Steeleye Span - One Misty Moisty Morning (Live)

[@SqueakyPob]

Ah, such fond memories of all Steeleye Span's music, but this song in particular. I used to sing it to my baby boys many years ago xx

[@robertharrison4125]

I've always loved this song from when I first heard it in the early 1970's. Maddy always looks as if she's having so much fun on stage. It lifts the heart.

[@robertthompson6346]

Absolutely

[@davidshinn6501]

Yes glad they kept to the very distinctive arrangement. Spotted Cow also stood out and thinking about it everything else in the no drums era.

[@Sharps.50]

Maddy WHAT A VOICE , Long Live MADDY & STEELEYE !!!

[@LornaBurns-e8k]

The music of my childhood. Yet timeless. Simply stirs the soul.

[@stephenlitten1789]

So you're older than you look? 😇

[@LornaBurns-e8k]

@@stephenlitten1789 Depends what angle you catch me at ! ha

[@stephenlitten1789]

@@LornaBurns-e8k You have angles? I would've assumed curves. Nonetheless, challenge accepted 😇

[@09artgirl]

Even we Americans love Steeleye Span!

[@Schattengewaechs99]

Music doesn’t care about one’s passport.

[@fractuss]

Absolutely.

[@VeteranHedonist]

We don't

[@robertgraffham6440]

Back in the 1980s when SS were visiting here in Australia, they informed me that a record company in New Jersey had done the best job ever of remastering the early albums onto CD !

[@wilhelmtaylor9863]

I was made aware of Steeleye Span in 1971. Purchased most of their albums (vinyl). I am amazed that Maddy sounds EXACTLY the same these days. It's a miracle.

[@berndbruns2619]

I agree, the voice is still perfect

[@desallen2174]

I'm an old git (72), but Maddy is 3 years older. That Crystal soprano has never changed. I doubt I could still prance around like Maddy. The consummate performer as always.

[@wilhelmtaylor9863]

Des, I heard Steeleye at a "record store" (remember?) back in my college days and was smitten. I have downloaded all 'a their stuff. I have you beat by 2 years but I'm not a "git", I'm a codger. Be well my friend.

[@woldsweather]

I saw them on their farewell tour in 1978 then last weekend at Butlins. I thought it noticeable how her voice had lost power, but then they have mtabe had a lot of gigs/ colds etc.

[@desallen2174]

@@wilhelmtaylor9863 You too Wilhelm. Sure do remember record stores. Codger reminds me of Alf Garnett. Think I'd rather be a git. Anyway, enough of all our yesterdays. Can't see Maddy packing it in any time soon. However, when that dread day comes, what do you think of Jessie May Smart as the next voice of Steeleye?

[@cindyo4654]

Still so superb! Loved you for 50 years Thank you!

[@johnneal5616]

I am still amazed at their harmonies and skill. Swapping back and forth between traditional folk and rock keeps their music so fresh even after all these years.

[@godfreyberry1599]

Great music and performance will always stand the test of time. The detail of every note is an undefined pleasure.

[@judyrazze4953]

My mother's mother used to sing it to her when she was little girl. Then sang it to me when I was little little girl. Somehow it stuck in my head and when I had kids, I sang it to them! They are now in their 50's. This song just goes on and on and one! Love it.

[@LostRadioRounders]

Crazy good version, made even more outstanding by the inclusion of the instrumental "Flowers of Edinburgh" at the end. For God's sake why hasn't someone mentioned that? Killer!

[@joannagodfrey5111]

I associate "Flowers of Edinburgh" with the Wee Free Men! Crivins!

[@tyecm]

Saw them at a gig in Cardiff Castle in the mid-70’s. Rained the entire time except the hour the Span were on stage. Always loved Maddy’s vocals.

[@chuckoster8221]

The girl playing the violin is just incredible.Talent and beauty. Just the very best.Notice,no paper music to read from, just memory.Brings tears to my eyes every time I watch this video.

[@tommyrawlings3046]

The greatest folk band ever! No one even close! And Maddie an immortal vocalist, snd the sexiest lass ever!

[@liliamaeve]

First saw them perform in the early 1970’s, followed them ever since, many wonderful memories. Thank you Steeleye in all you formations.

