My hearing is poor so I never knew all of the words. If that's progress, we've got to get that woman out of power. Fans like to tell about the first time they heard Eva Cassidy’s voice. It became very popular, and has been recorded by many other artists. At the CD Release Party at Blues Alley on May 20th, 1996, Eva introduced the song simply as “This is another one on the CD, by Sting. The song was released as a single but only made it to number 16 on the UK Singles Chart and number 23 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Four tracks ("Fields Of Gold", "Autumn Leaves", "People Get Ready" and "Oh Had I a Golden Thread") are from her album Live at Blues Alley. [‘Love Me Do’] was the first Beatles song we heard in England. The B-side on the 7" and cassette contained the album version of 'We Work The Black Seam' from 1985's 'The Dream Of The Blue Turtles' whereas as the CD singles opted for live version of songs recorded on the Soul Cages tour in Holland during May 1991. Please do not copy the images on this website, which are shown with the permission of the copyright holders. All rights reserved. "On I Muvrini's version of the song... Pà?blico, 10/99"It wasn't huge in the charts but I like it. Eva reached over and put her hand on my arm, sort of comfortingly. Five tracks ("Wade in the Water", "Wayfaring Stranger", "Songbird", "Time is a Healer" and "I Know You by Heart") are from Cassidy's album Eva by Heart. I searched everywhere to find it and eventually did. This sheet music includes two arrangements by Sylvia Woods that are playable on either lever or pedal harp. (Seems harmless enough, and I can’t prevent it, anyway.) And I remember walking through one day and seeing this crop being moved by the wind and the sunshine, and it looked like there could have been people making love in the barley, or the wind seemed like it was making love to the barley, so I thought it was a great metaphor for love, and, its a kind of love song. March 30, 2013. Today I read the Fields of Gold lyrics for the first time. Then lo and behold, it’s number one in England and I’m happy for her. (HL.7010600). Question: Who first sang the song that goes ‘When we walked in the fields of gold’? The Cassidy family was very musical. Since then the song has been covered by many different singers and groups over the years … 'Fields Of Gold' originally appeared on 1993's 'Ten Summoner's Tales' album, and was the third track from the album to be released as a single. She just laughed. Clap long and loud! In 2001 he told Richard Harrington of the Washington Post, “A friend of Eva’s sent me the recording after her death, I thought it was a beautiful rendition. ‘Fields of Gold’ fitted in perfectly with my show material which is mostly folk roots and acoustic stuff. "NME, 6/85. Eva Cassidy Web Site Copyright © 1999-2021 Laura C. Bligh. I always admired how well she was able to do those things. 'Fields Of Gold' originally appeared on 1993's 'Ten Summoner's Tales' album, and was the third track from the album to be released as a single. Real name Gordon Summer, Sting released the track as part of the album ‘Ten Summoner’s Tales’. ), People often ask if Eva knew Sting, who wrote “Fields of Gold.” She did not; as an unknown singer just beginning her career, she did not move in such exalted musical circles. Zucchero performs Bono song at Colosseum It was a nice moment.”, Eva and Keith Grimes started performing “Fields of Gold” on their duo gigs, and in “showcase segments on some of the hipper band engagements, always with just the two guitars,” Grimes says. Whilst the single only reached #16 in the UK and #23 in the States, it has become one of the most popular Sting songs on the radio receiving a BMI award in 1999 for achieving over 2 million airplays on US radio. And now they're closed. “Fields of Gold” is the second single released from Sting’s 1993 album Ten Summoner’s Tales. I love the place. And five miles from where I lived they're now building a nuclear power station, where they have to import uranium from South Africa. So if you didn't go to grammar school, which I did, there were two choices open to you for work in the town, the shipyard or the pit. “Fields of Gold” was released as a single in the UK and the sweet-voiced unknown from Washington DC was becoming a posthumous success. Fields of Gold is a cover of a classic song that was featured on Popstars: the rivals by contestant Nadine Coyle. “Eva’s acoustic guitar supported and intertwined with her gorgeous voice. From this I gained a role in the BAFTA award winning film Pride, in which I sang the soundtrack theme Bread and Roses. She sang it on the first set, and