcher;

[crakerjacker2005]

"My granny gave it to me" I love her accent

[seadawg93]

I love it, I wish she had sung the whole song.

I have the Songcatcher soundtrack and they have this track, but it's only 43 seconds long and then it goes to a different version by Emmylou Harris.

That version is fine, but this is the one I really like.

[twiggy536]

i love emmy rossum :) she is awesomely talented

[toterola451]

This is all the reason anyone needs to watch the movie that this is taken from: "Songcatcher". It is stunningly good.

[AngelOfMusic4life]

Emmy Rossum my angel of music! <3

[LaurentziuRo]

Impressive voice !!

[travis101305027]

wow, she sounds like she is from Appalachia. Wise county or somewhere in that area. Great vocal trip, sounds like the mountains.

[joepatfow5]

The name of the some is Barbary Allen.

[omegagilgamesh]

Not what I was expecting at all. I expected her operatic voice to come out, but I guess considering the setting that would have been just silly. Still, wonderful job. It couldn't be easy for a New York girl to bring out such a southern twang.

[DrewBtunes]

@omegagilgamesh Sheila Kay Adams was the singing coach for Songcatcher; most of the versions you hear in the movie are the ones passed down through the generations of her family, and there's no better teacher available - I know, hehe, she's my mom. Emmy was such a joy to work with; we had such a great time...at one point she looked at me and said, "How would you sing it?" I'm not sure, but I think I just blushed and fell over. So many great memories from such a short summer...

[NothingED]

this song is beautiful

[Emmyfan94]

I know! :)

[ravenviolet228]

how old was she in this movie??

[Emmyfan94]

She's 13.

[WanderingChild1]

I LOVE it : )

[elffeh]

LOVE her voice singing this style of music!! There is no better instrument than a pure, strong voice....

[90lax]

Ha Ha i was in this movie. Good times! wished more people knew about it.

[ColeyLovely]

We watche dthis movie as a group in my theatre group at school(: We're using it to study dialect in the appalaichan mountains for our play Dark of the Moon. So which character did you play? =]

[90lax]

I was one of the kids sittin on the front porch! And then we got up and ran away! not much but it was still fun!

[90lax]

Ha Ha i was in this movie brings back good memories. Fun times

[GirlieMay09]

oh thanks for that

[GirlieMay09]

i want this movie, i have looked everywhere and cant find it. it is one of my favorites and i love to sing the ballads she sings in it

[GinaInTheKingsRoad]

It's on Netflix.

[DaisymaeGoGo]

This is one of my favorite movies.I grew up in Tennessee, and this is the kind of music my Grandparents and my parents sang and played.

This music feels like home in my heart. :0)

[crakerjacker2005]

"My Granny gave it to me"

lol

[Sheamusj]

An amazingly good rendition!!!

Who is this singer?

Thank you for Canada.

[Darkrangerofthedeep]

It's Emmy Rossum, she's the singer.

[Sheamusj]

Thank you Darkrangerofthedeep!

[Datafreak5]

Emmy Rossum, the young girl that is singing.

She is also in Phantom of the Opera, and, unless you haven't noticed, her voice is AWESOME!

[Sheamusj]

Thank you Datafeak5!

[BonnieBlue1863]

Emmy Rossum

[Irishrose2966]

The Appalachian region was mostly Scottish and Irish. Hence the sounds of blue-grass music. It stems from the Celtic sounds.

[LordGodofMercy]

Appalachia was/is populated by people of English and Lowland Scotts Anglo Saxons.Plus Some German people I think you are mistaken by the American term for protestant Lowland Scotts and English that colonised Northern Ireland as Scotts Irish. Cencus figures reveal that the people that live in the southern Appalchian mountains consider themselves of 'Scotts Irish' and English stock.

[LordGodofMercy]

And not forgetting the Indigenous Native Americans.

[sweetbriargirl]

@LordGodofMercy I'm from the southern bits of the mountains and yes, we are Scots-Irish. Most of us have Native American blood too.

[FantasmaLuna]

She's grown up so much, hasn't she? She looks so little in this movie!

