Kate&Anna McGarrigle"Gentle Annie"

[russtacean]

our hearts and our prayers are always with you dear Kate...

may we meet one day on the shores of white sand.

[mlsieee]

My beloved wife, Annie, lost her battle with cancer two months ago. This song reminds me of all that we shared and she loved in our life together.

[lskarin]

Kate and Anna are the most "musical" pair I've ever had the pleasure of hearing, even though I'm not clear on what "musical" means. They composed. They sung. They "covered." (I hate the word "covered" for performing another's composition.) But they were also bilingually capable of communicating with Canadians and Canadian-friendly Americans like me the import of appreciating North-American "culture," whether it be Quebecois, or Stephen Foster's Americana.

[gundusaurus]

This song brought me comfort after the terrible events on the 22. of July.

Thank you from Norway.

[normken]

@gundusaurus

God Bless you all in Norway my friend, I'm from Northern Ireland, we know what it's like.

[shrike188]

Truly Beautiful!

[sleaponit21]

its just beautiful 

[bigmarty56]

I'm a guitar player/singer, and I've been doing this lovely song for years. I played it for a friend of mine, explaining that Foster wrote it after a young child of friends of his was tragically killed, and his comment to me was----"It's a beautiful song, but I can't imagine it was of much comfort to them".

[UncleCharlieOakley]

Almost unbearably moving, especially now.

[proon4]

these ladies were angels...........may heaven be her bed

[TheBham54]

so very sad for the world to lose lovely souls like Kate and be stuck with all these ugly, petty people.....what a mystery

[squeakymonkfish]

@TheBham54 Indeed, what a strange world we live in.

[pimpernet]

Please, please, please bring out "Pronto Monto" on CD, now is the time..!

[lskarin]

@pimpernet Cannot agree more! If only for the "real version" of NaCl."

[pimpernet]

i'm very glad this song in on the new album "Oddities"

as always i'm touched by K&A

thnxxx

[legrandcyrrhus]

pour souris de la part de GSK

[brorsvante]

i like very very mutch

[brorsvante]

i like very very mutch

[Perrygodmother]

You didn't learn that language listening to music like this.

I'm not going to argue with you. There are far more serious concerns this evening.

[MikeBobSkip]

Written in 1856 by Stephen Collins Foster, "Gentle Annie" is based on a true story according to his brother, Morrison. Young Annie was sent to the dry good store one night in a storm when a team of horses were spooked, perhaps by lightning. Annie was trampled to death. Foster was dressed for an evening engagement, but went to the girl's home, his neighbors, as soon as he heard of the tragedy. He remained throughout the evening to offer comfort to her grieving parents.

[TheDiarmaidable]

the hairs standin un the backa me neck....

[Michinil]

Absolutely sublime.

[RHutton2710]

This is a lovely song. I'm not sure why people can't listen to it without insulting modern artists though. I thought such songs were all about peace and affection?

[CharmedQuarkZ99]

Sweet song well done

[brawnica]

So beautiful!

[labora4best]

How I loved these two canadien woman! Still do. Till I die! Not tomorrow I hope...

Bernard

[proon4]

I did not realise God took you Katie... May heaven be your bed  x

[oconlan003]

wot a pure and beautiful woman

[Blibish]

I always cry when I hear their voices - I don't know if it is the sound of their beautiful voices, the emotion behind it or the words - maybe the combination. Have been listening to them for years and their music never gets old. Thank you.

[TheWagbert]

Having grown up singing harmonies with my own sister, I appreciate how well their voices blend. My sister played piano, I played guitar--it's really hard singing when there's no one to trade off the melody with, so it's been a long time since I even opened the guitar case. No feuds, just a unique blending that couldn't come from aanyone but the McGarrigle sisters.

[ReitzeYT]

"Shall I nevermore behold thee, never hear thy laughing voice again..." Love, love, love

[minuet33]

Beautiful! Canada has lost a jewel, Great to look back and see these wonderful women humbly give the world beauty.

[whakairotu]

Beautiful music by beautiful people, not chicken skin music thankyou. R.I.P. Kate.

[carel4potter]

the sound of heaven can't be better,thanks Kate for so many wonderful songs

[heuv0485]

chicken skin music

[Rajamuttu]

@Perrygodmother

Rather passive point of view, methinks. No one feeds you anything you don't swallow.

Why don't you MAKE some beautiful music? Then it always surrounds you! Start with this song ... it's a simple melody and the words are easy to sing, if slightly archaic.

Or Stephen Foster songs. Or anything. Don't just sit there!

[Perrygodmother]

@Rajamuttu That's easy to say. Anything I try to create always sounds like the Alphaghetti song.

I agree/disagree with you "No one feeds you anything you don't swallow."We are surrounded by rauchous bad music in commercials, background music for t.v shows and even loud and obnoxious music in children's movies.

Maybe it's just me. Who knows?

I just know the McGarrigle sound made me happy.

[PennTrafford]

@Perrygodmother It's not gone -- you're listening to it, now.

[shanna1950]

@Perrygodmother - we can always CHOOSE what we want to listen to.

