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Thread #26966 Message #896588
Posted By: Willie-O
23-Feb-03 - 10:09 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Da Slockit Licht / Da Slockit Light
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Da Slockit Licht
Another Slockit Light...isn't there a famous mystery, referred to with the same title?
The story I heard involved a lighthouse offshore from the Orkneys, at the end of the 19th century, which was manned by three keepers. One night the light went out, and when the authorities went to see why, there was no trace of any of the three keepers. None was ever found.
Tom Anderson must have been aware of this story. I'm wondering if he just figured that everyone would get the connection, although he had a different inspiration for writing the tune of the same name...
Or is there a tune or song relating to the lighthouse version? I believe someone wrote a contemporary classical piano piece using that theme...I heard it on the radio once but I'm not sure if Anderson's tune was appropriated or incorporated for this purpose.
W-O