Most haunting melodies?

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST
Date: 05 Jan 06 - 11:38 AM

Willie McBride has got to be in there,along with The Band Played Waltzing Matilda.And how about Rising Sun?

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Mar 06 - 10:48 AM

Inisheer by a brilliant composer Thomas Walsh.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Mar 06 - 08:54 PM

For really haunting melodies what about Far Away by Peter Jung, or Roslin castle, both played freely, and very slowly with feeling!

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST,James Kelly
Date: 25 Mar 06 - 11:35 PM

Hi all,

The Old Man - Furey Brothers and Davey Arthur
The Lonesome boatman - Furey Brothers and Davey Arthur

All the best
James

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 26 Mar 06 - 03:31 AM

'Dimming of the Day' - Bonnie Raitt's version.
'September Song' - horribly mawkish when I was young, serious food for thought now I ain't.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST,sissy
Date: 14 Jul 06 - 11:21 PM

"Ghost of a Rose" Blackmore's Night, Fare thee Well--Mary Chapin Carpenter, I'll be loving You Always--Frank Sinatra.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Stewie
Date: 15 Jul 06 - 02:42 AM

O'Carolan's 'Eleanor Plunkett' played by Colum Sands (concertina) and Martin Mcallister (guitar) on Colum's 'All My Winding Journeys' album.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: The Sandman
Date: 15 Jul 06 - 07:15 AM

Cape Clear,played by Dick Miles on NAUTICAL AND., Rodneys Glory , Sailortown, by C fox smith.Yesterday, Eleanor rigby, Shes leaving home, and I love her[ Paul Macartney]My Old Kentucky Home[S foster].Chief O niells Favourite.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: gnu
Date: 15 Jul 06 - 07:25 AM

Foggy Dew version by Sinéad O'Connor with The Chieftan's. Goosebump city.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 15 Jul 06 - 08:00 AM

Flowers Of The Forest on the bagpipes

Loreena Mckinnets Bonny Portmore

Clannad Theme from Harrys Game

All Through The Night (sung in Welsh)

For Those In Peril on The Sea (naval hymn)

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST,sissy
Date: 15 Jul 06 - 09:12 AM

Speaking of Sinead O'Connor she did a great haunting version of Danny Boy.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Mr Fox
Date: 15 Jul 06 - 05:55 PM

'Both Sides of the Tweed' - Dick Gaughan

'Rumours of War' - Billy Bragg

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: kendall
Date: 16 Jul 06 - 09:52 AM

Lara's Theme

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Jul 06 - 01:10 PM

Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jul 06 - 02:21 PM

Come to think, Sinéad O'Connor is kinda haunting all one her own.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: SouthernCelt
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 09:10 AM

How about the main theme in the soundtrack to the most recent version of "Last of the Mohicans"?

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST,pattyClink
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 09:25 AM

Dang, SouthernCelt!! Where ya been lurking?   All this time Khandu and I thought we were the only Mississippians on the Mudcat!   Glad to hear from you, and pipe up more often!

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Scoville
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 10:31 AM

Dylan's "Blind Willie McTell"

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 12:02 PM

Waltzing's for Dreamers

Lakes of Pontchatrain

Si Beg Si Moore ( spelling?) - Planxty did a lovely version

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST,DriveForever
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 01:13 PM

Wow ! Some great songs on this thread !

Ones that have always gotten me;

    Days of Wine and Roses - Tony Bennett
    Blonde In the Bleachers / Urge for Goin - Joni Mitchell
    The Wagoner's Lad - by the Duhks -
    Lady of Shallot - by Loreena McKennit
    Minstrel of the Dawn - Gordon Lightfoot
    Ah, May The Red Rose Live Always - Stephen Foster
    Ned Of the Hill
    Invisible Ink - Aimee Mann
    Lullaby - Arcady's Version

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: shepherdlass
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 02:08 PM

Bonny at Morn
"Bridges" - Milton Nascimento
"Les Roses d'Ispahan" - Faure

Something about the yearning quality in all of them.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: oldhippie
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 04:19 PM

"Kilkelly Ireland", as sung by Phyllis Morrissey

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Kajikit
Date: 08 Dec 06 - 11:17 PM

It doesn't look like anyone's mentioned the Eriskay Love Lilt yet... 'fair me o-oh ro van oh
fair me oh, ro van ee
fair me oh, ro van o-ooh
sad am I without thee...'

