Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song

Subject: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass and another song
From: Kampervan
Date: 24 Feb 18 - 06:29 PM

Hi there
My sister is trying to trace version of The Parting Glass that she heard where it was sung alongside a second,interlinked song.

She has no idea what the second song was, but the two intertwined beautifully and she would love to hear it again. Does anyone have any idea what it might have been?

OK, it's a long shot, but this is the place where we might just get an answer!

Cheers

K/van

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass and another song
From: GUEST,Jerry
Date: 24 Feb 18 - 06:42 PM

Presumably, you don’t mean Dylan’s Restless Farewell, which is a sort of re-write of the Brendan Behan song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 24 Feb 18 - 06:45 PM

Sounds intriguing, Kampervan. Hope you don't mind the slight change I made in the thread title, so people won't come here telling you how to find "The Parting Glass," which I'm sure you know how to do.

Seems to me I've heard "Parting Glass" with a "partner song," but I can't recall what the other song was.

There's a technical name for "partner song." The first word that came to mind was "quodlibet," but I don't think that's the right word.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: Kampervan
Date: 24 Feb 18 - 06:53 PM

Hi Joe
Thanks for the amend, I struggled a bit with the thread title and I think that yours is better.

I also thought that there had to be a technical name for what I was looking for but couldn't recall ever having heard it.

Here's hoping!

K/van

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: GUEST,Kristoffer Ross
Date: 24 Feb 18 - 10:16 PM

Probably not it, but Shaun Davey put the parting glass to a new melody for the film Waking Ned Devine. That version is usually performed with the first verse in the traditional melody, and the subsequent ones in Shaun Davey's new setting. It's been done by the Voice Squad, The High Kings, and Celtic Woman.
The High Kings- The Parting Glass
(This is from their highly polished early years: not my favorite)
Best,
    Kristoffer

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: Helen
Date: 24 Feb 18 - 11:21 PM

Hi Kampervan,

Scroll down to a list of recordings of this song

It usually helps to have a little more information about the singer(s) - male, female, a group, a choir, a band etc - musicians, instruments, where and when the song was heard e.g. on a radio program, on TV, on a recording, (i.e. who, what, where, when) and anything your sister can remember about the song.

More information may jog the memories of the people looking for the songs.

Ed Sheeran's version Understated and beautiful, in my opinion.

Helen

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 25 Feb 18 - 02:50 PM

Ronnie Drew did this with a female singer who's name escapes me, one singing The Parting Glass and the other singing Restless Farewell.

Dave H

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: GUEST,Ally Pally
Date: 25 Feb 18 - 02:54 PM

Neil Finn sings a version of Parting Glass while meandering at the end of one of the Crowded House tracks live. I can't remember which one - sorry for not being more specific!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: ketchdana
Date: 25 Feb 18 - 04:33 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbw-_y4YQpM
Ronnie Drew and Eleanor Shanley -- Restless Farewell / The Parting Glass

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Feb 18 - 05:26 PM

beautiful - thanks for the link

sandra

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: Helen
Date: 26 Feb 18 - 02:51 AM

Neil Finn's version:

Crowded House - Live at Fleadh Festival 1994

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: The Sandman
Date: 26 Feb 18 - 12:29 PM

well since it is virtually the same tune as just as the tide is flowing ,parting glass could bne done after

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 Feb 18 - 08:59 PM

Kampervan, do you mean the two songs are sung one after the other as a medley, or are they sung both at the same time?
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 27 Feb 18 - 03:10 AM

Ronnie Drew and Eleanor Shanley sang alternate verses.

Dave H

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: GUEST,Kampervan
Date: 28 Feb 18 - 03:54 AM

Hi there Joe, they were both sung at the same time. Still looking!
Cheers
K/van

Subject: Lyr Add: SWEET COOTEHILL TOWN
From: mayomick
Date: 02 Mar 18 - 10:51 AM

There's a song with the same air "Sweet Cootehill Town". Maybe it was that? I think Sam Henry's book said the song pre-dated the Parting Glass.

SWEET COOTEHILL TOWN
As recorded by Reg Keating on "Songs of Cavan" (2015)

Oh fare you well, sweet Cootehill town, the place where I was born and bred.
Through shady groves and flowery hills my youthful fancy did serenade.
But now I’m bound for Amerikay, a country I never saw.
These pleasant scenes, I will always mind when I am roving far away.

