Ditto. I feel so sorry for 80's kids that thought their times were best. Maddy Prior, Judith Durham, Sally Carr..... that's the music I cut my teeth on. Great to be a child of the sixties. 😊
O.k I'm Scottish and love my folk music. To me this song is so quintessentially English in the best possible way. I loved this back in the 1970s and love it now 2022.
@@paulcronin3626 It is not. It's of a folk song with 19th century English origins (from at least the 1820s). It is recorded in the Roud Folk Song Index. It is, however, to be found in various versions in the English speaking world.
@TheEulerID it's an Irish tune brought back from Ireland by some red coats with a musical bent.you won't be able to get yer head around that. Britain deserves a Nuremberg as much as the Germans
@@paulcronin3626 I can see you are a cast-iron Irish bigot. The vast majority of sources have the song as of English origin from the 1820s. Pretty well nobody has it of anything else. Then you go ranting on about the Nazis.What a pathetic excuse you are for a human being.
Great effort by Maddy here. She's pushing 70 at the time and has such a wonderful way about her. Still clearly really enjoying performing this jaunty song with all of the original sassiness. I've loved this song since the 70's and she does it proud.
Very fair comment! Watching the 70's original one can reasonably conclude that Maddie was/is one fantastically sexy Lady. (I think it's the repeated "Young Man" references?)
Albert Head I saw Steeleye Span perform in a large pub courtyard in the mid 75’s. It was quite hilarious, as the evening progressed everyone (band and audience) got more and more drunk. Poor old Maddy, she could barely stand upright by the end of the evening. Ah, the good old days !
Blimey....i remember when this hit the charts at Christmas 1975 and was played endlessly all over the festive period. I bought the album! Maddys vocals still in fine fettle and the fiddler girl rocks it!
A fantastic song by a wonderful person and singer. In the sixties me and a friend were following the blind Rev Gary Davis on his UK tour. We first met Maddy at Keele University when she was conducting him on his tour. Maddy was wary of us at first when we were recording Gary playing freely outside. When we next met her in a Yorkshire concert I had heard her sing for the first time. An astounding voice and I said so to her on stage as she wrapped up. Maddy realizing we were hiking countrywide to follow the great man, invited us to join them both in her car for the rest of the tour. We even stayed a night at Maddy's home in St Albans meeting her famous dad. Wonderful times. Wonderful music all round.
Several years ago I was spending the winter in The Gambia and had no music to listen to. I regularly visited a small hotel to swim and one of the waiters had downloaded some music from TH-cam. I was surprised to hear this and every time I went to swim they'd play this for me. Brilliant.
I don't speak English, I'm 40+ y/o, from another continent, and I can't stop listening to this song and others from Steeleye Span. I know why: Maddy visited me once in the shape of a hare and put a spell on me. That's why!
Loved it when it first came out in 73 (?) and although I was a Purple/Yes/Heep/Floyd (and several more!) fan you couldn't help but like the rhythmic beat and Maddy's distinctive and utterly wonderful voice!! Brilliant and that's why it's perennially popular!
I heard the second half of this song in the early 70s. I loved it beyond all else but I did not know the name of the band. For decades I knew there was a song out there that I loved beyond all else but that might never be heard again. At some point 6/7 years ago, I figured it out. And now with such great audio quality, it is totally sublime.
I remember playing this on Caroline 558 I then went onto TKO my radio station and one of my presenters played it as we never used play list. I was only 18 and loved this magical folk song. 💕🏴🏆
I loved that since I was younger and heard it at my sister in laws house that Irish song always make you want to get up and dance; it just makes you feel happy listening to it.
Caught them at Skeggy Great Brit Folk Festthe one before the first lockdown. I was expecting too much "Hey Nonny no", but what IO saw was a great Folk rock band. Absolutely superb !!
Absolutely fantastic I remember when I first heard this whole living in Australia. The whole family was very sick. Me, hubby and 3 kids. But I was at worse. After the doc left hubby drove to get medicine and came back with the record forecast well. Brilliant then, brilliant now. And I still got the vinyl!!
So good to hear this. I was playing at a festival years ago and was lucky to hear them, it was very emotional for me after hearing them since the 70s. It was an extra thrill when I saw the drummer (maybe there were more Span members as well) watch us play one of our sets at the festival. A definite highlight for me.
Thank you Steeleye Span, loved you way back, great to see you still going. I am a rock fan but love all music! you make music worth listening to. Thank you.
I used to wonder why i love this song so much, it turned out that in the 70's my parents took me and my brother to see them live. I generally dont like folk music but could play this none stop.
