Introducing Catchy Tune Tuesday!

[Reconstructed Rebel]

A personal favorite: Beautiful Dreamer

 

[pamc153PA]

Totally loving this thread!!

 

[Library Lady]

Here's the US Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps playing "Jefferson and Liberty" sans drums. Very nice! The song was Jefferson's campaign song for his presidential run, but the melody proved so popular it remained in the fife and drum repertoire up to today.

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Wasn't at least the first part of this tune used by the late James Horner in his soundtrack for Glory? I'm thinking maybe in the track "Forming the Regiment."

 

[Claude Bauer]

There's one tune for every instrument that's especially challenging--for fife, it's "Downfall of Paris." Long, fast, full of 16th note runs, high notes, and challenging fingerings, it's also known in the fife and drum world as "Downfall of Fifers." Many, including myself, have crashed and burned trying to get through it. Drummers like to push the tempo just to make the fifers suffer. And there's always that one annoying guy, who doesn't play the fife, but knows the tune's reputation for difficulty, who asks "So, can you play Downfall of Paris?" Here it is from the Camp Chase Fife and Drums.

 

[ColonelKlink1942]

Nothing like some tunes like "Zip Coon", "Cumberland Gap", and "Ol' Dan Tucker" (sung and played by the 2nd South Carolina String Band) to get your toes tapping.

 

[Sheltowee]

Nothing like some tunes like "Zip Coon", "Cumberland Gap", and "Ol' Dan Tucker" (sung and played by the 2nd South Carolina String Band) to get your toes tapping.

Liked that Cumberland Gap!

 

[Sheltowee]

 

[JOHN42768]

All most enjoyable

 

[Claude Bauer]

For today's CTT, here's Ed Kellog's Quickstep, a popular marching tune performed by the Monocacy Field Music:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=711078833460171

 

[JOHN42768]

Nice

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

For today's CTT, here's Ed Kellog's Quickstep, a popular marching tune performed by the Monocacy Field Music:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=711078833460171

Really, really like the videos showing the musicians playing.

 

[Library Lady]

This catchy tune was first performed in 1850 and, although it is from the classical genre (opera, no less), I can almost guarantee that you've heard it at least once and probably several times. According to Wikipedia, it became popular for its present common use after being used for the processional at the wedding of Victoria, the Princess Royal (eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert) to Prince Frederick Wilhelm of Prussia in 1858 (parents of Kaiser Wilhelm II). In its opera setting, Lohengrin by Richard Wagner, it was first performed in America in New York in 1871. It was sung in 1883 during the first season of the Metropolitan Opera. At that time, it was sung in Italian rather than the original German. From that time until 1917, when the Met banned all German opera, it would be performed yearly (except for 1908) with the libretto alternating between German and Italian. When Lohengrin returned to the Met in 1920 it was sung in English. The Met reverted to German in 1922, and the opera would be performed yearly until just after World War II with the exception of one year during the war. It hasn't been performed as frequently since World War II, but is still one of the most frequently performed operas at the Met (and will be there this season) having been performed just over 600 times.

Here is how you've probably heard this catchy tune:

In case you're wondering what's going on in the opera when this catchy tune is played:

 

[sarladaise]

Great thread, some of my favorites and many I have never heard before!

 

[Pollaco]

I was just going through some of the older videos and if you don't get an "emotional rise" out of some of them , there is something wrong with you. That version of Ashoken Farewell will make hair of your neck stand up.

 

[Cavalier]

Garryowen has my vote. Any piece of music that can memorialize a barroom brawl that well must be truly classic.

John

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

I didn't realize how old this song was -

 

[Library Lady]

Here are a couple of "odes to the over-served":

The navy's contribution is Drunken Sailor, a sea shanty that goes back to the 1830s.

The army's contribution is Garryowen which goes back to at least the Napoleonic Wars. This one's for you @Cavalier !

Personally, I like it a little more up-tempo as a march.

 

[Claude Bauer]

Hey, everyone—I didn't forget about this thread, just out of the country for a few weeks. Will pick up again when I return. Please post one for me!

 

[Cavalier]

@Library Lady Thanks very much for those! Like "Queen's Own Butler" in the movie They Died With Boots On, I would think Garry Owen would go rather well if your on a horse. Of course I've never been on a horse, so I am
probably not qualified to have an opinion on that.

On the other hand, and I've never been a sailor either, I am highly qualified to have an opinion on the other classic referred to, Drunken Sailor.

John

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

Since I listened to it this morning, I've been mentally humming "Drunken Sailor" all day. Catchy tune Tuesday indeed. I want to make it stop!