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23 Feb 04 - 09:35 AM (#1121756) Subject: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe I dunno, I can't remember the words, cause I'd had a few too many drinks, but they were really clever - I can't seem to remember what it was about either. That big tall guy with the 12 string guitar did it, I think, or else it was that red haired lady with the banjo and the kazoo. The tune sort of went something like Dum de dum, de diddly de dum dum... I think... Robin Also see Drinking on the premises |
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23 Feb 04 - 10:01 AM (#1121774) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Big Mick We are good, Robin, but ............ |
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23 Feb 04 - 10:03 AM (#1121777) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Actually, there was also this sort of solo where the guy who sings falsetto with that sound like he had grabbed his adam's apple and wobbled it. Robin |
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23 Feb 04 - 10:08 AM (#1121783) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: greg stephens Sounds like the "Dumdedum Diddly Song" to me. I claim the prize. |
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23 Feb 04 - 10:09 AM (#1121784) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Bobjack Got it! Ace of Spades by Motorhead. Am I good or what? |
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23 Feb 04 - 10:10 AM (#1121786) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Actually I think it was recorded by that guy who got an OBE for tuning his guitar... Robin |
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23 Feb 04 - 10:14 AM (#1121788) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Bobert My drinkin' buddy, Greg, wins... Bobert |
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23 Feb 04 - 10:19 AM (#1121792) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe I thought Dean Martin recorded it, but it could have been Johny Cash or Elvis - one of his slower numbers... Didn't Bob Dylan write it? Robin |
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23 Feb 04 - 10:20 AM (#1121793) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Allan C. The red haired banjoist was certainly none other than the woman affectionately known as "Futile" Tuning. The "Dumdedum Diddly Song" Greg Stephens mentioned above is her trademark tune. I haven't seen her for a while although I'm told "The Barroom Floor" is a likely venue where she may be seen. To the best of my recollection, the chorus was something close to: Diddle di dee dum Diddle dee di day Doodle diddle, doodle doo Dumdedum Diddly dit Sorry, that's all I can dredge up from my deteriorating memory. |
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23 Feb 04 - 10:22 AM (#1121796) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Well done Allan, that's helped me enormously! so far... Robin |
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23 Feb 04 - 10:28 AM (#1121800) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: GUEST,MMario Isn't the chorus derived from the old Blue Mountains (Massachusetts) song 'Can Kerdiddle' where the chorus goes... Diddle da dee dum Diddle dee di day Doodle diddle, doodle doo Dumdedum Diddly die or is that just conincidence? |
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23 Feb 04 - 10:33 AM (#1121803) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Loooks close MMario.. if we can get all the verses, I'll ask Joe Offer if he can change the title of the thread to something else... Robin |
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23 Feb 04 - 10:38 AM (#1121806) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: greg stephens I think we should all be a little cautious about this till Masato has spoken, he will have the full facts. |
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23 Feb 04 - 10:40 AM (#1121808) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: JennyO I recognise it as very similar to an old Australian falloping song that I heard years ago by Ned Kelty and the Kelpies. I believe it went something like this: Di di di dum, diddle diddle diddle dum Diddle di day dum, diddld diddle dum De dy de do dum do dum do De dy de do dum do dum do This is known as the "Rolfus Harrisus" beat. |
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23 Feb 04 - 10:41 AM (#1121810) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe I thoought it had a German origin - should we wait for input from Wolfgang? Robin |
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23 Feb 04 - 10:46 AM (#1121813) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Thanks, JennyO, since it seems to have a serious Australian connection, perhaps now Bob Bolton can help? I have heard it played on an ut of tune button box - not by BobB of course, - well, I mean the Button Box wasn't out of tune when BobB played it... Robin |
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23 Feb 04 - 10:47 AM (#1121815) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: GUEST,ClaireBear I'm so excited -- I've only heard this tune as an instrumental and never knew it had words. The only trouble is, I want to sing it with a samba band, so I really need the words in Portuguese. Babelfish translated Robin's original lyrics as: Dum de dum, do de dum diddly de dum and Allan C's chorus as: Diddle di dee que o dum diddle dee di dia o doodle diddle, doodle o dit de Dumdedum Diddly do doo ...and while I'm sure these are technically correct, they just don't scan quite right. Can anyone help? Claire |
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23 Feb 04 - 10:50 AM (#1121816) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: GUEST,MMario With JennyO's mention of the falopian connections - I wonder if perhaps there is a connection to Goddess worship here? |
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23 Feb 04 - 11:08 AM (#1121821) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Allan C. My Portuguese isn't what it should be, ClaireBear, but I'm pretty sure that last line should read, Dumdedum Diddly do dao (Sorry, I haven't yet figured out how to do the tilde in this format.) |