[@johnmartin7346]

My God! These guys are wonderfull!

[@MausMasher54]

Look up the BBC Boxing Day concert, this was the 1st time and I was hooked.. :))

[@rogueriderhood1862]

They get better the more you listen to them.

[@johnmartin7346]

@@MausMasher54 Thanks!

[@johnmartin7346]

@@rogueriderhood1862 I know!

[@rogueriderhood1862]

@@johnmartin7346 I should have seen them last year, but bloody Covid 19 stopped that! Looks like I'll have to wait for the 2022 tour now 😢

[@LDubsChannel]

Stumbled upon this this morning while looking for this nursery rhyme as it is a misty morning in Colorado today. This is absolutely glorious music.

[@Hanoverauto]

I remember the first time I saw Steeleye in the Student's Union, Bangor University in the mid 60s. Half way through their gig, the power went and Ashley Hutchins threw his toys out of his pram. Maddy Prior said " We're professionals, we can perform without power" and perform they did.

[@geoffbaker4452]

Funny that. I saw Five Hand Reel at Bangor Uni, about 1980. The power kept going off then too. They also just carried on ( I think it was just the lighting).

[@desallen2174]

As Steeleye formed in 1969, I'd check your memory banks!!

[@brianparker663]

Saw them late May in Chesham. Absolutely knock-out band. Best line up since the "classic" years by a country mile (been following them for all those 53 years).

[@rienkeheinen3601]

I was there too! I travelled from the Netherlands to Chesham to see and hear them. It was fantastic.

[@brianparker663]

@@rienkeheinen3601 Glad your journey was worth it. All the best. 😃

[@johnmcgrath9354]

Heard Mady singing on the last episode of Baby Raindeer last night.Just had to go on line this morning and have some more.One Misty Morning had me dancing to it even after hearing it for the first time 50 years ago.

[@Schattengewaechs99]

Lovely jig towards the end!

[@oliverstephan8692]

Wonderful. Loved the Span since Hark! The Village Wait.

[@jeffreylemal7432]

I saw them at the garden with fairport convention and renaissance.

[@AliRaddon]

Wonderful ,still love that album 😊❤

[@emmz1984]

An amazing band, Gaudete was a song i always knew about as a kid but didn't properly get introduced to Steeleye span until 15 years ago, finally got to see them play live last year and they did not disappoint! Maddie still has a wonderful voice and they have such a happy demeanour its hard not to sing along

[@wilhelmtaylor9863]

Steeleye Span, the Chieftains, Silly Willy.......life is good. REALLY good.

[@chrislom5288]

Sorry, I too have to say MY GOD THEY ARE *STILL* FABULOUS!

[@gutmensch9339]

....und die Durchblutung meiner Beine bessert sich und mich seit meiner späten Jugend (BJ 49).

[@dwhitman3092]

So glad I discovered these folks X-Mas 2017. .... Can't believe how well they still perform!!!

[@loriabrams3048]

I didn't know they are still together.

[@finzelbaroo]

Liam carries them along. What a brilliant drummer he iso So. So cool

[@crwydryn]

Always loved Steeleye Span their sound is epic along with Maddy's voice.

[@robertpauley3586]

Saw them in Glasgow in the seventies People were dancing up and down the isles Unforgettable!

[@himmelblau66]

great, love it !!!

[@justgivemethetruth]

1:53 - Love it!!! Been a fan since 1973. Got interested when they opened for Jethro Tull at Oakland, CA.

[@tropicaldoodad]

Same year for me, but in Dallas. They opened a ca pella with Parcel of Rogues. It was haunting then as it is now.

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@tropicaldoodad They opened for Jethro Tull in their Passion Play tour. They were all stationary onstage dressed up in some kind of pom-pom material or something singing "Gaudete" from the "Below The Salt" album, which I soon went out and bought. Still my favorite of their more electric albums, with the fantastic "King Henry". I've loved these guy ever since and discovered all their very old stuff ... it is all really great. The next year they released "Now We Are Six" which was produced by Ian Anderson.

[@tropicaldoodad]

@@justgivemethetruth Right! It was "Gaudete." And the outfits, I found out later, were Mummers costumes. Thanks for the correct memory.

