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Harvey Andrews (born Harvey John Andrews, May 7, 1943 in Birmingham) is a British folk music singer, songwriter, and poet. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 417 KB)Fair use - the image is made available via the URL http://www. ...
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May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (128th in leap years). ...
1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1943 calendar). ...
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A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ...
The poor poet A poet is a person who writes poetry. ...
From 1964, Andrews supported his nascent career as a singer/songwriter by working as a schoolteacher, before becoming a full-time professional musician in 1966. 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...
1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ...
Andrews has produced 15 successful albums singing his own songs, many of which have also been recorded by other artists.
His emotive The Soldier transmits the same quiet desperation of a soldier about to die "in conflict" as Wilfred Owen's Dulce Et Decorum Est, though in a very different setting. In fact, the contrast of a battlefield to a commonplace urban setting and the proximity of children makes the situation even more poignant and the waste of a young life even more tragic. Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (March 18, 1893 – November 4, 1918) was an English poet and soldier, regarded by many as the leading poet of the First World War. ...
Dulce et Decorum Est is a poem written by English poet and World War I soldier Wilfred Owen in 1917, and published posthumously in 1921. ...
Hey Sandy on the album Writer of Songs is another description of the senseless loss of a young life in conflict. It is based on the death of a female student, Sandra Scheuer, who was shot by the Ohio National Guard at the Kent State University in the USA anti-war demonstration of 1970, although, unlike the Sandy of Andrews' song, the real student was not directly involved in the demonstration. The album version of the song is an unusual, but powerful, arrangement, in which the first verse is sung to the accompaniment of a solo double bass, played by Danny Thompson. The recording was never issued in America until Kent State University's commemorative cd released in 2005. It reached number 2 in the New Zealand chart in November 1972.In stark contrast, his Boothferry Bridge and Gift of a Brand New day reflect the contentment of the simple pleasures of everyday life. Sandra Lee Scheuer (pronounced SHAW-yer) (b. ...
Seal of the Army National Guard The Ohio Army National Guard is a part of the United States National Guard and a reserve component of the United States Army. ...
Kent State University (also known as Kent, Kent State or KSU) is a major public research university located in Kent, Ohio, United States, which is about 40 miles southeast of Cleveland, 12 miles east of Akron, and 30 miles west of Youngstown. ...
1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...
Daniel Henry Edward Danny Thompson (born 4 April 1939) is an English double bass player. ...
Boothferry is a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire in England, just north of the River Humber. ...
Eleven facts about the career of Harvey Andrews He was born in Birmingham on May 7th 1943. He trained as a schoolteacher but began his singer/songwriter career in 1964 when he was paid ten shillings for singing three of his songs for the first time in a folk club. He turned full time pro in 1966.
He has produced 15 albums of his own songs, many of which have been recorded by other artists.
He has appeared at many festivals including Tonder in Denmark, Lunenburg and Regina in Canada, and five Cambridge Folk Festivals in the U.K. The Cambridge folk festival is renowned for its eclectic mix of music and a wide definition of what might be considered folk. ...
Tours have taken him to Canada, Newfoundland, U.S.A, Germany, Cyprus, Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland, Belize, Malta, Holland, Sardinia, Gibraltar, Italy, Portugal, Denmark and Ascension Island.
Television appearances include The Old Grey Whistle Test, Rhythm on Two and over 50 other shows. He has made two television specials featuring his songs, The Camera and The Song, and The Same Old Smile. Two further specials were produced in Holland and Ireland. The Old Grey Whistle Test was an influential BBC2 television music show that ran from September 1971 until 1987. ...
He wrote and sang the theme songs for the TV series Golden Pennies and The Haunted School and sang the theme song in the British movie Psychomania
He has hosted BBC Radio Two’s Folk on Two and a Radio Four Kaleidoscope special was devoted to his work. The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion (US$7. ...
The lyrics of one of his songs were used in course work for the national (England and Wales) GCSE English language examination. Another lyric was included in the Oxford University Book of English Traditional Verse. This does not cite its references or sources. ...
In 1996 he was voted International Artiste of the Year in the Canadian Porcupine Awards for Folk music.
He has recently collaborated on a successful musical depicting life growing up in Birmingham in the forties and fifties. "Go Play Up Your Own End" has been well received across the Midlands, especially in its latest production featuring Jasper Carrot in a major role. The musical played at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the Birmingham Hippodrome and, in 2003 at the Alexandra Theatre, thus setting a record of having been staged at every one of the second city’s major theatres. Jasper Carrott OBE (born Robert Davies, March 14, 1945) is an English comedian. ...
He is a follower of Birmingham City Football Club, a fact celebrated by Les Barker in the "Harvey Andrews Chorus" (set to the music of Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus"), which has been recorded by The Mrs Ackroyd Band on the CD "Tubular Dogs".
Discography - Harvey Andrews EP(Transatlantic 1966)
- Faces And Places (Decca 1970)
- Writer Of Songs (Cube 1972)
- Friends Of Mine (Cube 1973)
- Fantasies From A Corner Seat, w/ Graham Cooper(Transatlantic 1975)
- Someday (Transatlantic 1976)
- Margarita (Beeswing 1980)
- Brand New Day (Polydor 1980)
- Old Mother Earth (Beeswing 1986)
- PG (Beeswing 1988)
- 25 ... Years On The Road (Hypertension 1989)
- Spring Again (Hypertension/Ariola 1994)
- Snaps - The Family Album (Hypertension 1996)
- The Gift (Hypertension 2001)
- The Journey (Hypertension 2003)
- Somewhere In The Stars (Hypertension 2005)
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