Most haunting melodies?

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Nick
Date: 01 May 05 - 03:01 PM

Canyon Moonrise - John McCann
Floating to Skerry - Lynn Tocken
Calliope House - Dave Richardson
Sheebeg and Sheemore - O'Carolan

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Peace
Date: 01 May 05 - 02:58 PM

"Prince's Day" by Alan Sylvestri (sp?). It was the opening piece from the movie "Blown Away" (1994). Terrible movie. Good soundtrack. And the aforementioned piece will stay with you forever.

October Winds (Castle of Dramore).

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Cruiser
Date: 01 May 05 - 02:51 PM

Wind That Shakes the Corn (Irish Rovers)
Mary of the Wild Moor (Heart Songs, Dolly Patton)
Sally Garden
Quentin's Theme (Shadows in the Night)
In the Pines
Barbara Allen
Whispering Pines (Johnny Horton)
Wayward Wind (Gogi Grant)
Aura Lee
Streets of Laredo
Springtime in Alaska (Johnny Horton)

Crusier

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Ebbie
Date: 01 May 05 - 01:47 PM

One of the most haunting tunes I know is 'Lament for the Reverend Archie Beaton'. It is such a visual piece.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST,Navigator
Date: 01 May 05 - 01:05 PM

Angel Eyes { Sinatra's version }

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Stephen L. Rich
Date: 01 May 05 - 12:21 PM

For me it's Tom Paxton's "Dance In The Shadows".

Stephen Lee

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: jaze
Date: 30 Apr 05 - 10:28 PM

Tonight My Sleep Will Be Restless-Alisdair Fraser

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: GUEST,Julia
Date: 30 Apr 05 - 08:00 PM

The phantom of the opera..the vocals are just soo haunting

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Meg
Date: 26 Oct 99 - 02:54 PM

For me the most haunting songs are 'By yon castle wa'at the close of the day' and 'The Highland Widow's Lament".

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 26 Oct 99 - 01:55 AM

I have felt, since first I heard it, that The Fireside Largo from Vivaldi's Four Seasons is the most emotive piece of music ever written. It stirs the Soul.

After that, I would agree with others on So Lonesome I could Cry, Long,Long Trail, and Shenandoah. To those I would also add McCartney's Yesterday, Gram Parson's Hickory Wind, and Corral Nocturne from Copland's Rodeo.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: ddw
Date: 26 Oct 99 - 12:33 AM

One of the most haunting things I've ever heard is Loreena McKennitt's (SP?) All Souls Night. The fiddle/cello player on that a few other tracks from her Mask and Mirror album and The Visit is absolutely demented. Chilling stuff!

david

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: McBeagle
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 11:13 PM

RE: RE: El Condor Pasa - FASCINATING!

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: kendall
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 03:52 PM

jenny, I'm glad you also like the Loch Tay Boat song. It has been rattling around in my head since I saw it in the thread. Problem is, I cant sing it.. painful memories.. I'd also like to mention Come Back to Sorrento.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: MTM
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 03:13 PM

Lili Marlene Snowy Breasted Pearl (Wolfetones)

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Bert
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 02:27 PM

La Vie en Rose

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: MTM
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 02:14 PM

Ne Me Quitte Pas by Nina Simone might be found on her CD of the same name, or on "The Best Of Nina Simone"--try this page: http://www.boscarol.com/nina/html/album/670030.html Hope it helps. Shirley Bassey did it too.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Brad Sondahl
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 01:41 PM

here's my favorite original MIDI haunting melody... http://www.camasnet.com/~asondahl/felicity.mid

Bradhttp://www.camasnet.com/~asondahl/bradindex.html

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Jack (who is called Jack)
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 12:44 PM

Re: El Condor Pasa. I have heard, but never made the effort to verify, that the tune for El Condor Pasa is a folk melody from South America and is one of the oldest folk tunes known. The person who told me this said that some estimates trace it back 900+ years.

The lyrics were added for S & G's recording.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Liam's Brother
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 12:32 PM

Hi!

I got a copy of the new Folk-Legacy CD, "Ceol Anum," today and it's absolutely beautiful... two guitars playing lovely (mostly) Irish tunes.

All the best,
Dan Milner

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: M. Ted (inactive)
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 12:13 PM

I am going to be away for a while, but will check this compendium when I get back--

I will leave you with a couple, first, no one has mentioned "Somewhere over the Rainbow" which, in recent years, I cannot hear without crying--

Someday I will get my tape recorder and a gun and force every guitarist that I know to play their secret arrangement of this song, because everyone fools around with it, though few will admit it--

I also love "Ali Pasha", which is a Turkish song, a story of a great and beloved leader who went off on a campaign and was ambushed and murdered--it is in 5/4, whcih gives it the very peculiar quality of lingering on the end of every phrase--

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Dan Evergreen
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 12:07 PM

Alison Kraus sings a really haunting song named "I don't believe you've met my baby." "Evangeline", the cajun one, evokes visual images that will haunt one a long time: "High on the top of a hickory hill, She stands in the lightning and thunder..." Hey, Martin, where might one hear Nina Simone's "Ne me quitte pas?"

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: kendall
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 10:57 AM

Old Fid works well on an Apollonio 12 string guitar tuned down to D and played in the Em position.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird)
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 10:29 AM

Sandy Paton, Thank you for bringing the tune Samanthra to my attention. Somehow I've overlooked it for years, but no longer. T.

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 09:31 AM

Skip Lake Superior....we're working on the entire Great Lakes system by now...................

...and what list of music around here would be complete (no matter what the topic) unless someone mentioned... "Waltzing with Bears"...so there we go.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Most haunting melodies?
From: Allen Mordica
Date: 25 Oct 99 - 09:21 AM

I'd have to nominate two sailor's tunes: The Old Fid (you should hear it accompanied by concertina!) and This Dreadful Life.

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!

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: BR
Date: 24 Oct 99 - 10:39 AM

Skip James' Cypress Grove Blues.

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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:
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: 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: 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: Lady McMoo
Date: 22 Oct 99 - 05:31 AM

Valencia Harbour

mcmoo

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Cap't Bob
Date: 21 Oct 99 - 07:53 PM

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

Cap't Bob