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23 Jun 03 - 10:59 AM (#970948) Subject: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: chip a I've looked everywhere I can think of to no avail. Does anyone know where I can find sheet music to this late 40's song? Thanks, Chip Arnold |
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23 Jun 03 - 11:04 AM (#970953) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: MMario it's for sale here |
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23 Jun 03 - 11:25 AM (#970967) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: masato sakurai ABC tune finder. ~Masato |
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23 Jun 03 - 11:53 AM (#970985) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: chip a As always, a speedy and helpful response from the Mudcat. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Chip |
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23 Jun 03 - 12:15 PM (#970995) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: mg I think the tune is originally an old Finnish waltz. mg |
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23 Jun 03 - 12:37 PM (#971008) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: Joe Offer It it's just the basic tune you need, we have it in the Digital Tradition. Click to play, and right-click to download. Note the crosslinks I added at the top of the page. -Joe Offer- |
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23 Jun 03 - 12:53 PM (#971014) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: masato sakurai Listen to "Livet i Finnskogarna" (midi) HERE. |
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23 Jun 03 - 01:01 PM (#971018) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: GUEST,Q Thanks, Masato. Good midis on that Danish site. have added a bookmark. |
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23 Jun 03 - 01:04 PM (#971020) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: CRANKY YANKEE Here's a little factual tidbit about "Mockingbird Hill" The Dining Sisters recorded it in 1951 It was a big hit, on all the juke boxes because they added a little yodel after each chorus that went, "Tweede-ly dee dee, F--- you Tweedely dee dee hoo ha tweedle dee, tweedle dee, tweedle dee Tweede-ly dee dee, F--- you tweede=ly dee dee hoo ha tweedle dum tweedle do tweedle you" Everyone thought, "It couldn't be, what we're hearing, they wouldn't dare" But they did, or so I've been led to believe. I heard it on the Juke box at the Port of embarcation "rec" room on Treasure Island (San Francisco) when I was on my way to Korea Jody. |
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23 Jun 03 - 02:03 PM (#971059) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: chip a Thanks again, all. Yes, I had found the tune in the DT but I wanted to see the dots. Supplied by Masato. The record lady has a recording also. http://recordlady.webgcs.com/main2.htm Chip |
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24 Jun 03 - 11:58 AM (#971607) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: GUEST,Arkie Since the tune has been located this bit is not all that useful, but to add to what has been said about the connection to Finland, the tune is also called "Life In The Finnish Woods". |
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24 Jun 03 - 12:12 PM (#971615) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: chip a Has anyone else made a banjo piece out of this one? I'm working on a melodic 2-finger arrangement. Chip |
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24 Jun 03 - 12:41 PM (#971638) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: GUEST,Q Carl Jularbo (1893-1966), the composer of the tune, was a master accordianist. CDs of his music are available. A museum dedicated to his music and to the accordian is in Avesta, Sweden. |
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25 Jun 03 - 07:12 AM (#972045) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: AKS Livet i Finnskogarna really is SWEDISH, despite its somewhat strongly connections to "Finnishness". Finnskogen (=Finnwoods /-forest) is the term used for regions in Sweden (and Norway) that were inhabited by the emi-/immigrants from the province Savo (mostly) in Finland back in the 16th and 17th century. Kalle Karlsson (later Carl Jularbo) probably had some of them among his forefathers. Google with 'forest finns' to learn more about the past and present of this matter. AKS |
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25 Jun 03 - 10:04 PM (#972423) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: GUEST,leeneia I used to have a copy of Mockingbird Hill, and it showed a picture of the composer, an American named Vaughan Something (I think). The date was 1945. Since Carl Jularbo lived till 1966, maybe he got the tune from Vaughan, and not the other way around. In the late forties, I was a little girl living in south Florida. I remember hearing that song on the radio and asking my mother what a hill was. Her explanation of a hill left me baffled. If you have even seen how flat Florida is, you would understand. |