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23 Feb 04 - 11:09 AM (#1121823) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Actually, I want to have a bunch of kids in my kindergarten class at the school for the intellectually gifted play this on instruments they stole when I took them to the New York Philharmonic Concert last week, can anybody explain why some instruments are always out of tune? Robin |
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23 Feb 04 - 11:27 AM (#1121835) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: GUEST,MMario it isn't that some instruments are out of tune - it is that the "accepted" pitches for modern music have drifted from the notes are biologically and physically set by the laws of nature. Many of the "simple" instruments used especially in elementary school education are of aincient origin - and were developed speciafically because they did not require tuning. Since the accepted values of the notes have drifted - these instruments sound "out of tune" to the modern ear. |
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23 Feb 04 - 11:56 AM (#1121859) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Fibula Mattock This is an Irish tune, naturally, and everyone else has stolen it. The chorus "Dum diddle door-aye-ay" is derived from the Irish, and refers to the sound made by potatoes falling into a bucket during harvesting. But the question remains: is it folk? I believe a wise man once said something meaningful about horses, but I seem to have conveniently forgotten what it was. |
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23 Feb 04 - 12:18 PM (#1121873) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Don Firth Scottish mouth music. My father used to sing it. He learned it from his grandfather who was born on Mainland Orkney. Don Firth |
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23 Feb 04 - 12:36 PM (#1121885) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Rapparee I've heard it many, many times since I've moved here to Idaho. It's sung by Basque shepherds as their walk herd at night. I'm told that it keeps the sheep from stampeding, attempting to get back to Wales. It may well be an old Basque-Welsh tune dating back to when they Celts emigrated from the Iberian Pennisula to Eire and from Eire to Wales (I can't spell Cymra reliably). I will, however, call your attention to the word "dum" being used repeatedly, and the city of Dumdum in India. I'm not sure that it's a coincidence! |
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23 Feb 04 - 12:38 PM (#1121886) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Rasener This is the only one I know. Dum Dum Brenda Lee (Sharon Sheeley - Jackie De Shannon) A dum dum, a deedely dum Uh huh huh A dum dum, a deedely dum Oh yeah Dum dum, a deedely dum A music's sweet the lights are low Playing a song on the radio Your ma's in the kitchen Your pa's next door I wanna love you just a little bit more Singing dum dum, a deedely dum Uh huh Dum dum, a deedely dum Sing it out Dum dum. a deedely dum Come on baby, don't you be so shy You know that I love you, let me tell you why You got a heart I know that it's true I couldn't love you any more than I do Singing dum dum, a deedely dum Oh yeah Dum dum, a deedely dum One more time Dum dum, a deedely dum Ahh, I want you with me all of the time Tell me you love me and you'll be mine There's so many things that we could do So say the words and make my dreams come true Singing, dum dum, a deedely dum Uh huh Dum dum, a deedely dum Sing it out Dum dum, a deedley dum A dum dum, a deedely dum Sing it out Dum dum, a deedely dum I can't hear ya Dum dum, a deedely dum Oh yeah |
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23 Feb 04 - 03:08 PM (#1121996) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: John MacKenzie Yes I can. Io nao falar Portogues Muit obrigada Joao Uma Sagres for chavor |
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23 Feb 04 - 03:20 PM (#1122003) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Fibula Mattock Didn't Kate Rusby sing this? |
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23 Feb 04 - 06:55 PM (#1122153) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Doesn't she sing everything? |
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23 Feb 04 - 07:17 PM (#1122171) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Allan C. Sadly, during the darker days of the "folk scare" there were artists who took such great, traditional songs as this, changed them slightly (maybe even added some verses,)and then claimed copyright. See example: Come Softly To Me Words and Music by The Fleetwoods (Gary Troxel, Gretchen Christopher, and Barbara Ellis) Words (in parentheses) are sung by Gretchen and Barbara only Mm dooby do, dahm dahm, dahm do dahm ooby do Dahm dahm, dahm do dahm, ooby do Dahm dahm, dahm do dahm, ooby do Dahm dahm, dahm ooh dahm Mm dooby do (Come softly, darling) (Come softly, darling) (Come softly, darling) (Come softly, darling) (Come softly, darling) (Come to me, sta-ay) (You're my ob-session) (For ever and a da-ay) I want, want you to kno-o-ow I love, I love you so Please hold, hold me so tight All through, all through the night.. (Speak softly, darling) (Hear what I sa-ay) (I love you always) (Always, always) I've waited, waited so long For your kisses and your love Please come, come to me From up, from up above (Come softly, darling) (Come softly, darling) I need, need you so much Wanna feel your wa-arm touch Mm dooby do, dahm dahm, dahm do dahm ooby do Dahm dahm, dahm do dahm, ooby do Dahm dahm, dahm do dahm, ooby do Dahm dahm, dahm ooh dahm Mm dooby do, dahm dahm, dahm do dahm ooby do Dahm dahm, dahm do dahm, ooby do Dahm dahm, dahm do dahm, ooby do Dahm dahm, dahm ooh dahm |
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23 Feb 04 - 07:19 PM (#1122173) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Emma B It's definitely Irish! a lewd old drinking song for lewd (or cold) old drinkers Dom - do Digh - var of deoch - drink di- eadaigh - unclothed |
