Subject: RE: Info Req: Song for the Mira (A MacGillivray)
From:
GUEST,Dale
Date: 23 Apr 05 - 01:18 AM
One of my favorite movies that I have seen lately is one from Cape Breton, New Waterford Girl. I almost didn't watch it because while many of the movies that I have seen from Nova Scotia have good music, they also have oppressively downbeat stories, which I find unwatchable. (Sorry, George!)
ANYWAY, in the film there is a group of young people supposedly in the 70s singing Song For The Mira around the campfire. Even the young transplant from New York is affected by the singing, though she does not join in ~~ wouldn't know the words! Since it was written in 1973 (I thought it was later), that is not so much of an anachronism as I first thought. A check of Anne Murray's site shows that she did not record it until 1982, so they would have had to have gotten it from some other source.
Ashley MacIsaac does a nice turn as a rather scruffy looking fiddler in a bar, by the way.
As to whether Anne Murray sang all the verses or not, is it possible that she recorded it more than once, one long and one short version? Her site lists it on albums from 1982, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, and 2000 but naturally there is no indication as to whether the later recordings were identical except for the 2000 album which was listed as a re-release of the 1982 album. My guess is that there would be at least a couple of versions in there.
Also, sometimes producers put out an album version and a shorter single version, all the better to get radio play. Just thinking out loud there.
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