Run With The Fox

[Ash Armstrong]

A new video for Chris and Alan's Run With The Fox, with a brief appearance by Pete Sinfield towards the end, who co-wote some of the lyrics.

A timely tribute to Chris and Alan.
❤️

[soundchaser09]

I listened to it straight away on 1st December. RIP to the backbone of Yes, its ever present rhythm section...

[patrickq]

This is up there with “Deck the Halls” and “Canon of the Bells.” A true Xmas classic.

[alex peters]

A classic all by itself

[Inveryes]

Alternatively……..

[Gilly Goodness]

heeehee. It's not Xmas until you show up. Nice song. Funny!!!

[Elizabeth "The Phish"]

Funny coincidence of seeing a post about this song when I'm listening to it! Great song though. I enjoy it.

[Inveryes]

heeehee. It's not Xmas until you show up. Nice song. Funny!!!

Weirdly, the Antiques Roadshow is on in the background, and they’ve just played a classical version of the intro to this!

Does that come from a traditional Carol? Smarter minds than me might know.

Where’s Zach? He would know.

[Ash Armstrong]

Weirdly, the Antiques Roadshow is on in the background, and they’ve just played a classical version of the intro to this!

Does that come from a traditional Carol? Smarter minds than me might know.

Where’s Zach? He would know.

It's from a medieval carol I believe.

[Inveryes]

It's from a medieval carol I believe.

Do you know what it’s called?

(wife doesn’t believe me that it was the same tune)

[Ash Armstrong]

The 'Sussex Carol', whence Run With the Fox derives.

It's no stretch at all to suppose it's a piece of music that Chris sang in his boy chorister days...

[pianozach]

The 'Sussex Carol', whence Run With the Fox derives.

It's no stretch at all to suppose it's a piece of music that Chris sang in his boy chorister days...

You're correct, although your video link won't play without clicking through to Youtube. Here's a different version of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Sussex Carol.

Weirdly, the Antiques Roadshow is on in the background, and they’ve just played a classical version of the intro to this!

Does that come from a traditional Carol? Smarter minds than me might know.

Where’s Zach? He would know.

It's from a medieval carol I believe.

I daresay that Vaughan Williams would have been offended by being thought of being considered as "Medieval"., seeing as he managed to stay alive through the mid-20th Century

[Gilly Goodness]

and another. Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band featurin' Flemish Bagpipes and mandolin .....

https://youtu.be/LxgasOnXhYM

[Soundwaveseeker]

Always liked the song. However I always thought it peculiar that, released between the somewhat more futuristic sounds of Drama and 90125, Run With The Fox seems to harken back to a Tormato sound or even Fish Out Of Water. Some of this could probably be attributed to Andrew Pryce Jackman, his orchestrator on his solo material and Onward from Tormato. I wonder if it was written/recorded earlier than 1981.

[Ash Armstrong]

Always liked the song. However I always thought it peculiar that, released between the somewhat more futuristic sounds of Drama and 90125, Run With The Fox seems to harken back to a Tormato sound or even Fish Out Of Water. Some of this could probably be attributed to Andrew Pryce Jackman, his orchestrator on his solo material and Onward from Tormato. I wonder if it was written/recorded earlier than 1981.

I don't think it has any connection with any of those releases beyond the fact of the participants. It is its own thing.