The song was also included on A. L. Lloyd's 1955 album The English And Scottish Popular Ballads, using Kidson's melody, but the version using the melody later developed by Simon & Garfunkel in " Scarborough Fair / Canticle " was first recorded on a 1956 album, English Folk Songs, by Audrey Coppard.

Most Yorkshire folk songs were not unique and tended to be adapted to fit local geography and dialect, as was the case with probably the most commercially successful Yorkshire song, ‘ Scarborough Fair ’, recorded by Simon & Garfunkel, which was a version of the Scottish ballad ‘ The Elfin Knight ’.

The fair continued to be held for 500 years, from the 13th century to the 18th century, and is commemorated in the song Scarborough Fair:

Singer-songwriter Ashley Hicklin grew up in Scarborough and recorded a music video for the song " All The Time In The World " at Scarborough's Spa Complex and in the amusement arcades.

The indie band One Night Only also recorded a video in Scarborough for their song " Just for Tonight ".

In Britain sage has for generations been listed as one of the essential herbs, along with parsley, rosemary and thyme ( as in the folk song " Scarborough Fair ").

Dorothy Scarborough's 1937 book A Song Catcher In Southern Mountains: American Folk Songs of British Ancestry includes a lullaby called " Gypsy Davy ", which Scarborough collected from two Virginia women who had learned the song from their respective grandmothers who in turn had learned it in Ireland.

* In their early busking days, Barenaked Ladies would often perform this song, with their hometown of Scarborough, Ontario replacing Ontario.

# Dorothy Scarborough, A Song Catcher in Southern Mountains ( 1937 ), pp. 244 – 248, " The Frog He Went A-Courting " ( 3 texts, the first two, with local titles " Frog Went A-Courting " and " Frog Went Courting " and tune on p. 420, are this song ; the third item, " The Gentleman Frog ," is separate, probably part of the " Kemo Kimo "/" Frog in the Well " family )

Scarborough and Simmons are mentioned in the Fountains of Wayne song " Traffic & Weather " from their 2007 album of the same title.

The song " Scarborough Fair " is a variant recorded later, first by Martin Carthy, and later and more famously by Simon & Garfunkel, and considerably more well known today than the original.

Medieval World uses " Scarborough Fair ", Modern World uses the song " Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey ", and Ancient World uses Deep Purple's " Smoke on the Water ".

One song, " Haunted ", was even recorded on Scarborough beach on a whim, after hearing a Steve Martin ukulele duet recorded on a beach.

The original song Advance Australia Fair was composed by Peter Dodds McCormick under the pen-name ' Amicus ' ( which means ' friend ' in Latin ), in the late 19th century, and first performed by Andrew Fairfax at a Highland Society function in Sydney on 30 November 1878.

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

He composed a song about the area called " O's alainn an t-aite ", or " Fair is the Place.

The Southern Cross was written into the lyrics of " Advance Australia Fair " in 1901: " Beneath our radiant Southern Cross "; the song was adopted as the Australian National Anthem in 1984.

Jim Kerr of Simple Minds was so moved by the results of the Enniskillen bombing in 1987 that he wrote new words to the traditional folk song " She Moved Through The Fair " and the group recorded it with the name " Belfast Child ".

Hammerstein won two Oscars for best original song — in 1941 for " The Last Time I Saw Paris " in the film Lady Be Good, and in 1945 for " It Might as Well Be Spring " in State Fair.

The album was a quick breakthrough and because of this Twain performed selected international venues and television shows including two CMA Fan Fair performances with Nashville guitarists Randy Thomas ( co-writer of the song " Butterfly Kisses "), Dan Schafer, Chris Rodriguez, Russ Taff, Hugh McDonald bass player of Bon Jovi, Dave Malachowski and Stanley T., formerly with The Beach Boys.

Mr. Bungle also displayed doo-wop influences on their final album, California, particularly on the song Vanity Fair.

The town is mentioned prominently in a darkly humorous Irish song called " The Hiring Fair ", in which the singer is persuaded to apprentice with a nefarious character called " Brady of Strabane ".

Airavata is referenced in the song The Animal Tent on the album The Circus by The Venetia Fair:

In Not the Messiah ( He's a Very Naughty Boy ), the song " A Fair Day's Work " makes references to " The Lumberjack Song ", with Eric Idle singing about the masculine virtues of work, but also of dressing in women's clothing to go to " naughty bars ".

The mascot of the Junior High School was the Colt and the school song was " Onward Fair Plain " played to the tune of " On Wisconsin.

Lordsburg is the birthplace of the official New Mexico State song, O Fair New Mexico.

