Country Gardens
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Country Gardens is an English folk tune collected by Cecil Sharp and arranged for piano in 1918 by Percy Grainger.
In 2008, Country Gardens was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry.
Format of renditions
The tune and the Percy Aldridge Grainger arrangement for piano and orchestra is a favourite with school orchestras, and other performances of the work include morris dancing. Jimmie Rodgers sang a well-known version ("English Country Garden"). Anglo-Australian comedian Rolf Harris recorded a satire of the Rogers version in the 1970s. Comedian Allan Sherman used this melody as the tune for his 1963 song, "Here's to the Crabgrass".
See also
External links
- Historical background
- Listen to 'Country Gardens' on australianscreen online and read more about the title
Video clips
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