The pleasant hills near Cootehill town where I have spent my youthful days,
Both day and night, I took delight in dancing and in harmless plays;
But while I rove from town to town fond memories in my mind shall stay.
Of those pleasant happy youthful hours that now are spent and passed away.

Perchance kind fate will reinstate and fortune’s face upon me smile
To safe conduct me home again to my own dear native Irish isle,
When all my comrades and friends likewise will gather round and to me will say:
"We’ll sing and dance as in days gone by; you are welcome home from Amerikay."

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: Helen
Date: 02 Mar 18 - 02:24 PM

Kampervan, did you watch the video posted by ketchdana on 25 Feb 18 - 04:33 PM? The one by Ronnie Drew and Eleanor Shanley? Is that the one you are looking for?

Also, did you find out more information, and if so could you let us know what you found out, please:

"It usually helps to have a little more information about the singer(s) - male, female, a group, a choir, a band etc - musicians, instruments, where and when the song was heard e.g. on a radio program, on TV, on a recording, (i.e. who, what, where, when) and anything your sister can remember about the song."

Thanks
Helen

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: David Carter (UK)
Date: 02 Mar 18 - 02:36 PM

Surprisingly, Alexander Armstrong's rendition of this is not bad.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: Helen
Date: 02 Mar 18 - 05:01 PM

Well, David, it would be Pointless recording it if it wasn't a good rendition. LOL

(I watch that show here in Oz.)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: gillymor
Date: 02 Mar 18 - 06:07 PM

Good point, Helen, because no one has ever recorded a bad rendition of a song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 02 Mar 18 - 08:11 PM

I've heard 'Glass sung with THIS on quite a few occasions
It's always worked well
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: Helen
Date: 02 Mar 18 - 10:38 PM

Well gillymor, I guess that was a pointless joke and you didn't get it, but the joke is on me anyway because unfortunately hubby has a William Shatner CD and he plays in the car so I have to listen to it - not very often, but often enough.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: GUEST
Date: 03 Mar 18 - 04:35 AM

Wouldn't be the first joke I didn't get, Helen. Is it legal to drive down there under the influence of Shatner?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: Helen
Date: 03 Mar 18 - 04:48 AM

Pointless

I don't think the Police have developed a test for driving under the influence of Shatner yet, so it's not illegal yet.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: GUEST,Gillymor
Date: 03 Mar 18 - 05:02 AM

There's me with egg on my face.
Pointless sounds a bit like our Family Feud but perhaps a little too complex for the average Trump voter.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 03 Mar 18 - 05:32 AM

It's not the " Kind Friends and Companions" one which Sheila Stewart used to sing? According to the thread on "the other Parting Glass", the Chieftains also recorded it.

Or "When First we Met" by Alan Bell?(variously wrongly described as a Scottish or Irish song - it's English!).

Or "Auld Lang Syne" to the older tune?

Or Iain Sinclair's "Tak a dram afore ye go"?

Also try looking through the other Parting Glass threads that are on here.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 03 Mar 18 - 06:36 AM

From the sublime to the ridiculous. I made up a story about finding the words to a song in an old cinema they were demolishing near Swinton Folk Club and then proceeded to sing the first verse of 'Chantilly Lace' to the tune of the Parting Glass. First sung verse that is - From 'Chantilly Lace' to 'ooh baby that's what I like'. It works!

:D tG

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: mayomick
Date: 03 Mar 18 - 08:13 AM

try singing it with "I Did it My Way "

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 03 Mar 18 - 12:44 PM

Just looked at Jim's link (ha-ha!): same song as Sheila Stewart's but different tune: she sang it to the same tune as "Puir Roving Lassie".

And for a parting joke, we finish some of our sets with "Will Ye No Come back Again?" in hopes of being invited back.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jun 23 - 06:33 AM

Just as the tide was flowing

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: GUEST,Ian Dale
Date: 10 Jun 23 - 06:47 AM

Eliza Cathy version of Just as the tide was flowing - you can find it on YouTube, it really gets started about a minute in.https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Do7AB6XReY6c&ved=2ahUKEwjnxN-Ewbj_AhXIasAKHZYnAGAQwqsBegQIGhAF&usg=AOvVaw3EYVxggkzVuNvzJ4m4BX2T

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: The Parting Glass sung with another song
From: GerryM
Date: 10 Jun 23 - 08:12 AM

The link ketchdana posted 25 Feb 18 - 04:33 PM to Ronnie Drew and Eleanor Shanley singing Restless Farewell / The Parting Glass has gone bye-bye, but https://youtu.be/8YSJFIYCvKw works.