High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song. Episode 14

High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song

High Fidelity - A Century of Recorded Song with Jack L and Julie Feeney is a 26 part radio series. The series is a sound-map of recorded song from Thomas Edison to the iPod from Tin Pan Alley to X Factor. Episode 14 Folk to Pop. From the 1950s onwards sound recording made it easier to capture and preserve folk music, musicians, songs and singers like the blind Hungarian fiddler Zerkula or Irish sean nos singer Labhras o Cadhla. Its a folk legacy which flows into modern music and composition/performance inspiring the folk music revival led by people like Pete Seeger, Ewan McColl and in Ireland Dominic Behan and Luke Kelly. This episode features Simon and Garfunkel, Peggy Seeger, Roberta Flack, Christy Moore, Moving Hearts and Paul Brady. We Hear Julie singing The Reaper a traditional song she learnt from June Tabor, and we get the story behind the folk song Scarborough Fair.