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« on: January 18, 2006, 10:26:21 AM » |
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Come on the fairport fans, name the tune! I'm referring to the tune at the beginning of Walkawhile??? I also need to know if it's a fairport original or if it's a trad tune they've used? I HAVE MY REASONS!!! (All will become clear).  |
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« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2006, 10:40:21 AM » |
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Hmm, just had a look at the listings on my iRiver and the three versions I have don't credit anything in particular at the beginning. If you don't get an answer, I'll try to remember to have a look at my songbooks this evening...
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« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2006, 10:42:55 AM » |
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I have a feeling the tune might just be part of Walkawhile! I may have accidentaly pinched it and used it in a Leatherat tune so I'm hoping it's traditional!!!  |
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« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2006, 10:48:24 AM » |
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Mmmm... a quick search of the net suggests that it could have been written around the traditional tune "Bonaparte's Retreat". Mr Swarbrick would know for sure!  |
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« Reply #4 on: January 18, 2006, 11:13:02 AM » |
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It is indeed, Jono. There's a recording of the tune on it's own on 'Swarbrick' or 'Swarbrick 2'. Martin Carthy sings 'King Henry' to the same tune so it gets about a bit.
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« Reply #5 on: January 18, 2006, 11:19:14 AM » |
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It is indeed traditional? or it is indeed Bonaparte's Retreat?  I'll use it anyway!  |
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« Reply #6 on: January 18, 2006, 11:24:49 AM » |
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Sorry...I thought that could be a bit vague but I was in a rush  Both - it's a traditional tune, called 'Bonaparte's Retreat'. 'Walk Awhile' is written around it, so the tune's not just at the start but runs right through it. I'd use it - there's that many great trad tunes that it makes sense to use em...and if it's alright for Fairport ('Walk Awhile', 'Farewell Farewell' (the tune's 'Willy of Winsbury')) |
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« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2006, 11:34:31 AM » |
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Good man Alex, thanks for putting my tiny mind at rest! Yup, why write new tunes when there's perfectly good ones out there to use!  Look at Oasis for example?  |
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« Reply #8 on: January 18, 2006, 11:42:11 AM » |
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Oasis indeed...got all their stuff but I was listening to a bit of Slade last week (on CD at last so the vinyl won't take as much stick) and the amount Oasis have nicked from them is incredible. People always say they've pinched everything from the Beatles but...
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« Reply #9 on: January 18, 2006, 12:22:39 PM » |
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I don't think they're fussy who they pinch from! |
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« Reply #10 on: January 18, 2006, 10:54:01 PM » |
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i am listening to mark radcliffes show on radio 2 and hes playing a track by the 18th of may which uses the opening riff from walk awhile
and the guitarist sounds like he likes RT, a lot.
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« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2006, 11:02:41 AM » |
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D'oh!  Right, nobody else use that tune please! At least for the next 2 - 3 years.  God, I'm so unoriginal. |
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« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2006, 12:07:22 PM » |
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Borrow Away! Tunes have always evolved and been recycled - that's part of what the 'folk' tradition is about for me.
Lots of Anglican hymns were put to folk tunes because everone already knew them.
Walk Awhile's a favorite of mine, I love the instrumental at the end of Matty based on Carthy's arrangement of 'The famous flower of serving men' and I love Dylan's Masters of War ('Nottamun town'). If things are done creatively and the sources acknowledged - why not?
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