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
jointly to Emile Vacher and Jean Peyronnin, a pianist with whom he
frequently played.
There's some information on Vacher here:
http://membres.lycos.fr/accordeon/public/histoire/vacher.htm
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'.
Francis
On 7 Jul 2008, at 09:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 French
accordionist whose heyday was in the 1920's and 30's ( I think).
The Glaswegian fiddler who allegedly changed his name to sound more
exotic/authentic/continental was in fact Parazotti (composer of The
Bank's). His grandfather was Italian and had moved to Glasgow much
earlier. So it might have been a resurrected family name as well..
Rob
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