Holly Bears the Crown [Import]

Young Tradition | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 26, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 1969
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Fledg'ling UK
• ASIN: B00000DHXV
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #320,852 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Boar's Head Carol

2. Is It Far to Bethlehem

3. Lullay My Liking

4. The Cherry Tree Carol

5. Shepherds Arise

6. I Sing of a Maiden That Is Makeless

7. Interlude: the Great Frost

8. Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day

9. A Virgin Most Pure

10. The Coventry Carol

11. The Holly Bears the Crown

12. March the Morning Sun

13. Bring Us in Good Ale

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Veritable Treasure ..., November 20, 2001

By 

Jan Zijlstra "R100GSXR1000rider" (Murfreesboro, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Holly Bears the Crown (Audio CD)

If this is not the best seasonal album to come out of England, I'd like to hear the one that's better! The young Tradition (Heather and Royston Wood plus Peter Bellamy) were, as Heather puts it in her liner notes, distinct individuals. That's what makes their singing so very special - you can follow the individual parts and never tire of the sheer impact that three people who sing their hearts out can have.
Shirley and Dolly Collins may seem an odd admixture ... Shirley's is a voice of rare purity, which you either do or do
not care for - depending on which stage you're at in your life. Her sister Dolly's accompanyment on the pipe organ creates a strangely perfect, if somewhat alienating, music.
It is the record's variety - the blessedly unpolished acapella singing alternating with unmitigated purity with some spoken word added for good measure - that makes it such a standout.
It took some thirty years for this record to be released. Sadly many of the people who created it are no longer with us - Royston Wood, Peter Bellamy and Dolly Collins all passed away - but what a legacy they leave. Let's celebrate that legacy!