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.
Yes agree about Judy....., also after Sandy died why have we had no female singers to replace her, or was she irreplaceable, or too much trouble, drugs etc...? Many of the songs require that female touch that is missing today, or have I touched a nerve, nobody mentions this at live concerts; I think a female singer would move them to a new plane.
Chris Lesley used to come and play at the Oxford Folk Club in the 1990s when I was on the Club committee. They also came to the Governor Hindmarsh here Adelaide in the early2000s. It was a fabulous evening.
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.
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.
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
After Sandy died why have we had no female singers to replace her, or was she irreplaceable, or too much trouble, drugs etc...? Many of the songs require that female touch that is missing today, or have I touched a nerve, nobody mentions this at live concerts; I think a female singer would move them to a new plane.
@ 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! ; )
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.
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!!
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
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!
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.
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.
At some point or points in our life we all ask "Who Knows Where The Time Goes".
I only met Pegg once and yet he made me feel like one of his best mates for life, a true gentleman.
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.
Im sure someone praised her
Yes agree about Judy....., also after Sandy died why have we had no female singers to replace her, or was she irreplaceable, or too much trouble, drugs etc...? Many of the songs require that female touch that is missing today, or have I touched a nerve, nobody mentions this at live concerts; I think a female singer would move them to a new plane.
@@richardstocks7445 Irreplacable !
Chris Lesley used to come and play at the Oxford Folk Club in the 1990s when I was on the Club committee. They also came to the Governor Hindmarsh here Adelaide in the early2000s. It was a fabulous evening.
RIP Gerry Conway
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.
RIP Maartin Allcock & Gerry Conway. Saw them live many times with Fairport & Jethro Tull. Thanks for all the music........
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.
Richard Thompson, the guitarists guitarist
Some of the greatest musicians of the modern era and music that brings one pure, unadulterated bliss.Simply delightful, heavenly music.
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
Totally agree....this is a million miles from Unhalfbricking.
From sunny north wales.
Brilliant comment!
@@Mike-bj6xcName me a band that produces similar - or similarly impressive - material over the course of fifty years.
After Sandy died why have we had no female singers to replace her, or was she irreplaceable, or too much trouble, drugs etc...? Many of the songs require that female touch that is missing today, or have I touched a nerve, nobody mentions this at live concerts; I think a female singer would move them to a new plane.
1967-1976 a decade that produced so much good music, including fairport.
it sure did buddy in those years saw the best few years ever in modern music and culture
I so wish there was more footage of Sandy!
+Nuarda Nuarda Me too
I would prefer less,the cult of Sandy is a bore.
@ 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! ; )
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.
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!!
From '60s folk hippies to '80s new age gypsy travellers they cover a great span of time in modern musical-social lifestyles.
Unhalfbricking is one of my all time favorite albums. I couldn't find it so I bought an import. I still have it!
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
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!!!
The best celtic/British folk rock punkers ever!
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!
Loved this documentary! and long live Fairport!
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.
Agreed. However, Fairport will bring on good lead vocalists at the annual Cropredy Festival to perform Sandy's songs with them.
I saw the original line up on a support for Pink Floyd :-) In a provincial corn exchange , That´s how those times were,
That Sandy Denny lady was an enigma.
Tam Lin is a great song by any standards.
'The talk at every Islington dinner table at the moment is, surely, Scottish Independence.' Stony silence. 😂
My favourite line-up has always been the Full House one.
i love them soooo muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch !
Sandy ... pure love ;)
mattacks and pegg were folkrock's jack bruce and ginger baker
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?
Que lindo....los felicito por su vocación. Me hicieron muy feliz hace anios y hoy también ?
Fairport is best when it brings on the power.
Thank you very much for loading this up! Quite interesting, great music and a lot of information about Fairport Convention I didn´t know.
13:45 fairport opens for pink floyd, what a time
i remember watching this years ago on bb4
Loved it.
Just discovering this today in 2018
Amazing band, amazing music.
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 really is a great view, thanks very much for uploading.
Narrated by that host who introduced Rimmer and Kryton in Nodnol
29:55 should've said initially limited commercial success........Album has, to my knowledge never gone out of print.
According to the session guitarist Alan Watt , the Eagles did not play a note on their first album .
Did you get lost?
very happy
Enjoyed this!
hopefully see you at cropredy for the 50th this year.meet you on the ledge..........
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.
Wrong person for the job. A program about a national treasure, should surely be narrated by someone of suitable calibre! ... Still... tis' the Beeb
Well, since he was sentenced to "life" by hanging, at least now we know why Lee didn't "die" by hanging.
Where is "Sandy Denny Under Review" gone?
That was nice!!! Dank je!!!
The new word on the block is fluid.When a band gets older they have to be.I love Fairport and so I should.Jim.Liverpool.
41:10 ... wh'os that other guy with them? Is it JD?
sandy denny is what made fairport
Amazing singer songwriter.
See you all at Croppers 2017.
Superb.
Does someone know the name of the Ian Campbell Folk Group song around 24:24 ?
Thx for the upload!
I would love to hear like Patty Griffin or Beth Orton perform some of Sandy Denny's stuff with them.
Pass the vomit bag.
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!
What's the song at 9:51?
It is called "Time, it will show the wiser".
The problem with these guys is they have no female vocalist
They did.
At first where is Sandy?
Wikipedia showed me the truth...
I’m sorry:(
. . . a little education.
Should have stopped in 1970.
Your dads sperm should have stopped.
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.
And u want to speculate on their private life? Try being a man for a minute.
Sandy was some ugly bird.
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.
This isn't Sandy Denny. This is Jacqui McShee. And you, sir, are an imbecile.
Better looking than the creature from Greek mythology that you’re bouncing around with