Early One Morning

Early One Morning is an old English folksong.

Popularity

This song is particularly notable for its use in many resumptions of folksongs, for example its use in the credits of the English Radio BBC4, which until April 2006 played it each morning with 5.30.

A esoteric version of the song, recovery and sung by Jim Moray was nominated in the category Meilleures Traditional Songs with BBC Radio operator 2 Folk Awards in 2004.

So much so that the piece was used for the credits of The Friendly Giant of CBS.

It also gained in notoriety with the choice of song of Frank Spencer for the situation comedy of the BBC Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'EM .

Early One Morning was the folksong that the Force used so that the Spike vampire starts again to kill out of the human ones, in spite of its heart and its chip, in the seventh season of Buffy Against the Vampires .

In Monty Python: Crowned Graal! , Early One Morning was in background music at the beginning of the tale of Sir Lancelot just before its assistant “is mortally wounded” by an arrow.

It is also the title of recent CD of Sarah Brightman.

References

The News Chronicle Song Book

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