A shame the way no one ever praises Judy Dyble. She was very talented and sounds so incredible on that first album. She deserves at the VERY least what everyone else gets in this band...just a shame.
Thank You so much for this video. I have just recently discovered The Fairport Convention and....Sandy Denny. I have fallen for her beautiful voice and her life story. I have loved folk music in America and now I find the diamonds of the United Kingdom. How I wish I have known of you beautiful much earlier in my life. Be that as it may, I now know of you, and my beloved angel Sandy Denny..May God Bless You All and Thank You so much for your beautiful music, which has charmed & made my life richer.
Fully agree with you there. SD can sing like no one else. She Moves Through the Fair is my absolute favourite of all the songs she did. Such a tragedy that she left the world so young.
grown up with the inspiring music of Fairport in the 70s. They are are an amazing band with so many line ups and different directions. My favourite line up is Full House, Fairport Nine and all line ups with Sandy!!
Sempre na minha (simples) vida, desde os meus 17 anos, até agora. Incontornável banda e músicos que nos têm enchido a vida de alegria, música extraordinária e a quere-los para todo o SEMPRE! Fairport Convention ETERNOS E PARA SEMPRE!!!
Love to hear this documentary on Fairport Convention. Nice to learn a bit of history of their musical migration. Liege and Lief still stands up with many rock albums of that time. One of my favorite albums ever!
@ Richard Hewlett - Never knew there was a cult around Sandy Denny. Good to hear that Fairport Convention is still going strong, the old lads! Her voice was unique though. Excuse me please, I wrote this after listening to the first song in this video - didn't realize the video lasts a bit under an hour! ; )
Typically excellent BBC bio. shows the fine, continuing tradition of Fairport .... kill if you will but they've not had great lead vocals for decades... sorry & Thank you.
As Ric Sanders replaced Dave Swarbrick on violin, it appears that Chris Leslie has filled the role of Richard Thompson as group songwriter and providing a second violin to play off Ric Sanders on the lightning fast jigs.
The Fairport Convention I saw fifty years ago wasn't this folkie band. They make a good living out of the name and are decent enough performers but the Convention of Denny, Swarbrick and Thompson was the brief and great period of the various manifestations. Like many other potent assemblies of disparate characters they shone fleetingly and then left to pursue other paths. What they, and in particular, Denny, did leave was a timeless catlogue of wonderful songs..
Totally agree - the cutting edge isn't there (only to be expected given their longevity I suppose) and their recording output is safe "plinky plonky" type folk
We saw sandy and trevor lucas with them at the opera house in sydney in 74 one of the best shows we've ever seen strangely not mentioned in there history in this doco, the No 9 lp is one of their best also ignored.
Sandy Denny - "Like an old fashioned waltz" One of the best albums ever created ! It´s just that you do not DARE to play it cause it could draw you into sth...lol
Absolutely, but don' t forget 2:17 Jack and Ginger 's contemporaries Danny Thompson and Terry Cox from Pentangle! And after the split in 73 - Who played double bass with Nick Drake and John Martyn?
factual mistake at 26.00 ,fairport appeared again on totp again when they perfomed on a short lived segment within the prog.called album release--- ref inner sleeve notes from the album history of fairport convention written by joe boyd
This is a pretty decent , if still incomprehensive documentary about this iconic band but has anyone noticed the wonderful faux pas made by Frank Skinner at 41.28 where he's describing the life of John Babbacombe Lee - Skinner claims that Lee was sentenced to "LIFE by hanging !!" - I imagine that would be very hard to achieve... Poor Frank Skinner.
Great Fairport Convention ... enjoy the focus on the web in this BBC documentary ... have added this video to World University's folk rock wiki subject - worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Folk_rock_music - for open teaching and learning ... where we can all eventually eventually jam in real real time in group video - and even with Fairport ... :) ... Thank you Fairport Convention!
I like their music quite a lot and they are clearly great musicians--- but why are they such stereotypes??--why do all the blokes have to have beards for god sake?--its so bloody conformist to the idea of this is what ''Folk'' is- and of course they all have to drink a lot because thats what guys with beards who play mandolins have to do. I suppose this is why so many people (not seen or heard here) HATE this idea of Folk.
You mean in your opinion. Apparently you haven't seen that many pictures of her. If you look to your right, right here, at "Sandy Denny- hall of Fame video, you'll see how attractive she was.
