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13 Apr 06 - 08:23 AM (#1717153) Subject: Star Spangled Banner - Folk/Sea Shanty From: GUEST,Guest I've just had a conversation with one of my work colleagues who was telling me that the tune to the USA National Anthem was taken (based) from an old English Folk song, possibly even a shanty. He said he saw this on a TV programme presented by Michael Burke. Has anyone heard this before? |
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13 Apr 06 - 08:26 AM (#1717155) Subject: RE: Star Spangled Banner - Folk/Sea Shanty From: manitas_at_work A drinking song "Anacreon in Heaven". http://www.bcpl.net/~etowner/anacreon.html |
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13 Apr 06 - 08:46 AM (#1717162) Subject: RE: Star Spangled Banner - Folk/Sea Shanty From: GUEST Well, blow me. That was quick |
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13 Apr 06 - 08:48 AM (#1717163) Subject: RE: Star Spangled Banner - Folk/Sea Shanty From: Paul Burke fhouldn't it have been The ftar fpangled Banner then? Or would that have put Americans at rifk of having fand kicked in their faces by feven ftone weaklings? |
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13 Apr 06 - 10:01 AM (#1717214) Subject: RE: Star Spangled Banner - Folk/Sea Shanty From: masato sakurai Hear "The Anacreontic Song" here (Click on The Song) at The Star-Spangled Banner at American History Museum. |
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13 Apr 06 - 02:41 PM (#1717413) Subject: RE: Star Spangled Banner - Folk/Sea Shanty From: Q (Frank Staplin) Anyone want to do the SSB as a shanty? Doesn't look easy! |
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13 Apr 06 - 05:11 PM (#1717554) Subject: RE: Star Spangled Banner - Folk/Sea Shanty From: Charley Noble Maybe it would work to an arrangement of "Blood-Red Roses." What a challenge! Charley Noble |
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13 Apr 06 - 05:31 PM (#1717564) Subject: RE: Star Spangled Banner - Folk/Sea Shanty From: Joe Offer Sometime Mudcatter Dave Swan is a menber of a San Francisco area a cappella group called "Oak, Ash, and Thorn." They did a great recording of "Anacreon in Heaven" - and you can find it for free download here (click). The whole CD is grand - you should buy it, already. -Joe Offer- |
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13 Apr 06 - 05:32 PM (#1717565) Subject: RE: Star Spangled Banner - Folk/Sea Shanty From: GUEST,EBarnacle I find myself using the 2nd and 3rd verses more and more often of late. |
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13 Apr 06 - 05:36 PM (#1717567) Subject: RE: Star Spangled Banner - Folk/Sea Shanty From: radriano Can't be a sea shanty without a chorus. That's the first rule of sea shanties. |
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13 Apr 06 - 10:04 PM (#1717753) Subject: RE: Star Spangled Banner - Folk/Sea Shanty From: Charley Noble I've checked out the lyrics again and though I hate to admit defeat, the job of transforming this song into a sea shanty seems udderly hopeless. There's no chorus or refrain... No "Jack" or "Sally" or even a "Willie"... Not even a bounding billows... Nothin' to drink... I suppose one could shout "Umph" or "Joe" or "So help me, Bob" periodically... There is an old parody which may lead to something: Oh, say can you see, Any bedbugs on me? If you do, pick them off, And we'll make bedbug broth! Odd, I'm having trouble posting this! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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22 Dec 10 - 11:28 PM (#3059768) Subject: RE: Origins: Star Spangled Banner - Folk/Sea Shanty? From: katlaughing Thought this might be of interest to some: A first edition of the lyrics and music of "The Star Spangled Banner," one of the 11 known copies, was auctioned at Christie's in New York on Dec. 3 for $506,500. It is said that Francis Scott Key wrote the first verse in 1814 while watching British ships fire on Baltimore's Fort McHenry. The final version with 32 lines was completed when he got back to Baltimore. The words were set to the music of a well-known drinking song, "The Anacreontic Song." A Baltimore music publisher rushed to put the words and music together and there are many typos in the first edition. The publisher even forgot to include the name of the poem's author. The song did not become our official national anthem until 1931. |
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23 Dec 10 - 07:32 PM (#3060365) Subject: RE: Origins: Star Spangled Banner - Folk/Sea Shanty? From: Joe_F Charley Noble: My mother had a different recipe: ... If you'll please pick a few, I will fry them for you. There was also the jazzed-up O say, can you -- imagine, mother? Your boy is in the guardhouse now. |