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23 Feb 04 - 07:37 PM (#1122188) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Actually Alln C, I think your contribution, although extremely well researched and very good and and all that, may be thread creep.... can we please get this thread back on topic? Thanks Emma B - Being monolingual, I appreciate assitance from those more educated than I. Robin |
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23 Feb 04 - 09:01 PM (#1122243) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Sorcha Well, it obviously is not a Spanish or Greek language song....possibly not English either... |
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24 Feb 04 - 02:55 AM (#1122379) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Little Robyn I know! It's written in the Garlic! Robyn |
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24 Feb 04 - 03:58 AM (#1122401) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Teresa Perhaps one factor in identifying the tune is the linguistic origin and etymology of the words in question. How much have they changed over the years, or have the phrases been maintained without a blemish in the true oral folk tradition? ;) :) Teresa |
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24 Feb 04 - 04:33 AM (#1122423) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: John MacKenzie If it's a garlic song could it be Spem in allium? John |
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24 Feb 04 - 05:45 AM (#1122449) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Why "Obviously" Sorcha, if that is your real name? I mean, I come to a place all my muso friends told me about - I can only sing in the bathroom after a few scotches - and all you e-rude-ite folkities can do is be negative! When I was doing Formal Logic in my PhD on Mumblemathics, it was stressed on me that if you make a sweeping ststement, then you should show evidence of what the broom swept away! So please, everybody, when you make sweeping statements, please give the background evidence to dicument your statements! I do aplogagize if I overreacted - I didn't mean to lose my cool... Robin |
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25 Feb 04 - 04:15 AM (#1123249) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Shanghaiceltic Revealing my self to be a sad git it sounds like a cut from the Archers theme tune Dum de dum de dum de dum de dum Dum de dum de da da Dum de dum de dum de dum Dum de diddly dah Repeat for 30 seconds Then audition for BBC radio 4. |
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25 Feb 04 - 09:13 AM (#1123420) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Noreen Ah Giok- a fellow Radio 4 listener! (I got that answer before they did :0) ) No, there's a lot more notes in Spem in Allium. It's still my ambition to sing one of the 40 parts... |
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25 Feb 04 - 10:18 AM (#1123455) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Janie This version is very common in the coal fields of West Virginia, although one usually only hears it at high school pep rallies. It clearly has changed in modern times, since it is usually accompanied by brass instruments instead of the traditional lap dulcimer. Da naw naw naw Da naw naw Da naw naw naw naw naw da naw. In fact, I did not even know of its traditional roots until I heard it here in Hillsborough, North Carolina. The Piedmont All-Stars were playing at Dani's restaurant one night and prevailed upon her to join them with her kazoo. I think it went smething like this: Dada dee dee diddly dee Diddly do do dee dee da Dum diddle dee Dum diddle dee Dum dee dee dada diddle dee. (kazoo break) Dum dum dum dee dee dum dum diddle dee dee da naw Needless to say---they brought down the house! Janie |
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25 Feb 04 - 01:09 PM (#1123588) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Dani Well, I went back to the All-Stars. They picked up the tune, apparently, from Lex's grandmother, who used to sing it when she was working out back. Apparently it was a WORK song she'd learned at HER mother's knee, useful for keeping the rhythm of pinning up the laundry while slaughtering chickens. If you do it right, you avoid getting blood on the sheets, apparently. That's how the tradition evolved of playing the spoons at the same time as the kazoo. Can you picture Gran with the clothespins in her mouth and a chicken neck in each hand? You get the idea... I just love a kazoo, so it was a natural tune for me. It is, though, a challenge for me to play the spoons and do the kazoo at the same time. Lex swears his grandmother did it just like that, though, so I will as long as I have breath in me. Dani |
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25 Feb 04 - 08:32 PM (#1123940) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Mr Happy its syncopated arrangement of shetland mouth music perpetuated by shepherds to co-ordinate their communal knitting rythms over long distances. original gaelic 'Dummelly tum de tedium, she diddly, he dumb dumb...' |
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25 Feb 04 - 10:36 PM (#1124030) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Allan C. I'm almost certain that Bill Sables sings a song like this. He always cracks a wicked smile as he delivers the last lines. The problem is that he does the whole thing in Geordie so I have no idea what it's about. |
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26 Feb 04 - 08:02 PM (#1124819) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: GUEST,marthabees You folks crack me up. I have enjoyed this thread immensely. Martha |
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27 Feb 04 - 08:25 AM (#1125089) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: GUEST we are pleased that such a dry, academic thread gould give humour to those who are researching song texts. We do try to liven things up a bit - such as Allan's pretense to have a hard time understanding Bill Sables! |
