Most haunting melodies?

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Liam's Brother
Date: 20 Oct 99 - 06:44 PM

Haunting?

Why that would be... The Monster Mash!

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Jeri
Date: 20 Oct 99 - 07:02 PM

Jon, share 'em wherever and whenever you want. I'm thrilled you like them enough to want to.

Lots of Carolan's tunes fit the bill. Go listen to a few.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Ana
Date: 20 Oct 99 - 07:05 PM

Lagan Love (aah) She's like the Swallow... and lots of the other's already named!

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: John of the Hill
Date: 20 Oct 99 - 07:19 PM

Osibisa's original version of Woyaya, I haven't heard it in a long time, just recalling it moves me.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Lowden Unruly
Date: 20 Oct 99 - 09:04 PM

Ramble to Cashel and O'Carolans' Farewell

Vissi D'arte and O Mio Babbino Caro - Puccini

Chopins' Barrcarolle

Ravels' Le Tombeau de Couperin 3rd movement

West Coast of Clare -Planxty

McCrimmons' Lament especially Dick Gaughns' with Aly Bain on fiddle.( thanks for reminding me Jeri, I'm hearing it right now)

Farewell, Farewell by Fairport sung by Sandy Denny

So Clear by Pentangle

Midnight on the Water especially when sung by Kate Wolf

and on and on , but these are some that really get to me.

LU

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: kendall
Date: 20 Oct 99 - 10:34 PM

Scottish Fantasy as played by Jasha Heifitz

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Oct 99 - 11:59 PM

Forgot about several Native American tapes and cd's that I love for their haunting melodies, including one you can sample here Along the River, part of Keith Bear's echoes of the Upper Missouri

Also early Carlos Nakai and just about anything by Coyote Oldman. Funny thing, one time I had on one of my NA flute tapes; received a phone call from some solicitor; she said she loved the Irish music I had on; blew her away when I told her what it was.

Cute, Dan, verrrry cute!And, vat vill you be do-ink this Hal-oh-veen?

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: lamarca
Date: 20 Oct 99 - 11:59 PM

I agree with Rick - Mist Covered Mountains is one that stays with me. Anyone else ever hear the version Mark Knopfler did in his soundtrack for Local Hero?
She Moves Through the Fair (though Mrs. Akroyd Band almost ruined it for me...)
Aqaba - Bill Caddick song, sung by June Tabor
the Finale of Bernstein's West Side Story, as they're carrying Tony's body offstage. I worked a follow spot for a 2 week run of the show for community theater one summer, grew to loathe "I Feel Pretty", and still shiver when I remember that final scene and Bernstein's inspired score. "O Fortuna", the opening piece in Orff's Carmina Burana

these are just a few that live in my mind for keeps...

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Warren
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 12:25 AM

Wow ... great thread

I'm so lonesome I could cry (Hank) I can't help it if I'm still in love with you (Hank) "She's got you," & "I fall to pieces" (Patsy) I still miss someone (Johnny Cash) Bury me beneat the willow (traditional ?) Wondrous love (what wondrous love is this) and If I were a featherbed (John McCutcheon - I think he wrote it, I know he played it)

- Warren [e-mail]

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Susan-Marie
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 12:32 PM

Neil Gow's Lament on the Death of His Second Wife is haunting in the way Askoken Farewell and Give Me Your Hand are...(it's on Dougie MacLean's Tribute CD).

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 12:55 PM

Good Christ, there's enough material here for us to have a "Cry-A-Thon" that would fill Lake Superior.......

Spaw

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Mían
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 01:15 PM

Angel (Sara McLaughlin)
Blue
Tears in Heaven
Erik Satie piano pieces

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Fortunato
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 01:25 PM

As Time Goes By I'm Beginning to See the Light Chinatown Great Silkie of Sule Skerie Wildwood Flower Summer Wages (Ian Tyson) See That My Grave is Kept Clean and most of all: Lorena

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 01:53 PM

For the record: The tune Pete Seeger used for "I Come and Stand at Every Door" was originally written by Jim Waters for the ballad of the Great Silkie. He wrote it while he was attending college at MIT. Many years ago, he gave Folk-Legacy the copyright to help us release more recordings of field recordings. Only a few of those who have recorded the tune have honored the copyright, but Pete Seeger always has!

Sandy

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Fortunato
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 01:58 PM

thank you Sandy

the melody in my head came from a J.Baez album long ago, it was listed as traditional. Are they one and the same, I wonder.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: kendall
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 02:33 PM

Slow Dance from Machu Michu on Folk Legacy, Gordon Bok

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: M. Ted (inactive)
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 02:39 PM

Spaw is right, but no matter how many tears are shed, it is never enough--

Jon, thank you for the MIDI of Jeri's tune--

Jeri--is the counterpoint melody actually a harmony to the melody, that you have offset?

