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From: ccsdhd@sunlab1.bath.ac.uk (Dennis Davis)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: train song tape finished
Date: 10 Sep 92 12:01:32 GMT
Organization: Bath University Computing Services, UK

In article <MARTIN.92Sep8223705@lyra.cis.umassd.edu> martin@lyra.cis.umassd.edu (Gary Martin) writes:

  [stuff deleted]

>Here's what the Boarding Party says about Let The Bullgine Run on their
>1987 Folk-Legacy album _Fair Winds And A Following Sea_:
>
>	This well-known shanty embodies both American and British influences,
>and was a favorite of sailors in the Yankee packet-boats during the early 
>1800s.  It is found in many collections ... [stuff about their version
>deleted]
>	A variant of the whole song, reported by Whall offers a list of
>religious verses suggesting black gospel influence ("Oh, de world was
>made in six days and ended on de seventh, But accordin' to de contract
>it ought of been eleven")  The tune has been compared to the Irish song,
>"Shule agra," and Hugill suggests that the folk-processing of the song
>took place in the seaports of the US Gulf Coast.  "Bullgine" appears to
>be a 19th century slang expression for a railroad steam engine.

To refresh my memory, I listened to the late Stan Hugill talking
about this last night.  He regarded this capstan shanty -- "Clear
the Track" -- as a mixture of Negro and white music.  The tune for
this song is definitely Irish.  He had a theory that a lot of
shanties were a mixture of Negro words and Irish tunes.

The way these kind of things came about was that sailors wouldn't
work in port after sailing on packet ships from Liverpool to New
York.  Instead they would head south to places such as New Orleans
and get jobs such as working at stowing cotton in ship's holds.
Capstan shanties were applicable when working at the capstan-type
lever of the jackscrew used to compress the cotton in the holds.
The Negroes would fit their own words to the sailor's tunes.  These
new songs would then be taken back to sea.

 [stuff deleted]

>Of course none of this sheds any light on why there's a train engine
>playing a major role in a sea shanty.

No it doesn't, but I'd guess that the Negroes would be singing
about the work experiences with which they were familiar and
fitting these to the new tunes they had learnt.

... but then what would I know.  I've never been to the States ...
-- 
Dennis Davis, BUCS, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
D.H.Davis@bath.ac.uk
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From: lana@magenta.corp.sgi.com (Lana Mountford)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,rec.music.classical,rec.music.bluenote
Subject: Re: train song tape finished
Date: 8 Sep 92 19:58:02 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

In article <1992Sep7.130515.1304@guvax.georgetown.edu>, mchenry@guvax.georgetown.edu writes:
|> To all who contributed, thanks very much. My nephew may not like
|> all these choices, but I hope they will spur some serious musical
|> interest. If I didn't use your selection it may not have been available
|> to me. I think I have a few here, too, that no one else thought of.
|> I have enough suggestions for a Vol.3! 

I meant to post this last week, but if you *do* get around to doing
a Vol. 3, consider "Skimbleshanks, the Railway Cat," from ALW's "Cats"
and the opening "rap" sequence from "The Music Man."  Although I'm not
familiar with it, there's bound to be some stuff in ALW's "Starlight
Express," an entire musical about trains.

Cheers!
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From: joslyn@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Cliff Joslyn)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: still looking for the authors of these songs
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:26:18 GMT
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center

dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Kevin Dooley) writes:

>>> Wynken, Blynken and Nod
>>> 	(...one night sailed off in a wooden shoe...)

I really think that this was one of Carly Simon's first songs. I saw
an interview with her, and it was at least one of the first songs she
PERFORMED, and I believe she wrote the music (yes, the lyrics are a
child's poem).

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V All the world is biscuit shaped. . .
From: jdhill@star-trek.bbn.com (Jack D. Hill)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: train song tape (2 more)
Date: 11 Sep 1992 13:33:03 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Reply-To: jdhill@BBN.COM (Jack D. Hill)
NNTP-Posting-Host: archive.bbn.com


Didn't Harry Partch do something about trains? 