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27 Feb 04 - 10:17 AM (#1125159) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Crane Driver After considerable research at the Felinfoel brewery, I can assure you that it isn't Welsh. There is, however, a similar Welsh song that goes: Ddwm ddwm dydel dydel ddi Ddydel di ddwm ddwm di But that's probably no relation at all. Andrew |
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27 Feb 04 - 01:10 PM (#1125264) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: John MacKenzie I collected another fragment of this traditional ditty from a drunk man in George Square Glasgow. It went Hoo di fa, Hoo de fa, Hoo de fa, yoo loo kinat......Jimmy. The last line sounds as though it may have Chinese roots, this is lent credence by the 5 spices between the word 'kinat', and the explosive utterance of the word Jimmy. He then followed this up by saying, 'hal aw rer ma awl china' which clinches it for me. John C# |
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27 Feb 04 - 01:31 PM (#1125277) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Allan C. John, I think you're onto something.....or on something. I'm not sure which. |
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27 Feb 04 - 07:50 PM (#1125487) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: GUEST,Dum-De-Dumb Yes I agree upon studying the lyric how very clever it tis. However the tune I think I recall is chilling. Therefore could one safely assume it's an old folksong from possibly Iceland or one of the Poles? Maybe even an ice age campfire ditty? DDD |
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28 Feb 04 - 04:19 PM (#1125894) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Walking Eagle Nope, it isn't Tsa la gi either. we don't have any characters in the syllabary for it. |
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29 Feb 04 - 01:36 AM (#1126142) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: dianavan dee di diddly di day dee di day ay ay oh dee di diddly di oh diddle diddle di dum doh. d |
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29 Feb 04 - 11:18 AM (#1126185) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Allan C. I was totally amazed at the connection I discovered between the variation dianavan has submitted and this shanty. Even the most cursory perusal of the text will show that the phrase, "ay ay oh" has found its way into the lyrics. Clearly elements of this song have been spread far and wide! |
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29 Feb 04 - 10:34 PM (#1126605) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Peace And that ain't all that's been spread far and wide. Anyone can see that it is the beginning to the part of the Snow White movie when the Seven Dwarfs march off. It was also in the movie Platoon--the part where they shoot at people. Clear as a bell. |
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29 Feb 04 - 10:55 PM (#1126619) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: dianavan Just goes to show, nuthin is original. Think: nuthin in the kitchen but Dinah d |
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01 Mar 04 - 03:51 AM (#1126723) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: John MacKenzie I always thought that Dinah in the kitchen alone playing her old banjo, was a euphemism. John |
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01 Mar 04 - 05:58 AM (#1126794) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: freda underhill it's "The Charge of the Feral Brigade" by Paul Spencer... |
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01 Mar 04 - 09:23 PM (#1127393) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: dianavan It is no one in the kitchen but Dinah. I made a mistake when I said nuthin. ... but is it a euphanism? If so, I sure wasn't aware of it. Have to think about it again. d |
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01 Mar 04 - 09:56 PM (#1127404) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Rapparee I really must point out that Dinah is in actuality "strumming on her Old Banjo", which is not an instrument but a person. The original lyrics were "strumming on her Old Man, Joe" but were bowd...bolw...cleaned up so that little kids could sing it. This, of course, makes better sense because the person in the kitchen with Dinah is her Old Man, Joe. "Strumming" was a 19th Century American railroader euphemism for an extremely erotic, very obscene, and eminently enjoyable act which involved a man, a woman, a two-person swing, three quarts of olive oil, two fiddle strings, a rubber duckling, and a 4-8-8-4 locomotive. Now I forgot what erudite and scholarly points I wanted to make about the lyrics to the tune in question. Something about Coptic.... |
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02 Mar 04 - 01:01 AM (#1127418) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: dianavan Will you please use plain language? Coptic and euphemism to explain a little diddy diddy di dum? Thats it. I'm off to find the lyrics. d |
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02 Mar 04 - 01:13 AM (#1127422) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: GUEST Somehow . . . this almost seems like a music thread . . . is it? DUM de dum dum DEE! |
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02 Mar 04 - 01:27 AM (#1127426) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: dianavan Its: someone's in the kitchen with Dinah strummin on the old banjo good grief! What can be simpler? I doubt if its anything more than that. Now I'm gonna look up "Jimmy cracked corn" d |
