Re: [scots-l] Ritchie Storey - mp3 recording
on 24/11/2000 5:44 am, Bruce Olson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ewan MacColl recorded it on an LP, one of 8 recordings of Child ballads by himself and A. L. Lloyd. Originally on the Riverside label, then reissued on the Washington label, #723. He implied his tune was from a fragment from his mother. MacColl's tune is the fourth among the following given by Bronson: The song is Child ballad #232 (snipped) Here's the 'Pills' tune. X:1 T:The Scotch Wedding S:Pills to Purge Melancholy, V, p. 42, 1719 (reprint) Q:1/4=80 L:1/4 M:C| K:F F/|F3/2G/A3/2A/|(A/c/)AG3/2F/|F3/2G/A3/2c/|f3/2e/d3/2c/|\ d/e/ff/e/d|c/B/AG3/2e/|f/e/dc/B/A|G3/2F/F2||] I have finally downloaded Barfly to listen to this. I must just be quite rubbish at reading and interpreting tunes! It doesn't really bear any much closer a relationship to 'Ritchie Storey' from GD than any other two ballad tunes do to each other :-), though I can see that in an awkward way the words could be made to fit. David. Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[scots-l] Ritchie Storey - mp3 recording
I liked this ballad, which I've never heard recorded anywhere, when I saw the structure of the tune in the Greig-Duncan Collection. Also, I've been looking and continue to look for any ballads which mention the Borders. So in this version I've nicked the Laird of Home from one of the variants and put him in the best other set of words - fits better anyway. Storey remains a major Northumbrian name so the ballad makes total sense. I actually recorded this to deeply irritate my son Richie, who found he just could not listen to it. Nothing like having your name in an annoying song particularly if your dad sings it. It's done with a 12-string guitar in drop D and the drumming is just tapping the top while playing. A small liberty is taken with the tune at the end of the third line. It's a good lyric and singable ballad and I hope other people pick up on this one and try a version. http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/cds/71/71955.html David Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
