Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: gillymor Date: 15 Oct 24 - 08:28 AM Dirk Powell's Waterbound, performed by Michael McGoldrick. The melody bears some resemblance to the equally haunting Little Sadie. |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: gillymor Date: 15 Oct 24 - 06:25 AM Wade in the Water, the Staple Singers. |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST Date: 15 Oct 24 - 04:29 AM Acker Bilk's Stranger on the Shore and Mark Knopfler's Going Home from the movie Local Hero would be my two standouts in hauntingness. Surprising for a dyed in the wool folkie like me, so I won't sign this post to avoid embarrassment. That said, there are many, many tunes in the folk lexicon which would qualify, and I especially find some of Peter Bellamy's melodies featured in The Transports as haunting. |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: Georgiansilver Date: 11 Oct 24 - 12:56 PM Davy Spillane...The master of the Uillean pipes. |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: gillymor Date: 11 Oct 24 - 08:25 AM Tjonneblomen |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST,Lang Johnnie Mor Date: 11 Oct 24 - 03:21 AM "Port na bPucai" : https://youtu.be/5QskJoxYApo?si=GdohUQHxbeEzEa0u |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: Tattie Bogle Date: 08 Oct 24 - 07:57 PM Another one from Shetland: Leaving Lerwick Harbour by Willie Hunter |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: gillymor Date: 08 Oct 24 - 08:18 AM Far Away (aka The Canadian) by Peter Jung |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: Georgiansilver Date: 08 Oct 24 - 06:00 AM https://youtu.be/tuzKOX1YQno?si=_bTdvEBgWCNMV3bP Another of my haunting favourites....... |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: Tattie Bogle Date: 08 Oct 24 - 05:19 AM A couple of lullabies, written for different sorts of bagpipes (yes!) The Sleeping Tune by Gordon Duncan Anada pa Gael by Jose Manuel Tejedor |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: Bill D Date: 05 Oct 24 - 02:56 PM Jock o' Hazeldean,even without the words. |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: Lighter Date: 05 Oct 24 - 01:19 PM Is it the melody or the instrument or the setting or all three? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTqUy_CrTG4 |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST,Greum Date: 05 Oct 24 - 09:52 AM I find the tune of Fare Thee Well, My Dearest Dear rather haunting... |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: David C. Carter Date: 03 Oct 24 - 11:07 AM Whispering Pines:The Band. |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: David C. Carter Date: 03 Oct 24 - 11:03 AM La Route est Dure et La Vie est Mort. Georgia Brown. Theme tune to:Roads to Freedom;BBC TV. |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: Charmion Date: 03 Oct 24 - 10:39 AM Steve Shaw, I have sung the Mozart "Ave Verum Corpus" more often than I care to remember, always on Good Friday and at way too many funerals. I hope you have a competent church choir on tap for your own obsequies. I first heard "Lagan Love" on an elderly Decca recording by Kenneth MacKellar. I was maybe eight years old. It riveted my attention then and fascinates me still. When I learned to sing it myself, I realized what a challenge it is; its long phrases demand the illusion of effortless ease achievable only with the best technique. Kenneth MacKellar, that prince of tenors, set that bar high (at least for me). The tune is the good part; the English words are rather silly. I wish I could sing it in Irish. |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST,Tom Patterson Date: 03 Oct 24 - 10:07 AM A song I have only come across today - Lady Katharina by Robin Laing - A really haunting melody. |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: keberoxu Date: 03 Oct 24 - 09:45 AM ... and here is Jean Ritchie singing the melody a cappella. "Barbary Allen" |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST,keberoxu Date: 03 Oct 24 - 09:27 AM Jean Ritchie sang a version of "Barb'ry Ellen" that had a melody unlike any I have ever heard; she recorded this version for the Argo label, on an album of songs with dulcimer and guitar. She played the dulcimer for "Barb'ry Ellen." It haunts me still. |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: Georgiansilver Date: 03 Oct 24 - 08:17 AM Highland Cathedral |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST Date: 03 Oct 24 - 08:09 AM "A Cossack Rode Beyond the Danube" (Americans may know it as "Minka") "Ghost of John" (traditional) "Shady Grove" (traditional) Tons of medieval songs are super haunting, especially when you learn their background! |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: The Og Date: 02 Oct 24 - 12:06 PM Ditto on Casey's Last Ride...! |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST,Steve Shaw Date: 02 Oct 24 - 12:06 PM Mozart's Ave Verum Corpus. I had it played at both my parents' funerals and I'm having it at mine (you'll have a while to wait...) |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST,Jim Knowledge Date: 01 Oct 24 - 11:28 AM I `ad that spiritualist, Sean Ceramus in my cab the other day. `e looked as white as a sheet and `ad the trembles. I thought `es was suffering an `angover. I said, " Morning Brandy, What`s up with you then. `air of the dog and all that?" `e said , "No Jim. I was at a seance and we were trying to make contact with John Lennon and the room was filled with this most beguiling, `aunting melody. It gave you goose pimples, I tell you. `ave you ever `eard a song which give you the jitters?" I said, " Yeah. When I was a kid. Scared the living daylights out of me". `e said, "What one was that then?" I said, "With `er `ead Tucked Underneath `er Arm"!! Whaddam I Like?? |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST,Peter Laban Date: 01 Oct 24 - 10:55 AM That last one was mine. Here's another version, from 2966. Farantouri, barely twenty at the time, giving it her all: Asma Asmaton 1966 |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: Dave the Gnome Date: 01 Oct 24 - 10:52 AM Funnily enough I did not notice that this thread had popped up until I just posted about Casey's Last Ride on Kris Kistofferson's obit thread. I nominate that as one of the most haunting songs I know! |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST Date: 01 Oct 24 - 10:28 AM Asma Asmaton - Maria Farandouri |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: The Og Date: 01 Oct 24 - 10:18 AM Ebb Tide... |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: Tattie Bogle Date: 11 Feb 17 - 08:16 PM Currently leaving out those from "classical music" (in its broadest sense, and of which there are many) my list would include: Several by Ivan Drever: Leaving Stoer, The Rose of St Magnus, El Caballo Blanco. A bigger several by Phil Cunningham: Sarah's Song, The Pearl, Bright Star in Cepheus, The Gentle Light that Wakens Me, Loch Katrine's Lady and Irish Beauty. Some of Shetlander's Tom Anderson's: Da Slockit Light, Shingly Beach. Scott Skinner's: Hector the Hero, The Music o' Spey and I could go on......into my Irish favourites! |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: gillymor Date: 11 Feb 17 - 06:29 AM Stella Splendens |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: gillymor Date: 11 Feb 17 - 06:16 AM Tjonneblomen |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST Date: 10 Feb 17 - 08:46 PM Try listening to Reynardine or Lucy Wan by Martin Carthy & David Swarbrick. Very haunting and beautiful in a melodramatic way. |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: robomatic Date: 10 Feb 17 - 03:12 PM Give a listen to Randy Newman's "Dixie Flyer". It has a haunting melodic line between verses. Was used for years on the Cartalk program (United States, National Public Radio) by the Magliozzi Brothers. Heard it and was hypnotized by it long before I traced it down. |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: Elmore Date: 10 Feb 17 - 03:04 PM Dawn on the Moscow River by Mussorgsky. |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: David Carter (UK) Date: 10 Feb 17 - 02:08 PM Farewell to Fiunary. My wife is learning an arrangement by Stephen Wood at present, superb tune and certainly deserves to be described as "haunting". |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: Thompson Date: 10 Feb 17 - 12:38 PM Liam Ó Raghallaigh Cailín Deas Crúite na mBó Samhradh, Samhradh (to start with) |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST Date: 10 Feb 17 - 11:22 AM Chopin's etude Op. 10, 3 |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST,Tom Mycock Date: 10 Feb 17 - 10:43 AM Springhill Mine Disaster Spring of '65 Boys of Bedlam |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST,silver Date: 10 Feb 17 - 10:23 AM "Koppången" by Per Erik Moraeus/Py Bäckman, look for Sissel Kyrkjebö's version on Youtube Dark Eyed Molly (Archie Fisher/Stan Rogers) The Loch Tay Boat Song Jane's Whistle (Anne Dodson) Dark Old Waters (Gordon Bok) The tune most often mentioned throughout this thread is "Ashokan Farewell". I agree, it's a gem. So is the "Eriskay Love Lilt" (Bheir Me O). |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST,David Carter (UK) Date: 10 Feb 17 - 05:59 AM Ewan MacColl's "You and I" (from Hot Blast) |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST,Sol Date: 10 Feb 17 - 05:57 AM Wonderful Land -The Shadows The good the bad and the ugly - Hugo M..... American trilogy - Elvis Aria -Acker Bill The Shian Road -Isla St Clair The Flowers o'The Forest (on the bagpipes) Hector the Hero |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: Iains Date: 10 Feb 17 - 04:09 AM Starry night. A traveller's song with a provenance earlier than Davy Spillane and Sean Tyrrell. This song has several threads on mudcat. |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: Mr Red Date: 10 Feb 17 - 04:06 AM Salut d'Amour Made the career of one man. |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: Joe Offer Date: 10 Feb 17 - 03:38 AM Listening in the dark to Peggy Lee singing "Fever." |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST,Curtis Date: 03 Jan 11 - 10:59 PM Many Stan Rogers songs had that haunting effect on me to the point where I had listened to some of them over and over again before I ever paid attention to the words. |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST,rob_o Date: 03 Jan 11 - 02:40 PM "Aisling" by Anuna (Ireland), from Behind The Closed Eye Album |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST,rob_o Date: 11 Dec 10 - 07:25 PM "Gold Wedding Ring" by Barry & Barry; "Evergreen" by The Stone Poneys; "Winter Winds" and "Banks Of The Nile" by Fotheringay; "Evening Falls" by Enya; |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: GUEST,McGee Date: 21 Oct 09 - 08:51 PM Jay Unger and Molly Mason's Ashokan Farewell still brings shivers.... |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: Stringsinger Date: 21 Oct 09 - 05:04 PM Most of them have been covered. There is an obscure one called" Beautiful Lake Anconi", a fiddle tune from Cape Breton by a Laurie ( ? ) One of the most simple plaintive tunes to me is "Little Birdie". Pete's songs would qualify. Where have" All the Flowers Gone" and" Turn Turn", "Bells of Rhmyney". "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies", "Pretty Saro", "Wagoner's Lad" One of the great early popular songs written which is a jazz standard is Jerome Kern's "All The Things You Are". Thomas Moore. "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms" "Tiurse Moi Chroi" from Ireland Texas Gladden's version of "I Never Will Marry". "The Foggy Dew" from Ireland "Been In The Storm So Long" (sung during the Civil Rights Movement) "Summertime" George Gershwin Cole Porter could write a melody. For a simple, clear heart-felt tune "Dink's Song" collected by Lomax. |
Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies? From: VirginiaTam Date: 21 Oct 09 - 02:16 PM Song of the Siren? |
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