[anilegna]

I want to hear the rest of this version of the song!!! gaaahhh

[Kailys3]

Heh I have to say I don't really like this song with a southern twang.

[vandisiya]

emmy rox

love her song falling

shes perfect

a good role model

[RiverBirch1967]

I love this move so much. In this scene I love the reaction of the lady at 0:25.

[ramesdale]

I love how she sings in Songcatcher. Wish I could say the same for Phantom -_-

[kentuckybredreble]

my daddy taught this to me when i was younger, gorgeous song, beautiful.

[Darkrangerofthedeep]

Beautiful!

[ninjagirl37]

thats an almost convincing country accent.........almost.........­.i should i have one serious accent

[crakerjacker2005]

lol I think so too

[FantasmaLuna]

She's such a versatile singer!

[vtfarmer08]

Someone please post this song done by Mac Wiseman. So good.

[gypsyqueen64]

Emmy Rossum is a classically trained opera singer, but has proven she has proven her diverse talent! I love her rendition of "Barbara Allen".

[BillReef]

Emmy says she is "not" an opera singer but a lyric soprano.

[silverheron9]

And she went on to play Christine in Phantom of the Opera

[blondekaylee22]

wow her singing voice sounds like she was born in appalachian.... great job... what a singer, great sound she could record a bluegrass cd

[sheribaby27]

With this title the song is not

[Happyduck1010]

how old is she there?

[londonchick103]

umm about 13 or so maybe 14

[sheribaby27]

name of the song please.

[MrMidwest]

it's in the title

[vegi3tarian]

Barbara Allen. Please.

[donnaray143]

This movie is based on my ancestors. I am from Madison County, NC and Sheila Kay Adams is my 2nd cousin. Sheila helped the people in this movie learn the words to the songs and how to sing them. I auditioned for this part in the movie. They were letting Sheila help with casting and told her they wanted an authentic mountain girl to play the part (that was where I came in) and then they got Emmy to do it instead!

[Syliviel]

I figured her character was supposed to be a Melungeon.

[Syliviel]

I mean, her character.

[stillwaterguy04]

Thank God that she didn't sing in Poseidon Adventure!

[iamisiah111]

WUHU!!! i love EMMY ROSSUM!!!!! she can.. like, sing anything!!

[stillwaterguy04]

Emmy Rossum has butchered yet another beautiful piece of music - someone stop her, please!!!

[pigpen4483]

how about this? I'll butcher YOU into a million beautiful little pieces? you must be a dumb person without the mental capacity to understand that IT'S A SCRIPT. and that emmy rossum can sing anyone's brains out

[stillwaterguy04]

She ruined Phantom of the Opera, too, though. I can't stand her looks or her singing, and I am not alone in that opinion.

[pigpen4483]

hmm seems that we got ourselves a mexican stand off of opinions! only one way to settle this..............thumb wrestle......

[rubysunshine7]

this was one of my favorite scenes in the film - i had no idea who the young girl was - just recently rediscovered her in Phantom of the Opera.

quite a young woman!

[CatwomansApprentice]

My school did Dark of the Moon (the play that is based of this song) this year:) I love the history and the story of this song! Emmy Rossum is wonderful

[vintage18lover]

Anyone interested in this type of singing should Google Sheila Kay Adams. Sheila's ancestors are from the Appalachian Mountains and Sheila was recruited for this film as a vocal advisor. There is also a film by the late Alan Lomax who documented the "real" people of the mountains. Search for Alan Lomax here on YouTube.

[singsingsing22]

i met shiela

[somonoi]

my goodness... that just finishes it. she can sing with and ACCENT, and still sound wonderful. shes soooooooooo talented

[washparkguy]

These are really Irish and Scottish Ballads set to English. It were the Scots-Irish who settled in the mountains.

[Raphaeline]

Thank you for uploading it! I love this version of this song better than any other I've ever heard.

[joannamay86]

you should listen to some actual recordings of this song from people who really live this music. Try the Library of Congress Field Recordings. they're online, and way better than this.