Sherman then wrote his own song parodies of My Fair Lady, which appeared as a bootleg recording in 1964, and were only officially released in 2005 on My Son, the Box.

A revised version of the 19th century song ' Advance Australia Fair ' became Australia's official national anthem in 1984.

Holloway entitled his 1967 autobiography Wiv a Little Bit of Luck after the song he performed in My Fair Lady.

" Molly Malone " ( also known as " Cockles and Mussels " or " In Dublin's Fair City ") is a popular song, set in Dublin, Ireland, which has become the unofficial anthem of Dublin City.

Another EP track, " Belfast Child ", was a rewrite of the Celtic folk song " She Moved Through the Fair " ( which had been introduced to Kerr by John Giblin ) with new lyrics written about the ongoing war in Northern Ireland ).

The song also mentions Aquacade and other features of the 1939 New York World's Fair where the drink was popularized.

The fair is also the subject of a well – known folk song Brigg Fair, see below.

Fair City derives its title from the opening line of the traditional song " Molly Malone ": " In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty ..." and is the only English-language soap opera produced in Ireland.

* Vanity Fair, a song by the California Alternative group, Mr. Bungle, specifically references the Skoptsi in the lyrics.

Advance Australia Fair became quite a popular patriotic song.

A broadside song Captain Kidd's Farewell to the Seas, or, the Famous Pirate's Lament was printed shortly after his execution and popularised the common belief that Kidd had confessed to the false charges.

The 1744 version of the song was popularised in Scotland and England the following year, with the landing of Charles Edward Stuart and was published in The Gentleman's Magazine ( see illustration above ).

Page suggested that they attempt " Train Kept A-Rollin '", originally a jump blues song popularised in a rockabilly version by Johnny Burnette, which had been covered by The Yardbirds.

* Scottish vocal duo, The Corries popularised the folk song, " The Skye Boat Song ", which told of The Bonnie Prince's escape from the Scottish Highlands after the Battle of Culloden.

The Allied soldiers in Italy were so incensed that Major Hamish Henderson of the 51st Highland Division composed a bitingly sarcastic song to the tune of the haunting German song " Lili Marleen " ( popularised in English by Marlene Dietrich ) called " The Ballad Of The D-Day Dodgers ".

Popular tracks from this period include " Big Log " ( a Top 20 hit in 1983 ), " In the Mood " ( 1983 ), " Little by Little " ( from 1985's Shaken ' n ' Stirred ), " Far Post " ( originally only on the B-side of " Burning Down One Side " but popularised by airplay on album-oriented rock stations ), " Tall Cool One " ( a No. 25 hit off 1988's Now and Zen ) and " I Believe " ( from 1993's Fate of Nations ), another song written for and dedicated to his late son, Karac.

He also popularised the one-piece gymwear that now bears his name and was the inspiration for the 1867 song " The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze " sung by George Leybourne.

The subgenre was further popularised in 1973 by Thin Lizzy, who had a hit with " Whiskey in the Jar ", a traditional Irish song performed entirely in the rock idiom.

In later years, a re-recording of a tune originally introduced or popularised by a certain artist was called covering a song.

In 2001, the motion picture Shrek featured Cale's recording of the Leonard Cohen song " Hallelujah ", which greatly popularised the song with younger audiences.

* " Charlie, Charlie ", a song by Swedish singer Nina Persson ( The Cardigans ) recorded as part of her solo project A camp, adapted and popularised by polish singer Ania Dabrowska

* Forty Shades of Green is a visual term for rural Ireland, Johnny Cash popularised it with his 1961 song of the name.

The song " Zeven Dagen Lang " (" Seven Days On End "), a cover version of the Breton folk song Son ar Chistr popularised by singer-songwriter Alan Stivell and Bots ' best known song today, ends up on the album Voor God En Vaderland ( For God And Country ).

The song was later popularised by the television show Fantasy Football League.

Her final TV appearance came in January 1979 when she appeared in a special octogenarian edition of The Merv Griffin Show in America, in which she sang the song she popularised in America, " The Biggest Aspidistra In The World ".

* Shivers ( song ), a Rowland S. Howard song, popularised by Boys Next Door and Screaming Jets

East Coast Māori song-writer Paraire Tomoana, who polished up the song in 1917 and published the words in 1921, wrote that " it emanated from the North of Auckland " and was popularised by Māori soldiers who were training near Auckland before embarking for the war in Europe.

* Hustle ( dance ), a disco dance popularised by the 1975 song

The song was popularised by Radio 1 DJ Chris Evans, who played it frequently on his radio shows and to introduce guests on his television programme TFI Friday.