Whilst at Newcastleton at the weekend I was playing 'Happy Hours' and
got into a nerdy discussion about composers .. and I got it mixed up
:) So in an attempt to clear it up and given that lots of people who
were there are on this list ..
Emile Vacher who composed Happy Hours was in fact a
That's why I tend to favour Clough repertoire, where the only concern is to
differentiate between some Tom, Dick or Harry ;-)
Chris
www.chrisormston.com
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Hi Rob and others,
The 'Happy Hours' title is from the original French title 'Plaisance-
Fox' which would have appeared on a French '78. My CD copy of this
says 1927, though annoyingly, I've lost the CD leaflet which would
give fuller information. As far as I remember the piece was credited
This piece seems to have entered our repertoire via Billy Pigg having been
included among the performances recorded by Foster Charlton and issued on the
Leader LP 'The Border Minstrel'.
Yes indeed, but I think you'll find that it had previously been taken
up by Jimmy Shand. From there, it's
For all of you who read Anthony's letter in the NPS Newsletter can I correct
what he said about the title Rusty Gulley where he said it should read Busty
Gulley because of confusion over the lower loop on the letter R as it occurs in
the original MS of the Vickers Tune Book. It is not the
Thanks for that Colin
I replied personally to Anthony and we have had a friendly exchange
about titles and metres.
I stick absolutely to my interpretation that these 3 tunes are in 3/4
even though all but one of Vickers' triple-time hornpipes have the 6/8
signature and mixed note groupings, if I
