Who wrote the folk music classic, 'Streets Of London'?
English folk music The most successful of these was Ralph McTell, whose ‘Streets of London’ reached number 2 in the UK Single Charts in 1974, and whose music is clearly folk, but without much reliance on tradition, virtuosity, or much evidence of attempts at fusion with other genres. British folk rock developed in Britain during the mid to late 1960s by the bands Fairport Convention, and Pentangle which built on elements of American folk rock, and on the second British folk revival. It uses traditional music, and compositions in a traditional style, played on a combination of rock and traditional instruments. It was
The Streets of London (1934 film) boring. The actors also fail to enter into the right spirit of burlesque and the production, generally, is of a poor standard. Peter Fitzpatrick, Thring's biographer, later wrote that seeing the film today "it is still hard to avoid, let alone answer, the question that must surely have struck Frank Thring as he watched its rushes: why was it made?" The play was re-staged at the Minerva Theatre and featured in the 1952 documentary "Theatre in Australia". The Streets of London (1934 film) The Streets of London is a 1934 Australian film directed by F. W. Thring. It was a