In 2013, southwestern Qld, i played Mott the Hoople's version on the jukebox in the pub. Some Irish backpackers asked, where did i know this song from ? Maddy Prior and Steeleye Span was my answer Loved it since i first heard it, Loved Maddy's voice since "Bellow The Salt"
Truly One of a kind and only one word springs to mind AWWESSOMME ,Truly British and us British really love Gin Oh wow who is the pretty lady on the Violin XXXX
I saw them at a folk festival near Chelmsford around 1970. Maddie put her can of beer down on the stage when she began a song and my friend Kevin drank it. When she finished the song she picked up the empty can "WHO'S DRUNK MY FUCKING BEER!' Oh dear, Kevin sheepishly admitted it.
Loved them when I first heard back in the early/mid seventies and still do. Love rock, and many other genres, but this is the roots. A friend of mine watched them in Edinburgh supporting Jethro Tull , mid 70's. He says its the only supporting act he ever seen that was allowed to do an encore.
So glad I'm a Boomer. We lived to the best times mankind had ever heard!
Ditto. I feel so sorry for 80's kids that thought their times were best. Maddy Prior, Judith Durham, Sally Carr..... that's the music I cut my teeth on. Great to be a child of the sixties. 😊
Totally agree 👍 we lived in a true Great Britain at its best.
Now watching a documentary about top of the pops, the wombles were steeleye span, oh and maddy still has the voice of an angel.
Totally agree
@@johnsabini2330Britain is small. Think of the musical experiences in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, Christchurch, Montenegro, Cape Town, Salisbury, Manitoba, Nuuk, Osaka ..... 😊
She's still got it. What a performance.
Once heard her on stage ask "what have your own f*rts & children got in common", answer "you can't smell either of them!".
Proud to belong to her generation. 72 yrs xxxxx
68 here. We love that generation's music!
amen to that…
O.k I'm Scottish and love my folk music. To me this song is so quintessentially English in the best possible way. I loved this back in the 1970s and love it now 2022.
It's an Irish folk song, try to keep up.
@@paulcronin3626 It is not. It's of a folk song with 19th century English origins (from at least the 1820s). It is recorded in the Roud Folk Song Index. It is, however, to be found in various versions in the English speaking world.
@TheEulerID it's an Irish tune brought back from Ireland by some red coats with a musical bent.you won't be able to get yer head around that. Britain deserves a Nuremberg as much as the Germans
@@paulcronin3626 I can see you are a cast-iron Irish bigot. The vast majority of sources have the song as of English origin from the 1820s. Pretty well nobody has it of anything else. Then you go ranting on about the Nazis.What a pathetic excuse you are for a human being.
@@paulcronin3626 You are blinded by hatred.
Oh Maddy..you're making me cry and laugh at the same time again....I love you....a fan since 1972.
Maddy is priceless !! Her voice is unique and beautiful. No more words at all.
She's still got that twinkle in her eye, gives the impression she's up to something, love this song always lifts my mood
Great effort by Maddy here. She's pushing 70 at the time and has such a wonderful way about her. Still clearly really enjoying performing this jaunty song with all of the original sassiness. I've loved this song since the 70's and she does it proud.
Absolutely. She sounds as fantastic as ever!
Very fair comment!
Watching the 70's original one can reasonably conclude that Maddie was/is one fantastically sexy Lady.
(I think it's the repeated "Young Man" references?)
I wonder if today’s talentless crop of female ‘singers’ will still sound as good as this when they are knocking 70? I doubt it!
Albert Head I saw Steeleye Span perform in a large pub courtyard in the mid 75’s. It was quite hilarious, as the evening progressed everyone (band and audience) got more and more drunk. Poor old Maddy, she could barely stand upright by the end of the evening. Ah, the good old days !
@@nigeljames6017 Saw them live in War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo, NY in summer 1970, fell in love with them!
Morris dancers AND a fiddle player! Excellent!!
I'll always be grateful to anyone whose been a musician in steeleye span.
Not many left anymore, but the Drummer and Maddy.
Music lives, that's important.
And Ric Kemp!!
Blimey....i remember when this hit the charts at Christmas 1975 and was played endlessly all over the festive period. I bought the album! Maddys vocals still in fine fettle and the fiddler girl rocks it!
A fantastic song by a wonderful person and singer. In the sixties me and a friend were following the blind Rev Gary Davis on his UK tour. We first met Maddy at Keele University when she was conducting him on his tour. Maddy was wary of us at first when we were recording Gary playing freely outside. When we next met her in a Yorkshire concert I had heard her sing for the first time. An astounding voice and I said so to her on stage as she wrapped up. Maddy realizing we were hiking countrywide to follow the great man, invited us to join them both in her car for the rest of the tour. We even stayed a night at Maddy's home in St Albans meeting her famous dad. Wonderful times. Wonderful music all round.
