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  • #1

    Favorite Songs

    It appears that this branch of the AC seems to be geared more toward instrumentation and instruction, but...


    What are some of your favorite songs from the time period? Do you like the political marches, patriotic songs, or down home folk songs?

    What bothers me is when you go to a battlefield or somewhere like that and want to purchase a music cd, and it is filled with songs written in '62 or '63. I think it is safe to assume that the average johnny was not singing Stonewall Jackson's Way and the average Billy was not singing Marching Through Georgia. Maybe I am wrong though, that is why I posted this!

    My favorites are:

    Arkansas Traveller
    Nelly Bly
    Garryowen
    Waitin' for the Federals
    Rose of Alabama
    Yellow Rose of Texas
    Rosin the Bow
    Rocky Road to Dublin
    Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye
    Keemo Kimo


    What about you?
    Kevin Whitehead


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    I generally favor the pre-war favorites of home. With my impression, that frequently means songs of the California Gold Rush of the 1850s, many of which also gained popularity across the country preceding the war.

    Some of my favorites include:
    Hangtown Gals
    Joe Bowers
    Sweet Betsy From Pike
    To the Loved Ones at Home
    I'm Sad And Lonely Here

    I agree that it is important to consider the back ground of the soldier you are depicting and what songs they would have known and preferred. Too often reenactors willingly accept the singing of songs that do not match the dates of the event or that would be relatively unknown to the men they are depicting. I find though that the right music can provide quite a lot of insight into the time and culture being explored.
    Troy Groves "AZReenactor"
    1st California Infantry Volunteers, Co. C

    So, you think that scrap in the East is rough, do you?
    Ever consider what it means to be captured by Apaches?

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    • #3
      Re: Favorite Songs

      Hi,

      For me it would have to be the following:

      "Old King Crow"
      "Rose of Alabama"
      "Yellow Rose of Texas"
      "Old Dan Tucker"
      Andrew Kasmar

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      • #4
        Re: Favorite Songs

        The Union Wagon.
        The why and the wherefore.
        Drink it down
        Johhny is my darling
        Goober peas
        Over the hills ad far away
        The Army of the free.
        Tramp Tramp

        These are the ones we sing, we play shed loads more.
        [B][I]Christian Sprakes
        19th Regimental Musician and Bugler[FONT="Impact"][/FONT][/I][/B]

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        • #5
          Re: Favorite Songs

          Well,


          I concur that a lot of songs would have been from the soldier's civilian experience and what they grew up with.
          There has also been some speculation on other threads as to the popularity of Irish tunes at this point in history,hence their performance for select groups rather than general audiences.

          My .02
          Forrest Peterson

          Tater Mess
          Tater Mess Social Orchestra
          Missourah Shirkers

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          • #6
            Re: Favorite Songs

            Hearing a good fife and drum "Minstrel Boy" always fires me up.
            [SIZE="3"][B]Chris Montague[/B][/SIZE]
            Associate of the 10th Virginia Infantry/5th Wisconsin
            Member of the Battalion of the Common Soldier

            Golf Co, 2/23 Marines
            Ar Ramadi/Al Fallujah, Iraq

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            • #7
              Re: Favorite Songs

              Originally posted by AZReenactor View Post
              I generally favor the pre-war favorites of home. With my impression, that frequently means songs of the California Gold Rush of the 1850s, many of which also gained popularity across the country preceding the war.

              Some of my favorites include:
              Hangtown Gals
              Joe Bowers
              Sweet Betsy From Pike
              To the Loved Ones at Home
              I'm Sad And Lonely Here

              I agree that it is important to consider the back ground of the soldier you are depicting and what songs they would have known and preferred. Too often reenactors willingly accept the singing of songs that do not match the dates of the event or that would be relatively unknown to the men they are depicting. I find though that the right music can provide quite a lot of insight into the time and culture being explored.
              Troy,

              I seem to remember us singing A Ripping Trip quite often at events too.

