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10 Nov 98 - 12:34 PM (#44819) Subject: Did I Imagine This Thread? Mockingbird Hill From: Barbara Shaw I was all set to reply to someone who asked about the song "Mockingbird Hill" with some interesting background, and the thread disappeared. Did I imagine this thread during the days that the Mudcat was down? Did I read this somewhere else? Help! |
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10 Nov 98 - 05:50 PM (#44855) Subject: RE: Did I Imagine This Thread? Mockingbird Hill From: Barbara I think it was here, Barbara, but I think we must have lost threads along with chucks of private messages and cookie sets. Ask again. Blessings, another Barbara |
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11 Nov 98 - 12:01 PM (#44983) Subject: RE: Did I Imagine This Thread? Mockingbird Hill From: Barbara Shaw Thanks, Barbara, for corroborating my imagination! (To other mudcatters, no, I'm not talking to myself, at least not at the moment . . .) Someone asked who wrote Mockingbird Hill, and there was some discussion as well as attributing the song to someone in Pennsylvania, I think. (Boy, if I dreamed this, what a weird dream). Anyway, in the book "The Waltz Book II" by Bill Matthiesen, there is a traditional Scandinavian tune called "Livet I Finnskogarna" which is the same melody, and which he says was the basis for Patti Page's hit in the 1950's. |
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11 Nov 98 - 12:09 PM (#44985) Subject: Lyr Add: MOCKIN' BIRD HILL (Vaughn Horton) From: Gene Don't know about that.... Do know about this... In Dorothy Horstman's book Sing Your Heart Out Country Boy The writer [Vaughn Horton] is quoted as saying he wrote the song while riding a train during several visits to see his father in the hospital and when it was finished he sang it to his father and the nurses It became one of the biggest hits ever being recorded over 400 times and selling over 20 million copies MOCKIN' BIRD HILL Recorded by: Patti Page Writer: Vaughn Horton When the sun in the mornin' peeps over the hill And kisses the roses 'round my window sill Then my heart fills with gladness when I hear the trill Of the birds in the treetops on Mockin' Bird Hill. CHORUS: Tra-la-la twit-tle dee-dee - it gives me a thrill To wake up in the morning to the mockin' bird's trill Tra-la-la twit-tle dee-dee - there's peace and goodwill You're welcome as the flowers on Mockin' Bird Hill. Got a three-cornered plow and an acre to till And a mule that I bought for a ten-dollar bill There's a tumble-down shack and a rusty ol' mill But it's my home sweet home up on Mockin' Bird Hill. CHORUS When it's late in the evening I climb up the hill And survey all my kingdom while ev'rything's still Only me and the sky and an ol' whippoorwill Singin' songs in the twilight on Mockin' Bird Hill. CHORUS |
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11 Nov 98 - 03:48 PM (#45000) Subject: RE: Did I Imagine This Thread? Mockingbird Hill From: Bob Schwarer And it didn't get recorded 'til ~25 years after he wrote it. But when it did it really took off. Bob S. |
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11 Nov 98 - 04:20 PM (#45002) Subject: RE: Did I Imagine This Thread? Mockingbird Hill From: Barbara Shaw The Waltz Book II says that its reference is "The Scandinavian Songbook" published by Edwin Morris & Co, 1936. Maybe Vaughn Horton put lyrics to an old Finnish folk tune. Maybe the Finns got it from him. When did he write it? Any Scandinavians out there who know this song? |
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11 Nov 98 - 06:40 PM (#45024) Subject: RE: Did I Imagine This Thread? Mockingbird Hill From: Gene To Bob S... According to Vaughn Horton, he recorded the song in Sept. 1950 and Christmas week it charted on Billboard
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12 Nov 98 - 01:49 PM (#45130) Subject: RE: Did I Imagine This Thread? Mockingbird Hill From: Bob Schwarer The 1950 recording I have is by Elton Britt & Rosie Allen. Also, my info says the song was written in 1929. Tried to send this before, but I guess it ended up in space (or will show up eventually). My info source has relocated to Grand Cayman, but I'll try to verify this. Bob S. |