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@tropicaldoodad I am finding things that I thought I remembered are a bit hazy after all these years. But I remember being stage left (or on the right side of the stage for the audience) in the (nosebleed) seats at the Oakland Coliseum (indoor). I think there was a group before Steeleye Span, but that is gone, probably because I did not like them. But one thing I remember from the show. The whole coliseum about about 80% full. Seats in the stands at the very back were empty, and the last 30% of the floor was bare. But as everyone was waiting for the concert to start a very attractive woman in a white dress walked from the crowd on the floor to the exits at the back of the floor across the empty wooden floor ... and being pretty and standing out from the crowd, she spontaneously got a round of applause and cheers.

[@wilhelmtaylor9863]

The mouse police has not slept since.

[@stanhegeman8751]

Saw this band open for Tull in 74. This was the opening tune. Maddie has mellowed. I can only imagine time w/ Ian had its toll.

[@pentangle4444]

Another 17th century nursery rhyme with a major theme life is short and transient. a very sad song. Love to see Rose Kemp performing and bringing a super charged spin on the group's renditions of their songs from the 70s.

[@nsbd90now]

One of my favorite songs.

[@Historybuff1776]

Great talent. Wonderful music.

[@chrisvetch5221]

Wow. They still sound fantastic!

[@petetgarner1665]

Love this band

[@grahamy3400]

Always loved them

[@davedickinson9260]

Magnificent as ever. Thank you so much. Still the best, simply the best. D

[@annejones597]

This was the first song of theirs that ever caught my teenage attention. My Dad heard me playing it, as I tried to work out the tune for my fiddle, and he remarked "She's ruining that song!" Parents. Musical taste. No further comment.

[@bearsum9520]

Never knew of them until I went to a concert. They opened for Jethro Tull. Best sounds and now I have all their music.

[@rogueriderhood1862]

What a hell of a show, Steeleye Span and Jethro Tull! You lucky sod!

[@bearsum9520]

Yeah that it was!@@rogueriderhood1862

[@iainstewart9844]

Great to hear Maddie again. Is that Benjii Kirkpatrick of Bellowhead playing the Mandolin?

[@rjwh67220]

I used to do this one in a bluegrass band. We had at least as much fun with it as they seem to have.

[@anoukderuiter8649]

I loved there music sinds there begin period and still love it. perfect

[@jeffalanvasconcellos3039]

Many thanks!

[@godfreyberry1599]

Maddie's voice is quite unique and has got particularly so with time.

[@kennewicksheri]

"Singing how do you do and how do you do and how do you do again" Excellent !!!

[@RS250Squid]

Maddie's voice is perfect for this song, so wonderful.

[@dianemartin1877]

Perfection

[@billburnett1531]

Great! Still great!!

[@loriabrams3048]

I didn't know they were still together.

[@davidbailey5252]

Just a great big smile on me face

[@cyn37211]

I saw Steeleye in Philadelphia (USA), and was an instant fan. They were particularly popular in the northeast USA. I’d moved to Alabama, where you didn’t hear this unique music. I’m just glad we moved back to PA for a year, because I came back to the South with a load of great albums! People in Nashville, where I’ve lived 45 years, haven’t heard this music (unless they’re in the SCA)

[@kennydevenney512]

Bass happening in that tune,great tone

[@BobRogers5]

Superb!

[@amandajfrench]

Just brilliant x

[@GayleAPerry]

I heard your band in Farmingdale College on Long Island…..1971-72? Went out and bought the album. How are you Al doin. Today is March 20, 2022. I still think of this song.!!!God bles you!

[@lewisdye5627]

drummer wins best plaited beard ever award

[@chrislom5288]

Maddy still got it DAMN GURL!

[@allandoyle5733]

Jessie May Smart has added a lot to Steeleye Span. Great performance.

[@jvanhecke]

This is Violeta Vicci. Jessie was on maternity leave.

[@desallen2174]

Jessie May is an absolute belter. I think I can see her as Maddy's replacement. Hopefully, still some years down the line.

[@desallen2174]

Obviously, see my previous comment, missed your post. Thank you for the correction. Impressed with both Violeta and Jessie May. Both worthy successors to Peter Knight.

