Originally published at: Tuesday Tunes: Planxty — Little Musgrave | Boing Boing
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ok Seamus, you would be able to answer this…how does one properly pronounce Planxty ?
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I just love, love, love Planxty. When Liam comes in on the pipes, I don’t think there’s ever been a time my eyes didn’t water a bit.
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An incredibly old song, dating back at least four hundred years… I do prefer the “Matty Groves” interpretation by Fairport Convention, though, which pre-dates Planxty’s by a decade or so.
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Planks-Tea
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Beat me to it!
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one of my favorite albums (which I’ve owned on LP and CD) is Planxty’s “The Woman I Loved So Well”, which had this, their cover of Norman Blake’s “Billy Gray” and “Johnny o’Bradey’s Lea”.
There’s a Benjamin Britten version, written in 1943 for the prisoners in Oflag VIIb camp, with piano part that avoided the dud notes on the camp piano. I remember singing that in the first choir I was in outside school. I have never forgotten the tension in “he lifted…up…the…coverlet, he lifted up…the…sheet…”
Strangely enough I heard a radio show ages ago where the dj said it should really be pronounced “Plan - thinn” because Gaelic or something? but i’ve never heard anything like that since. It just seemed too “easy” that it’s pronounced the way it looks, but I guess that’s the case.
I can put that corner of my mind to rest now.
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