Tune Req: para handy

Subject: tune para handy
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 08:29 AM

anyone know where I can get the dots or ABC or MP3 for Para handy
thanks
sue

Subject: RE: tune para handy
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 09:03 AM

Mumle... I assume you refer to Para Handy of the Puffer Vital Spark? Didn't know there was a song about this great Munro character - will follow this thread with interst...

Cheers - Sam

Subject: RE: tune para handy
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 09:24 AM

The theme tune I remember was called 'The Song of the Maggie'.
Giok

Subject: RE: tune para handy
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 10:07 AM

When they (the BBC) reprised the series with Gregor Fisher (Rab C) there was a smart new theme tune I think written by Phil Cunningham. I remember going past a sesh at Sidmouth about 10 years ago and hearing it blast out. It was a really good tune but oest seem to have been recorded.

Subject: RE: tune para handy
From: Jim McLean
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 11:04 AM

The Maggie was a different film about a puffer, starring Paul Douglas(?). I can hear the tune played in the Para Handy series but will have to think about it!!

Subject: RE: tune para handy
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 11:07 AM

Not being a tune person but a guitarist I can still remember what a stoater of a tune it was but it didn't seem to appear on any recordings or videos

Subject: RE: tune para handy
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 11:41 AM

The original B&W series? I've seen it referred to as The Para Handy Polka.

Steve

Subject: RE: tune para handy
From: IanC
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 11:51 AM

Phil Cunningham's tune was called "Manus Lunny's Plower Pot", but Jimmy Shand had a tune called "Para Handy", written by Ian Gourlay (released in 1960 with "The 6:20 Two Step" on side B ... possibly written for the BBC series "Para Handy - Master Mariner" shown about 1959/60).

The latter seems quite likely to be what was asked for in the first place.

:-)

Subject: RE: tune para handy
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 12:01 PM

Para handy polka sounds like it would be right - its for the childrens clogging session at whitby - I am supposed to be writing some words to the tune

Subject: RE: tune para handy
From: Jim McLean
Date: 09 Aug 04 - 01:35 PM

Try here and scroll down to hear the tune. It's the Para Handy Polka by Iain Gourley.
http://www1.hmv.co.uk/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=12;-1;-1;-1&sku=187123

Subject: RE: tune para handy
From: Red and White Rabbit
Date: 10 Aug 04 - 03:34 AM

Thanks Jim

Subject: RE: tune para handy
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 10 Aug 04 - 03:41 AM

That's the tune I remember, Jim.

Subject: RE: tune para handy
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 10 Aug 04 - 05:21 AM

Tarnybackle a great Perthshire band have a track on their new CD out in Dec from Para Handy.

Subject: RE: tune para handy
From: Jim McLean
Date: 10 Aug 04 - 08:21 AM

I actually prefer the tune used in The Maggie, a jig.