              Occasionally at an event, I will strike up De Boatman Dance.
              - Pvt. S. Martin Aksentowitz
              1st California Co. F
              Carleton's Cannibals

              [CENTER][COLOR="Red"]Angst kommt; da werden sie Heil suchen, aber es wird nicht zu finden sein.- HESEKIEL 7.25[/COLOR][/CENTER]

              [CENTER]"To day we. . . stopped a few minutes to examine the crumbling ruins the walls were defaced with Texians traitors names and Texican Braggodocia but nary a Texican thare to answer to his name or make good his writing on the wall."
              -Eli W. Hazen, 1st California Vol. Inf.[/CENTER]

              [RIGHT][COLOR="Silver"]"Credo Quio Absurdum" - ECV[/COLOR][/RIGHT]

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              • #8
                Re: Favorite Songs

                Martin, that's just 'cause it is the first song in the front of my songster. Besides, even I can remember the tune to Pop Goes The Weazel. ;-)
                Originally posted by Lone Guard View Post
                I seem to remember us singing A Ripping Trip quite often at events too.
                Last edited by AZReenactor; 09-11-2008, 12:27 PM. Reason: fixed typo
                Troy Groves "AZReenactor"
                1st California Infantry Volunteers, Co. C

                So, you think that scrap in the East is rough, do you?
                Ever consider what it means to be captured by Apaches?

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                • #9
                  Re: Favorite Songs

                  By far the 33rd AL favorite songs would be Jenny, Banks of the Ohio, and a medley of Comin' Round the Mountain, Working on the Railroad and Are You Washed In the Blood of the Lamb. We have a special one in our hearts for a "retired" Captain who just LOVED Goober Peas, I quote "This song sucks!" I don't know why, but obviously he doesn't care for it.

                  Paul Wolbeck
                  Cpl, 33rd AL
                  Paul Wolbeck, Captain
                  33rd AL Inf

                  Pvt. Ezra Walker
                  36th OH, Co G Salem Light Guard

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                  • #10
                    Re: Favorite Songs

                    I'm glad to see that we play a lot of those songs! :) and some i've never heard, that I am now going to go look up and learn!!!
                    Mary Elizabeth Wainwright
                    Kracker Dan Minstrels
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                    • #11
                      Re: Favorite Songs

                      Let's not forget Oh! Lemuel, The Glendy Burk, Molly Malone, My Old Kentucky Home, Old Folks at Home and Camptown Races.
                      John Barr
                      2nd Delaware

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                      • #12
                        Re: Favorite Songs

                        Love many songs of the era not the least of which is fife and drum. The 2nd Maryland "ROCKS"!!! Especially their version of "Captain McIntosh", and "Frog in the Well". Have been looking for and posted a question regarding "Ain't we Glad to Get Out of the Wilderness" as played by the 7th Rhode Island Regimental Band following the Overland Campaign.
                        As of yet, no one has been able to produce the lyrics to this little gem. I'm told it goes by the same tune as "Down in Alabam". Anyone, anyone...
                        John Marler
                        Franklin, TN

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                        • #13
                          Re: Favorite Songs

                          Originally posted by AppomattoxTours View Post
                          Love many songs of the era not the least of which is fife and drum. The 2nd Maryland "ROCKS"!!! Especially their version of "Captain McIntosh", and "Frog in the Well". Have been looking for and posted a question regarding "Ain't we Glad to Get Out of the Wilderness" as played by the 7th Rhode Island Regimental Band following the Overland Campaign.
                          As of yet, no one has been able to produce the lyrics to this little gem. I'm told it goes by the same tune as "Down in Alabam". Anyone, anyone...
                          Here...

                          http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?dukesm:46:...
                          Last edited by AZReenactor; 09-11-2008, 05:16 PM. Reason: Fixed broken link.
                          -Joel Hooks

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                          • #14
                            Re: Favorite Songs

                            Old King Crow
                            Angelina baker
                            Travel forth to god
                            The lambs Fountain
                            Tyler Gibson
                            The Independent Rifles

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                            • #15
                              Re: Favorite Songs

                              One song I've been playing quite a bit lately is called "Few Days."

                              Just a moment...
                              http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mussmhtml/mussmTitles138.html#bottom



                              Greg Adams turned me on to this song. Greg is a fabulous minstrel banjo player, and a heck of a nice guy to boot. He found this song arranged in a Septimus Winner banjo tutor from 1864.

                              The song is pre-war, and the number of "political" versions I find of it (Gold Rush, 1860 election, secession crisis, etc.) suggests a very popular tune that is quite under-represented in the hobby today.
                              [FONT="Book Antiqua"]Carl Anderton[/FONT]

                              [FONT="Franklin Gothic Medium"][SIZE="2"]"A very good idea of the old style of playing may be formed by referring to the [I]Briggs Banjo Instructor."[/I][/SIZE][/FONT]
                              [FONT="Palatino Linotype"][B]Albert Baur, Sgt., Co. A, 102nd Regiment, NY Volunteer Infantry.[/B][/FONT]

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