Kat, the realplayer crashed every time I tried to play the Keith Bear samples--

I particularly appreciate the classical melodies that people have mentioned, the Beethoven Violin Concerto was serendipitous--my 17 year old daughter and I were listening to it on the radio, and both were enamoured-- she usually is a NIN fan--

"Stranger on the Shore" was a childhood favorite of mine--Aker Bilk's clarinet has that most remarkable ability to evoke a time that is no more--

I remember years ago, in the bitter winters of my Michigan youth, a pair of Salvation Army musicians (a cornet and and alto horn) who played "Good King Wenceslaus" at the entrance of a discount deparment store in a stark and tawdry strip mall--

Funny how these things stay with you--

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: sophocleese
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 02:51 PM

Some scottish tunes, The Boatman, My Luv's in Germanie, The Haunting, Annachie Gordon.

A few years ago I heard trumpet player play a beautiful new composition called Prayer to St. Gregory, I can't remember the composer but I remember how spellbound I was hearing it ringing through a church on a snowy December night.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: catspaw49
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 03:02 PM

Ted -- What ZAP!!!

My mind immediately focused (unusual) back to a small Salvation Army band on a corner in downtown Columbus during one of those slushy,gray, Christmastime days...well, there's no explaining it, but what a rush. This place is often funny that way.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 03:39 PM

M_Ted, I wrote the second part and I am afraid that your question is beyond my musical knowledge.

I had started to play around with Jeri's tunes a few weeks ago (and then my stupid brain got stuck) and all I can tell you is I just added what entered into my head.

When Jeri suggested a midi as well as the ABC that she had supplied, it seemed to me that the quickest solution to give an idea of what the melody sounded like was simply to put my existing MIDI onto my web space and provide a link to it here.

Jon

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Blackcat2
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 03:59 PM

wow great tunes!

mine would include Jesse Winchester's Coast of Marsailles, Skye Boat song, Foggy Dew, anything slow played on a japanese Bamboo flute, and Ashokan Farewell - I loved that tune so much I wrote a lament for Diana of Wales a couple years back using the tune. Pax

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Jeri
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 05:49 PM

M. Ted, Jon said it. I sent him simple melody lines, everything else in that MIDI is his own. Didn't he do a hell of a job of arranging? Jon, don't talk about your brain that way - it has friends here!

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: JedMarum
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 06:32 PM

my top three votes for haunting melodies:

ashoken farewell
shenandoah
ghost riders in the sky

Oh - and who could leave out Lorena?

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Jon Freeman
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 06:39 PM

Jeri, the one comment I will make here is that I am finding Mudcat a great place - so many friendly people who share a common interest and an amazing depth of knowledge to go with it.

I subscribe to music newsgroups as well (as do others here) and again there are some incredibly knowledgeable people there but I think that Mudcat is unique in the way it combines the musical interest with a friendly atmosphere.

Jon

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: kendall
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 07:20 PM

Lorena has always been one of my favorites too.. thats why I recorded it for Folk Legacy long time back..

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Cap't Bob
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 07:53 PM

Sally in the Garden, ~~ love those modal tunes.

Cap't Bob

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 08:42 PM

I love Art Thieme's version of the Great Silkie, and, naturally, he credits Jim Waters.

How could I forget Skye Boat song? I've had it in my brain since I can remember.

M. Ted, there is NOTHING liek a good recording of Jascha Heifitz playing the Beethoven. when my kids were little, we wore out my first LP of him playing it. They each ahd to have a copy when they moved out. Glad your daughter liked it.

Just listened to Art Thieme doing Shake Sugaree, again, today. It is such an eloquent, brief and very haunitng little song.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: MaryLee
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 09:28 PM

I remember "March To the Rear"! Not the greatest movie in the world, according to some, but I liked it! Also the mewsic was, to me, really "good". But what did a youngster of the late '60's know. Too young to be a beatnik, too old to be hippie! So, I kinda fit in between. "If it sounds Traditional, play it!" (or as the case may be--"Listen to It!")

Anyway, Wasn't Randy Sparks part of one of the 'neo'folk groups. The New Christy Minstrals or ??

But to the point of this thread, "Today" is haunting. I cannot remember things quickly enough to come up with my own ideas!

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Don from Georgia
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 10:14 PM

There are so many but two that stick with me are "Old Blue" and "Bolero"

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 12:34 AM

M. Ted, have you tried Keith Bear's page, again? I didn't have any trouble with Real Player when I went back to listen, again. It's well worth the listen.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 01:04 AM

Country Lassie by Robert Burns...Janice Cole, the lady who sang "Rubber Ducky" for Barry Finn at the Getaway does this, and it melts me everytime I hear it...

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 01:30 AM

Baring-Gould's version of "The Unquiet Grave" found in Songs of the West.
The Shape-Note hymn "Samanthra."
Gustav (sp?) Holst's setting (I think) for "The Corpus Christi Carol."
"Who Killed Cock Robin" as we learned it from Alan Ribback many years ago. I don't know his source, so I'll have to sing it for Bruce O someday, and let him work his awesome magic.

Sandy

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: JennyCurtiss
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 02:09 AM

For me, 'The Loch Tay Boat Song' and 'Golden, Golden' (yeah, Silly Wizard, but still), 'She Moved Through the Fair', 'The Lakes of Pontchartrain', 'The Skye Boat Song'. Of course 'Amazing Grace'.