Jack
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From: slothrop@cheshire.oxy.edu (Roger Lebow)
Subject: Re: train song tape finished (Oh no! it started again!)
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 08:10:14 GMT

Honegger's piece is Pacific 231...
From: kevin@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Kevin Scott)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: citterns
Date: 15 Sep 92 00:43:15 GMT
Organization: system 6626 BBS, Winnipeg MB


 
Anyone have any idea where to start looking to buy a cittern? Also, can I 
have a vague idea of the price I'd be looking at for a new one?
 
KS

--- (Kevin Scott) a user of sys6626, running waffle 1.64
E-mail: kevin@sys6626.bison.mb.ca
system 6626: 63 point west drive, winnipeg manitoba canada R3T 5G8
From: lanih@herald.Berkeley.EDU (J. Lani Herrmann)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Solomon Grundy
Date: 9 Sep 1992 00:01:58 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization
Distribution: USA
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Summary: nursery rhyme
Keywords: Crash Test Dummies

The nursery rhyme I remember goes:
	Solomon Grundy
	Born on Monday
	Christened on Tuesday
	Married on Wednesday
	Took ill on Thursday 
	Worse on Friday 
	Died on Saturday
	Buried on Sunday
	And that was the end of
	Solomon Grundy.
It being folklore, of course there are (endless) variations.
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From: mem@mv.mv.com (Mark E. Mallett)
Subject: Re: still looking for the authors of these songs
Organization: MV Communications, Inc.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:44:15 GMT


here's a couple:

>Everyday
	Buddy Holly and Norman Petty, 1957

>Maria
>	(Way out west the have a name for rain and wind and fire...)
It's "Mariah" -- and I think it's from "Paint Your Wagon" by Lerner/Loewe.
   (Actually I know it was from that, I just don't know if it was original
   for that show.)

>There Ain't No Mountains in the State of Kansas
"No Mountains (in the State of Kansas)"
	Mike Jordan, 1977


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From: meerkat@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (janet.l.pflederer)
Subject: Hokey Pokey, Ashley Hutchings
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 18:54:12 GMT
Summary: Available in the US?
Keywords: BBC Albion Country Band

The recording of the week on the BBC World Service was "All Through
the Year", Hokey Pokey HPR 2022.  The album is a collection of various
folk artists.  After hearing a bit of the album, I'd like to get a
copy, but my local record store (which is better at folk recordings
than most, though granted that's not saying much) knows nothing of
the album or the label.  Anyone know where I could purchase a copy
(preferably on CD), or care to elaborate on what Hokey Pokey has been
up to?

Ashley Hutchings was introducing the songs on the BBC program, but
he didn't say whether he had contributed any songs to the album.
Pointers to Hutchings and/or Albion [Country] Band recordings would
also be most appreciated.

-Janet L. Pflederer
 AT&T Bell Laboratories
 meerkat@homxa.att.com
From: aa779@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dana Lynn Gilliland)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Celtic Ceol's Fall Lineup (Cleveland)
Date: 6 Sep 1992 03:39:30 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc4.ins.cwru.edu


 
Celtic Ceol and WRUW 91.1 FM
Coming Attractions
All tickets $10.00 in advance and $12.00 at the door
Ticket outlets:  Goose Acres, Bookstore on West 25th Street, Gaelic
Imports and all Booksellers.
 
 
 
Two of Ireland's leading exponents of traditional music and song
Cathal McConnell
and
Len Graham
A principal member of the internationally acclaimed ensemble, The Boys
of the Lough, Cathal McConnell is one of the best flute and whistle
players in Ireland.
Len Graham is acknowledged as one of the foremost authorities on Irish
music.  He is a winner of the All-Ireland traditional singing
competition and is a member of the internationally reknowned folk group
Skylark.
Together, McConnell and Graham celebrate the wealth of their common
tradition of music and song.
Thursday, September 17th at 7:30 p.m.
Harkness Chapel - CWRU
 
 
Scotland's
Tannahill Weavers
One of the premier groups on the folk concert stage.  From reflective
ballads to footstomping reels and jigs, the variety and range of
material they perform is matched only by their enthusiasm and lively
Celtic spirits.
"There is not Celtic group which can match the enigmatic Tannahill
Weavers for pure excitement."
                       --- Fairfield County Advocate
 
Sunday, September 27th at 7:30 p.m.
Harkness Chapel - CWRU
 
 
 
Forward With Scotland's Past:
The Battlefield Band
Inspired by their rich heritage of Celtic music and fired by the
strength of today's Scottish cultural scene, Battlefield Band have
created a music of rare passion, relevance and joy.
An outstanding opportunity to see the Battlefield Band's newest member,
John McCusker, a young Scots fiddler who is taking Great Britain by
storm.
Tuesday, November 10th at 7:30 p.m. at Ford Auditorium.
 
