Nigel Gatherer wrote:
> Dr Turner sent me one of his publications ...It included a version of
> the Stars and Stripes...suggesting that it's a Scots song...Cue Jack
> Campin to give us the whole story (or a scathing put-down of such
> preposterous claims).
Jack said:
> If you mean the music for "The Star-Spangled Banner", yawn...
Hee hee! Yes, of course it was "Star-Spangled Banner". My books and
records are now largely stored in the cellar, and, being lazy, it's a
thought to traipse down [1]. However, I'll go down and dig out Turner's
book...
Yes: he has it as "To Anacreon in Heaven" and annotates it "Traditional
- Edinburgh Musical Miscellany 1792". I think that, like myself, John
Turner is an enthusiast rather than any great expert. People like Jack,
Bruce and Charlie (Campin, Olson, Gore) are better sources for original
thought and information.
There's nothing else of great interest in this wee book ("The
Fiddletree Manuscript" Richmond VA 1978). He gives a version of "The
Miller" (also known as "The Dawn" in Ireland); I've never come across
it as a Scots tune and I don't think it is one, although it would sound
at home in a Scots collection. He has a pipe jig, "Lord Dunmore" which
I play as "There Was a Young Man", and the rest are standards.
[1] = Cellar's on the ground floor, I'm on the second [2]
[2] = For the Americans, I'm on the third floor
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Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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