Bill Fay
Bill Fay is an English singer, pianist and songwriter whose early releases were made on the Deram label in 1967. Following the release of his second album in 1971, Fay was dropped by the label. His work enjoyed a growing cult status in the 1990s, and his older works were re-issued in 1998 and 2004/2005. Fay's 2012 album, Life Is People, was his first album of all-new material since 1971. His next album, Who Is The Sender was released on 27 April 2015.
Biography
Early career
Fay was born in north London, where he still lives.
His first single, "Some Good Advice" / "Screams in the Ears", was issued on the Deram label in 1967, and was followed by two albums, Bill Fay in 1970 and Time of the Last Persecution in 1971. The recordings did not sell well, and Fay was dropped from Deram soon after the release of his second album. They were re-issued in 1998, and then again in 2005.
Despite returning to the recording studio in the late 1970s, the follow-up to Time of the Last Persecution was not released until January 2005, following the reissues of his earlier works.
Bill Fay (album)
Bill Fay was the debut album of progressive folk singer Bill Fay released in 1970, by Deram Records. The album was re-released in 2005 with the addition of the 1967 single "Some Good Advice" and its b-side "Screams in the Ears". The album cover features a photograph of Fay stood in water beside a lake in Hyde Park.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Bill Fay.
References
Plan Dalet
Plan Dalet (Hebrew: תוכנית ד', Tokhnit dalet) was a plan worked out by the Haganah in Mandatory Palestine in March 1948. Its name was from the letter Dalet (ד), the fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Its purpose is much debated. The plan was a set of guidelines to take control of Mandatory Palestine, declare a Jewish state, and defend its borders and people, including the Jewish population outside of the borders, 'before, and in anticipation of' the invasion by regular Arab armies. According to the Israeli Yehoshafat Harkabi, "Plan Dalet" called for the conquest of Arab towns and villages inside and along the borders of the area allocated to the proposed Jewish State - according to the UN Partition Plan. In case of resistance, the population of conquered villages was to be expelled outside the borders of the Jewish state. If no resistance was met, the residents could stay put, under military rule.
The intent of Plan Dalet is subject to much controversy, with historians on one side asserting that it was entirely defensive, while other historians assert that the plan aimed at the expulsion, sometimes called an ethnic cleansing, on the grounds that this was an integral part of a planned strategy.
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ALBUMS
- Life Is People released: 2012
- Still Some Light released: 2010
- Time of the Last Persecution released: 1971
- Bill Fay released: 1970
- From the Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock released:
Still Some Light
Released 2010- Backwoods Maze
- The Sun Is Bored
- There's a Price Upon My Head
- Time of the Last Persecution
- Plan D
- Sing Us One of Your Songs May
- I Will Find My Own Way Back
- Love Is the Tune
- Laughing Man
- Arnold Is a Simple Man
- Just to Be a Part
- Inside the Keeper's Pantry
- Pictures of Adolf Again
- Tell It Like It Is
- Release Is in the Eye
- Dust Filled Room
- I Hear You Calling
From the Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock
- Warwick Town
- Maxine's Parlour
- Doris Comes Today
- Maudy la Lune
- Garden Song
- Strangers in the Fields
- Brighton Beach
- The Room
- We Want You to Stay
- Camille
- Sometime Never Day
- Be Not So Fearful
- Backwoods Maze
- Cannon's Plain
- The Sun Is Bored
- Just Another Song
- Morning Train
- Parasite Child
- Katie & Me
- Gentle Willie
- Tiny
- Down to the Bridge
- Sing Us One of Your Songs, May
- Lily Brown
- Jack Laughter & Mademoiselle Sigh
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by: Bill FaySing us one of your songs, MayThe ones you know so well
Sing us one of your songs, May
You know we love you well
Dry the tears from your eyes, May
What's it gonna be?
For you know he's gone to heaven, May
Though he was only 23
They say he was a brave one, May
And we all here agree
There never was a finer one, May
That died for his country
Sing us one of your songs, May
The ones you know so well
Sing us one of your songs, May
You know we love you well
Dry the tears from your eyes, May
What's it gonna be?
For you know he's gone to heaven, May
Though he was only 23
They say he was a brave one, May
And we all here agree
There never was a finer one, May
That died for his country
Sing us one of your songs, May