The Village Green Preservation Society Kate Rusby
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
- The Kate Rusby version of the Song perormed for Jam and Jerusalem
Just a video for fun
Enjoy and please review!
I know this is originally a Kinks song I just love this version - Розваги
I'm American and I love this song because it reminds me of the town I grew up in (Cohasset, MA), which is full of antique shops, Tudor houses, and of course centered around the town green. Which makes sense, because where I'm from most towns and cities spent their first 150 years of existence as English towns and cities. =)
It is a brilliant song. I do love this version, the most beautiful voice in England
Kindest Regards
ER
I second that emotion. z
What a lovely version of this brilliant Ray Davies song book, BRILLIANT
i dont care who likes or dislikes this i think its great song
It a Lovely Song😘
Don't you get the sadness of this wonderful lyric, sung brilliantly by a wonderful singer.
That’s the rub. There’s nothing sad about this song. It’s a celebration turned into a funeral dirge by this awful rendition.
Love this song . . Kate Rusby lives a couple of miles from me . . it makes you proud to be British and Yorkshire born!
It's not often a cover song is better than the original. This is 1 of those times. I love it! I love the way she says Donald Duck.
Agreed. I give it the edge because of Rusby's voice. I caught this on Pandora and it was a pleasant surprise to hear her singing this song.
I reckon. Going to listen now. it's been a while.
I totally agree this is the far better version and I am a fan of the Kinks.
I love this show l could get lost for an half hour and forget about my troubles I felt like I knew them all. I wish they would bring it back even reruns would be nice.
I've seen her live, shes fantastic and a nice personality...really down-to-earth
The theme song to the great comedy show Jam & Jerusalem! Just love thus song
this version of this song is probably the biggest headworm i have ever heard, absolutely amazing stuff, did not even know it was a kinks cover but kates voice really adds sooo much
This is my favourite version - excellent and well-chosen video pics too! Kate Rusby has one of the most beautiful voices in music today. Her song "Falling" never fails to move me. Thanks for this. xx
deep breaths of British beauty and traditional song. Long live our Kate and God save the Queen x
Old warm Hearted Traditions & Kate has a beautiful Knightingale😘
I first heard this in the '70s .... The Kinks .... a great track. Thanks Kate.
I want to join the village green preservation society ! lovely job kate
Many, many thanks to John Smith (presumably an alias) for some of the funniest, most unbalanced joyless racist waffle I have ever encountered. The man is an absolute genius to find something offensive in a song that is a bit of light-hearted fun. Thank you so much for brightening up my day, although I strongly suspect that your own world is somewhat dark, being that far up your own jet-pipe. You are, Sir, a comic genius in the old English ethos. Congratulations, and long may you write such great comedy. Britain is proud of you.
What a brilliant cover. Kate has always been so good at taking a song and making it her own.
Heard this on the radio and thought it was brilliant. So much I've ordered a Kate Rusby CD..... Makes you proud to be British...
Ray Davies wrote many songs that reflected his observations of English life, this was nothing more than a well written piece of social commentry, a nostalgic look at a way of life that was disappearing even by the late 60s. Try listening to the whole album, fabulous!
Just heard this today for 1st time. #1 on the Coverville 2011 Hall of Fame. Very impressive.
la mejor voz para tremenda cancion, que mejora con el paso del tiempo.- Ilumina mi dia cada vez que la escucho.- Aguante kate!
Thanks for making the video: I couldn't make out all the lyrics and your pictures helped me understand and enjoy the song.
"Variety" is a reference to variety shows (a form of theatre) not the American publication.
Heard this on Radio 2 last week, and was delighted to find it here. Many happy memories were invoked (and I'm Scottish not English, although my grandmother was from Yorkshire!). And Kate's voice is perfect for this. Great song and great video, many thanks for sharing them.
After the royal wedding yesterday and now listening to this I feel quite nostalgic for England after living abroad for 40 years !!
Beautiful song and matching slide slow. Kate Rusby's voice really suits this. I was gobsmacked when I learn that The Kinks wrote it, apparently. Good on them. This is the England I liked to seek out when I was there.
