Scarborough Fair
Scarborough Fair is a traditional ballad of Great Britain that probably originated in the seventeenth or eighteenth century. As the song spread, it was adapted, modified, and rewritten, and dozens of versions existed by the end of the eighteenth century, although only a few are typically sung nowadays.
The earliest commercial recording of the ballad was by actor/singers Gordon Heath and Lee Payant, Americans who recorded the song in 1955. Their version used the melody from Frank Kidson's Collection Of Traditional Tunes, published in 1891.
Scarborough Fair was the lead track of the 1966 Simon & Garfunkel album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. Paul Simon learned it in 1965 from Martin Carthy. It was released as a single after being featured on the soundtrack to the 1968 movie The Graduate.
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