Tune Req: Three More Tunes from Daniel Boone, LAST

Subject: Tune Req: Three More Tunes from Daniel Boone, LAST
From: GUEST,Cori
Date: 15 Feb 24 - 03:05 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0Ue8TW_1QI

38:34-40:41: Waltz tune, absolutely unfamiliar to me. Anyone know?

40:52-44:55: Dance tune, starts out as "Down in the Valley" and transitions several times into something else and back to "Down in the Valley." Does anyone recognize the additional tune(s)?

46:12-48:30: Starts out as "Sweet Betsy from Pike," transitions into something else and back to "Sweet Betsy from Pike." Does anyone recognize the additional tune(s)?

You will be glad to learn I have finished watching every episode of "Daniel Boone" and that this is the series's last use of music!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Three More Tunes from Daniel Boone, LAST
From: cnd
Date: 16 Feb 24 - 08:00 AM

I haven't yet listened to them, but given my track record, I doubt I could help much. Nonetheless, I wanted to say congrats on finishing such a massive undertaking.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Three More Tunes from Daniel Boone, LAST
From: Lighter
Date: 16 Feb 24 - 08:25 AM

I can't help with the tunes (though the first waltz sounds familiar) but everything about the performance but the hats is anachronistic.

Boone seems to be in his forties, which would place the dance in the 1770s. The waltz wouldn't be introduced to America for another twenty years.

The button accordion was invented in 1829 and was little known in the U.S. for years afterward.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Three More Tunes from Daniel Boone, LAST
From: GUEST,Cori
Date: 16 Feb 24 - 02:13 PM

Thank you, cnd, for the kind comment.

Lighter, if I went into everything anachronistic about the Daniel Boone series I would never get through it all. I have commented a few times on "time travel," but chose to concentrate on just the music. As for these tunes, "Sweet Betsy from Pike" was written in 1858 and "Down in the Valley" not collected until the early 20th Century. Besides the accordion the guitars are also modern. This episode is one of three which take place during or after the French Revolution (1789-1799). Season 1, episode 1, is at the outbreak of the American Revolution (1775), so Season 6 should be 1780, making them ten or twenty years off the timeline here (they have strayed as far as 1807). "La Marseillaise" is also used in this episode; it was written in 1792. "The Bridal Chorus" is referenced and it was written in 1850 by Richard Wagner. I also have severe doubts about some of the wardrobe. I think I have seen 19th Century styles on people in this show but am not enough of a clothing expert to be sure. The guns are meant to be flintlocks but are in fact other guns modified to look like flintlocks. There have been a few instances of people firing without reloading although generally they are pretty good about that. There are figures of speech and I'm sure other questionable aspects.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Three More Tunes from Daniel Boone, LAST
From: Lighter
Date: 16 Feb 24 - 04:25 PM

You're definitely on top of things, Cori.

You may also know that the tune of "Sweet Betsy" appeared on the English stage in 1853 to the words of "Vilikins and His Dinah."

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Three More Tunes from Daniel Boone, LAST
From: GUEST,Cori
Date: 16 Feb 24 - 07:13 PM

I did not know that.