Introducing Catchy Tune Tuesday!

[Reconstructed Rebel]

catchy tune called "Old Dog"

The barking is…..sublime

 

[Story]

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.

It's a Cav Thing. Few would understand.

 

[Story]

I didn't see this tune posted.

Hell on the Wabash appeared again in 1862, as a fife and drum duet in The Drummer's and Fifer's Guide by Emmett and George Barrett Bruce.

Hell on the Wabash - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Cavalier]

@Story and @Library Lady Thank you both very much for Garry Owen and for that scene with Errol Flynn in They Died With Their Boots On! I will have to repeat that again, and often!

John

 

[Claude Bauer]

It's a Cav Thing. Few would understand.

Speaking of Garryowen--we played it last Saturday in Gettysburg at the Dobbin House, where a fellow reenactor/musician had rented their ballroom for his wedding! We played outside for an hour as 100 or so guests arrived. A lot of tourists stopped to listen, too probably not expecting to see outside performances or reenactors this early in the season.

 

[Cavalier]

Pretty cool dinner music!

John

 

[Claude Bauer]

Pretty cool dinner music!

John

LOL, they had a string quartet inside for the dinner. We were outside as people were arriving. Btw, members of the string quartet complimented us as they went inside--we were probably the last thing they expected to see at a wedding!

(So far we've played a wedding, a bar mitzva, and a memorial service. All places where you wouldn't expect fifes and drums!)

 

[farrargirl]

Don't know if it is permissible to post a few songs about the South, but these were written by a dear friend of my father, Paul Ott Carruth from Mississippi. We piped in a few of them, with Paul Ott's permission for my dad's funeral several years ago.
The first one was written by Paul, and entitled "I Am The South", but has been removed from utube, and re-recorded by another group. The 2nd one , he changed a few words and recorded as "I Am Mississippi".
The last one, I had to include because of his beautiful rendition of Ole' Blue

They very much define the concept of Southern spirit and the love of homeland.

 

[Claude Bauer]

Today's Catchy Tune is another brass band foot tapper, The 8th GM Regiment Band performs Reel - Boston Turns by David L. Downing, arranged by Bob Baccus and Terry Cornett, at the Manassas National Battlefield Park on over-the-shoulder brass instruments.

 

[Library Lady]

I'm not clear on whether this is a period piece or modern, but we have a new member, @glenalpine109 , who is interested in Thomas William Sweeny, and might enjoy this catchy tune. I hope the rest of you like it, too.

 

[Cavalier]

@Library Lady Thanks for posting that!

John

 

[Library Lady]

Here we have another catchy tune that has been used for at least 3 different songs, all of which were popular. We'll start with the Civil War song, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp written by George F. Root in 1863-64. It tells of the plight of prisoners waiting to be freed.

In 1867, the tune was used again for a song about prisoners, but these were gents who had helped 2 Fenian prisoners escape and were hanged for their trouble. The song, God Save Ireland, was the unofficial Irish national anthem for Irish nationalists from the 1870s to the 1920s. The performer is Derek Warfield who also performed Fighting Tom Sweeny posted above.

Many of us probably remember singing at least the refrain of Jesus Loves the Little Children in Sunday School. The lyrics were written by C. Herbert Woolston, a Baptist minister, and were published in 1913. I'm not finding a YouTube video with the original lyrics (there are many, many different versions), so here is just the refrain.

 

[Claude Bauer]

Here we have another catchy tune that has been used for at least 3 different songs, all of which were popular. We'll start with the Civil War song, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp written by George F. Root in 1863-64. It tells of the plight of prisoners waiting to be freed.

In 1867, the tune was used again for a song about prisoners, but these were gents who had helped 2 Fenian prisoners escape and were hanged for their trouble. The song, God Save Ireland, was the unofficial Irish national anthem for Irish nationalists from the 1870s to the 1920s. The performer is Derek Warfield who also performed Fighting Tom Sweeny posted above.

Many of us probably remember singing at least the refrain of Jesus Loves the Little Children in Sunday School. The lyrics were written by C. Herbert Woolston, a Baptist minister, and were published in 1913. I'm not finding a YouTube video with the original lyrics (there are many, many different versions), so here is just the refrain.

Thanks for sharing! Great tunes!

 

[Library Lady]

I have just started listening to the E-audiobook of David Wright Falade's novel Black Cloud Rising which is based on the exploits of General Edward Wild and his African Brigade. The author quotes Babylon is Fallen as a marching tune. I'd never heard of this before, so I had to go looking.

The Civil War version was written by Henry Clay Work in 1863 as a sequel to his song Kingdom Coming and, like that song, is written in Black dialect.

The sheet music from 1863 says that Mr. Work wrote both words and music, but it seems that the tune might actually go back to at least the 1600s and the English Civil War where it was a marching tune for Protestants/Roundheads. There is some debate over whether this tune was, thus, a Pilgrim hymn that was brought to America. On the other hand, it has also been said to be a Shaker hymn with lyrics by Richard McNemar that was first published in 1813. It is also in James White's Hymns for Second Advent Believers , his second collection of hymns, published in 1852.

If you are interested, here is a bit about the book that started my hunt.

Black Cloud Rising by David Wright Falade

The story of the African Brigade, a unit of Black freedmen who fought for the Union during the Civil War, gets its due in this s...

www.publishersweekly.com

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

Babylon is Fallen as a marching tune. I'd never heard of this before, so I had to go looking.

This is a new one for me too - thanks!

 

[Sowbelly and Hardtack]

 

[Sowbelly and Hardtack]

 

[Sowbelly and Hardtack]

 

[Sowbelly and Hardtack]

 

[Sowbelly and Hardtack]