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13 Nov 98 - 08:24 AM (#45221) Subject: RE: Did I Imagine This Thread? Mockingbird Hill From: Bob Schwarer I found a little more info and some surprises concerning Vaughn Horton at: http://www.songs.org/~nsf/horton.html Hey Joe, how about making this clickable? okey-dokey Bob S. |
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13 Mar 11 - 11:23 AM (#3112917) Subject: RE: Did I Imagine This Thread? Mockingbird Hill From: GUEST,ken I grew up about five miles from broad top pa and we were always told mr horton wrote the song. I think he had a brother that ran a little radio station |
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13 Mar 11 - 02:00 PM (#3112988) Subject: RE: Did I Imagine This Thread? Mockingbird Hill From: GUEST,mg I have recently found out that Livet in Finneskogin was actually written in 1930s or so by a Swedish man..Jalpolen? or something like that. It concerned the woods where the Finns lived in Sweden. I always thought it was very old but apparently not. mg |
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13 Mar 11 - 04:57 PM (#3113075) Subject: RE: Did I Imagine This Thread? Mockingbird Hill From: JohnInKansas Most recent: Lyr Req 28AUG09 Filter term "Mocking" and time All gets about 13 threads – including this one. Recollection is that the one linked had some discussion about origins, but I haven't probed into it. John |
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31 Jul 17 - 06:59 PM (#3869313) Subject: RE: Did I Imagine This Thread? Mockingbird Hill From: GUEST,Roy Bodden I got to know Vaughn Horton in the early 1980's. We talked a lot about his music. Now this is what he told me. He said that Jimmie Rodgers was a frequent visitor when he would stop overnight at his father!s home in Pennsylvania. On one of those stopovers he gave him "Mocking Bird Hill"' which he, Jimmie Rodgers, said he would record. Jimmie was supposed to have record it on what turned out to be his last recording sessions in May, 1933. But Jimmie died before recording it. Folks made fun of his "tra la la twiddle de de" song for years. Then his group The Pinetoppers recorded, then of course, Les Paul & Mary Ford, followed by Patti Page. And the rest is history. Now I can only tell you what Vaughn told me. |
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31 Jul 17 - 08:02 PM (#3869318) Subject: RE: Did I Imagine This Thread? Mockingbird Hill From: meself The melody of Mocking Bird Hill is very similar to the well-known fiddle tune - well-known among Canadian fiddlers, anyway - : Life in the Finland Woods, clearly the one being obliquely referred to in some of the posts above. Note, though, that the tune is NOT identical; having said that, they are so close that it is very likely one was the basis of the other. |
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31 Jul 17 - 08:12 PM (#3869319) Subject: RE: Did I Imagine This Thread? Mockingbird Hill From: meself Here's Patty Kusturok playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2Udd5pBDgM. |
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31 Jul 17 - 08:46 PM (#3869330) Subject: RE: Did I Imagine This Thread? Mockingbird Hill From: Jack Campin It's not a fiddle tune, it's a Swedish accordion waltz, "Life in the Finnish Woods" or "Livet i Finnskogarna" by Calle Jularbo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AESyqiP8sTI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calle_Jularbo http://www.folkwiki.se/Musik/1056 |
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01 Aug 17 - 02:45 AM (#3869352) Subject: RE: Did I Imagine This Thread? Mockingbird Hill From: GUEST Nice hearing from you Roy. I miss your program from WMNF. Those were the days. |
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10 Jul 21 - 08:26 PM (#4112909) Subject: RE: Did I Imagine This Thread? Mockingbird Hill From: Felipa the tune is also known as Norska Bondvals played by Leif "Pepparn" Pettersson What other lyrics (if any) are set to this waltz tune? |