I'm also haunted by:
Drink to me only with thine eyes
Danny Boy
Greensleeves
The Skye Boat Song

What do they have in common? Lilting, slow-paced melodies that seem to soar through the air when sung well (but are rather painful if done badly.)

On a less romantic note, a lot of Eric Bogle's songs send cold chills down my spine and stay with me because of that...

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Slag
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 12:45 AM

Ahhh, No one has mentioned Kristofferson's SUNDAY MORNING COMMING DOWN, however I did read through rather fast. J. Cash's version was also quite haunting. Even more so is CASEY'S LAST RIDE and especially John Denver's rendition.

I can see that I have really missed a lot of good music. Some of these titles are so intriguing. Apparently anything from Ireland, about Ireland and in a minor key IS haunting. I want to hear it all.

Tom Paxton's THE LAST THING ON MY MIND. J. Cash and THE BALLAD OF IRA HAYES. AMAZING GRACE played on the bagpipes. How about the "Hosti" in Verdi's Requiem Mass. The tenor's part is ensconced with virually the entire work framing that one brief passage which is echoed by the other voices and is then swallowed up in the massive dynamics of the body of the piece. It jst blazes itself into your memory! MOONLIGHT SONATA. Even Lloyd Nolan's COOL WATER has a haunting quality to it. Sarah Vaughn's BROKEN HEARTED MELODY? I THINK ITS GOING TO RAIN TODAY. Great thread!

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Selchie - (RH)
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 02:19 AM

In Flanders Fields

R

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: eddie1
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 04:32 AM

This might sound really corny but on a re-run of MASH, I saw the episode where Col Potter arrives at the 4077. It finishes with Potter, Hawkeye and PJ drinking 'shine and harmonising on "A Long Long Trail A-winding". Lump in throat time.
Another, particularly because of the season. I was gathering material for my radio prog and listened to John McCutcheon singing "Christmas In The Trenches". Tissue time!


Eddie

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Lighter
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 09:13 AM

A couple of months ago on another thread I asked if anyone could identify the fiddle tune played behind the current Dow Chemical commercials. Nobody could then. How 'bout now?

It really is haunting.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Slag
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 11:48 AM

When I was sixteen and a long way from home, out in the wilds of Montana or Wyoming or some such, I was fishing around on the radio trying to bring in some distant station when I first heard Barry McGuire's EVE OF DESTRUCTION. It was late at night and the station was fading in and out and I was straing to hear, rapt by the music and when the harmonica accompanyment came in, WOW! The combination of factors gave such a desolate and mournful feeling.

I also wanted to include Middler's THE ROSE for consideration.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Cruiser
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 03:38 PM

Pleases to see this thread revived.

I have 2 others, in addition to the ones I mentioned above.

"I Wish My Baby was Born"

The owl the owl is a lonely bird he fills my heart with dread and terror.

That someone's blood there on his wing, that someone's blood there on his feather.

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And, one of my absolute favorite, beautiful mournful melodies"

"Sukiyaki" by Kyu Sakamoto

Sukiyaki


There was an excellent YouTube video of a memorial showing past programs Kyu was on and the plane crash site but I could not find that.

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Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Cruiser
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 04:03 PM

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Here is the Poignant
Memorial Video of Kyu Sakamoto

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Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Big Mick
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 04:32 PM

Sean Tyrell is on a CD called (I think) Shadow Hunter. The title refers to a song called "The Walker of the Snow" which is one of the haunted hunter genre songs. Tyrell's voice is such an amazing instrument, and he does it full interpretive justice on this track. The melody is absolutely haunting. At one point in the song, Davey Spillane takes off on an interlude that will make the hair stand up on your arms. Between Tyrell's voice and Spillane's pipes, this track is absolutely haunting and beautiful. I have sung this song at Getaways, sing-arounds, and concerts. It always elicits a response, but I have always wanted to do it with a good Uilleann Piper. It is a stunner and exactly fits this thread.

Mick

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Cruiser
Date: 09 Dec 06 - 05:52 PM

I know this is more contemporary music, but the fuzz guitar, and the diminished and minor chords in this song give it that haunting quality.

Nancy Sinatra - Bang Bang (my baby shot me down)

Bang Bang fit the soundtrack of Kill Bill perfectly.