[rbradaigh]

@Perrygodmother I know precisely what you mean: to be force fed meaningless chanting which is both profane and raucous, but called music; in place of these two, become one, heavenly voices is overwhelming.

[FungusMossGnosis]

@Perrygodmother

What an ugly thing to write on a beautiful song's page.

No one is feeding you what you don't want, so sod off.

[Aesop059]

@Perrygodmother If we are "Fed" anything (which I doubt) we can use our inner souls to reject rubbish as it arrives. This type of song will always touch and excite our souls, if we have a brain to process the input.

[hunkapi]

i can barely bare the pain of your leaving. i still remember when i first heard your voice in montreal....alas my lassie....adieu adieu

[misterr50]

Your light shines as bright as ever...

peace be with you

[imbythesea]

Shall I never more behold thee?

[seamus36]

adieu Kate

[mawhel]

like a flower whose spirit has departed

[parkerharps]

@mawhel The foster line is " like a flower, thy spirit di did depart"

[Tabalix]

What u leave in us is important not your death Kate! Thank you for the music!

[LauriePlum]

@Tabalix .. Well said

[undercoverlover2002]

Kate, thank you for joining us for a short time and leaving the gifts that you did. Sleep well

[chitchant]

I do not have words to describe the sadness l feel at the passing of Kate McGarrigle

.

It is these ensemble pieces that transcend individual egos to gift to us all something rare and sublimely beautiful.

Adieu et merci, Kate.

[grevis020160]

Floods of tears here! Heart warming and heart breaking in equal measure. All the more poignant with Kates passing. Stephen Foster wrote this following the death of a child. Like all great songs, it transcends the circumstance of it's writing. This one will take some beating.

[dikdok2]

"...now here they come, here come my tears. Go, leave...." RIP dear Kate.

[marantho]

Godspeed Dear Kate, your sweet voice will be forever with us but forever missed...

[95323295]

Journée triste pour la musique....

au revoir Kate et repose en paix.

[mh605]

Very sweet, touching, heartwarming, poignant.

[troutboy3]

Go with God Kate....

[jonnardo]

This song always makes me cry...

[russtacean]

i feel broken.

God love you and keep you, Kate.

[rfish54]

Kate with sister Anna sang so beautiful a tune that we cannot but morn her passing. How sweet was the day when we heard her voice with Anna. RIP Kate, and blessed be her musical family and thanks to you all.

[CharmedQuarkZ99]

Very moving....marvelous....

[reliablebow]

beautiful

[nllleonard]

How fortunate and blessed we were. How much we will miss her.

NAncy

[194jerry]

Condolences to all Kate's loved ones: a very beautiful singer and musician to many of us, and much more than that to you who knew her. A sad loss.

[richardwilson1234]

Played their 1975 album 2 weeks ago after it languished on the shelf for years.

Rest in Peace Kate

[justbessie]

Thank you, Kate, for your music and your legacy. May you rest in peace.

[bookishsue]

RIP Kate McGarrigle.

[mark9780]

I only discovered The Mc Garrigle Family a few months ago,not exactly household names in the UK,mores the pity,such wonderful natural talents,RIP Kate,i will always love your music.

[MsBHoopingAllure]

Kate will be singing forever!

[taildragger51]

So sad to hear of her passing. Kate was a legend.

As DJ Bob Harris said " A very 'human' sounding musician. From an era when people actually played instruments & sang with sincerity.

[cardwell]

I'm very sorry to hear of Kate's passing today. This performance of Gentle Annie is exceptional even by the sisters' very high standards.

[MauraNic07]

I had a hankering for some McGarrigle music this weekend and was playing The McGarrigle Hour when my sister came in and heard it. She thought it was a lovely sound so I told her all about the sisters and the family and their music ... I've been in tears for the last hour since hearing about Kate's death. We may ne'er behold her again, but thankfully we can listen to her.

[SWTinFLA]

Rest in peace, gentle Kate.

[jillianreilly]

Just stumbled on this lady, May she RIP, lovely voice.

[timmcd566]

This is fantastic, what is it from?

[jaanaS1711]

From the first season of theTransatlantic Sessions (around 1995)

[SUNGATE7]

As a new Canadian, I didn't know about the McGarrigle sisters until now. I just read @ Yahoo about Kate's death. I searched youtube and I listened to this great voice and great talent for the 1st time. I reaalized how many great things in this world we don't know about. Good by Kate.

[jaanaS1711]

I feel deep sorrow, I have loved the music of McGarrigle sisters for 30 years. The memory and music of Kate will live!

[foreverforgiving]

Rest Kate. "Shall I never behold you again?"

[stew65stew]

The passing of Kate is such a sadness.

We have lost an incredible talent...

Just watched 3 videos and on each one she was playing a different instrument...Piano.guitar and banjo...

II know her sister plays the accordion...so I assume she probably does too...

What a loss...for the music world for Montreal and for lovers of music everywhere...

RIP Kate.

[psychicdelic]

Rest in Peace Kate.

[lichtbroeder]

Evocative of simpler times when folks gathered around the piano and made music together. We've advanced much in some ways over the centuries, but have lost a lot too. Thank God we still have music like this - simple, from the heart, human.

