"Spotted Cow" - Steeleye Span {AUDIO}

I'm at it again, posting more great music =p None of this video is mine.

Song: Spotted Cow
Artist: Steeleye Span
Album: Below the Salt
Year: 1972

Category:

Music

Tags:

• steeleye
• span
• spotted
• cow
• below
• the
• salt
• british
• folk
• maddy
• prior
• tim
• hart
• peter
• knight

[JoeRailfan]

Steeleye Span was a wonderful group and "Below the Salt" my favorite album by them--thanks for posting! I remember seeing them on US TV back around 1974--I think either "ABC's In Concert" or "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert". They just blew me away. 35 years later and I can still remember some of the songs they performed--"Royal Forester", "Two Magicians", "Gaudete". Always like hearing Maddy Prior's lovely voice.

[coramunroe]

I wish I could have seen them back in those days, but I was born too late =)

[aja210951]

@coramunroe actually saw them live once in early 70s, don't remember the year, at the Lenox Music Inn in Massachusetts ... they were awesome live !! especially the a capella parts ... i can still remember the drummer leading them onstage to start their set as the intro into Gaudette -- simply amazing :-)

[coramunroe]

@aja210951 I'm jealous! I actually got to see them last year in London (I'm american, but I was over there for an off-campus program that my college does). It was great, but the downside was that it was in the Barbican, which is huge, and I was in the balcony, really far from the stage. But I still feel really lucky that I got to see them.

[shoulderinthearm66]

I´m from Argentina and reading the Theo...´s comment gave me the sensation of reading something of J. Joyce in the original.

Muddy Prior has a beautiful voice, does she play the "tabor"? what´s thew "tabor"? a giant tambourine?

[coramunroe]

It's a type of drum, yes, though not a tambourine =) no bells on the sides

[themotherofallmorris]

I first saw her through the swirling mists that rose from the Thames, her body illuminated by the gas-lamp beneath which she stood. Her imitation jewellery reflected the hissing flame and I could just discern the long slit in her skirt and the badly applied rouge on her cheeks. As I neared her she turned towards me in a practised manner.

I've lost my spotted cow, she said in a voice coarsened by the inclement weather.

[Getyourfreehugshere]

This brings me back to childhood christmas' with my grandparents and the rest of the family, dancing with them, the fire and the presents :) I love this band.

[injunshepp]

@shoulderinthearm66 bhodran maybe? (pronounced bore- ann)

[faradyeva]

We learnt this song at college, I only remembered the words and tune of the first line. What a wonderful invention YouTube is....... :)

[Al29300]

- un disque très réussi de musique (classique : le terme est mal choisi ) ancienne qui fera toujours référence ( avec certains cd de "La Reverdie" , par exemple ) .

- Ce n'est pas leur propre musique ...mais çà prouve qu'ils ont plus d'une corde à leur arc !

[billybunterification]

I saw them once and they did a reggae version of "Spotted Cow". Would love to hear this again.

[MorrisManDanceMan]

@Pangael thanks a good song

[Pangael]

We have two phrases in my house to indicate things have gone badly awry. The first is Arlo Guthrie: 'Office Obie looked at the seeing-eye dog'.

The second is: 'I've lost me spotted cow.'

[bunnee777]

oh... my... gawd...

we sang "remember the spotted cow" from a songbook JUST ONCE in grade school (2) & i have never forgotten the tune. 44 years later, here it is!