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27 Apr 99 - 01:11 PM (#73770) Subject: Peter Amberley? From: hud@ra.msstate.edu I think Bill Staines recorded this song. I'd like to know if he wrote it or if it's a traditional tune. Where could I find the lyrics? |
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27 Apr 99 - 01:18 PM (#73772) Subject: RE: Peter Amberley? From: Joe Offer Best place to find a song like that is right here in the Digital Tradition Folk song database, where a search for Peter will find this and this. If you search a little harder in both the database and the Forum, you're likely to find other versions. It's traditional. Bill Staines does a great rendition of it. -Joe Offer- |
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27 Apr 99 - 01:31 PM (#73773) Subject: RE: Peter Amberley? From: Joe Offer Darn. I thought I might be able to beat my three minute response record on this one, but it came out at seven. Darn, darn, darn.... Click here for a Bill Staines page that has lots of lyrics - but not his version of "Peter Amberley," which appears on his Philo album called Tracks and Trails. -Joe Offer- |
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27 Apr 99 - 01:40 PM (#73776) Subject: RE: Peter Amberley? From: Joe Offer There are some threads in the forum that shouldn't be missed: one and two, which contends the song was recorded by Suntan King George Hamilton IV, who was romantically linked to Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda, if I recall correctly.... -Joe Offer- Link sent by e-mail to the requester. |
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27 Apr 99 - 08:19 PM (#73860) Subject: RE: Peter Amberley? From: John Hindsill Joe, Joe, Joe, you are blending your George Hamiltons! George Hamilton is a bronzed actor cum talk show host who did romance a president's daughter. George Hamilton IV is a country singer who had hits with "A Rose & a Baby Ruth" and "Abeline"; he also was a regular on The Grand Ol' Opry. Coincidentally I would guess they are about the same age, but that's only a guess. |
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27 Apr 99 - 08:25 PM (#73862) Subject: RE: Peter Amberley? From: John Hindsill Recently I heard a song using the same tune as Peter Amberly entitled Rose of the San Juaquin. I lost the note I made on it, but if memory is okay, it was sung by Jim Ringer, and was not one of his newer recordings. |
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27 Apr 99 - 08:40 PM (#73864) Subject: RE: Peter Amberley? From: Joe Offer Oh, darn, John. I'm just not with it, I guess. I always thought that George Hamilton and George Hamilton were one and the same. Shows how little I know. But I CAN point you to THE ROSE OF THE SAN JOAQUIN, a great song by Jim Ringer. For those of you who don't live here, that's pronounced wah-KEEN I think Art Thieme had some words of wisdom a while back about Jim Ringer, but Forum Search isn't working and I can't find it. -Joe Offer- |
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27 Apr 99 - 08:47 PM (#73868) Subject: RE: Peter Amberley? From: John Hindsill OK Joe ya got me... By the way how do you do that blue underlined thing that gets you somewhere else? I can do little more than type, and that not well. |
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27 Apr 99 - 10:21 PM (#73880) Subject: RE: Peter Amberley? From: Arkie Seems like a fellow named Bob, something or other, recorded a song with a tune very similar to Peter Amberly - called it Pity the Poor Immigrants. |