Kate Rusby, The Kinks & good old fashioned Englishness, top, top tune!
@ Ken moss - She 'gets' the Ray Davies tunes, and performs them like a boss. She is a beauty to boot.
I couldn't agree more!
Kindest Regards
ER
If I had not been on a bus back from the back of the beyond of the Irish midlands last night I'd never have heard this. It was played on the Irish radio graveyard shift and something about it got into me. What a lovely musical voice. Must hear more!
Who on Earth could be offended by this? It is a celebration of all that is good, simple, and peaceful about life in a certain Green and Pleasant Land. It is not meant to exclude the non-English, on the contrary it invites the listener to remember similar aspects of their own homeland. Incidentally it most often makes me think of a place 3000 miles across the sea from England, the village green of Cohasset, Massachusetts in America.
Jacob Hoss It's over-sensitive people like this who cause problems. They want us to welcome everyone and everything, but have no time for the indigenous customs and traits we have had for over 1000 years. And I am afraid that although we have been considered a welcoming and sensitive country in the past, patience is wearing thin. Even with the Scots now.It's so sad and it need not have been so, had we had a sensible policy.
Peter Day "welcome everything" & "but have no time for indigenous culture"
That's an interesting point I've thought about, but is this reasoning actually true though?
Do we, really, have no time for our culture because of... the immigrants?
I see it as: because a huge part of our kingdoms' cultures - the arts & humanities, heritage, galleries, museums, requires a middle class education to understand & thus => 'enjoy'.
Theatre, literature, music, painting, sculpture, heritage, architecture, museums. A huge part of our our kingdoms' culture. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_the_United_Kingdom
"Enriching Britain", suggests just 8% of the population engage in these aspects of culture.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31759010
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31993163 - kevin spacey on making the arts for everyone
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31797408 - more info on the "Enriching Britain" article
I may not be entirely right, but I think that's a more significant reason, that it requires a good education to enjoy.
NB: I think it's important to reflect & question our own opinions ("no time for indigenous culture" because of...), otherwise our brains create (potentially misrepresnted/false) explanations based on (the understandably) limited knowledge it has as our brains love seeing patterns (rhythms in music, symmetry in aesthetics) & making connections that sounds right even if it may not be.
Peter Day - it is people like you who give this country a bad name. This song is about inclusiveness you idiot.
@@lynneceegee8726 I speak what many people feel, but are frightened now, to express them.
@@peterday7820 Lol............There hasn't been ' indigenous customs & trait's ' since the Romans invaded. Then the Viking's,......then the Danes,........then the Angles........& the Saxons......& then the Normans .....Finally ...the Irish, in the 18th century , to dig & build the canals through-out the land, to enable the 'Industrial Revolution '.
Love this one and great video selection. shows old times so well. Always like Kate nice upbeat on this one.
Ray Davis is a national treasure, Kate is going that way too. And this slideshow really made me smile. Thanks to the lot of yer:D
Well done to the person who made this video. xx
Thank you :)
I have recently discovered Kate, and I have to say this song sums up how I feel about the modern world. To me it seems we have lost our way, and I hold dear to my heart everything Kate sings about.
I couldn't agree more. Without doubt the most beautiful voice in England!
Kindest Regards
ER
Absolutely beautiful. Great vocal. Ray Davies one of our greatest songwriters.
a great cover of a kinks song
Kate Rusby's album Awkward Annie is where I got this from. Hope that's helpful!
Kindest Regards
ER
hi there, thank you so much for putting the title of the show in your video description.
You're welcome! Thank you, Happy New Year :)
What a great song - i no less fresh and relevant than when The Kinks launched it 40 years ago - and what a wonderful performance!!
Living in the distant colonies I had not heard of Kate until by chance an NZ radio station played this song as a filler.
She is wonderful!! And the Yorkshire accent makes me so homesick for England!!! (It so happens that she is also a native of the town where my sister and her husband live...)
Never seen Kate live but will certainly make the effort to see her next time around. The more I listen to her the better it gets . .
The fact that so many people seem to miss the satire here is utterly mindblowing. This song is making fun, how on earth can you miss that given its origin?
