Common (?) Songs

[MarkTK36thIL]

Re: Common (?) Songs

Thank you Mr. Jaeger for your list of songs, I'll be sure to look them up before the season starts. Don't worry about Lili Marlene, I can't even think of the tune to start with and a WWII impression is many years off anyway to start. Merry Christmas!

[RJSamp]

Re: Common (?) Songs

Sorry to burst your bubble Andrew. The Moravian Band of the 26th North Carolina was recognized as one of the finest bands in the Army of Northern Virgina. This brass band's music is published, and includes an early war arrangement of the Irish Jaunty Car tune, "The Bonnie Blue Flag".

Whether or not a brass band, fife, banjo, guitar, piano, organ, or any other instrumentally performed piece was sung with or without instrumental accompaniement I'll leave to your search of the OR's, diaries, and regimental histories. From my knowledge of period music and musicians (professional or amateur) I'd say it was sung by the singers amongst the troops.....in camp, on the march, and maybe even in battle. I have been known to sing Handel's Messiah, Morgenrot (auf Deutsch), America (nice Lutheran Hymn from Sweden), and untold number of instrumentally accompanied pieces...most of them referenced in period writings. Most sheet music, including "The Bonnie Blue Flag" did a brisk business with the soldiers...different verses and arrangements as well.

I do have direct references to "Maryland, My Maryland" being sung by common ordinary soldiers of the Army of Northern Virginia during the 1st Invasion of Maryland while on the march. Of course this instrumentally accompanied tune (also in the 26th NC band music) was in German originally......but that didn't stop the Rebs from singing it....in English, with or without instrumental accompaniement, and with different words.....

RJ Samp

[RJSamp]

Forgot to give the Punch Line to my post

I wanted to find out...Has the Bonnie Blue Flag been made into more than what it really was?

Regards,
Andrew Stebbins

the 26th NC Band, one of the more popular and widely heard bands in the ANV, did in fact have the music for "The Bonnie Blue Flag" as part of it's standard repetoire.

1. recall how far a brass band can be heard at night if you want a clue on by how many this specific song was heard. the answer is Miles. whether the singers in the army sang it later, or concurrently, is best left to your research.

2. the second stanza of the arrangement is another popular song....a Northern Abolitionist song from a New York minstrel song..... yep, it's DIXIE.

so every time they heard the Bonnie Blue Flag played they also heard Dixie, and vice versa.

It is written that the 26th NCT band played this arrangment as HETH moved out of Cashtown on the way to Gettysburg on July 1st, 1863.

RJ Samp

[Curt Schmidt]

Re: Common (?) Songs

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