 
For more information, call 687-0050.
 

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From: dooley@helios.physics.utoronto.ca (Kevin Dooley)
Subject: Re: still looking for the authors of these songs
Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 18:22:09 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.071449.28351@solix.udac.uu.se> magnus@nexto.udac.uu.se (Magnus Ring) writes:
>In article <1992Sep3.002328.14469@parc.xerox.com> putz@parc.xerox.com  
>(Steve Putz) writes:
>>
>> ----- Stuff deleted
>> 
>> Please email me (or post if that's easier) if you know who wrote any of
>> the following songs:
>> Everyday
>> 	(...its a getting closer...) [Reilly & Maloney; James Taylor]
>
>I think Buddy Holly did the original recording, but I'm not sure if
>he wrote it.

I've got a video tape of James Taylor doing this tune.  He introduces
it by getting himself muddled and says:
"This song was written by Buddy Holly for Buddy Holly back when Buddy
Holly wrote this song for himself."

sounds pretty definite to me :-)
>> Lemon Tree
>> 	(...very pretty, and the lemon flower is sweet...) [Peter, Paul &  
>Mary]

I am pretty sure that this is a traditional melody which somebody put
the words to in the 60's.  Don't know for sure who, though.

>> Will the Circle be Unbroken
>> 	(I was standing by my window...)

I *think* this is another Bob Dylan... but the more that I think the
less sure I am.

>> Wynken, Blynken and Nod
>> 	(...one night sailed off in a wooden shoe...)
>> 
>
>Buffy Sainte-Marie did this on her 'Sweet America'-album and I'm
>almost sure she wrote the music to the trad. lyrics.

I am quite sure that I have seen this as a poem which is much older
than the song.  Don't know who wrote the poem, though.

Kevin
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From: ddean@granite.ma30.bull.com (Douglas J. DeAngelis)
Subject: Re: John Gorka: Temporary Road
Organization: Bull HN Information Systems Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:47:41 GMT

I am typically not one to interject any negative tones when it comes to
music like this; if it gets people excited, that's great.  But let's get
this out in the open for those who might be considering dropping $12 sight
unheard:

John Gorka really needs to learn how to play the guitar.

Yes, he has amusing lyrics and a unique voice.  But to think of some of
the truly well rounded performers that people pass over just so they
can go hog wild over John Gorka is stunning.  Try Brooks Williams, Patti 
Larkin, David Massengil, Richard Shindell, blah, blah, blah.  I can think 
of a 100 people I'd rather see live.  Give some of them a chance.

-doug

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From: pottera@infonode.ingr.com (Andrew Potter)
Subject: Re: still looking for the authors of these songs
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:50:41 GMT

spb0457@zeus.tamu.edu (SubGenius) writes:

>	...

>..I've got the single of the "In 1814 we took a little trip/Along with Col.
>Jackson down the mighty Mississip..." but I can't recall who the artist(?)
>is offhand.

I think it was Johnny Horton.

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From: mem@mv.mv.com (Mark E. Mallett)
Subject: Re: still looking for the authors of these songs
Organization: MV Communications, Inc.
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 18:47:39 GMT

In article <47470@shamash.cdc.com> dbw@svl.cdc.com (Dave Woerner) writes:
>mem@mv.mv.com (Mark E. Mallett) writes:
>>>Everyday
>>	Buddy Holly and Norman Petty, 1957
>
>Norman Petty owned the recording studio where Holly and the Crickets
>did most of their recording.  He acted as their producer/engineer/mentor
>and was very much a part of Holly's success.  However, he seems to
>have taken credit for co-writing songs where he had no business
>doing so.