therefore it was not captured on video by her friend Bryan McCulley, who videotaped the second set on both nights with his camcorder. As with most songs I have interpret or fill in some of the real lyrics, Sting's are much better than I could ever have dreamed. The area I was brought up in was literally built on coal. Maybe it should have been 'Fields of Platinum'. I was actually pro nuclear power at one time. If you stop and really listen it can make you highly emotional. The Eva Cassidy Band typically performed mid-week in half-empty bars and clubs, and when Eva picked up a solo engagement here and there, it would be at a struggling storefront restaurant more often than a club where anybody had come to listen. I’ve rarely heard a voice of such purity. We'll walk in fields of gold. This CD lingered in relative obscurity for two years until being given airplay by Terry Wogan on his wide-reaching BBC Radio 2 show Wake Up to Wogan, following recommendation by his producer Paul Walters. Guitarist Keith Grimes admitted he felt proud to have his guitar-playing be a part of Michelle Kwan’s artistic expression. It's become Northern Ireland over again. Sting: I remember being sent this song by a friend of hers – it was long before the success – and she explained how her friend had died and how she would have loved me to … “Suddenly this came over the sound system, and we all just stopped, mesmerised. Even though it’s a sad tragic story, it has kind of a poetry about it.”. Use these coded links when you shop on Amazon, and help support melanoma research. Now they're falling to bits and they don't know how to repair them. The good thing is that people are catching on. It was the record company's idea to call the album 'Fields of Gold<'i>. She listened to it and right away she knew. Naturally, Fields of Gold concentrates on his hit singles, just like any other greatest-hits collection, but Sting's material sounds surprisingly tame in this context. Gotta Get Back My Baby (featuring Maitre Gims), Don't Make Me Wait (Dave Audé Rhythmic Radio Remix), If I Ever Lose My Faith In You, CD digipak. When she did that one, tears rolled down my cheeks, which” (laughs) “is something that happens to everybody, I suppose. We worked together on an EP of 5 tracks (3 original), that got national radio plays. Thanks also to Skatingfan5 for the excellent skating description, Heather Winfield for use of her photo of Michelle Kwan, Louis Scherr of Blues Alley for the photo of the Blues Alley sign, and Richard Harrington for the Sting quote. You'll remember me when the west wind moves. Eva sings it really well. "NME, 6/85"Those machines were turned on 20 years ago and they don't know how to turn them off. There are 300 years of coal supplies left, and they're closing all these pits. Though "Fields of Gold" single reached only number 16 on the UK Singles Chart and number 23 on the US Billboard Hot 100, this song became Sting's signature song. It wasn't just music at which she excelled, she was also a very talented artist. “It was on the radio in the car,” they might say, “and I got tears in my eyes, I had to pull off the road to listen.”, Most often, the song that caught their attention was the ballad “Fields of Gold.” Familiar to listeners from Sting’s original recording, but brought to soul-stirring new life with Eva’s vocals and arrangement, “Fields of Gold” was the first of Eva’s recordings to get much radio airplay. Terry Wogan was bringing her voice to the huge audience of his popular morning show “Wake Up With Wogan,” and Bob Harris was playing Eva tracks for his eclectically intellectual Saturday night listeners. I agreed, of course. Eva Cassidy’s cover of a famous acoustic Sting song. (At left, Michelle Kwan with Bill Straw and Eva’s parents, Hugh and Barbara Cassidy. Less than six months later, Eva Cassidy was gone, claimed by melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer. Fields of gold: the best of Britain’s wild meadows ... M eadows sing of the unfurling of spring and the bounty of late summer, reawakening the childlike sense of wonderment in each of us. Fields of Gold Also, statistics are collected regarding page views, outbound link clicks, referring URLs, search engine terms, and country. It’s an extraordinary success.” Later, he commented, “I heard this voice and it was so beautiful, so pure. Then a double axel, followed by a triple toe loop, and then a back Charlotte (done to the words “as her hair came down”) followed by raising her upper body into right backward outside spiral with right hand down – rocker into right forward inside spiral. 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