Introducing Catchy Tune Tuesday!

[Sowbelly and Hardtack]

 

[Salterr]

I had posted in another thread about having the music for Grants funeral but finally found General Grant's funeral March played out on piano. I'm wondering how many compositions there are because each sheet music pamphlet I've found has a different publisher and composer even with an 1885 copyright. Anyway thought I'd share.

 

[Sowbelly and Hardtack]

 

[TallTallMan]

Not Tuesday, but favorites of mine:

 

[bamaman]

Can't hardly not whistle or hum "The Bonnie Blue Flag" after watching a video of Gods and Generals. It sticks in your head.

Bonnie Blue Flag and Home Sweet Home are my jams

 

[TallTallMan]

Forgot the king of them all:

 

[Stryker65]

I know it's not Tuesday, but I came to this forum to talk about how catchy the Invalid Corps song is, so here it is:

. Can't get over the amazing beat.
-Stryker

 

[Reconstructed Rebel]

how catchy the Invalid Corps song is,

The lyrics are pretty catchy too!

 

[TallTallMan]

Last one, I promise

 

[Johnny Shafto]

 

[Sowbelly and Hardtack]

 

[TallTallMan]

Movie soundtrack time:

 

[TallTallMan]

 

[TallTallMan]

 

[TallTallMan]

 

[TallTallMan]

@Stryker65 On the subject of the Invalid Corps song, those people were 1000% more clever than us. Particularly this verse:

There came a fellow, mighty tall,
A knock-kneed overgrowner
The Doctor said, I ain't got time
To take and look you over.

 

[Library Lady]

Septimus Winner (1827 - 1902) was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. They describe him as a "noted songwriter, music educator, performer and pioneering music publisher." In his spare time, he was a frequent contributor to Graham's Magazine which was edited by Edgar Allen Poe. Winner wrote under a number of aliases. Writing as "Alice Hawthorne" in 1855, one of his earliest songs, which he described as a "sentimental Ethiopian ballad" became one of the biggest hits of the 1850s.

He wrote the Union version of Maryland, My Maryland. This is difficult to find, so what you have below is from a 1902 Edison cylinder recording.

Lyrics can be found here: https://digital.lib.umd.edu/image?pid=umd:79779

His last successful work was published in 1868.

 

[marktwainenjoyer]

@PeteHale @Stryker65 As someone who was rejected from the armed services for around seven or eight different medical reasons, Invalid Corps really hits home

 

[Tyger]

The Prisoner's Hope is a beautiful, especially on this recording.

 

[Tyger]

The Prisoner's Hope is a beautiful, especially on this recording.

[sic]!