Point noted.  Thanks.


>  From what I've read, I would hesitate to give him credit
>for Holly songs even though he is legally listed as co-author.

I've forgotten, now, which the original poster wanted.  Legal attribution,
or the truth.  They can be quite different, and differently relevant.

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From: mbm@dsbc.icl.co.uk (Malcolm Mladenovic)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: funny math and physics songs
Keywords: math physics
Date: 11 Sep 92 17:54:31 GMT
Organization: UNIX Centre, ICL, Bracknell, UK

In article <1992Sep11.020052.20129@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> thughes@lonestar.utsa.edu (Toby . Hughes) writes:
>>In article <1992Sep10.180558.7355@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>, pemantle@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Robin Pemantle) writes:
>>|> I'm trying to locate some funny songs about math and physics -- in
>>|> particular the quantum version of Joni Mitchell's "Clouds" and
>>|> the version of the song from Pinafore that goes, "... and now I am
>>|> the Holder of a Ph.D."  I saw these once posted on an office
>The classic math number of all time is "Nicolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky," by
>Tom Lehrer.  It's on his first record album (that half-sized one) if you can
>find it.

Highly recommended.

Similarly, there is _New Math_ on _That Was the Year that Was_, also by
Tom Lehrer.  In the science field he wrote _The Elements_, which consists
almost entirely of the names of the elements but I can't remember which
album it is on.  (I think it's the same one that includes _Lobachevsky_.)

-Malcolm
From: tzf@csl.biosci.arizona.edu (Theron Friedman)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: Mutant Viola?
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:52:59 GMT
Reply-To: tzf@csl.biosci.arizona.edu
Organization: U of Arizona, CS Dept, Tucson

In article <14529@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, johnf@Auspex.COM (John Fereira) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep9.144628.973@macc.wisc.edu> nmrdb@vms.macc.wisc.edu 
|> I seemed to recall that David Grisman played something called a Mandocello.
|> I've never seen one of the these but at least the name *sounds* right.
|> 

Another miss... Glug. Mandocello is also plucked - mandocello is to
mandolin as cello is to violin.

I have a book on the history of musical instruments. In it there's a
reprint of a page from a 16th century German text showing several instruments
of the viol or violin family which have bodies shaped much the same as
what Bob illustrated (with an editor's comment that the page is probably
"fanciful") in overall body shape, including the curious "brace" shaped
top. Only three strings per on the instruments in the illustration, and
the sound holes aren't where Bob describes, but the basic form is there.
	Later in the text it mentions that the instruments underwent a
lot of experimentation, including >> doubled strings <<, and that older
instruments were sometimes modified to fit newer ideas, making tracing
the history & development a little problematical.

My guess is that someone in 1977 tried to make a copy of one of these
vanished dinosaur viols, maybe for use by an early music ensemble.

By the way, Bob: what does the thing sound like? Regular fiddle, hardanger,
gadulka - what's the tone quality?

	terry
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From: spb0457@zeus.tamu.edu (SubGenius)
Subject: Re: still looking for the authors of these songs
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 16:02:00 GMT

Steve Putz writes...

>Everyday
>	(...its a getting closer...) [Reilly & Maloney; James Taylor]
	Buddy Holly


>A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
>	(Where have you been my blue-eyed son?) [Pete Seeger; Bob Dylan?]
	Bob Dylan
	

..I've got the single of the "In 1814 we took a little trip/Along with Col.
Jackson down the mighty Mississip..." but I can't recall who the artist(?)
is offhand.




Yours etc.,




SubGenius
From: mweinste@pearl.tufts.edu
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: AMERICAN folk singers
Date: 13 Sep 92 19:33:25 GMT
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

As someone who has listened to folk music since I was an infant, I am
shocked that I do not recognize any of the names in this entire newsgroup.
What ever happened to the great American folksingers like Woody Guthrie,
Pete Seeger, Tom Paxton, Arlo Guthrie, Lee Hays, etc?
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From: george@minster.york.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: WANTED! SILLY WIZARD LP's
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:13:33 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England

Does anyone have any Silly Wizard LP's which are in reasonable
condition which they want to sell? Will be willing to pay
good price. E-mail address is below.

