Author Topic: Name that tune!  (Read 3968 times)

psychoadept

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I have another mystery tune I'm hoping you all can help me with.  This one's a little different, though.  I'm trying to identify the melody (maybe two?) behind the part of this track from about 1:45 to 2:30:

I think I've got the rest of it:
*Revive Us Again
*Hallelujah Chorus
*<this is the bit I haven't identified>
*Marines' Hymn

But if you hear anything in there I missed, please let me know!

I may be back with more of these... there's more like this on the album, although I think this one packs the most different sources into one song.
Last Edit: April 21, 2016, 03:48:06 AM by psychoadept
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Not really my musical style and expertise, but I think I found that the tune (melody) is from 'Union Maid', and the lyrics are by Garrison Keillor?

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Lyrics -and- vocal by Garrison Keiller. You might want to check the Prairie Home Companion website, but since I don't hear any audience reaction in the track, I don't think it was recorded during a broadcast.
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Union Maid is what I was missing. Thank you!

I have the cd (Songs of the Cat by Keillor, Frederica von Stade and Philip Brunelle), but it only references "Husband/Phillips" as composers. (Husband is Revive Us Again, still not sure which part Phillips relates to.)

Edit: filled in the last details here: http://musicbrainz.org/recording/69daecc9-215c-4abe-9f04-4f37d9250af0

Turns out "union maid" itself is a rewrite of an older tune called red wing (which is based on a piece by Schumann).
Last Edit: April 20, 2016, 10:24:46 PM by psychoadept
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Here's the others I haven't nailed down:

Alaska Cats ("traditional")
https://app.box.com/s/btphzpu9ob81ou25c6dfaxfypndj8xel

Near Death, or The Search Rewarded ("traditional")
This is Poor Babes in the Woods: https://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=1314

Forty Miles ("Barrett/Wolfe")
https://app.box.com/s/hl4x4l4ypvnpbrugc564ivpjj3k221sn

The Rescue Cat ("traditional")
https://app.box.com/s/t3zsa3803fdmyjjqsckprkntp1u6ugge

All lyrics by Garrison Keillor.  :)
Last Edit: April 20, 2016, 10:28:50 PM by psychoadept
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