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25 Jun 03 - 10:43 PM (#972443) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: GUEST,Q Jularbo composed Livet i Finnskogarna in 1913 or 1915 (Listed differently at different sites). Here is the 1913 one: Jularbo |
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25 Jun 03 - 10:57 PM (#972445) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: 8ch(pl) 3 verses When the sun in the morning peaks over the hill, And kisses the roses 'round my windowsill. Then my heart fills with gladness when i hear the trill, of the birds in the treetops on Mockin'bird Hill. Chorus Tra la la tweedle e dee dee,It gives me a thrill. To wake up in the morning to the mockin'bird's trill. Tra la la tweedle e dee dee, there's peace and goowill. You're as welcome as the flowers on Mockin'bird Hill. Got a three corner plow and an acre to till. And a mule that i bought for a ten dollar bill. There's a tumbledown shack and an old rusted mill, But they're my home sweet home up on Mockin'bird Hill Chorus When it's late in the evening I climb up the hill, and survey all my kingdom while everything's still. There's just me and the sky and an old whip-poor-will, Singin' songs to the twilight on Mockin'bird Hill. Chorus |
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25 Jun 03 - 11:14 PM (#972449) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: GUEST Those are the same three verses that are in the DT. |
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27 Jun 03 - 11:31 AM (#973329) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: chip a I'm confused. Who wrote the words to this tune? I'm sure Jularbo wrote the melody but were the words written by Vaughn Horton? One source said he wrote it in a coal mine in the twenties. He was inducted into the Country Music writers Hall of Fame in '71. Chip |
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27 Jun 03 - 01:24 PM (#973373) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: GUEST,Q chip a, Vaughn Horton seems to be the first to put the Mockingbird Hill words to the tune. That didn't stop others from making small re-writes in order to copyright their own versions. Here is the one used by Patti Page. Compare with the Horton original in the DT: Mockingbird Hill (Patti Page words) Introduction and chorus: Tra-la-la, twiddle-e dee-dee, it gives me a thrill To wake up in the morning to the mockingbird's trill Tra-la-la, twiddle-e dee dee, there's peace and good will You're welcome as the flowers on Mockingbird Hill When the sun in the morning peeps over the hill And kisses the roses round my window sill Then my heart fills with laughter when I hear the trill Of the birds in the treetops on Mockingbird Hill Chorus When it's late in the evening I climb up the hill And survey all my kingdom while everything's still Only me and the stars and an old whipporwill Singin' songs in the twilight on Mockingbird Hill Chorus, then repeat last two lines of Chorus The mule and the plow are left out. Third verse, 3rd line: Only me and the sky (DT); Only me and the stars (Patti Page). Patti Page starts with the chorus. |
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27 Jun 03 - 06:37 PM (#973557) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: masato sakurai The title registered at ASCAP is "MOCKING BIRD HILL." |
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27 Jun 03 - 07:23 PM (#973586) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: masato sakurai Patti Page sang "then my heart fills with gladness" and "only me and the sky" on the recording HERE. |
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28 Jun 03 - 09:21 AM (#973801) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: fat B****rd My Dad had this on a 78 rpm by Ronnie Renald. Just thought I'd tell you...... |
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28 Jun 03 - 11:43 AM (#973829) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: chip a Re: masato post of 6/27/03.....7:23 PM What a great link! Everyone reading this thread should drop everything and check it out. Damn, I could get lost in there. Thanks. Chip |
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21 Feb 06 - 06:49 PM (#1675269) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: GUEST,ake b0y |
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22 Feb 06 - 01:07 AM (#1675514) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: open mike I was just thinking how this tune sounded swedish! i was surprised also to hear a very old folk tune in swedish that sounded very much like Home, Home on the Range.. you know the one, where the deer and the antelope play. (or beer and cantelope depending on the version) |
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19 Jan 08 - 07:46 PM (#2240287) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: GUEST,Paul F. Anderson "Livet i Finnskogarna" (Life In The Finnish Woods) is a Swedish song. The melody was written by Carl Jularbo. The lyrics were by Anna Myrberg, who wrote under the pseudonym of Svarta Masken (The Black Mask). Jularbo was one of Sweden's greatest accordionists and a prolific composer. He first recorded the song in 1913. The title of the songs refers to the "Finn forests" in Sweden (and Norway) to which Finns had migrated. There they eked out a living with swidden (slash-and-burn) agriculture in places where the local population could not survive. "Mocking Bird Hill" is an American song that was published in 1951 with words and music by Vaughn Horton. That same year it was a top ten hit for Patti Page and for Les Paul and Mary Ford. The melodies for "Livet i Finnskogarna" and "Mocking Bird Hill" are similar but not identical. |