[stillwaterguy04]

I couldn't agree more, Joannamay. Emmy's performance is fake and sickening. It's like she's mocking this beautiful art form.

[wvlavender]

ummm, I found Emmy's performance on the mark, as over 24 years ago, I've heard young women, girls sing in the hollers, young people who had never been to a city or large town, nor had a tv etc and this is very similar, the accent is different in different parts of WV and even more so than from NC, which Emmy is reproducing, but this is realistic.

[stillwaterguy04]

I hate fake accents, and she overdoes it. Besides, there were no Jewish hillbillies, that I'm aware of. Why was it necessary to bring her in?

[wvlavender]

umm in the movie there wasn't any mention of what nationality or religion Emmy's characture was, there was tens of thousands of Jewish immigrants in America when this movie was to take place, there are tons Jewish descendants who are "hillbillies", most stopped practicing their religion because of racist people, nasty attitudes & conveniences. Hillbillies are descendants of a huge mix of immigrants as well as natives, I don't know what you have against this actor, but your jealousy is showing.

[stillwaterguy04]

The Appalachian hillbillies were overwhelmingly Scotch/Irish, and that's the popoulation from which this movie should've been cast. The Scotch/Irish brought this song to America - it's their heritage, not hers.

[wvlavender]

Funny because most of the ones I run into are German and Native American mixed with Scotch Irish, but mostly German, of all religions.

[stillwaterguy04]

Yes, maybe now, but we're talking about almost 100 years ago for the setting of this movie before modern highways and both World Wars, the creation of National Parks, which displaced mountain people, and the Tennessee Valley Authority, which brought modernity and new settlement to the extended area, etc.

[wvlavender]

30%of immigrants to USA, before the time that this movie was to take place, where from Germany, & of those, many where Jewish. I never checked to see if Emma is or not, because I am not a prejudice person & I don't have romantic notions on what or who Appalachian people are, I know who we are & have lived here most of my life. As much as you want to disassociate Emma from this movie, you can't change history, she's an actress, & did a good job in Songcatcher, which is a fiction story.

[oneshortkat]

Actually, Emmy is of Scots-Irish descent.

[stillwaterguy04]

No, check Wikipedia: "...Rossum was born in New York City, New York,[1] an only child[2][3] of Cheryl, a corporate photographer and a banker. Her family is Jewish."

[oneshortkat]

Well, on IMDB it says she is of Dutch and Scots-Irish descent. ::shrugs::

[stillwaterguy04]

What's on IMDB then is wishful thinking on her part, apparently.

[uglyxorgan]

Wikipedia isn't a very good source either.

[proffromgview]

I can almost see the old, rusting buicks in the front yard....sweet.

[camden38]

My bigest disapointment was that she was not allowed to do the complete song. This is probably as close as modern day can come to the accent and presentation of the original.

[audie83]

The 'accent' and presentation of the original would have been from the British Isles-as that is where the song came from.

[ANorthernSong]

Yeah, we studied it in my English Literature.

[stillwaterguy04]

Her accent is as fake as the credibility of her audition for this part. She was cast because she is the same ethnicity as those casting the movie.

[lakitu39]

She did a great job on the accent! I just tried it, but I can't even get close. Extremely well sung, btw. :)

[jfd5289]

I adore this.

[sihingjimo]

Great culture...keep it going..

[lane6407]

"My granny give it to me" - you gotta love that!

[05xxxqoh]

yeah...so versatile isn't she...

[Melimo]

wow...she completely nailed that appalacian accent! she's so versatile!!!!

[xXxgeewayroxxXx]

Awesome! This is a sad song. I've heard and sung to this (the long version) in my music class. Lots of people have done this song, and i think this is one of the best.

[xoxoxfranxoxox]

wow, emmy rossum is an incredible singer. she has soooo many different tones to her voice. here, its a cowboy accent, in POTO its opera and shes sooo talented. she's my favorite singer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[markcohen6969]

She certainly is. Although POTO isn't opera at all. It's just classical musical theatre.

[pit032]

Taj Mahal tears it up on some clawhammer on this movie its pretty awesome...

