Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: Joe_F Date: 28 Sep 15 - 05:15 PM Ewan MacColl & Peggy Seeger do a lovely duet version of "FALSE LOVER WON BACK". It's not exactly comic, but at least it has a happy ending. |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: MGM·Lion Date: 28 Sep 15 - 01:27 PM Not all need be male/female. Peter Bellamy and Royston Wood did an excellent duet version of HUSBANDMAN AND SERVINGMAN on one of Young Traditions records, way back when... ≈M≈ |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: maeve Date: 28 Sep 15 - 12:28 PM Thanks for refreshing this thread, Max. I'd love to try some of the songs listed here with a duet partner. |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: Acorn4 Date: 28 Sep 15 - 12:05 PM Look no further than these two:- Quicksilver |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: DougR Date: 27 Apr 00 - 12:19 AM It's not folk, but one of the best comic duo songs that could be close to folk is a song by Billy Edd Wheeler and recorded by Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash: "JACKSON." DougR |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: Susanne (skw) Date: 26 Apr 00 - 07:57 PM Proposal and Acceptance, from a VERY old McCalmans album. |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: GUEST,JenEllen Date: 25 Apr 00 - 03:08 PM Also along the same lines as PAPER OF PINS ... THE OLD WOMAN FROM WEXFORD ... gotta love 'em when they come with a moral attached! *bg* ~Elle |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: GUEST,Frank Hamilton Date: 25 Apr 00 - 03:05 PM PAPER OF PINS. |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: Sandy Paton Date: 25 Apr 00 - 01:00 PM Sorry about that. Forgot to reformat the list. The ballad to which this refers is "Get Up and Bar the Door."
Get Up and Bar the Door 1.Gainer, Patrick. Folk Songs of the Alleghenies, Folk Heritage, LP (1963), cut#A.03
I managed to drop the publisher data from the Moser recording, sorry, but you can take a look at the Folk Index here: FOLK INDEX. |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: Sandy Paton Date: 25 Apr 00 - 12:52 PM It certainly does have a tune, and it's a fine ballad for a couple to sing. Jane Keefer's "Folksong Index" lists these recorded examples: Get Up and Bar the Door 1. Gainer, Patrick. Folk Songs of the Alleghenies, Folk Heritage, LP (1963), cut#A.03 2. Gillette, Steve; and Cindy Mangsen. Light of Day, Compass Rose CRM 7, Cas (1996), cut#B.01 3. MacKay, Karen. West Virginia Woman, West Virginia Woman Rec., LP (199?), cut# 2 4. Marks, Phyllis. Folksongs and Ballads, Vol 2. Phyllis Marks, Augusta Heritage AHR 008, Cas (1991), cut#2.08 5. McCurdy, Ed. Ballad Record, Riverside RLP 12-601, LP, cut#A.04 6. Moser, Artus. North Carolina Mountain Folksongs
And I know that Ewan MacColl recorded it somewhere, too. It's Child Ballad #275, it's in the DT, and you could look it up in Bronson's Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads, provided that your library has or can get a copy for you. |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: Grab Date: 25 Apr 00 - 11:26 AM WILD MOUNTAIN THYME is good - alternate verses, then do chorus with harmony. Lovely song to harmonise with. Grab. |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: GUEST,FP Date: 25 Apr 00 - 09:59 AM GET UP AND BAR THE DOOR... but I don't think it has a tune. |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: GUEST,JenEllen Date: 25 Apr 00 - 01:53 AM William Pint and Felicia Dale do a lot of folk song duets as well. Worth a listen. |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: TheOldMole Date: 25 Apr 00 - 01:34 AM where ye going, my old man [=MY GOOD OLD MAN] anything by coot grant and kid Wesley Wilson |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: Sandy Paton Date: 25 Apr 00 - 12:00 AM Check out the songs of Peter and Lou Berryman. CLICK HERE The Berrymans write very funny contemporary songs, such as "Your State's Name Here." Brilliant stuff. Sandy |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: Bev and Jerry Date: 24 Apr 00 - 09:05 PM ARKANSAS TRAVELER FOOLISH QUESTIONS BUFFALO BOY Bev and Jerry
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Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: GUEST,Bill Date: 24 Apr 00 - 08:57 PM There was a well-known duo in Belfast here years ago who did a lot of songs in different languages, some comic and some not. There was ""I THANK YOU, MA'AM," SAYS DAN", a Spanish one about a donkey who died and they had a funeral for him, "Snoring Biddy". I'm sure there were others. I wonder what happened to them? Bill |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: vindelis Date: 24 Apr 00 - 06:31 PM How about Green and Yeller [=GREEN AND YELLA] -(Where have you been all day - 'enery my son? etc). THE KEEPER -(On the Digitrad) There is now a Flanders and Swann website complete with discography and lyrics to a lot of their songs. |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: Bert Date: 24 Apr 00 - 02:45 PM Oh SOLDIER, SOLDIER and Oh No John [=NO, JOHN, NO] |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: Jeremiah McCaw Date: 24 Apr 00 - 02:23 PM Contemporary: check out John Prine's "IN SPITE OF OURSELVES" (sung as a duet with Iris Dement). |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: MMario Date: 24 Apr 00 - 01:29 PM Seven nights drunk...or FIVE NIGHTS DRUNK...or goodman... |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: Sorcha Date: 24 Apr 00 - 01:28 PM REUBEN AND RACHEL |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: JamesJim Date: 24 Apr 00 - 01:23 PM Not sure of the title:
MAN - (in a drunken voice) "I came home the other night, as drunk as I could be
It goes on, "I came home the next night, as drunk as I could be The last two verses:
"I saw some pants upon the chair, where my pants ought to be.
I saw a head upon the pillow where my head ought to be. To end the song you simply say, "I guess I had better stop there." Maybe someone can help with the title. Jim |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: Vixen Date: 24 Apr 00 - 11:38 AM The CRAWDAD Song (aka "Whatcha gonna do when the creek runs dry) JENNY JENKINS a.k.a. JINNY JINKINS, a.k.a. What will ya wear o my dear o my dear V |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: MMario Date: 24 Apr 00 - 11:33 AM nope - sorry, lots of sad ones that could be done as duets, but I can't think of any comic ones. |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 24 Apr 00 - 11:23 AM MY BUCKET'S GOT A HOLE IN IT.
Where Are You A-Going, MY GOOD OLD MAN? (sort of)
Whatcha Gonna Do When the Well Runs Dry? [=SUGAR BABE?]
All I can think of at this instant. Dave Oesterreich
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Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: Amos Date: 23 Apr 00 - 10:22 PM Find some old Flanders And Swann LPs with songs like "I'm a Gnu". I think they did the Bawdy SOngs number about wallowing in the throes of fornication on one of their LPs, too. |
Subject: RE: Folk song duets From: MMario Date: 23 Apr 00 - 10:02 PM There are a few I can think of off the top of my head, but I don't know if you would consider them "folk". Lemmee think some more and I will post tomorrow... |
Subject: Folk song duets From: GUEST,bpelsor@seidata.com Date: 23 Apr 00 - 08:53 PM Wanted: Folk Songs for male/female duet arrangement, preferably comedy.
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