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19 Jan 08 - 11:32 PM (#2240379) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: open mike There is also a place in Finnland where they speak Swedish... that is where the Gjallerhorn band members are from. |
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29 Jan 08 - 01:58 PM (#2248002) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: maryinflorida Vaughn Horton does hold the ASCAP title to Mockingbird Hill. He's credited there as 'writer'. Sorry, that doesn't really clear up who wrote the tune or lyrics, but it tells us he owned it! The name on his ASCAP rights is GEORGE VAUGHN. That name finds many more of his songs than the Horton name does. I'd say his next most famous song is "Muleskinner Blues" though many other titles are also familiar. A good version of "Muleskinner Blues" is the background music on this French site: http://www.chezmaya.com/07/1/gm.htm. You can find some bio and a portrait at his Hall of Fame entry: http://www.nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com/fame/horton.html. And he's got an imdb entry, under Horton, several movies that have used his songs. The reason I've been looking him up is that I'm researching for a local heritage DVD, and it happens that he settled in this backwater town for awhile. He might have heard of us from Johnny Cash who had relatives and a house here. Vaughn lived very quietly on our little river close to the Gulf of Mexico, and I do too. The name he used locally was Horton and this is where he died. If anyone has more info about him, I could certainly use it. And I can't find sheet music for it either, will keep looking, has to have sold in the millions. MASATO, please help- I can't figure out the Danish site enough to find the MIDI for Livet i Finnskogarna. Can you give more explicit instructions, I'd really appreciate it. Would anyone care to speculate wildly on how he might have become familiar with the Danish tune? thanks much, Mary O'Benar New Port Richey Forida |
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12 Feb 08 - 03:08 PM (#2260652) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: GUEST,Paul F. Anderson Vaughn Horton wrote the words and music for "Mocking Bird Hill". As a songwriter he did not use his full name, which was George Vaughn Horton. The Swedish song "Livet I Finnskogarna" (Life In The Finnish Woods) had Swedish lyrics by Anna Myrberg. There are two Swedish songs, which use "Mocking Bird Hill" as a melody. The Swedish lyrics are not a direct translation of Horton's text. "Småfåglarne" (The Small Birds) was written by the well-known entertainer Povel Ramel. "Adress Rosenhill" was written by Gösta Carje. |
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12 Feb 08 - 08:05 PM (#2260924) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: masato sakurai Mary, the midi site linked to above seems to be inactive any more. Instead, listen to some videos at YouTube. Life In The Finn Woods (Livet i Finnskogarna) - Accordion Carl Jularbo Livet i finnskogarna med Robin Life in the Finland woods by Sylvia Marie & Graham Wilson |
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13 Feb 08 - 07:52 PM (#2261836) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: Charley Noble This song does bring back memories of sitting around the farm breakfast table listening to the country western songs on the radio. "Mockingbird Hill" is one that I still hear echoes of. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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13 Feb 08 - 08:06 PM (#2261847) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: Sorcha Is this the right sheet music? |
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28 Aug 09 - 02:23 PM (#2710856) Subject: RE: Tune Req: Mockin'bird Hill From: open mike Very interesting to see the Swedish/Finnish origin/similarities. I learned of the Finnskogen culture at Scandinavian music and dance camp this summer. there were Finns who migrated to the Swedish and Norwegian forests in late 1500's to early 1600's and they burned the trees down in places to clear the land for rye planting. http://www.finnskogen.net/engelsk/svedjee.htm http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/97191/33848/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnskogen There is also another Swedish Finnish connection -- in an area of Finland there is a place where they speak Swedish..i learned this from the band Gjhallarhorn, who is named after the horn blown by the gatekeeper god Heimdall to signify the beginning of Ragnarok. http://www.gjallarhorn.com/main.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish-speaking_Finns |