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Country Gardens" is an old English folk tune traditionally used for Morris dancing. It was introduced by traditional folk musician William Kimber to Cecil Sharp near the beginning of the twentieth century, then popularised by a diverse range of musicians from Percy Grainger and David Stanhope to Jimmie Rodgers .
When English communities migrated to the United States, Canada and Australia, they brought their folk traditions with them, and many of the songs were preserved by immigrant communities. English folk music has produced or contributed to several cultural phenomena, including sea shanties, jigs, hornpipes and the music for Morris dancing.
The Banks of Sweet Primroses. The Bastard King of England. Be My Mistake. Beautiful Sunday (song) Beer, Beer, Beer. A Beuk o' Newcassell Sangs. Bingo (folk song) The Birthday Party (song) The Bishoprick Garland.
Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1983, 50 different releases topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on playlists submitted by country music radio stations and sales reports submitted by stores.
Folk music. The county has a well-documented and still vibrant folk music heritage, It was studied by one of the earliest British musicologists, Cecil Sharp. Sharp began his career of collecting folk songs in Somerset in 1903 with the editorial help of his friend Rev Charles Marson, vicar of Hambridge. Cycling around the county during holidays ...
English country music. English country music is a term that gained currency in the 1960s and early 70s to specifically describe a genre of instrumental music then receiving attention from the folk revival . This was a deliberate attempt to avoid the term "folk", at the time being used widely to include much acoustically performed music with or ...
English country singers (2 C, 11 P) Country singers from Northern Ireland (9 P) S. British country singer-songwriters (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "British ...
Sonny James achieved 16 consecutive number ones in the late 1960s and early 1970s. "More Than a Memory" by Garth Brooks was the first song to debut at number one in the history of Billboard ' s country charts. Reba McEntire spent time at number one in four different decades.