Jack Campin wrote:
>
> > [John Turner] sent me one of his publications once, a jolly little
> > collection of miscellaneous Scottish tunes. It included a version of
> > the Stars and Stripes, published in Edinburgh in seventeen oatcake; I
> > think he was suggesting that it's a Scots song originally, and given
> > that anything worthwhile in this world has a Scottish connection, he's
> > probably right. Cue Jack Campin to give us the whole story (or a
> > scathing put-down of such preposterous claims).
>
> If you mean the (rather good) march "The Stars and Stripes Forever",
> that would be pretty astonishing and I'd like to know more about it.
> It sure doesn't sound like anything that could have an 18th century
> antecedent.
>
> If you mean the music for "The Star-Spangled Banner", yawn. I think
> they teach the origins of that godawful tune in American high schools;
> at least it is rare to find an educated American who can't name the
> original. I think we can blame the English for it, though it must
> have been reprinted in some of those late-eighteenth-century Scottish
> drinking-club songbooks whose contents display no discernible taste
> whatever on the part of the editor. But the Americans get to carry
> the can for the present-day text (which is even worse).
>
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The 'march king' Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever", 1898, can be found
on the Levy sheet music collection website by doing a simultaneous
search on 'stars', 'stripes' and 'forever'.
Bruce Olson
Old British Isles popular and folk songs, tunes, broadside
ballads at my no-spam website - www.erols.com/olsonw or
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Motto: Keep it up; muddling through always works.
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