[MrTilaws]

simply wonderful !!!

[newfie4tx]

This is wonderful. It's to sit back, listen and enjoy

[oconlan003]

no disrespects 'iskarin' but this song is magic ...no fluff involved its beautifully sung frommthe heart and I for one luv it mate

[wrongsideof45]

Indeed, The McGarrigles don't do "fluff"....in fact they soar, high, high above any earthly descriptions

8¬)

[itstrickett09]

my dad sings this

[RossiterMovies]

same

[Twolfe38]

Lilting, lovely, very Foster.

[brandon10175]

beautiful!

[lskarin]

Just a comment on the McGarrigles. They are Canadian icons, but deserve to be North American ones.

They are wonderful in the range of emotional settings they project in each album.

I got hooked by Kate's NaCl from Pronto Monto. But they are so much more than this piece of fluf.

[LochMeikle]

Talk To Me Of Mendocino by Kate & Anna McGarrigle from the Original Transalantic Sessions, was played on the Iain Anderson Show, BBC Radio Scotland, Thursday 30 April in the final half hour. Available for 7 days on BBC iPlayer

[oconlan003]

irish thru & thru but the scots r off the irish anyway the scotties were a tribe from ireland cheers jessie

[lorsujan]

So beautiful!

[consuelala]

beautiful.....

[jessejamesh120]

scottish

[BeaHooper]

Lovely, lovely, lovely!! Kudos.

[cigamrats]

check out Tommy Makims version  haunting and beautifull !!!!

[kw5gh6]

iamlondon san

Thank you so much for your convincing testimony(?)with dignity that this tune

is irish.

I haven been interested in irish(and scottish)immigration together with their

traditional music to the New World. I don'to blame Stephen Foster for similarity between this song and certain Irish tune.

In those days neither irish tune nor his music woudn't have been protected by copyright law and I admit he is one of great American Composers as ever(who died

in poverty).

[UncleCharlieOakley]

Heartbreakingly beautiful.

[kw5gh6]

Servitrad san, Cóme sta? You say " This melody sounds very Irish "

I say " D'accordo. that's what I mean by

my preovious comments on this beautiful tune.

Irish or scottish , it might be celtic in a

broader sense,I think.

[iamlondon]

It's Irish for certain. Trust me.

[servitrad]

This melody sounds very Irish... Great music and great singers!

[yobbo3]

oh yeah isn't this dreamy

foster was America's first successful songwriter; after dozens of smash hits everyone knew, sang, and played in the parlor, he died drunk in a Bowery flophouse with just a few coins in his pocket.

if you ever have the chance to see the McGarrigles play a small club ... GO!

[kw5gh6]

KK99llsan,thnak you for posting this sweet

and beautiful song. By the comments of BenAli

Gtor san I've come to know this song was written by American comoser Stephen Foster. It seems to me this song might have been

somewhat influenced by celtic tune such as BonLavogue or Mrs Jamieson's Favourite. If not, that's because my ears should have failed me.

[1950sparks]

I made sure my kids got frequent and liberal doses of the McGarrigles when they were growing up. I think it is vital.

[oconlan003]

was the same, but this is ...beautiful

[tjoris51]

Funny that I know a different (Irish) song with the same title but I didn't know this one. Yes, Kate and Anna are breathtaking. I have their firsdt three albums and I should play them more, but they're almost too beautiful.

[katiegreenaway]

lovely room, beautiful people, gorgeous song.

[sweetsaun]

this is rufus wainwright's mother and aunt

[oconlan003]

'hauntingly'beautiful scuse my ignorance but ive never heard of kate and anna b4 but sure will be looking out for more of their music thanx for posting this

[foreverforgiving]

Kate and Anna recorded this song in memory of their mother who had recenty died. You can see the pain ... and the joy of remembering.

[vandixon21218]

i was really moved by this - really beautiful.

it also seems that they changed the words around a little, which make it even better.

[BenAliGtor]

Stephen Foster wrote this song in 1856 about a little girl who died. This is an outstanding rendition.

[DougM63]

Will there be beautifull music like this forever?

[cuzinkevin]

Love it

[Gacktfan90]

My chorus is singing this song. It's so soothing.

[aboosh02]

thank you. i've got their records but have not seen them perform. lovely!!!!

[zappc]

Creepy good!

[buism20]

you made my day.

[careyeOhkey]

'while' the wild flowers are scattered 'oer the plain - not 'and' it doesn't work at all the way you've decided to sing it - moreover, your harmonies are scattered 'oer the plain. THE INSTRUMENTS ALONE ARE GREAT! Please, re-do this video with instumentals alone; and keep your voices off the tape. Thank you!

[awnok]

Enjoy it for what it is. Get in touch with the BBC and ask for an instrumental version.

No Chance!

[janpcs]

"When" the wild flowers ..... and not "while". Maybe it doesn't work for you. It works for me and apparently for a lot of others too.

[pimpernet]

Lovely, thank you!

[Marielune]

Superbe

[jexplink]

Spectacular.

[riclineri]

This is beautiful beyond description.

[seeso]

Beautiful.