Tune Req: Tunes to Charleston to

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tunes to Charleston to
From: GUEST,LDT
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 10:17 AM

@Alan, why not do a youtube vid? ;)

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tunes to Charleston to
From: GUEST,LDT
Date: 27 Oct 10 - 10:16 AM

"St Anne's Reel"
I'll look that one up....

There's a thought trad tunes used for ballroom dances. Maybe for another thread?

I was discussing this with my mum the other day. I think you could rumba to 'courting to slow.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tunes to Charleston to
From: Alan Day
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 11:27 AM

Would you like me to post to you "Has any body seen my girl" ?
Al

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tunes to Charleston to
From: Jack Campin
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 07:43 AM

I don't have time to try transcribing it right now, but this is the most musically interesting free audio version I can find (complete with bizarre near-beatboxing vocalizations):

http://www.nfo.net/TUNES/Charleston-Whiteman.ogg

It's in OGG format, so quite a few player programs will be able to play it transposed down to G or up to C or D to suit what you've got.

(Another Shetland tune you could bend into that rhythm without losing it is St Anne's Reel).

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tunes to Charleston to
From: GUEST,LDT
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 07:17 AM

"Can't you just transpose the original Charleston tune into a suitable key? (It's in B flat in versions I've heard). "
I'd need the ABC first...so I can use the transposer.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Tunes to Charleston to
From: Jack Campin
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 07:16 AM

"Willafjord" or "Da Scallowa Lasses" maybe? (Syncopated Shetland reels).

Can't you just transpose the original Charleston tune into a suitable key? (It's in B flat in versions I've heard).

Subject: Tune Req: Tunes to Charleston to
From: GUEST,LDT
Date: 26 Oct 10 - 05:47 AM

I'm looking for a tune playable on D/G melodeon, C melodeon or (30button) C/G anglo concertina that its possible to dance the charleston to?
Particularly interested in tunes in the 'ABC' format so I can get midi and visual.

P.s. I have posted this question elsewhere but it suddenly occurred to me mudcat might be a good place to ask.