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avevale_intelligencer ([personal profile] avevale_intelligencer) wrote2011-06-05 09:34 am

Excellent Youtube video

Found by [livejournal.com profile] osewalrus. The song is "Space Girl," written by Ewan McColl and (I think) performed by The Imagined Village, though I may be wrong on that last one.

[identity profile] keristor.livejournal.com 2011-06-05 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
Where did you find that it was written by Ewan McColl? I found the performance (by The Imagined Village) but not the author.

[identity profile] bardling.livejournal.com 2011-06-05 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
Yup, is clearly Imagined Village, with Eliza Carthy on vocals.
http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/12537484/Empire-Love/Product.html lists the song as follows:
Space Girl (Trad. Arr. Peggy Seeger/Ewan Maccoll)

Also, from a Guardian album review: "...to Ewan MacColl's quirky Space Girl..."

Also, and I know Reinhard Zierke & know he does his research:
http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/shirley.collins/songs/spacegirl.html
Edited 2011-06-05 11:16 (UTC)