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02 Mar 04 - 02:27 AM (#1127445) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Look Guys, This is a serious request for a friend of mine who does not have access to a computer but was with me the night we were out celebrating a wake for his father, which was when we heard the song I am asking about. His father's brother, who also with us that night in his powered wheelchair, was run over by a bus on his way home, and is now asking my friend on his deathbed - no, that's the brother of the now deceased father of my friend who is on his deathbed, that is - and would like us to sing the song at his wake, which will be not too far in the future. They have taken off his legs now - so there isn't much need for the accompanying dance - of course he couldn't walk before - which is why he was in the powered wheelchair that night. Unfortunately he had a few too many ales with us and tried to beat the bus across the road, but his batteries expired in the middle of the road, as he nearly did. I know you guys have coped with some pretty clueless song requests in the past, so my friend wants you to help him with this totally clueless one! Robin |
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02 Mar 04 - 04:31 AM (#1127480) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: John MacKenzie It's not the Irish/Israeli song called 'Annie O'Dayan' is it? You know the one, it goes a bit like this. Annie O'Dayan Annie O'Dayan Annie Annie Annie O'Dayan U luk suite, tok abba ta truit Can't remember anymore, but I'm sure an erudite ethnomusicologist lurks somewhere on these pages, and will no doubt furnish more words. John. |
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02 Mar 04 - 05:25 AM (#1127500) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Shanghaiceltic Foolestroupe, your story touched me. So I looked at the chorus and put it into an alternative search engine which came up with the following sad, solemn, slow and appropriate song which incredibly has a similar chorus to the one you heard being sung. Dum de dum, de diddly de dum dum Fol di fol di fol di ra di da Dum de dum, de diddly de dum dum Fol di fol di fol di ra di da My friend was in 'is wheelchair For 'e 'ad no legs to walk 'E'd 'ad a few to many 'E couldn't even talk Dum de dum, de diddly de dum dum Fol di fol di fol di ra di da Dum de dum, de diddly de dum dum Fol di fol di fol di ra di da My friend was in 'is wheelchair Too blind drunk to see A bus t'was fast approaching An' it were 'eavier than 'e Dum de dum, de diddly de dum dum Fol di fol di fol di ra di da Dum de dum, de diddly de dum dum Fol di fol di fol di ra di da My friend was in 'is wheelchair E'd forgot to check the power The bloody thing stopped in t'road An' t'bus did run 'im 'ower Dum de dum, de diddly de dum dum Fol di fol di fol di ra di da Dum de dum, de diddly de dum dum Fol di fol di fol di ra di da My friend ain't in is wheelchair E's behind the pearly gate E's angel wings an everything An' the pubs stay open late |
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02 Mar 04 - 07:16 AM (#1127540) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe You know, Shanghaiceltic, isn't that strange? The world is a very small place! That's very much like what actually happened to my friend's uncle, but I don't think that was the song I'm trying to recall - I don't remeber the redhaired lady singing about wheelchairs... Robin |
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02 Mar 04 - 09:30 AM (#1127647) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Rapparee Jimmy cracked corn. Jimmy = a young lad. cracked = a euphemism for the loss of a maidenhead corn = shortened nickname for Corny, which is short for Cornelia. I'd think that it would evident. Without exception, ALL folksongs are filthy and obscene. |
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02 Mar 04 - 12:33 PM (#1127777) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Ellenpoly The Answer is 42 I have sent a copy of this thread to both the US and British governments, just to have them double check my findings. Expect their answer right after their next elections. Dum de dum dum...duuuummmm |
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02 Mar 04 - 12:43 PM (#1127785) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: John MacKenzie You didn't need to send it, they know where we are! John |
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02 Mar 04 - 09:59 PM (#1128150) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: dianavan John Mac - Do you mean that? Don't make me paranoid. I think I've already given enough away. Thats why I don't want to post my pic. Big brother really scares me. d |
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03 Mar 04 - 04:25 AM (#1128277) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: John MacKenzie Well I do and I don't, I mean logically speaking we are a public forum, and lots of people know we're here, and some of them might not be above suspicion, but then again who is? It was however said as a joke, and no I don't think we have any spooks in our midst, albeit we do have some veeeeeeery odd characters! John |
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03 Mar 04 - 04:36 AM (#1128286) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Sorry to stick my nose into the thread I statred, but I think we are undergoing some thread creep here - can we please get back onto the topic of trying to find this song that I know nothing about? Robin |
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03 Mar 04 - 12:43 PM (#1128495) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: John MacKenzie I'm looking at a holiday at the moment that will take us from Hong Kong to Sydney, Cairns,Darwin, Perth, and Singapore, all for about 4 days each. This will be a field trip, and expect to see lots of fields, including the famous Paddy. The purpose of the trip is to search out the source of this song just for you Robin. So don't accuse me of thread creep, it's all in the good name of research. John |
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03 Mar 04 - 03:12 PM (#1128614) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Rapparee Do we yet know what key this song is in? I mean, usually, not transposed or anything? And the clef? And can we please work out the time signature? Once we have these sorts of things, I can do more research on it. Obrigato. Tak. Merci. |
