Songs that can be layered

Subject: Songs that can be layered
From: dulcimer42
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 07:05 PM

I'm looking for not rounds, but tunes that can be sung on top of each other: Like Row, Row your Boat and Frere Jacque. Or "Jump, Down, Turn Around Pick a Bale of Cotton" and "Shut the Door, Keep out the Devil"
I went to a workshop years ago where we sang a bunch of these.

Subject: RE: Songs that can be layered
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 11:35 PM

Cakewalk songs?

Subject: RE: Songs that can be layered
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Mar 11 - 11:43 PM

P.D.Q. Bach (Peter Schickele) - "The art of the ground round"

Subject: RE: Songs that can be layered
From: Max Johnson
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 07:10 AM

We sometimes used to sing 'Riding Along on the Crest Of A Wave' behind 'You Are My Sunshine'.

Subject: RE: Songs that can be layered
From: Will Fly
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 07:24 AM

The classic pairing, from the 1st World War is "Tipperary" and "Pack Up Your Troubles".

Subject: RE: Songs that can be layered
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 08:55 AM

Nelson's Blood and Drunken Sailor!

Subject: RE: Songs that can be layered
From: GUEST,Suibhne Astray
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 11:52 AM

The Finger Bobs Turtle song
The Hoodoo Bash (Holy Modal Rounders)
(I'm sure there was a third in there but I'm blowed if I can remember what it was...)

&

The Sans Day Carol
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring

Subject: RE: Songs that can be layered
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 04:41 PM

Once at Pinewoods Folk Music Week I heard a wonderful rendition by Joy Bennett of Billy Ed Wheeler's Red-winged Blackbird with the old-time tune, Cluck Old Hen.

~ Becky in Long Beach

Subject: RE: Songs that can be layered
From: Nancy King
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 04:47 PM

"I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago" and "Great Historical Bum."

Subject: RE: Songs that can be layered
From: 12barblues
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 05:36 PM

Kerr, Fagan and Harbron did 'Let the Mystery Be' with 'Pie In The Sky' on their album 'Station House'.

Subject: RE: Songs that can be layered
From: s&r
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 07:22 PM

My girl's a Yorkshire girl and She's a Lassie from Lancashire

Stu

Subject: RE: Songs that can be layered
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 07:47 PM

they used to do Amaryllis and Swanee River together...
mg

Subject: RE: Songs that can be layered
From: Joe_F
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 07:52 PM

"Frere Jacques", "Row, Row, Row Your Boat", and "Three Blind Mice" (each of them as a round, of course).

"Home, Sweet Home" and "My Silver Bell".

"I've Been Working on the Railroad" and "Old Black Joe" (the harmony is not perfect, but the coincidence of "Dinah, won't you blow" and "I'm coming" makes up for that).

Subject: RE: Songs that can be layered
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 08:01 PM

Joe_F, that is the point of the stuff like
P.D.Q. Bach (Peter Schickele) - "The art of the ground round"

:-)

Subject: RE: Songs that can be layered
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 08 Mar 11 - 10:28 PM

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has a quodlibet called "Fly Me Off the Handel" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P1-UvqdD7o starting with a piece by George Frideric Handel, and adding "Fly Me to the Moon." the "Theme from Love Story," "Autumn Leaves," "Killing Me Softly With His Song." "Hotel California," and "I Will Survive," first sequentially, and then all on top of one another. What do all of these songs have in common? Am-F-G-C-Am-F-E-E7.


Another combination is "Swing Low Sweet Chariot," "When the Saints Go Marching In," and "Dominique," and "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." There may have been a fifth one we used to sing with them, but my memory is fuzzy on that.

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: Songs that can be layered
From: GUEST,Morgana
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 03:14 PM

One combination is "Fever," "Wade in the Water," and "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho." I know a couple more, but the names aren't coming to the top of my head right now. One of these is on a cassette I took at a song session, that I will have to relisten to. Will hopefully post back later.

Subject: RE: Songs that can be layered
From: Art Thieme
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 09:22 PM

Talk about "layers" --- maybe just one song-- "The Onion Maid" ;-)