Singers of Yesterday

Subject: Singers of Yesterday
From: Allan C.
Date: 15 Jun 01 - 03:23 PM

I just now found a site I wanted to share with you called Singers of Yesterday Some of the women pictured there were among those who helped to make songs like "Home Sweet Home" and "Comin' Thro the Rye" more famous. A few of the others were partly responsible for furthering American interest in opera.

Subject: RE: BS: Singers of Yesterday
From: mousethief
Date: 15 Jun 01 - 03:28 PM

Cool! I love those old "gibson girl" type photos. I was particularly amused by the woman who "in private life" was the wife of so-and-so. Didn't she acknowledge him in public?

Alex

Subject: RE: BS: Singers of Yesterday
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 15 Jun 01 - 05:05 PM

That was a treat. It happens that I have a copy of Heartsongs, and it does contain some treasures.

One I particularly enjoyed finding was the original music to "Three Fishers", which is quite different from the melody that Garnet Rogers wrote. (He had come across it as a poem and had no idea that it existed in any way as a song form.) And I privately much prefer Garnet's adaptation.

Subject: RE: BS: Singers of Yesterday
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 15 Jun 01 - 05:14 PM

So much for Pirvate eh!

LOL!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Singers of Yesterday
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 15 Jun 01 - 05:15 PM

Damn stupid usless guiness addled fingers!!!!!!!!!

*Grrrrrrrrr*

Subject: RE: Singers of Yesterday
From: Alice
Date: 16 Jun 01 - 09:47 AM

What a coincidence - just as I opened this thread, I was singing Comin' Thro the Rye, in preparation for a performance on Tuesday about songs made popular for parlor singing. Thanks for the link.

Alice

Subject: RE: Singers of Yesterday
From: GUEST,Don Meixner
Date: 16 Jun 01 - 08:32 PM

I have heard Three Fishers done for many years and always with the same tune as I heard sStan Rogers use on "For the Family". I also have Heartsongs but as I can't read music aand no one I know has volunteered to play it for me I have no idea that there are different versions.

Is there a significant difference?

Don

Subject: RE: Singers of Yesterday
From: Jeremiah McCaw
Date: 17 Jun 01 - 02:09 PM

Significant? There's not a ghost of a resemblance! :-)

Subject: RE: Singers of Yesterday
From: Anglo
Date: 17 Jun 01 - 04:26 PM

At the risk of adding to thread creep, I will add that the "Three Fishers" melody in Heart Songs is the one used by Joan Baez, who recorded the song on one of her early LPs. (She changed a couple of notes, but we all do that).

Subject: RE: Singers of Yesterday
From: LR Mole
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 02:24 PM

Paul MacCartney, I think, sang this.