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04 Mar 04 - 02:58 AM (#1128892) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: matai Vin Garbutt in his concert the other night said, when his Doctor asked him if he had tinnitus, he answered no, he could just hear everyone elses. Is that the sort of tune your thinking of? If it is I think it is in very high C with tiddley tum tums treking through it at rapid frequency and the words are in a very old form of Spanish used by Magellen who apparently discovered the world was round. In fact I'm sure it is a song about the Spice Islands. It certainly smells like cinamon from here. matai |
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05 Mar 04 - 02:57 AM (#1129593) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: matai or is that hops? Matai |
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04 Apr 04 - 12:11 AM (#1153917) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Maybe it's here.... |
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04 Apr 04 - 12:20 AM (#1153921) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: freda underhill if you come to sydeny John, I can organise for nurseR to meet you at the airport, if required. |
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04 Apr 04 - 01:46 AM (#1153939) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe ?? |
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04 Apr 04 - 05:15 AM (#1153998) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: John MacKenzie I'm not going to put that jacket with the arms facing the wrong way again Freda. Could this song be an old traditional variant of 'They're Coming to Take me Away' could it? John |
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04 Apr 04 - 06:08 AM (#1154026) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: dianavan john - I just tried to find the lyrics but haven't been able to find them. I wonder if there are any more lyrics. Does anyone know the lyrics to Annie O'Dayan? d |
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14 Sep 04 - 03:13 AM (#1271796) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: GUEST |
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14 Sep 04 - 04:44 AM (#1271849) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Big Al Whittle Mornington Crescent! |
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26 Sep 04 - 07:33 PM (#1281795) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Tannywheeler God is ssooooooooo good. If LAUGHTER ever dies it won't be because you guys couldn't give it mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Tw |
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27 Sep 04 - 07:58 AM (#1282156) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: jack halyard Look guys, the Coptic euponium back there has no bearing on the issue. What you have here is an ancient north Lancashire counting mnemonic dating back to the viking invasions. The DUM element is a softening device used to minimise the impact of the more penetrating latin UNO which carries much further in a resonant fog. Thus DUM - one DUM-DE- two DUM-DE-DUM- One plus two. I/e three Since in those days the next word beyond three was "Many" it was necessary to repeat the exercise thus getting a base three mathemetical model. This accounts for the great number of threes in the Anglo Celtic folk tradition; The three great heroes of Ireland. The idea of the trinity in its various forms and of course the three stooges, The epitomy of DUM-if I may say so. Jack Halyard. |
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05 Mar 05 - 07:34 PM (#1427669) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Refresh |
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05 Mar 05 - 10:45 PM (#1427754) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: GUEST,leeneia It's the third verse of "Here I stand on Buttermilk Hill" as recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary. The song was too short to make the top forty, so they added nonsense. |
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05 Mar 05 - 10:48 PM (#1427758) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: JennyO For anyone reading this thread for the first time, ya gotta read it all the way through - it's a "hoot" - played of course on the flolodler with an orgiethumper backing. Jenny |
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05 Mar 05 - 11:07 PM (#1427762) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: GUEST,Paranoid Android Joe Dolan (an Irish singer at whom females throw their thongs or things) sings "The house with the whitewashed gable". That's yer answer. |
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06 Mar 05 - 08:27 PM (#1428445) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Copy Cat? |
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08 Sep 05 - 06:03 AM (#1558873) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Sure it is not this |
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18 Jan 06 - 07:32 AM (#1650792) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Another candidate. |
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18 Jan 06 - 08:16 AM (#1650826) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: David C. Carter Clicked on the "Another candidate"thread,sorry. As I said there,it sounds like-Didler On The Roof. |
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18 Jan 06 - 10:20 AM (#1650882) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: number 6 Can you whistle it one more time please? sIx |
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19 Jan 06 - 04:55 AM (#1651432) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Trevor I've heard this song in a Mayfair drawing room, where the "folk process" had changed the words to 'La de da de da de da'. And does anybody know the rest of the shanty that goes 'Rumty diddly diddly tum, rum tumpty tum tum'? |