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Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Slag
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 03:07 AM

This just might be the strangest entry but don't prejudge it! A little one verse tune, as far as I know, entitled SWEET VICTORY from an episode of the Spongebob Squarepants cartoon show. It's one where the denizens of Bikini Bottom have put together a marching band for a half time show at a football game. Check it out.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: the lemonade lady
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 07:28 AM

Going Home
Dire Straits
Sal

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: webfolk
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 01:25 PM

Going Home, from the movie, Local Hero,(incidently, also the tune that Newcastle United run out onto the pitch to) is actually by
Mark Knopfler, of course of Dire Straits.

Geoff
webfolk.net

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Slag
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 03:15 PM

GOING HOME as in the old gospel hymn? That's the one A. Dvorak incorporated into his Symphany No. 4, FROM THE NEW WORLD (1893).

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Slag
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 07:04 PM

Don't know if I'm remembering this correctly but how about the arrangement of WALTZING MATILDA in the SciFi (or was it "Future History") flick "On The Beach"??? As I remember it had a plaintive quality that grew and permeated then replaced the sound of the Jolly Swagman as he and his "Matilda" danced of into the Out back in the "Never Again" dreamtime.   Ooooo! Heady stuff.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Slag
Date: 10 Dec 06 - 09:38 PM

Or "...softly, as I leave you..."

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh
Date: 16 Dec 06 - 10:25 AM

It's a long, long thread a-winding, and I'd second (third, fourth &c) many of the melodies already mentioned, and add one which I don't think has been mentioned yet, and that's "Roisin Dubh" (I notice a few mentions of O'Riada's "Mise Eire", mind you). Incidentally, "Ned of the Hill" is "Eamonn a' chnuic" (said to have been made by the man himself in the late C17th), and "Danny Boy" is "The Air from County Derry", taken down from the playing of a fiddler in Limavady in the 1850s. Add also "Ban chnuic hEireann O" ("The fair Hills of Ireland")

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST,me
Date: 17 Jun 07 - 01:47 AM

The Green Leaves of Summer

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 17 Jun 07 - 12:21 PM

Still need an ID of the background of the Dow Chemical commercial.

Haunting.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST,langham selby
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 09:35 AM

McCrimmons lament,there are 3 versions on youtube Davy Stewart in a pipe medley,probably closest to the original,then two vocal versions from Barbara Dixon and Sheila Chandra

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 12:31 PM

Poor Wayfarin' Stranger.
Cobbler's Hornpipe.
Turpin Hero.
Flowers of the Forest.
Lord Franklin.
She Moved Through the Fair.
Nottamun Town.
Jack Orion.
Follow Me Up to Carlow.
The Cuckoo.
The Road to Moscow.
Leaf and Stream.
Darkness, Darkness.
Farewell, Farewell (that is, the melody often used for Willy o'Winsbury)
Bruton Town.

Russian and Ukrainian:
Lyubo, Bratzi, Lyubo.
Chyorny Voron.
Polyushko Polye.
Vzyav By Ya Banduru.

Hebrew:
Hatikva
Yerushalaim Shel Zahav.
Deror Yikra.
Bluz Knaani.
Ruti. The melody is Russian, but I can't remember the song.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 12:49 PM

"Mountains of Mourne"
"Black is the Colour of my True Love's Hair"
"Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go? (or Wild Mountain Thyme)"
"Song for a Winter's Night" - Lightfoot
"Believe Me, If All These Endearing Young Charms"
"The Grandfather's Clock"
"McPherson's Lament (or Last Farewell)"
"Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye"
"The River is Wide"
"City of New Orleans"

I would guess that I rate the songs that resonate in memory by how indelibly the melody lingers and connects to certain powerful events or themes. All of the above qualify for me, at some time or other, in some place or other.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: robomatic
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 04:37 PM

Randy Newman: "Dixie Flyer"

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Rog Peek
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 05:26 PM

Ashoken Farewell by Jay Ungar

Rog

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST,Jaze
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 06:29 PM

Mary From Dungloe

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST,Volgadon
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 06:45 PM

Russian:

Vashe Blagorodiye.
Murka.
Zhuravli.
Beryozy.

Hebrew:

Erev Shel Shoshanim
El Ginat Egoz
Shecharchoret.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST,singeroo
Date: 27 Feb 08 - 11:40 PM

"Four Green Fields" - T. Makem
"Which Side Are You On" - P. Seeger
"O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" (the author's name escapes me but it has a lovely minor-key melody)

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Joe_F
Date: 28 Feb 08 - 09:18 PM

Sally Free and Easy