Lyr Req: Piddlin' Pete / The Runt

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Piddlin Pete
From: Leadfingers
Date: 09 May 11 - 10:23 PM

There are other threads about this piece - And though it CAN fit 'The Whistler and His Dog' I have a much simpler tune . IF anyone is interested I can supply an MP3 by E Mail

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Piddlin' Pete / The Runt
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 11 May 11 - 08:13 AM

Scott: If your typed copy says "Fields" it was certainly not typed by the author, who would not have misspelled his own name. I think we have established that the author was Eugene Field (1850-1895).

Back before photocopiers (Xerox machines, as we called them back then) became common in the 1960s it was not unusual for people to type copies of things they wanted to keep. People even used carbon paper to make multiple copies of things they wanted to distribute to friends. Imagine that!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Piddlin' Pete / The Runt
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 11 May 11 - 08:25 AM

Joe Offer: Monologues.co.uk, the site from which you copied PIDDLIN' PETE, now says:

"PIDDLIN' PETE
Anon
Arranged & performed by
Leslie Sarony"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Piddlin' Pete / The Runt
From: GUEST,John Cowles
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 07:25 PM

The Piddlin' Pup was sung by Fiddler Beers on his 1959 Prestige album 'Psalty Psongs with Pfiddle and Psaltry.' He sings the 'Rex' version, but attributes the words to Eugene Field (I have also seen the words attributed to Robert W. Service).

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Piddlin' Pete / The Runt
From: GUEST,John Cowles
Date: 30 Jun 11 - 07:35 PM

Incidentally, Beers does NOT use the tune from "The Whistler and His Dog," but another tune that sounds extremely familiar to me. I'm willing to send an mp3 to anyone who will post an abc version of the tune. I would post the mp3 on the net, but I'm not sure about copyright laws here.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Piddlin' Pete / The Runt
From: GUEST,Joyce Melton
Date: 11 Oct 15 - 05:54 PM

My dad had this, the Rex version, in a book titled, "The Poems of Robert Service" which also had Service's other well-known works. As I remember, this was a discarded rebound library copy he bought in a used book store.