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19 Jan 06 - 10:27 AM (#1651579) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: autolycus A few candidates. Is it perhaps the secret tune in Elgar's Enigma Variations (it sounds like it.)? Then again the sheer primitiveness of it suggests it's Viennese. There is also ,to my ears, a clear Uzbekistan undercurrent.(That's not as smart as it looks; I has to look up the correct spelling of unnercourante. It's not ch or ck just k.) Or could it be the first evidence of aliens being musical. Would it be thread drift to ask why, when peop .........on reflection, it probably is. Auto. |
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04 Mar 07 - 09:05 PM (#1986396) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Lyr Req: What is this? |
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05 Mar 07 - 11:05 AM (#1986978) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: leeneia I think it's a song I learned in grade school. Tum tum tiddle tum is my song. This I sing when things go wrong. Tum tum tiddle tum you sing too. Then you never will feel blue. I think the tune was stolen from Rachmaninoff. |
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05 Mar 07 - 04:57 PM (#1987426) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: autolycus We've never asked Foulstroupe - if the tune went Dum de dum etc., which is what he/you said in the first post - and here's the stupid bit, How did the words go? (I think we should be told) Ivor |
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05 Mar 07 - 09:26 PM (#1987659) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe A tune, of the Dumdums, by the Dumdums, for the Dumdums? Didn't they have a Top Ten Hit? |
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05 Mar 07 - 11:37 PM (#1987727) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Donuel sung by Ted Haggard, If I had a hammer I'd hammer on the gays and queers If I had a second chance all over this land I'd preach about Satan I'd preach about gay ay sin I'd preach about hate between the faithful and the sinners all all over this land. If I had an ego I'd brag about it endlessly If I had a book to sell all over this land. I'd spew out blind faith I'd spew out God's design I'd spew out evolution is the devil's institution all all over this land If I had an hour show I'd ask for viewers last dollar If I were on TV all over this land God needs all your rent checks God needs all your savings I'd tell them that all they give would come back twice as needed. all all in the name of God. -but sign the check to Haggard- all all over this laaaaaand |
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07 Mar 07 - 01:21 PM (#1989665) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: autolycus i thin I've got it. It's our oldeast song from pre-literate times. Language hadn't yet been invented. Sorry for delay. Ivor |
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07 Mar 07 - 01:45 PM (#1989681) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Liz the Squeak Are you absolutely sure it's not Adge Cutler and the Wurzels with the 'Wurple diddle I doo song'? LTS |
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07 Mar 07 - 02:17 PM (#1989710) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Dickey Is it like Dum de dum Dum de dum de dum Dum de dum Dum de dum de dum Dum de duuuum Dum de dum de dum Dragnet |
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07 Mar 07 - 05:43 PM (#1989954) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: autolycus LTS Same thing. Ivor |
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08 Mar 07 - 08:32 AM (#1990394) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Liz the Squeak No, I disagree... Adge's recording of the Wurple diddle I doo song states specifically that it's to be done with jugs. LTS |
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08 Mar 07 - 09:45 AM (#1990450) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Scrump The Wurple Diddle I Do song is one of the finest lyrics ever written. |
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08 Mar 07 - 09:45 AM (#1990452) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Scrump 100!! |
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08 Mar 07 - 09:49 AM (#1990456) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: John Hardly dweet doo-ya-doo dweet dweet doo-ya-doo dweet doo-ya-doo dweet dweet doo-ya-doo doo-doo doo-doo |
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08 Mar 07 - 09:50 AM (#1990458) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Scrump Talking of identifying tunes from limited information, can anyone identify this: De diddle diddle diddle diddle de, dum , dum, De diddle diddle diddle diddle de, dum , dum, De diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle Diddle diddle diddle diddle de, dum, dum! ? I'm willing to bet* someone can - this is an experiment to see if I'm right. * but don't ask me to bet money, or nobody will try to guess it just so they can win the bet! :-) |
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08 Mar 07 - 04:36 PM (#1990828) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: leeneia The name is on the tip of my tongue. It's modal, I know that. |
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08 Mar 07 - 09:12 PM (#1990992) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe That's just the A part Scrump - I'm currently (if you'll pardon my expression) diddling the B part. Diddle de dum, dum, Diddle diddle de dum, Diddle de dum, dum, Diddle diddle de dum, Diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle Diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle diddle de, dum, dum! Not sure whether I did quite enough diddling (if you'll pardon my expression) in the last 2 line phrase though... |
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09 Mar 07 - 01:00 AM (#1991099) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Dickey Hey, thats the way we used to call the ducks. |
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09 Mar 07 - 01:30 AM (#1991110) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Sherbs Crane Driver, I was pleased to see someone put the Welsh variant up here. Doesn't Dafydd Iwan sing a version but with inserted verses which I am assured are not about independence at all. |
