Folk Tradition: The Genuine Article!

Subject: Folk Tradition: The Genuine Article!
From: DMcG
Date: 05 May 02 - 05:22 AM

A thread on TV programmes mentioned that one used the melody 'Early One Morning' as the theme.

Just about every tune or song I know, I can place how/where/why I learnt it somehow. For example many of the things I learnt as a toddler I know came from BBC radio.

But 'Early One Morning' seems to be one of those I have always known. I certainly didn't learn if from the television programme, because we didn't own one way back then and the version I 'know' is the simple melody without the orchestration you would expect from a radio programme.

What songs or tunes have you always known?

Subject: RE: Folk Tradition: The Genuine Article!
From: Hrothgar
Date: 05 May 02 - 05:56 AM

"I Know Where I'm Going."

My mother sang this around the house when I was too young to have any idea that folk songs existed. I've picked up a couple of extra verses since.

Subject: RE: Folk Tradition: The Genuine Article!
From: RangerSteve
Date: 05 May 02 - 06:05 AM

Arkansas Traveler, Turkey in the Straw, Soldiers Joy. I don't know where I heard them first, I think I was born knowing them.

Subject: RE: Folk Tradition: The Genuine Article!
From: Harry Basnett
Date: 05 May 02 - 06:07 AM

' Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush'...otherwise known as 'Nancy Dawson' which in the 18th. century featured words about a prostitute of the same name...

Subject: RE: Folk Tradition: The Genuine Article!
From: Giac
Date: 05 May 02 - 07:28 AM

Billy Boy, Blow The Man Down, all of Carmen, Rhapsody in Blue, each and every Sousa march and a lot that weren't by Sousa (my dad was a band sergeant in WWI), The Band Played On, Daring Young Man On The Flying Trapeze and Oh Holy Night (that was the only Christmas phonograph record we had), and, of course, Lullaby, which my father played on the cornet at my bedtime. The other tunes he either whistled or played on piano -- frequently. By the time he died when I was not quite eight (he was 56 years my senior), the tunes were imbedded and I have no memory of first hearing them.

Mary

Subject: RE: Folk Tradition: The Genuine Article!
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 05 May 02 - 09:00 AM

Most of the classical music I know really well, I learned on Bugs Bunny cartoons. "Kill the Wabbit, kill the wabbit, kill the WAAAAAbbit...". Vagner, the Barber of Seville, and others I still could not tell you the authors name or the title of the piece. If you hum it, I can tell you what Bugs was doing at the time, however.

This is cause for much dismay for my Father, a classical music officianado.

Subject: RE: Folk Tradition: The Genuine Article!
From: Amos
Date: 05 May 02 - 03:51 PM

CS:

"Oh, my Wabbit, youah so wuvleeeee!"
"Yes, I know it, I can't heeeelp it...."

Cracking up -- that has to have been one of the High Plateaus of Animation History!!

Tell Dad to chill, man, it's part of the Folk Process!!

A

Subject: RE: Folk Tradition: The Genuine Article!
From: mack/misophist
Date: 05 May 02 - 06:35 PM

Thank you, Harryoldham. I couldn't find Nancy Dawson in the digitrad but a Google search worked fine.