I was searching for the best version I could find of the anti war song 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda'. And I found it this morning. Yesterday the man that sang it best died.
This is the man of whom Bob Dylan said:
“I never heard a singer as good as him ever. He was just the best ballad singer I ever heard in my life, still is probably.”
So, my search reached an end. This is it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFCekeoSTwg
Farewell, I hardly knew you.
Update as of 28th February 2011
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Knee deep in rehearsals for *Our Style is Legendary* and having the time of
my life. Dream come true, emotional times.
Make sure you come and see it won'...
6 years ago
1 comment:
I liked his version of the song, which is one of my favourites, along with the other Eric Bogle anti-war number, Green Fields of France. I met Eric Bogle who told me Tony Blair, it seems, thought that Green Fields of France had been written around 1918 or so, which Eric Bogle, who's about 60 odd, thought very amusing.
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