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09 Mar 07 - 06:25 AM (#1991241) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Scrump Not sure if anyone understands what I meant above. The 'tune' I posted is a well known tune, and I was hopin someone would be able to identify it from the "diddles" and "dums" (etc.) alone, with no hint as to the pitch of each note, etc. I believe it should be possible. If anyone gets it right, I'll buy them a pint in LTS's pub (what happened to that, btw? And what was it called, The Mudcat Arms or something like that?) |
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09 Mar 07 - 07:20 AM (#1991281) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe Scrump, I quoted teh second part and I say is a nautical air.... :-) |
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09 Mar 07 - 10:06 AM (#1991486) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: JennyO Robin, I think yours is the Sailors Hornpipe, but I can't place Scrump's one. At first I thought it was the introduction to "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour On The Bedpost Overnight?", but I'm sorta stuck. |
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09 Mar 07 - 10:11 AM (#1991496) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Scrump The Sailor's Hornpipe certainly fits yours, Foolestroupe. But that's not what mine was meant to be. |
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09 Mar 07 - 09:12 PM (#1992140) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe So I get half a beer? :-) |
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09 Mar 07 - 09:23 PM (#1992149) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: JennyO _) There ya go, Robin - careful it doesn't all fall out! |
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09 Mar 07 - 09:34 PM (#1992159) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: GUEST,Nick I must apologise here. In fact he heard the "tune" in the men's room at a mexican restaurant, I was in the next stall, it is just a bit of ass music, but he seems to have forgotten the percussive splooshing. Nick |
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09 Mar 07 - 09:49 PM (#1992173) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: The Fooles Troupe "Half a beer, half a beer, half a beer onwards"... Sorry.... |
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23 Jul 07 - 11:58 PM (#2109760) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Lin in Kansas After careful research, and using clues given by Foolstroupe when he said: "Actually, there was also this sort of solo where the guy who sings falsetto with that sound like he had grabbed his adam's apple and wobbled it," I'm certain that it's that greatest of all country-Western tear-jerkers, "He Stopped Loving Her Today." But can someone please explain to me what folk really is? I just don't get the distinction... Lin |
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24 Jul 07 - 06:39 AM (#2109893) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: TheSnail Lin in Kansas But can someone please explain to me what folk really is? I just don't get the distinction... If it goes - Diddle de dum, dum, Diddle diddle de dum it's folk. If it goes Doo doo, doobee doobee doo it isn't. |
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24 Jul 07 - 02:32 PM (#2110257) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: GUEST,IBO if im not mistaken,its UM DIDDLE DUM DOO DAY,second in eurovision 1967 |
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24 Jul 07 - 11:20 PM (#2110605) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: Lin in Kansas Thank you TheSnail. It's all much clearer now. Lin |
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21 Jan 08 - 08:22 PM (#2241716) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: MuddleC Sorry for not responding earlier, but I've been stuck in elephant traffic on the Mumbei bypass since the Monsoon season opened and have only just made it back to the club for tiffin. I remember the song well, it was the night of the Regimental Dance, and Reggie hadn't turned up... so Eccles(the tall person in one boot) and his assistant Miss Minnie Bannister(she's not a true red-head you know.. .AEOUGH!)played that wonderful haunting ditty you describe so well.. It was non other than that old tyme melodie 'The Ying-Tong song'. I feel I must point out that in your drunken haze, the object you took to be a modern-type cardboard Kazzoo was in fact my batman's personal boot scraper, one 'Trooper' Bluebottle. ying tong iddle-i-po |
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22 Jan 08 - 12:27 AM (#2241779) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: katlaughing MuddleC, thanks for the link! Hilarious and the one with Paul McCartney is pretty funny, too. |
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12 Feb 09 - 10:19 PM (#2565578) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: JennyO I've just come across another tune that needs identifying, so of course I came here to ask the opinion of my learned friends in Mudcat. You'll have to excuse me though, if I get the tiddle -i's and the pompety poms a bit confused or if I get by mirds wixed up. I hab a code in de dose. It goes subthig like dis: de dum de dum de diddle e dum de dum de dum de diddle e dumpety dun de dum de diddle e dum de dumpety dum de dum dum I really hope subwud cad help be wid dis as by code is gettig worse! |
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18 Feb 09 - 10:09 AM (#2569982) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: MMario I'm not sure of the original, but whatever it wasit is the basis for the 'Sorcerer's apprentice" tune. (As made famouse by THE MOUSE in Fantasia) |
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18 Feb 09 - 11:09 AM (#2570049) Subject: RE: BS: Can you identify this tune? From: katlaughing You mean Night on Bald Mountain? |