Steeleye Span - All Around My Hat Reaction

In this video we're checking out Steeleye Span. We looked them up for a second and saw that they are an English Folk Rock band. This should be truly interesting. Enjoy!
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[@colrhodes377]

These guys have been around for many decades and are still very much on the scene today. Always worth listening to

[@lbd-po7cl]

I grew up on Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention and Pentangle- the holy trinity of English folk-rock (and the originators of the genre). The singer here, Maddy Prior, has one of the purest voices around, and still sounds great. Another of their songs which is pure joy to listen to is One Misty Moisty Morning, but for something darker you must check out King Henry or Long Lankin.

[@steeleye2112]

Maddy is arguably my favourite voice in music and so grateful I've got to see them so many times.

[@frederickbanjoman9482]

Gaudete

[@27thangel23]

Not Irish folk... ENGLISH folk (and on Come Ye O'er Fra France, Scottish folk... if you wanna watch this one make sure you get one with translation). Saw them twice in Ottawa in the 70s. Maddy looks very ordinary, until she starts to dance... then captures your heart. Well, my heart. Peace, love and bellbottoms from over Niagara way.

[@Rockaria23]

This reached Number 5 here in the UK Chart in 1975 when i was 7. They did have another hit earlier in 1972 called 'Gaudete'. This got to Number 14 in the Christmas Chart :)

[@markgorman9935]

Maddie Prior has a great voice. Every bit as good live as on recordings, loved seeing her live.

[@johnp8131]

Remember buying this album. There's a small piece of card that comes with it so you can view their faces on the cover at the correct angle. Not an Irish song at all, it's of Engish origin, as is the majority of the band and the songs they sing. Although most people didn't or couldn't tell the difference? Saw them twice, once in around '73 and again, forty years later. Still brilliant.

[@glynjones7158]

You should watch a live rendition. Maddys face as she sings is so expressive!

[@markferrett700]

English folk rock gods👏👏👏👏👏...there are distinct differences between English,Irish and Scottish folk songs,especially the old original songs of which this is......Irish tend to generally be happy,Scottish tend to be reels which just make your feet tap,the English tended to be sad......but thete are always exception s...........love the reaction.

[@ivanwilmore7469]

You need to see their live performance of Cam ye o’re fae France. You won’t understand the words, it’s about the Jacobite rebellion. Maddy’s voice is so pure and you will love it when she is dancing around the stage; hope you get the right live performance.

[@davidpost428]

I saw them many years ago and they are a terrific group. Maddie Pryor has a beautiful voice. Suggest that you listen to their "Gaudete".

[@christofferknight8567]

the very best christmas song

[@jamesrowe3606]

It's actually English folk music. There's lots of Scottish and Irish folk music around, but not so much from England. If you liked this, you should definitely give Fairport Convention a listen.

[@tonycasey3183]

Folk Rock was a very popular genre at the time. I was a big fan of Steeleye Span and you have now reacted to their two biggest hits Gaudete and this one. They have some fantastic album tracks though. Some of my favourites are The Saucy Sailor, Fighting For Strangers The Boys Of Bedlam, Blackleg Miner and Alison Gross.

[@paulcasey5486]

great react haven,t heard this in years so thank you again.

[@druidswillow1052]

Like all great songs this never loses it's Magic

[@JP-nb7tm]

This song will get under your skin like you won't believe. I can't believe you never heard until 2022!

[@johnlewis1640]

I discovered Steeleye Span many years ago, they produced a number of great LP's and are very underrated. Also check out The Albion Country Band, Renaissance and Fairport Convention, you'll love them!

[@hanierfamily]

Fairport Convention have been tight fisted about their copyrighted material in the last attempts we did to put up their work. We can't promise anything with them. But we'll list your suggestions.

[@bobroberts6155]

Steeleye Span are not ‘underrated’ by lovers of folk rock. This is a label lazily applied whenever referring to anything not in the popular mainstream. A band does not have a long career and large following by being underrated.

[@retohofmann5878]

Maddy....Steeleye Span is uplifting!

[@davidmacgregor5193]

Status Quo did a rocking cover version of this, it featured Maddy Prior as a guest vocalist.

[@highpath4776]

Francis Rossi I found had a wider musical appreciation than one would think from the Quo singles

[@stevedotwood]

Maddie Prior's voice, one of the best female folk voices around. Try "The Blacksmith" by them some time. There's two versions, a fast one and a slow one. I looove the slow version. It showcases the superb quality of her voice.