+Ryan Moore I know, I weep for humanity!
How do you figure?
I always see this song as a satire/anti-satire. To begin with, we are exhorted to denigrate and "laugh at" the voice, with the sad, and quite frankly pathetic goals of protecting such quaint and seemingly pointless standards as custard pies and comic book characters. Then, as the narrative unfolds, we see their desperation in the fact of the larger picture, tiny voices making all-too-polite disagreement with faceless skyscrapers and crushing modernity. Too late do we realise that we ought not have been laughing at those who seek to preserve the little things but joining our slim voices with theirs, because the big things are always very eager to swallow us up thoughtlessly.
Perhaps it's because the song is not satirical. Ray Davies said "'The Village Green Preservation Society' is supposed to be about things I want to preserve" and "all the things in the song are things I'd like to see preserved." He also described it as "an affectionate acknowledgement of our culture."
Wonderful, angelic voice. This song (and version) should be our national anthem!
Gosh this makes me homesick. 11 years and counting.
Wow, she's brilliant.
See our Kate live it's a treat!
I concur. I have seen her twice and wish I could see her live more often!
I'm American, and I LOVE this song. It's the theme for the marvelous series "Jam and Jerusalem" (in USA: Clatterford).
Love this and the TV show
peace and love
Little Milton
I love Kate Rusby, I love the Kinks, I love Jam and Jerusalem and Love All our ways!
fab song from a barnsley lass, excellent
She really does, thanks for your comments she has got a beautiful voice.
Kindest Regards
ER
Okay I have had enough John Smith get off my comments feed or I'll report you for abuse and before you start mouthing off about that calling me and other people on here racist for liking this song is abusive. Everyone else, please continue to enjoy. If you don't like it, don't watch/listen to it.
God save the village green!
Thank you for uploading what is just a fun, happy song that is sung well, by an artist with a great voice. It cheers me up on my Pre Monday blues evening.
Thanks again and all the best
Leave them on - it lets people see what nutters there are walking among us. Always better to give fools the opportunity to confirm their own stupidity
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I heard Kate Rusby and her Mother on BBC Radio 2 with French & Saunders - she was delightful. I have always loved Kate; wish I could see more of her here in the USA - really, one of the very best voices, so pure and moving. Best wishes to all for 2011.
Fantasic song. Brlliant video. Inspired me to start up a face book group. Not so much as a fan thingy for the song.. more the spirit of the song. Anyone intereested please feel free to search the face bok groups for The Village Green Preservation Society.
How nice to hear such a well put together version of an old 'Kinks' Ray Davies song. Ray has been a great commentator on our times from the sixties. Thanks for sharing this, and well done Kate. Love your voice, and songs.
An excellent cover version. Love this and the original.
I LOVE KATE!! got all her albums, pride of South Yorkshire!
Gabrielle Aplin eat your heart out!...this is the quaintest, cutest, most quintessentially English song ever. And it was here first! : )
The wonderful Kate performing a wonderful song by the wonderful Kinks. How much better can it get?
God Bless Kate Rusby (And all the different varieties)
:)
I think you are very cute too, and I love yer voice, Ma'am
A rendition that exceeds the original IMO. A great song so well performed, well done Kate. Come back to the US soon!
Simple, unpretentious video, which is exactly what this song needs. Thanks, Kate Rusby, Ray Davies and the Kinks.
Excellent compilation particularly loved the timely "graduate" pic. I thik you rock, as my 19 year old daughter might say!
ilove her she is the best singer eva
Strange how people commenting, see this as racist? .... duh! Common people fought for the common land, that was theirs long before the landed gentry saw it as "theirs". The village green is but a small piece of the previous common land. A land that shrunk so much that they could no longer feed their livestock on it.
Since the 1950's, lots of people wanted to move to England. I wonder why? Then when they get there, they want to change it. Thanks for Ms. Rusby covering a nice song from the Kinks and Mr. Davies.
A misunderstanding. This song was written in the 60's by a band who were way ahead of their time in identifying changes in English society and ways of life.The song is recognising how the worlds changing fast (and England in the 1960's) and is expressing concern over how to 'deal with it'. It recognises that things such as the rise of capitalism result in lost traditions and ways of life. There is no reference to race whatsoever.
