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Robert Plant and Sandy Denny
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Sandy Denny & The Strawbs - Stay Awhile With Me (1967)
I absolutely love this song. Sandy Denny recorded this tune with the Strawbs before joining Fairport Convention. There's a version with strings but I think I like this one a bit more as Sandy's vocals stand out more.
There's no reason why you should even try
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#Fairport Convention#Sandy Denny#Matty Groves#Liege and Lief#United Kingdom#1969#Folk Rock#British Folk#Island Records#ILPS-9115#upload
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Led Zeppelin dads and Sandy Denny, 1970.
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Sandy Denny, 1971
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Sandy Denny - The North Star Grassman and the Ravens LP - 1971
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Who Knows Where The Time Goes? (BBC Session - John Peel 11/9/73)
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Sandy Denny photographed by Brian Cooke, 1975
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Please forgive me, I just wanted this pic by itself. It is my favorite of them together. Also, here's Sandy Denny:
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Led Zeppelin’s Robert Plant and Fairport Convention’s Sandy Denny outside Melody Maker’s Annual Poll Awards in London on September 15th, 1970.
That night, Robert won Best Male Singer, while Sandy was chosen Best Female Singer. A year later the two dueted on the track ‘The Battle of Evermore’ for Led Zeppelin’s untitled fourth album, which ended up being the only time a guest vocalist appeared on a LZ song.
#robert plant#sandy denny#led zeppelin#fairport convention#the battle of evermore#led zeppelin iv#melody maker#classic rock#hard rock#folk#folk rock#faves#sandy would've been a legend just for boe alone
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Fairport Convention - Million Dollar Bash (1969)
A fun and rollicking version of Dylan’s Basement Tapes tune.
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Sandy Saturday's #13:
Pass of Arms
I'll bet there are already far more words written about T. Swift's new record than in all of the Mahabharata (that's the Hindu holy book that contains the Bhagavad Gita; it's around 13,000 pages long).
The opposite can be said for Pass of Arms, a 1971 half hour film that contains two stand alone Sandy Denny songs. The film does not have a Wikipedia page and is not available in any form anywhere as near as I can tell: it exists but you literally cannot watch it.
Having a Wikipedia page is a pretty low bar. Without knowing, I bet there are extensive ones dedicated to Chewbacca's family tree and Joe Biden's dog. I'm right on both counts of course: I just looked.
But google to your hearts content: the internet confirms that the short film existed, that it claimed to be "award winning", and that a guy who worked marginally on the 80's buddy flick Spies Like Us, in which I seem to remember that Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase save the world from nuclear destruction while failing to make us laugh, directed it; and that's it.
Happily, we can still hear the songs at least, something I've never done with any real focus until this moment. Let's start with Here in Silence.
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Okay, I'm digging it so far. I picture a knight in his pensive non-warrior boy clothes looking longingly at his maiden, fall grass billowing between them in slow motion; but then that scene gives way to that same knight, now in full armor, gearing up for gnarly battle and then we realize this is actually a film about the Children's Crusade, or maybe it's all a chunky metaphor and it's actually about angsty and hirsute teens in jolly old 70's England: they're looking to stick to the man, or bloke I guess - this is England - and, well, maybe there's a reason no one other than me is angry they can't watch this film anymore because this song, which Denny clearly did not write, kinda sucks. Sandy sounds glorious, as always, but I'd rather hear her sing The Wheels On The Bus.
Have some faith though, people. We've got the marginally more famous Man of Iron track left to consider. I've definitely heard this one before, but I can remember nothing about it other than the fact that it's really long and moody with strings. Here goes!
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Yeah, those are strings alright. Today the students at my tiny high school were all bent out of shape - it's Spring and everyone's either breaking up, thinking about it or striving to create similar drama in their life asap, so I led a full school game of musical chairs on the basketball court and declared in advance that I would win at all costs. I did not win but I shoved a bunch of giant teen boys aside in the effort and everyone laughed at their weird teacher and got into it.
We're a pretty cool school so one of our tenth graders, who's already a semi-professional cellist, played whatever came into his head for each round, which sure beat dancing around the chairs while T. sang 65 new songs about her loser boyfriends or whatever. My student's cello sounded, some of the time, a bit like the vibe that starts the track, only better. Then for the next round he'd play Mozart at triple speed.
But now there's a whole mess of fifes involved and this thing is starting to sound silly. Bring in Sandy Denny soon, please.
Oh thank the sensitive medieval Jesus who probably repeatedly appears to the lead character in this film swathed in psychedelic splendor: here's Sandy, and she's brought a whole pack of Cinderella's helpful birds with her to twitter about, somewhat helpfully.
But these lyrics are unbearable. When I was in seventh grade I committed the cardinal sin of writing an earnest original poem about "the roller coaster of life" and then turned it in to my earnest, no clue teacher who of course then read it to the whole class while on the verge of tears - someone had finally attempted something, anything, of marginal note in his earnest but lousy class - which turned my pimply face red, then white, then putrescent purple with shame as the other 13 year olds around me murmured then moved on to mirth and then on to all out rage: never would I be forgiven for writing sensitive poetry in earnest. Jeff Stimpfig, the school's stock character bully, declared me both gay (it was 1989; "gay" equaled uncool and homophobia equaled cool; what a dumb world...) and soon to be dead through his potent fists. Anyway, my seventh grade poem was surely terrible. But it contained far fewer cliches than this claptrap.
Was this end you chose Sir Knight?
Was this why you were born so bright?
The wolves will chew your bones tonight...
Sandy clearly needed a sizeable offered payday to have ever uttered these words; Trevor Lucas, or perhaps Stephen Stills, surely talked her into the whole gig. The guitar is nice though... I wonder if Sandy plays it. Sounds like her...
But good grief, now we've got a stomach churning drum thing going on. I'm starting to think this whole film may have been a Stephen Stills vanity project: it probably centers on Stills's broriffic relationship with Joe Freakin' Lala; they're on a quest to no longer suck and it's going nowhere fast as their stuck in a room of lemons, all of them worth sucking, and buxom ladies who admire them for no discernible reason whatsoever; and then, at the end of the film / this terrible song, aliens in sunglasses descend and take Steve and Joe to their leader for an extraterrestrial blues jam complete with wolves and low production value fake wind. Clearly, they didn't have Neil Young's budget for fake wind: he's got a huge budget when it comes to producing fake wind.
I'm guessing that Sandy's estate is responsible for insuring this film can no longer be seen by anyone. Indeed, The Dollar Bin itself may soon be hacked so as to eliminated this entire post one conniving letter at a time in their nefarious quest to separate Denny from any observable connection to the film Pass of A....
#Youtube#sandy denny#sandy saturdays#stephen stills sucks#joe freakin' lala#I demand to see Pass of Arms
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Sandy Denny, 1975
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