[@forfar1956]

Loving your reactions. I have hint for you. There is Video on KZbin with Status Quo (Down Down) singing this song, with Maddy Prior guesting as singer, Maddy is Steeleye's singer

[@whattiler5102]

Span were prominent in the folk/rock revival of the late 60s and 70s. The thing that surprised people at their gigs for the first time was that they were, intentionally, LOUD! Also definitely English folk, not Irish.

[@ivanwilmore7469]

The Cam ye o’er fae France is in 1989 live performance.

[@gilesglossop5071]

One of the great English folk bands of the early 70's, along with Fairport Convention and Pentangle. They brought back to life this ancient Englishness (as well as some Celtic too) legacy to contemporary popular music

[@keldaogg2157]

Steeleye and Silly Wizard have always been my favorites. Steeleye Span collaborated with Terry Pratchett on Wintersmith which is absolutely magical.

[@Chris_GY1]

I have seen Steeleye Span twice In 2019 and 2022 on tour. There are videos of them on KZbin from the 70s to the present day. Due to covid they have only just finished their 50th Anniversary tour which started in 2019.

[@sdwill66]

I just remembered. They also did "New York Girls" with Peter Sellers on ukulele and additional vocals.

[@johnp8131]

Didn't they do one on an album with David Bowie too?

[@sdwill66]

@@johnp8131 I wasn't aware of that but according to Google he played sax on "To Know Him Is To Love Him" in '74.

[@lemming9984]

Oh yeah, I forgot all about that - I had it on 7"!

[@petermizon4344]

Great song, they are from London and were formed from Fairport Convention, their it was Si to Dois Partir, great sing along

[@glasgowgaysoulfan8856]

Like Gaudette this is played a lot at Christmas. Probably due to it's mentioning of the pagan Yule Green Willow. Huge Folk rock band that made some amazing tracks with songs/poems from all over Britain and Ireland. Many involved Folklore involving supernatural beings while others the plight of working folk especially women with no rights at all. Great musicians and Maddy Prior has a voice from beyond the vale

[@JP-nb7tm]

This song is my guilty pleasure song. My music taste goes from Abba to ZZ Top and everything in between.

[@rullmourn1142]

A great vocalist, indeed. Another excellent song they do is, [Tam Lin] It is a story of the Fae, tricking and capturing Tam Lin. its a beautiful song, but quite dark.

[@frederickbanjoman9482]

Irish Trad song with some bits of another mixed in. Stands the test of time - well, centuries! Key of D for uke

[@folksinger2100]

No its not, it was hijacked by the Irish Independence movement and given new lyrics.

[@frederickbanjoman9482]

@@folksinger2100 Hmm yes English folk song, a mix of two songs, haven't heard of an Irish political version. Status quo rock it on too. Many songs come form old roots. Bob Dylan famously used Lord Randall my Son for Hard Rainsa gonna fall.

[@jonassundell9366]

So English! I Love it! Greatings from Jonas Gothenburg Sweden. ❤

[@tonybarruk2]

It's already been mentioned, but please try Steeleye Span's "Gaudete" too, if only because there are very few a cappella top 20 hit singles, let alone ones sung in Latin!

[@Sandy-dd4le]

I haven't thought about, or heard this band in decades. I'm sure i remember this lp being thrown out by my older brother when Punk happened. He probably bought it again in the 90's!

[@JamesDickson-vs5of]

English folk rock at it's Very best, superb 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌️

[@TenCapQuesada]

Steeleye Span did a gig at my university (Aberystwyth) when this album came out, which made me go out and buy it immediately! You should check out the other tracks. Lovely to see a reaction to it, although it is mostly based on old English folk songs as well as the Irish theme!

[@balticstain7150]

Great band...

[@edwardallen4051]

I think this is the band I've seen most live, at least a dozen times and I think the lineup changed at least half of those times which also led to style changes they ranged from very traditional folk to quite heavy folk rock. Love Maddy Priors voice. I don't think I've seen anyone react to Steeleye Span and I'm impressed with the wide range of bands you're covering.

[@sdwill66]

Well worth checking out the vocalist, Maddy Prior, covering this song with the 12 bar boogie Kings, Status Quo.

[@delorangeade]

Fondly remembered this one. Incongruous and anomalous, but good fun. Early seventies folk and folk rock seems to be what I am listening to these days, so this fits right in.

