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20 Jun 98 - 01:05 AM (#31080) Subject: Crazy Man Michael - music From: Dia dhaiobh aris Anyone have the music in midi, abc, gif or whatever of this song Bui/ochas Benjamin Bodhra/nai/ |
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21 Jun 98 - 05:28 PM (#31121) Subject: RE: Crazy Man Michael From: Mick Lowe Is this the song by the late/great Sandy Denny recorded with Fairport Convention? Mick |
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21 Jun 98 - 09:55 PM (#31126) Subject: RE: Crazy Man Michael From: RiGGy It's HERE in the DT: |
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21 Jun 98 - 10:07 PM (#31127) Subject: RE: Crazy Man Michael From: RiGGy2 Sorry ! I see NOW you wanted the MOOsic; I'll continue checkin' the usual suspects.... |
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23 Jun 98 - 03:55 AM (#31164) Subject: RE: Crazy Man Michael From: Benjamin Bodhra/nai/ Dia dhuit a Mick, Yes this is the Fairport song, I've had it recommended to me to sing in our group, and have had it sung to me once late on a New Years Eve, so it didn't really stick in my head. And no-one here seems to have a copy of it. Looks like I'll have to start digging in stores for my own hardcopy. Sla/n Benjamin |
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14 Jul 13 - 06:17 PM (#3537426) Subject: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: GUEST,Curious Guest My stepson is married to a Thai lady and whilst they were with us today she played a Thai traditional song which had an identical tune? Chicken and egg or what? |
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14 Jul 13 - 07:02 PM (#3537436) Subject: RE: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: Leadfingers I hope you get a better response to your question than I got when I asked a similar Chicken and Egg question about the melody of WC Handy's Careless Love and the tune used commonly for the Trad song Bunch of Thyme . |
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14 Jul 13 - 07:44 PM (#3537452) Subject: RE: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: GUEST,spongebrother This link gives the credits from the LP It is credited to Swarbrick and Thompson |
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15 Jul 13 - 01:16 AM (#3537520) Subject: RE: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: Phil Cooper Richard Thompson wrote the words and Dave Swarbrick did the tune. |
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15 Jul 13 - 05:16 AM (#3537550) Subject: RE: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: bubblyrat I believe that Richard Thompson wrote it when only 17 years old , or so Anne ("Anna") Marcordes ( German fiddler , singer , and CD reviewer) told me . |
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15 Jul 13 - 07:26 AM (#3537588) Subject: RE: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: McGrath of Harlow A tune is a small group of notes which someone has decided they liked. Inevitably more or less the same group of notes occurs to different people in different times and places, completely ndependently. |
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15 Jul 13 - 11:16 AM (#3537691) Subject: RE: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: GUEST,Tumesmith Can we get a link to that Thai tune? Or, at least, a song title! |
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15 Jul 13 - 12:21 PM (#3537707) Subject: RE: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: Vic Smith I interviewed Dave Swarbrick on a radio programme and he said that RT wrote the words to Crazy Man Michael and set them to a traditional tune. Swarb told him that this was a cop out and RT said, "OK, clever clogs, you make up a tune for it!" So he did. |
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16 Jul 13 - 12:07 PM (#3538085) Subject: RE: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: GUEST,Curious Guest I'm working on getting a link. Meanwhile - Vic - what was the traditional tune RT had in mind? Incidentally our thoughts were that Swarbrick could have picked up the tune on one of his visits to Oz. |
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16 Jul 13 - 12:34 PM (#3538095) Subject: RE: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: Vic Smith Meanwhile - Vic - what was the traditional tune RT had in mind? I'm afraid that did not come up in the interview Incidentally our thoughts were that Swarbrick could have picked up the tune on one of his visits to Oz. CMM appeared in Leige & Leif in 1969 and was not brand new then.... when did Swarb first go to Australia? Not in the 1960s, I would have thought. |
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16 Jul 13 - 01:41 PM (#3538138) Subject: RE: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: alex s Maybe someone took a Fairport cd to Thailand....and the Thais liked the tune |
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16 Jul 13 - 02:04 PM (#3538156) Subject: RE: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: Phil Cooper I believe the tune Richard Thompson thought of using was Bonnie House of Airlie (not sure of the spelling). |
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16 Jul 13 - 03:24 PM (#3538181) Subject: RE: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: GUEST,Curious Guest I'm starting to think that the Thai tune may well not be all it claims to be! Still - it raised a few interesting points and conjectures. Sometimes it's good to mudflap. |
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17 Jul 13 - 02:19 AM (#3538338) Subject: RE: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: Seamus Kennedy Years ago, a group of friends invited me and a Chinese lady who was visiting the U.S. to a dinner party. After dining, the host wanted to have a little musical interlude, so we broke out the guitars and began to play and sing. I did a few Irish songs, and the host sang some American folk songs. We asked the Chinese lady whose English was rudimentary if she'd favor us with a Chinese song. We were very surprised when the melody of her song was the same as the "Lowlands of Holland". So, did English sailors bring the melody back from China, or did the Chinese get it from the singing of English sailors? |
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17 Jul 13 - 03:47 AM (#3538345) Subject: RE: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: cooperman Would that be the Rowrands of Horrand? |
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17 Jul 13 - 03:58 AM (#3538348) Subject: RE: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: GUEST Oh good, an unfunny racist joke. That's nice... |
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17 Jul 13 - 07:09 AM (#3538395) Subject: RE: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: cooperman I apologise for that. Getting back to the subject, I have always loved this song. RT and DS at their best - what amazing talents. |
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17 Jul 13 - 12:13 PM (#3538503) Subject: RE: Who wrote the tune to Crazy Man Michael? From: GUEST,Curious Guest Quite a number of my Dublin friends talk about tursday the tird. Hope I'm not being racist! |