[vivaelphaba]

"my granny gave it tu me." i love her with that accent!!!

[LadyFullMoon]

Haha this movie was very weird but really good. She nailed the accent really well.

[lindsay480799]

How was it weird? But you're right she did nail the accent.

[LadyFullMoon]

It wasn't that weird, but I got confused thats about it.

[morganmay1]

Speaking as a 55 year old, native from the hills of Appalachia. I first heard Barbara Allen as a young child, sung by my paternal grandmother who died in her nineties as well as my maternal grandfather "Nimrod Workman"  who was a well known Appalachian Singer/Storyteller, who passed away in his 99 th year.

[oneshortkat]

Beautiful.

[harmoniouskazoo]

WOW... she's not all that great at faking the Appalachian acce-yent.

and I've never heard that song in my life...

Sincerely,

a very concerned Appalachian.

[Buchworm]

Actually, she's quite good at it, depending on which part. I'm from Tennessee and she nailed it. And if you've never heard of Barbara Allen, I would suggest you pick up a book and do some reading. Or turn on a radio.

[CelticaFLM]

Wow...as an appalachian myself i'm ashamed that you don't know that song. I'm with Buchworm, she is right on with the accent.

[lindsay480799]

You know if you think she did bad on the accent then you most likely haven't liked in the area this was supposed to take place in. And open up to new things..if you've never heard the song try it. It's a very nice song.

[celticchrys]

If you've never heard this song in your life, you must be a very modernized Appalachain who has lost their culture to the mainstream American one. My great-grandparents sang this song.

[markcohen6969]

Oh so is this song American or British? Where did they originate? I'm very interested.

[celticchrys]

This song is thought to have originated in the British Isles, and early settlers from England and Ireland who came to Appalachia brought this song with them. There are many variations in different places. A good place to start liiking for more information is to do a google or Wikipedia search for "Barabara Allen song".

[dionysus17]

There's a sweet American play called "Dark of the Moon" which is based on the song. It lauched Peter Brook's (famous theatre director) career, and is part of why the song is still so popular today. :D

[monpetiteange13]

My school is doing the play"Dark of the Moon"!thats the first thing thought of when I heard this lol

[dionysus17]

Hah, mine is too. Are you in it? I hope it goes well!

[monpetiteange13]

Thats so cool!Yeah I play Edna Summey :) Thank you I hope yours is good too!

[belen1947]

You can hear the full version on amcpartlan's page, here on You Tube.

[iaminthburg]

You are not an Appalachian. You cannot be, to say that's not authentic speech and to be ignorant of this song. Barbry Allen is hundreds of years old. Wher yew frum, yew? Nawt th' heeills, thet's shur

[audie83]

Barbara Allen is not originally from the Appalachias though-the song originates from the British Isles. The original melody is different too but this is a nice version.

[jkevinraymundo]

thanks...

this video helped my group a lot in our musci class...

were goin to sing this on friday... wish us luck guys.. thnx

[05xxxqoh]

even her speaking voice was low....she's brilliant

[fvuur]

she TOTALLY nailed the accent... gotta love emmy

[adjt22tslm]

god, she's so good

[pinemo2]

Does anyone know if someone has posted the movie? Thanks!

[morningtide]

thank you so much for posting this!

[MadamPascal]

She sounds so good in her alto register!

[KSab02]

dang, girl, that's some southern accent!

[ROYALNOZGUL]

that's not her real accent -.-

[RiverBirch1967]

I loved that movie!

[MadsterAya]

I'm so glad you uploaded this! I love Songcatcher and I loved Emmy Rossum!

[krlover12]

haha she's so cute!! She's gorgeous now!

[mad1793]

omigod...she isn't the most attractive child, but that might be because of her hair or dress in this video..well, she is very lovely now.

[Appalachiaman]

What are you talking about, she is a doll. All that curly hair is adorable!!!

[mad1793]

okay

I think at the time I meant more to say that she seems a bit gawky

and ya, curly hair is pretty adorable

[gilber5482]

When she has it down instead of that ponytail thing it looks better and for some reason makes her eyes prettier and defined.