[@BrixtonTone]

Was a big fan of "folk rock". Liked Steeleye Span a lot BUT loved Fairport Convention more. Check out "Tam Lin" from their Liege and Lief album or if you like a challenge (from the same album) listen to the "Lark in the Morning" medley, it's an instrumental and the challenge is not to tap your feet or nod your head as you listen 😁 p.s. early congrats C&C the well deserved big 1k subs is just around the corner.

[@Katehowe3010]

I see no mention of Pentangle?

[@hanierfamily]

Folk rock is what it said on Wikipedia. 😀

[@keithpadgett2817]

one of the top electric folk bands

[@Gill3D]

Oh, you must check out "Gaudete"! It's a Christmas perennial on this side of The Pond.

[@nickchristian2506]

Only just seen this one from you, much enjoyed. Left of field suggestion but try 'The Tanyard Side' by Sam Lee. You will be pleasantly intrigued.

[@madams6198]

It's 6/8 meter which makes it sound like four on four. Polyrhythms. It's how 3 and 4 can seemingly spite maths. Carol of the Bells is a perfect example of 3 on 4 Polyrhythms.

[@mildandbitter]

The rock band Status Quo do a great version of this, and have performed it live with Maddy Prior.

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

Another great reaction. You should react to, 'Fighting For The Strangers' by them off their album 'Rocket Cottage', and at Christmas 'Gaudete' would be a great track to react to by them.

[@wesleybeck9413]

I liked "Let Her Go Down" and "Gone To America".

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

@@wesleybeck9413 Some other great tracks.

[@Scaleyback317]

You should take a look at Maddy Prior doing All around my hat with Status Quo!

[@balticstain7150]

Status quo did with maddy prior live.

[@petertilley8798]

Good call for 'Gaudete' ... well worth a play

[@hanierfamily]

We did a reaction to that one. Please go check it out!

[@steeleye2112]

Bit of a fan in case you hadn't guessed. There's a lot to discover here 😀

[@hanierfamily]

We're happy to have you. Thanks for watching.

[@macker33]

The tune is actually an irish rebel song called A tricoloured ribbon, They just swapped the words.

[@alanmcbeath7866]

Old Ireland is calling.

[@TheRayhunt]

The song "All Around my Hat" is of nineteenth-century English origin. Most Irish tunes are copies of English, Scottish and Welsh folk songs.

[@macker33]

@@TheRayhunt Well thats a nonsense statement for a start, most irish tunes are copies of english et al songs? Tri coloured ribbon is disputed, you are wrong just to assume its english just because the english said so. It does happen but when it does i think the irish sing the english songs better than the english do, Sam Hall by Flying column being proof in point.

[@TheRayhunt]

@@macker33 The records in VWML show that a song with this chorus and broadly similar verses has been widely collected from English source singers from the late 19th century on. In the 19th century it featured in dozens of broadsheets and songbooks , going back to the 1830s. Peadar Kearney took the melody, changed the words, replaced 'green willow' with 'tricoloured ribbon' in the hat, and converted it into a song by 1916. He did the same with 'The Foggy Dew' - which originally was a song about a man meeting a young woman who told him she was destined to meet the man she would marry in the foggy dew.

[@macker33]

@@TheRayhunt The melody was around in ireland undreds of years before peader kearney ever got near it. No idea what the story with the foggy dew is. And vwml? seriously? if the cat had kittens the english would say they invented it.

[@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373]

This pair are only here for the beer

[@lepantoslim7058]

Folk Steel , , you should have picked the music video for this , they are super fun to watch Check out Thomas the Rhymer or Long Lankin or Black Jack Davie, always do the studio version of those suggested songs , thanks

[@simonlitten]

I think the song is originally from The Threepenny Opera

[@777petew]

Please watch them performing.

[@Grummash]

She was in love with the man, but she didn’t like him. After “twelve month and a day” you can consider yourself divorced

[@rickb.4168]

And if any one should ask me why I’m ARSING! it.

[@folksinger2100]

There new member Jessie May Smart is outstanding, check her out

[@johnabramson1031]

Banal "reaction" : the time signatures? that's all you hear? not one comment or appreciation of their supurb musicianship, the quality of their harmonies or maddy prior 's lead vocal. Why even post?

[@gordonalexander942]

It's a British folk rock band not everything is Irish!

[@unwoke1652]

Not Irish, but English Folk.