Bruce Olson wrote: > That's an awful lot different from the tune usually called > "Bonaparte's Retreat".
Yes, there are at least three tunes with that name, apparently unrelated. I have since learned that this version was popularised by Glen Campbell, but the 'original' was by Kentucky fiddle player Bill Stepp recorded in about 1937. Copeland orchestrated it. Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart (see, I knew it had a Scots connection!) rearranged the tune and wrote lyrics to it, had a hit in the late forties. In the fifties Kay Starr revived it, then Glen Campbell in the seventies. Campbell played the tune on bagpipes in his version - I'd love to hear that... -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