[@willemverstraeten102]

Pfffff, great

[@SimonP2]

Lovely performance and video, thanks.

[@simmo303]

Still in fine voice.

[@janmatthews4854]

Brilliant

[@bobsearle1893]

Fantastic

[@Ezra.emerson]

Wow! They've still got it. Seriously tricky arrangement. Brilliant

[@desallen2174]

The future for Steeleye is looking more secure. Vittoria Vicci is not only a great replacement for Peter Knight, her on stage presence and performance is absolutely right out of the Maddy Prior drawer. Fabulous.

[@neilcorbett5353]

As a student at Loughborough in the 70's Steeleye performed there, up for grabs was a prize for the best drag queen were copies of all their albums. I won and made the local paper and radio..much to the annoyance of an inveterate crossdresser who was runner ip!

[@loriabrams3048]

I haven't heard this in years.

[@petdoe8938]

Still in love beautiful

[@bronzedragon18]

Must say that I prefer this version of Steeleye Span to the original, especially Jessie May Smart, she's very good on her violin and insanely attractive!

[@bo4967]

In this video the violin is played by Violeta Vicci!

[@andyventures6574]

Grew up listening to span, growing older listening to eluveitie, korpiklaani etc. Folk rock just gets heavier and better.

[@Schattengewaechs99]

Add Flogging Molly and you’ve got my taste in music!

[@andyventures6574]

@@Schattengewaechs99 I have as well.

[@MrSolodriver]

I was in the same class at school with (the late) Tim Hart. Even as a young teenager he was very talented. He was friendly with Donovan, but I don't know who influenced who!

[@spanfan7669]

That's cool, a friend of mine was as well, Adrian. He has many great memories of him.

[@vernontaylor568]

Maddy's mic needed upping a notch on the mixer at the start, great performance though. Nice to see she still keeps moving in spite of anno domini. Watched one the concerts from much younger times and Maddy just kept skipping along the stage for the whole time - so exuberant and clearly enjoying every second; if only it could be bottled...

[@raypurchase801]

We sang this as a song in school when I was five years old. I never knew if the word was "hat" or "cat".

[@michaelowens5394]

Golly, this is a hundred times more effective than their studio recording! I want to jump out of my chair.

[@allandoyle5733]

Yes! I still have the record but this is brilliant. Getting better all the time. Thanks.

[@petermorgan8018]

I’ve been hooked since Hark the Village, Please to see the King etc. Anyone know the name of the tune at the end of this?

[@georgemorley1029]

I have sung a different version of the same song to my kids for a nursery rhyme since I don’t know when. They’re 7 and 5 still and getting a little bit older now but not past a little sing song yet and neither am I.

[@suebursztynski2530]

This song is new to me! And who is the young fiddler?

[@colinwillmott249]

Jessie May Smart, replaced Peter Knight about 7 years ago when he left to concentrate on Gigspanner.

[@paulbaxter7985]

the fiddle player is Violeta Vicci standing in for Jessie May Smart who was on maternity leave at the time of this concert which was part of the bands 50th anniversary tour

[@alanfranklin766]

@@paulbaxter7985 Violeta & Jessie May look very similar

[@paulbaxter7985]

@@alanfranklin766 I have seen Jessie May about half a dozen times and Violeta twice live and I beg to differ

[@geoffbaker4452]

@@paulbaxter7985 but they definitely look more like each other than Peter Knight!

[@MausMasher54]

Love Maddy....

[@evansmith3589]

Is the tune Cuckoo’s Nest?

[@johnmitchell1614]

How do they remember the words? Best regsreds?

[@pimderuiter4864]

Deze Steeleye Span is een perfecte band. Ze spelen Top. De stem van Maddy Prioriteit is lager en ze heeft minder volume. Ze blijft het gezicht van Steeleye Span, echter haar stem is gezien haar leeftijd wel stukken minder. Gelukkig wel zuiver. Groet Pim de Ruiter

[@carolsimon9203]

This is still one of my fave songs from early listening days that I'm sharing to a Hazara friend marooned in Indonesia. But also thinking of the quirkiness of knowing Julian Littman as children in 1950s England. And listening to these songs unknowingly from down under

[@tommyrawlings3046]

Maddy Prior is the sexiest woman of all time! Helluva singer too!

