Lyrics & Knowledge Personal Pages Record Shop Auction Links Radio & Media Kids Membership Help
The Mudcat Cafesj



User Name Thread Name Subject Posted
GUEST,Jim McLean Silver Tassie original melody (33) RE: Silver Tassie original melody 25 Nov 25


Mick, Morrison Kyle’s two volumes from 1856 showed top lines of music only, no arrangements or mention of TS Gleadhill. Vol ll has the Oswald/MSS tune. As you say the 1876 book has the new tune by Gleadhill and I’m waiting for an answer from Manchester Library which has an 1873 volume.i suspect it will also have Gleadhill’s version which would be the first printed copy unless TS Gleadhill printed some of his work before publishing his arrangements with Kyle, who died in 1879 according to info on the web. This would explain the 1880 edition being published by Joseph Ferrier. I noticed Archie Fisher on his Orfeo LP, 1970, claimed to have written this tune for Silver Tassie. Archie was a good friend and I think it might just have been a ‘clerical’ error.


Post to this Thread -

Back to the Main Forum Page

By clicking on the User Name, you will requery the forum for that user. You will see everything that he or she has posted with that Mudcat name.

By clicking on the Thread Name, you will be sent to the Forum on that thread as if you selected it from the main Mudcat Forum page.

By clicking on the Subject, you will also go to the thread as if you selected it from the original Forum page, but also go directly to that particular message.

By clicking on the Date (Posted), you will dig out every message posted that day.

Try it all, you will see.