I had no idea that Rev Gary Davis visited the UK.
Stefan Grosman recorded a lot of Davis' stuff to learn his songs, and also released them as albums.
Several years ago I was spending the winter in The Gambia and had no music to listen to. I regularly visited a small hotel to swim and one of the waiters had downloaded some music from TH-cam. I was surprised to hear this and every time I went to swim they'd play this for me. Brilliant.
I was there. Oh joy!
You can see me and the missus on the front rail ☺
my goodness you would never know how old she is by just listening, brilliant.
Maddy your still amazing my darlin
The song tells of Yae Merry Olde England - brilliant folk song
Oh my god, still so good! I feel 40yrs younger.
Glorious
I don't speak English, I'm 40+ y/o, from another continent, and I can't stop listening to this song and others from Steeleye Span. I know why: Maddy visited me once in the shape of a hare and put a spell on me. That's why!
Haha 🤣
She turned me into a newt, but I got better.
I want whatever you’re smoking
There's no song that makes me feel so good as this. I just love Maddie's voice and the band. Brilliant!
ARE YOU GAY?
@@jimmymalone9139 No are you a leftist?
yes always takes you to a good place
Loved it when it first came out in 73 (?) and although I was a Purple/Yes/Heep/Floyd (and several more!) fan you couldn't help but like the rhythmic beat and Maddy's distinctive and utterly wonderful voice!! Brilliant and that's why it's perennially popular!
I was in the same boat! Didn't dare admit I loved it!
Same same
I went to hear them in concert in Melbourne. Someone in the audience called out, “You’re a bonzer Sheila, Maddy Prior!” 😊
Arent they lovely!? Maddy Smiling just loving it all.
I played this a lot on my little box record player through that hot 76 summer, very happy times in a very different world.
Whats with the thumbnail.
@@johnsmith-wx5fb What's with the John Smith?
Brilliant Mutley. I'm the same!!!! 💕💕💕👌👍
Always loved Steeleye Span. Unique and fantastic 😊
Legend performance, legend song!
Still a great song love it . And what a beautiful violiniste
She's great, and thoroughly enjoying herself.
Beautifull song. Thanks maddy
The best "none" Christmas song... Ever! 🎄🎅❄️⛄
A voice full of character, the very wonderful Maddy Prior
Maddy looks brilliant. Great voice and just how I expected her to be after original video.
Remember this so well
Bloody fantastic.
Fifty years they've been going. Awesome. Still got it.
Maddy...eternally ❤❤❤
Such a rocking feel good track ,,, perfect after a crap day at work 😂😂😂
Steeleye Span: stick together, stick to what you're good at, make everyone happy, make yourselves happy.
I heard the second half of this song in the early 70s. I loved it beyond all else but I did not know the name of the band. For decades I knew there was a song out there that I loved beyond all else but that might never be heard again. At some point 6/7 years ago, I figured it out. And now with such great audio quality, it is totally sublime.
I remember playing this on Caroline 558 I then went onto TKO my radio station and one of my presenters played it as we never used play list. I was only 18 and loved this magical folk song. 💕🏴🏆
Found you by pure mistake. So many memories. Keep on and stay safe.
Her voice hasn’t aged at all, still beautiful
Err… were you watching the same video as me?!
Of course her voice has changed! It is still a good voice, but, it’s not the same as it was in 1973!
I loved that since I was younger and heard it at my sister in laws house that Irish song always make you want to get up and dance; it just makes you feel happy listening to it.
It's an English folk song. But that's O.K. All that matters is that you love it. As do I.
Go girl, amazing. love you Maddy.
Nostalgia makes you cry apparently. Such good times
Caught them at Skeggy Great Brit Folk Festthe one before the first lockdown. I was expecting too much "Hey Nonny no", but what IO saw was a great Folk rock band. Absolutely superb !!
My Dad used to play this song a lot when I was little and I'd not heard it in years. Brought back many memories.
Absolutely fantastic I remember when I first heard this whole living in Australia. The whole family was very sick. Me, hubby and 3 kids. But I was at worse. After the doc left hubby drove to get medicine and came back with the record forecast well. Brilliant then, brilliant now. And I still got the vinyl!!
Saw Steeleye Span at the first open air concert held at Cardiff Castle. Love Maddy Priors voice xxx
Pop perfection and brilliant violin playing by Jessie May Smart X
De vreugde en plezier spat er nog steeds vanaf ook na 50 jaar
Fantastic violin.
Maddy is FANTASTIC 🥳
Absolutely fantastic. Supberb.
