Can you name this tune please?

Subject: Can you name this tune please?
From: Stanron
Date: 13 May 17 - 03:29 PM

This is a tune I learned years ago in sessions in Manchester, UK. I seem to remember it possibly being of Eastern European origin. Can anyone tell me the title? Thanks in advance.

X: 1
T: What Tune is this?
R: Polka
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
Q: 1/4=160
K: Amaj
|:e4 e3 c | e2 e2 f3 c |e2 e2 efec |d2 B6 |
| a2 g4 f2 | z2 e2 a3 f | e2 d2 c2 B2 | A8 :|
|:c2 A4 c e | d2 B6 | eeee f2 g2 |b2 a6 |
|g4 g3 f | e2 e2 g3 f | e2 d2 c2 B2 | A6 c e:|
|: a2 g2 f2 e2 | c2 A6 | eeee f2 e2 | e2 d6 |
|g4 g3 f | e2 e2 g3 f | e2 d2 c2 B2 | A6 c e:|

Subject: RE: Can you name this tune please?
From: Helen
Date: 13 May 17 - 05:13 PM

Hi Stanron,

I don't recognise it but I like it.

I'm sure someone here will know it.

Helen

Subject: RE: Can you name this tune please?
From: Stanron
Date: 13 May 17 - 05:21 PM

Thanks Helen.

Subject: RE: Can you name this tune please?
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 13 May 17 - 07:49 PM

I made a file from the ABC
...it should open/download if I've got the settings correct (...?)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzfIBI4ets96WV9MX0dMVGQtLWs/view?usp=drivesdk

Subject: RE: Can you name this tune please?
From: Helen
Date: 13 May 17 - 08:11 PM

Thanks for that, FreddyHeadey. I went to the Mandolin Tab ABC converter but then I didn't know how to add the midi file here.

I just listened to it again. It sounds sort of French to me or maybe Canadian or something, so given my past attempts at guessing tune origins, it's probably from somewhere totally unrelated. LOL

Helen

Subject: RE: Can you name this tune please?
From: Helen
Date: 13 May 17 - 08:34 PM

I just had a thought pop into my head. The tune reminds me of some of the tunes used with limberjack dolls, which I checked out on YouTube a while back.

Example: Limberjack dancing doll - tune - Do Mr. Boker Do

Limberjack dancing doll - tune played by fiddler Eric Marten

Subject: RE: Can you name this tune please?
From: Monique
Date: 14 May 17 - 02:14 AM

Some parts sound like Ma Tonkinoise (It's Delightful To Be Married).

Subject: RE: Can you name this tune please?
From: Stanron
Date: 14 May 17 - 03:32 AM

Thanks Monique. Both those examples fit the third part of the tune really well, and Helen, I love the dancing dolls. Come day go day, whiskey on a Sunday.

Subject: RE: Can you name this tune please?
From: Helen
Date: 14 May 17 - 05:43 AM

Well, Monique, I wasn't thinking in that genre at all, i.e. the genre of the beautiful Josephine Baker shaking her tailfeathers. :-)

I assumed it would be a folk tune.

Helen

Subject: RE: Can you name this tune please?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 May 17 - 02:55 AM

Scholars of worldwide folk are the US folk duo/trio/band band, Simple Gifts. All tunes strung.

Suggest trying to find them via Google to ask them to listen.... tho this is their annual Folk College season so you might get lost in their email till summer. They're also on FB.

Subject: RE: Can you name this tune please?
From: Stanron
Date: 15 May 17 - 08:02 AM

Thanks for all the contributions so far. If my memory serves me right the tune comes from an album of immigrant Ukrainian folk musicians recorded in the USA in the first quarter of the 20th Century. They were possibly Library of Congress recordings. I remember exuberance, fun and quirky timing. Does this help?

Subject: RE: Can you name this tune please?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 May 17 - 04:04 AM

Simple Gifts has researched that era/region.

Subject: RE: Can you name this tune please?
From: Stanron
Date: 17 May 17 - 04:30 AM

Thanks wysiwyg. I'll do a search.