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Thread #166643 Message #4008830
Posted By: Steve Gardham
14-Sep-19 - 03:47 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Derry Down
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Derry Down
All excellent examples. Keep 'em coming please.
Jon, did MacColl supply the tune for Dreadnaught to Hugill as that is my main source for its use with Dreadnaught, and also The Dom Pedro(The Fancy Frigate). Both are New York songs although The Fancy Frigate has earlier precedents. If the DD tune was applied to songs during the revival (i.e., post WWII) they will still be relevant to my article. Can anyone notice the Dreadnaught to this tune from prewar oral tradition?
I have all the ones mentioned in FS of the Catskills and some others mentioned in Simpson.
Any examples given that I haven't got a well-known source for I will attribute to this thread on Mudcat, with any author details of course. They will be part of a chronological appendix at the end of the article.