I get choked up just hearing the melodies, they make my throat ache (but in a good way). Apparently the notion of boats and lakes makes me sentimental.

Flyin' Jenny

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Lady McMoo
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 05:31 AM

Valencia Harbour

mcmoo

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: clj
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 12:35 PM

I've been thinking about this thread since lunch yesterday. Where would one hear Valencia Harbour or Ashoken Farewell or Lorena, for example?? Living where I do makes hearing these difficult at times. My most haunting melodies are Poor Wayfaring Stranger, Shenandoah, Silver Dagger, Peggy Gordon, Jacqui McShee's voice, Scarborough Fair, Eleanor Rigby, Dives and Lazarus, Sheherazade (sp?), the song at the beginning of "A Room With a View", and the music you hear when reading "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" Thanks for making me remember.clj

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: kendall
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 01:11 PM

As I said, I recorded Lorena for folk legacy some years ago, and, unlike some others, I sang all the verses. It can be found on LIGHTS ALONG THE SHORE fsi 57 Thats one of the great things about folk legacy.. they let you do all of it!!

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From:
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 02:00 PM

Dark Island Dream Angus Carrickfergus I Once Loved a Lass Bonnie Doon and, er----the Ghost of the Barber Sweeney Todd!

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 23 Oct 99 - 02:10 AM

Fortunato: Yes, Baez recorded Jim Waters' tune, and her Ballad Book (is that the title?) even credits him, although Vanguard never honored the copyright. Many people have assumed the tune to be traditional, which I think is a great compliment to Jim Waters.

By the way, credit Art Thieme's tune for "Shake Sugaree" to Elizabeth Cotten, although Art did some creative work on the lyrics. That sure is a fun song to sing!

Sandy

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: kendall
Date: 23 Oct 99 - 11:34 AM

Utah Phillip's Ashes on the sea onf my current favorites.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Pete Peterson
Date: 23 Oct 99 - 12:50 PM

WHICH Lorena? The Carter Family one about the POSSUM and the wild banana or the pre-Civil-War love song? I like them both!
Another vote for Hard Times Come Again No More
Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
Sir John A. Macdonald's Waltz (a Scotty Fitzgerald tune I believe)
White Rose Waltz (I watched two friends getting married to that four years ago this weekend with J.P. Fraley playing it, just as the bride had always hoped)

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: kc
Date: 23 Oct 99 - 01:07 PM

Fare Thee Well (10,000 Miles) by Mary Chapin Carpenter... A Stor Mo Chroi from the Chieftain's cd with Bonnie Raitt on vocals... Gypsy Rover by the Clancys... Fragile by Nanci Griffith...

:-)

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: McBeagle
Date: 23 Oct 99 - 09:09 PM

CORRAL NOCTURNE - Copeland SATURDAY NIGHT WALTZ - Copeland LONG, LONG TRAIL TAPS GARRYOWEN - "after the battle" mood TENNESSEE WALTZ - Page SHENANDOAH

KNOCKIN' ON HEAVENS DOOR - Dylan THE BOXER - Simon & Garfunkel EL CONDOR PASA (I'D RATHER BE..) - Simon & Garfunkel

SOLDIER'S LAMENT??-Harmonica(from TheGood,TheBad,&TheUgly) * Can anybody help with this one please? (Title,Artist) *

more...

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: McBeagle
Date: 23 Oct 99 - 09:37 PM

that came out lookin kinda funny!

LONG, LONG TRAIL

TAPS

GARRYOWEN

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: MaryLee
Date: 23 Oct 99 - 10:27 PM

"La Belle Se Promene", a lovely, dark French waltz gleaned from an old accordion tutor. Recorded by "Nonesuch" of OK. Jackie playes the most haunting, quiet thunder, chords I have ever heard. Cried the first time I heard them play it, get mushy every time I hear it still.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Martin D
Date: 23 Oct 99 - 11:19 PM

Hallelujah--Leonard Cohen, recorded by Jeff Buckley; Ne Me Quitte Pas--Jacques Brel, recorded by Nina Simone; Speak Low by Kurt Weill;

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: masha A.
Date: 24 Oct 99 - 01:09 AM

the beginning sections of Turceasa (sp? I don't have the CD here) by the Rom band Taraf de Haidouks

Anything recorded by Django Reinhart (sorry about the spelling mangling again) and Stephan Grappelli!

Another vote for So Lonesome I could Cry

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Oct 99 - 03:01 AM

McBeagle...see the thread I started about The Story of a Soldier from the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Hope it answers your question.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: BR
Date: 24 Oct 99 - 10:39 AM

Skip James' Cypress Grove Blues.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: McBeagle
Date: 24 Oct 99 - 05:05 PM

Kat/KatLaughing....I clicked on your name, scrolled up and down the list a few times but I could not find 'THE STORT OF A SOLDIER'(from the Good, Bad, Ugly). Do you have a reference or line number? Thank you...

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: McBeagle
Date: 24 Oct 99 - 06:05 PM

Kat - I finally figured it out and found the album and the request for help that you made. Thank you very much!