LOVE IT>>>>>>> its as good as ever
Makes me wish I had taken an interest in folk music when I lived in England, I'd have LOVED to see this live!
Got to love Maddy!
One of the 'FOOT TAPPERS' of all time!
Bellissima signora, bellissima voce
Happy Birthday Maddy ! you made THE TIMES birthday list! xxx ! 14/08/2021
Maddy you sound awesome as always
This song fills my heart with joy and happiness, I LOVE IT!!!
music like this will never die
The older they get the better their music!! Still love it!!!
Thanks for the emotions
So good to hear this. I was playing at a festival years ago and was lucky to hear them, it was very emotional for me after hearing them since the 70s. It was an extra thrill when I saw the drummer (maybe there were more Span members as well) watch us play one of our sets at the festival. A definite highlight for me.
I discovered Steeleye Span back in the late 70's, they still rock!
Galday pray
Steeleye span
Same here.
now this is true folk-rock at its best......
Saw them perform this 1970s she's still got a great voice
Maddy still looking gorgeous
Today many women over sixty are really beautiful.
You should have gone to "Specsavers".
That's because she is!
I remember going to see Steeleye Span in Glasgow on their farewell tour.
That was in about 1978...
hah i saw them in 2006 and the farewell tour
A bit like Fairport in 1979 at Cropredy when we watched the 'Farewell, Farewell' gig...
I think they sound better than ever and the young violinist looks wonderful.
Thank you Steeleye Span, loved you way back, great to see you still going. I am a rock fan but love all music! you make music worth listening to. Thank you.
Amen
Loved these guys 40+ years go .. Still Do..
Brilliant..........Maddy still brilliant.........to the 64 thumbs down people you have no soul.......hope you find it soon..........
Still sends shivers, brilliant.
I saw Steeleye Span sing this song as the backup band for Jethro Tull during Ian's Aqualung tour 1970. She's still got it going on.
Fabulous! Loved the morris dancing too.
I used to wonder why i love this song so much, it turned out that in the 70's my parents took me and my brother to see them live. I generally dont like folk music but could play this none stop.
In 2013, southwestern Qld,
i played Mott the Hoople's version on the jukebox in the pub.
Some Irish backpackers asked,
where did i know this song from ?
Maddy Prior and Steeleye Span
was my answer
Loved it since i first heard it,
Loved Maddy's voice since
"Bellow The Salt"
Truly One of a kind and only one word springs to mind AWWESSOMME ,Truly British and us British really love Gin Oh wow who is the pretty lady on the Violin XXXX
Watch this and the original 40 years ago - what an incredible performer and what a timeless song.
Just blows me away every time I play this❤
Such a great band !!!! I had a few drinks with them after a show in Denver back in the mid seventies and they are all wonderful people !! God Bless !
I saw them at a folk festival near Chelmsford around 1970. Maddie put her can of beer down on the stage when she began a song and my friend Kevin drank it. When she finished the song she picked up the empty can "WHO'S DRUNK MY FUCKING BEER!' Oh dear, Kevin sheepishly admitted it.
Loved them when I first heard back in the early/mid seventies and still do. Love rock, and many other genres, but this is the roots. A friend of mine watched them in Edinburgh supporting Jethro Tull , mid 70's. He says its the only supporting act he ever seen that was allowed to do an encore.
Absolutely the same for me! Brilliant band and l've loved them from the start. Maddie is a national treasure!!
I used to love this,wish they would play this around Christmas time when I first heard it
Delightful performance. Fab festival. The young folks don’t know what they’re missing.
Fabulous - still love the gorgeous Maddy and her fabulous voice (and the rest)
My second favorite band in college, after Fairport Convention. Magical.
Fairport Convention was my favorite.
2024 anyone?
Yep! And forever too. 🙂
Yeah and I still like it !
And I'm not ashamed to say that I still fancy Maddy!
Think I've got green willow round my hat 😢
Yes it never goes out of style !!!
Never ages , just terrific
We used to sing this around the campfire, such good memories.
I think it's great that Maddy and Annie Haslam from Renaissance are still performing. Alas, Sandy Denny passed away far too young.
I saw Annie/Renaissance about a year ago in Ithaca, NY. Great concert. Loved them since the Carnegie Hall live album in mid70's.
Take my hat of for the performance of this old song in my youthtime
They were awesome back in the day,they're still awesome now!
Ahh music I'd forgotten. Lovely I'm Australian and my brother loves Steeleye Span Good cheer to you
Well done Maddy, and steeleye. Thanks for,well, just about everything - with this great number.
You are too good to support any act on the planet. Fabulous. Keep singing Maddy. They dont make em like you anymore.
Jigged in the Usher Hall in the isles Edinburgh 70s great times .