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I say!;That was NOT a Custard Pie!...what a brilliant version of a fantastic song!.Thanks!
GREAT VIDEO! Fantastic idea to get all the pics to the names things, hee hee, made me chuckle! Love Sarah XXXX
That was so good! Amazing work, and have not heard that song in far too long 🧡🙌🥰 Kate is everything
I love how she sings strawberry in that accent of her's ❤
heard this on radio 2, what a nice cheery song!! thanks for posting.
Delightful - had me smiling.
What a great video for a lovely song, beautifully sung. I only caught a few episodes of Jam and Jerusalem - but it was SO like the tiny Devon village where my mum was born and raised that it was almost uncanny (right down to the characters and situations - the number of times I've spoken to ladies exactly like Dawn French's character...!). But the song stands alone in it's greatness. Kate Rusby is a REALLY gifted lady. A friend of mine has seen her live 3 times and she never disappoints.
Thanks Sweety ..! nice lerics! I'm Thompson peeps too !
Love 'The Graduate' pic to represent virginity.
Couldn't agree more
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall,
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England,
I absolutely love the way her yorkshire accent comes through in this song. A lovely sweet song as english as you can get.
Thanks for posting this. Kate is just great - so English and this song is perfect for her. Magic.
She has the best voice in the world, I love it.
Excellent done, thanks so much.
I'll sign up! We're still getting it in Canada, but the thought of losing it fills me with dread! My very favourite show.
I love her voice it's brilliant.
Brilliant song and great video.
Great song, great voice, what more needs saying?
How sad that years after adding this to my liked videos, i return to find that accusations of racism that have now dominated and monopolized the comments section of such a lovely version of a wonderful song. John smith is either a: a troll. b: a cultural Marxist or c: exactly the kind of immigrant that doesn't deserve the freedom or sanctuary of the British nation or people.
Celebrate our culture, strawberry jam isn't racist, don't engage the troll directly as he doesn't deserve your engagement, be proud to be British, polite, bourgeois, and beautiful.
yours truly in despair,
love this song and GOD SAVE STRAWBERRY JAM love jam and jerusalem aswwell
This is such a gorgeous song, but it's a shame we can't celebrate harmless British culture, e.g. strawberry jam, without being accused of fascism.
That was just gorgeous.
This is an ace video to an ace version of an ace song . Ace :)
Was trying to think what film I'd heard this in for a couple of minutes before I got it - Hot Fuzz!
I cant say i always like remakes of songs BUT this is good. I love her voice which seems to fit this song so well. Thanks Radio 2
this comments are the deepest words ive heard in a long time. i thank you for it and this song
Gret singing and the vidoe is superb
Brilliant! Great version by young Kate, and a very well done video to boot!
Thanks for this - appreciated!
I saw Kate yesterday at where I work, and I see her there about once a month or so, and I have always said to myself that I would ask for her autograph, but I chickened out, aannnd, I'm leaving at the end of this month, so I don't know whether I will see her again!! :O
She's such a lovely person who ALWAYS has a smile and speaks to you! :D
i love that to! X
Well bloody said.
I was a around when the Kinks brought this out, and, along with such classics as 'Victoria' was deemed a little too 'English' even then. Love this version. Kate Rusby has a beautiful voice, but Ray is........................... Ray...
One benefit in living in a free and open society like ours is that anyone can stand up and make a comment. Unfortunately that means that narrow minded, thoughtless individuals like John Smith (clearly not his real name, he hides behind that lie also) can spout their complete rubbish. He is entitled to his views and I applaud the fact that reasonable, thinking people with a brain can respond in a polite way. Everyone, please do yourselves a favour and ignore his inflammatory remarks. The sooner he is ignored, the sooner he will cease to gain pleasure from trying, and I emphasise the word 'trying' to upset decent respectable peopleof all races and religions
Well done. I love this song and the singer. The visuals to go with it are super
every time she says Donald duck it makes me laugh. poor old Donald. tehehe yeay strawberry jam and all its different varieties rock!