[@patricklemmon8260]

Music and lyrics by, Gasp, the Bee Gees !

[@solarguy1702]

Maddy Prior?

[@burnbooleans]

The lyrics starts from a 'Dio" - Rhonie James, I think?

[@trackside77]

Who is playing the Violin?

[@brianparker663]

Violeta Vicci - check out her solo stuff with The Orb etc.

[@RobertSweet-nw4tm]

These lyrics have another completely different melody

[@marcellsivad7767]

it seems, as they finally fixed the missing quaver from this old recording...

[@jameshanes7574]

Oh, you sound like Steeleye Span.

[@pimderuiter4864]

Deze Steeleye Span is een perfecte band. Ze spelen Top. De stem van Maddy Prioriteit is lager en ze heeft minder volume. Ze blijft het gezicht van Steeleye Span, echter haar stem is gezien haar leeftijd wel stukken minder. Gelukkig wel zuiver. Groet Pim de RuiterDeze Steeleye Span is een perfecte band. Ze spelen Top. De stem van Maddy Prioriteit is lager en ze heeft minder volume. Ze blijft het gezicht van Steeleye Span, echter haar stem is gezien haar leeftijd wel stukken minder. Gelukkig wel zuiver. Groet Pim de Ruiter

[@yodel606]

The man in leather 😂 yeah my dad was a leathersmith... thats all im gonna say about that...

[@roxken1]

What is the fiddle tune that’s tacked onto the end? I know it, can’t think of the name, and it’s driving me crazy.

[@GaryLehmann]

Same here, I will research it!

[@GaryLehmann]

Flowers of Edinburgh.

[@roxken1]

@@GaryLehmann Yes! I finally remembered the B part especially, and it's indeed Flowers of Edinburgh. Thanks

[@joannagodfrey5111]

@@GaryLehmann which because of the Wintersmith album and association with the late, great Terry Pratchett will always be associated in my mind with the Wee Free Men, Crivins!

[@wiking08]

They shud av included this ending on the record, bloody lovely 👍

[@desallen2174]

Hells, bells, 75 and still Maddy dances like a dervish. Thankfully, the band plays on. Hope I run out of steam before they do.

[@desallen2174]

Great replacement for Peter Knight, she fits in seamlessly. Nothing else needs to be said.

[@desallen2174]

Steeleye Span are pretty good, but there is only one Maddy Prior.

[@cpm232]

Come O Holy Ghost

[@blindleader42]

This is remarkably good considering how long Maddy Prior has been performing. But honestly, her voice is a sad ghost of the strong contralto she had thirty years ago. She barely has the breath for the alto range and the soprano is long gone. As for the band, the only member besides Maddy who was ever _really_ a member is Liam Genockey, the drummer, who helped revive the band in the nineties after the wilderness years. Mind you they are all fine players who do a great job recreating the Steeleye Span sound, but they are only Steeleye Span because Maddy says so. I can't say I blame her though, and I'd pay to see this lineup if they ever return to my city. Now go listen to Maddy's voice on the original recording from Parcel of Rogues: kzbin.info/www/bejne/amPYlKqcjdmbm9k

[@pimderuiter4864]

Deze Steeleye Span is een perfecte band. Ze spelen Top. De stem van Maddy Prioriteit is lager en ze heeft minder volume. Ze blijft het gezicht van Steeleye Span, echter haar stem is gezien haar leeftijd wel stukken minder. Gelukkig wel zuiver. Groet Pim de RuiterDeze Steeleye Span is een perfecte band. Ze spelen Top. De stem van Maddy Prioriteit is lager en ze heeft minder volume. Ze blijft het gezicht van Steeleye Span, echter haar stem is gezien haar leeftijd wel stukken minder. Gelukkig wel zuiver. Groet Pim de RuiterDeze Steeleye Span is een perfecte band. Ze spelen Top. De stem van Maddy Prioriteit is lager en ze heeft minder volume. Ze blijft het gezicht van Steeleye Span, echter haar stem is gezien haar leeftijd wel stukken minder. Gelukkig wel zuiver. Groet Pim de Ruiter