Steve,
That seems about right. Some people (including Kathryn) do attribute
the raindrops epithet to Bill Charlton's Fancy.
Bill C. (who had a wallpaper shop in Bondgate Without, Alnwick when I
first moved up) told me that he pestered Billy Pigg so much about the
tune (regular phone calls to see how it was progressing and Billy
playing the latest bit down the phone) it was named after him. No
mention of raindrops!
As aye
Anthony
--- On Wed, 3/6/09, The Red Goblin <the.red.gob...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
From: The Red Goblin <the.red.gob...@googlemail.com>
Subject: [NSP] Re: Raindrops or ?
To: "'Dartmouth NPS'" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Wednesday, 3 June, 2009, 8:28 AM
Bill,
Do you perhaps mean Archie's Fancy (AKA Tin Can Polka) which Billy Pigg
reportedly wrote "in response to the behaviour of Fred Ord's two (then
small) sons, who rushed about with tin cans attempting to catch the
drips
falling through the partly demolished Biddlestone Hall" ?
Steve Collins
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> Subject: [NSP] Raindrops or ?
>
>
> Is my memory playing tricks again, or am I right in thinking that at
a
> concert a few years ago a tune was announced to the audience as
> ''Raindrops'' but to me it sounded like Bill Charlton's Fancy?
> Bill
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