George Bolt

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From: barber@jazz.concert.net (Scott Barber)
Subject: Re: looking for the authors of these songs
Organization: Center for Communications, MCNC; RTP, NC
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 02:49:39 GMT

In article <1992Aug29.231358.16022@parc.xerox.com> putz@parc.xerox.com (Steve Putz) writes:
>I've recently discovered the guitar and lyrics archives on
>ftp.nevada.edu and ftp.uwp.edu.  That motivated me to dig out my 150
>song files and submit them to the archives.


>Will the Circle be Unbroken	(I was standing by my window...)

On my "Circle" album, I notice the song was written by one A.P. Carter.

Does anybody know what the A.P. stands for?  This person also wrote
"Little Darlin', Pal of Mine" (which is my Scruggs 5-String Banjo
Book).

Scott

"How would you react if I    \ Scott Barber            \ "I don't know, 
told you that I'm not from    \ barber@jazz.concert.net >  do you think 
Guildford after all, but from  \  MCNC                 / it's the sort of
a small planet somewhere in the >  RTP, NC            / thing you're 
vicinity of Betelguese?"       /  BVD                / likely to say?" 
						--- Douglas Adams 
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From: readdm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David M. Read)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk,alt.guitar.tab
Subject: Re: still looking for the authors of these songs
Date: 11 Sep 92 20:19:08 GMT
Followup-To: rec.music.folk
Organization: UT-Austin Nuclear Physics (Jerry's Kids)

In article <> putz@parc.xerox.com (Steve Putz) writes:
>Battle of New Orleans
>	(In 1814 we took a little trip...)

Several people have posted that the words come from "Jimmy Driftwood,"
but every recording I've ever heard of this song has been by Johnny
Horton.  It's on his "greatest hits" LP, I know for sure.

Anyone care to resolve this question?


-- 
Dave Read  (readdm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu)  UT-Austin Nuclear Physics Grad Student 
    "I have analyzed the works of your Saint Thomas Aquinas...most of the 
  content seems to be sense-free random noise, and so devoid of information."
            -Starglider, in Arthur Clarke's _Fountains_Of_Paradise_
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From: wrp@pslsrv1.gvl.unisys.com (Bill Pringle)
Subject: Re: The Digital Tradition song database
Keywords: Digital Tradition folk music database
Organization: Paramax Systems, Ivyland, PA
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 13:14:05 GMT

In article <1992Sep12.042202.17827@parc.xerox.com> putz@parc.xerox.com (Steve Putz) writes:
>Last month I saw the following posted on rec.folk.music:
>
>>> If anybody wants it, THE DIGITAL TRADITION is distributing a database
>>> with the words to 3200 plus songs (and the music to 1400 of them) FREE!
[address deleted.  He got a copy.]
>
>I do not have nor normally use a PC, so I extracted the songs into a 4MB
>plain text file that I can search and manipulate using Unix utilities
>(like grep and awk).
>
>The info that came with the database is included below.  Is there interest
>in having this available on an FTP server somewhere?  (egads, then there
>would be *three* incompatible song archives.)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Assuming you have gotten permission, maybe you can also make the
original files available?  That should cut down on the distribution cost
(not having to mail disks back and forth).

Maybe Dave Datta has room on the music ftp archives?
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From: thughes@lonestar.utsa.edu (Toby . Hughes)
Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
Subject: Re: still looking for the authors of these songs
Date: 11 Sep 92 22:56:05 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <79545@ut-emx.uucp> readdm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David M. Read) writes:
>In article <> putz@parc.xerox.com (Steve Putz) writes:
>>Battle of New Orleans
>>	(In 1814 we took a little trip...)
>
>Several people have posted that the words come from "Jimmy Driftwood,"
>but every recording I've ever heard of this song has been by Johnny
>Horton.  It's on his "greatest hits" LP, I know for sure.
>
>Anyone care to resolve this question?
>


No question involved.  Steve's request was for authors, not who recorded it.
Jimmy Driftwood wrote the lyrics, Johnny Horton recorded it.  If you can get
a copy of Horton's record, check the credit line for the author.

TH
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