Swaggering Boney on baritonw

[Jim Besser]

I played this years ago for a Morris side and then pretty much forgot about it, but it was a recent tune of the week on the Tunesday Tuesdays Facebook group, and it got me to wondering: how would it work on the baritone Anglo? This is the result, played on a 30 button Morse ESB C/G baritone Anglo.  One take, warts and all.

 

 

Edited September 5, 2022 by Jim Besser

[Roger Hare]

Great tune - thanks! I love these Bonaparte-related tunes - almost without exception, they are

absolute crackers!

 

Thinks: Scope for a 'set' here? Swaggering Boney/Wellington's Advance/Boney in the Dumps.

 

Edited September 6, 2022 by lachenal74693

[wunks]

Bonaparte's retreat?  Nice fiddle tune with drones....😃

[David Colpitts]

As usual, Jim:  Great tune!

 

David C.

[Jim Besser]

4 hours ago, lachenal74693 said:

Great tune - thanks! I love these Bonaparte-related tunes - almost without exception, they are

absolute crackers!

 

Thinks: Scope for a 'set' here? Swaggering Boney/Wellington's Advance/Boney in the Dumps.

 

 

Bonaparte crossing the (Rhine) (Rockies),  Bonaparte's  (Defeat) (Retreat) (Expedition).  No doubt there are even more.  

 

Actually I first learned the tune as "How'dya Do," for the Sherborne dance.

 

And it's also the tune for Congleton Bear.

Edited September 6, 2022 by Jim Besser

[Roger Hare]

5 hours ago, Jim Besser said:

[1] Bonaparte crossing the (Rhine) (Rockies),  Bonaparte's  (Defeat) (Retreat) (Expedition).  No doubt there are even more.  

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[2] And it's also the tune for Congleton Bear.

[1] I just did a quick 'extract' on Napoleon|Boney|Bonaparte on my tune book and came up with 8 separate

titles. All first rate.

 

Some of these tunes have more than one name. Some of the names have more than one tune... I already have

a set comprising some of the 4-time tunes - can't play the damn' thing though...

 

[2] Stone me! So it is! Never noticed that before... I've got Congleton Bear in my tune book as an alternative title

for Hyla Lassie. We're sitting in the pub, right now, listening to it on an old Druids LP called 'Pastime with

Good Company'...

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[David Barnert]

6 hours ago, Jim Besser said:

Bonaparte crossing the (Rhine) (Rockies),  Bonaparte's  (Defeat) (Retreat) (Expedition).  No doubt there are even more.  

 

At Northern Week at Ashokan in 1983, someone posted a “Tune Title Contest” for people to scribble silly tune names. One of my favorite entries referenced a particular feature of the campus: “Bonaparte Crossing the Wiggly Bridge"

 

 

6 hours ago, Jim Besser said:

Actually I first learned the tune as "How'dya Do," for the Sherborne dance.

 

And I first learned it as “Congleton Bear.”

[John Wild]

The Northumbrian Pipers' yellow Pocket book has a tune called

Napoleon crossing the Cheviots. hoewever, I am sure I have heard it from somewhere else with a different title, possibly a song.

[Jim Besser]

2 hours ago, David Barnert said:

And I first learned it as “Congleton Bear.”

 

This, of course.  

 

[wunks]

Memories!

[SIMON GABRIELOW]

I love the sound of that baritone instrument and it very mellow tone.

[Alan Day]

Lovely playing as usual Jim  , great timing ,lift and you can instantly tell that you play for Morris Dancers.

Al

[Jim Besser]

2 hours ago, Alan Day said:

Lovely playing as usual Jim  , great timing ,lift and you can instantly tell that you play for Morris Dancers.

Al

 

It's funny, Al.  Once, at an oldtime Appalachian session, I was accused of making Ragtime Annie sound like a Morris tune.  I guess Morris is hard wired into my brain.

[Jim Besser]

On 9/6/2022 at 8:34 AM, David Colpitts said:

As usual, Jim:  Great tune!

 

David C.

  

Thanks, Dave.  See you in a week at the Squeeze In!

[Jim Besser]

5 hours ago, SIMON GABRIELOW said:

I love the sound of that baritone instrument and it very mellow tone.

 

The late, lamented Button Box did a superb job building a hybrid baritone with low reeds that sound reasonably quickly, and with an almost-traditional sound.  I love this box, although I"m always tempted to do bass runs on the lowest buttons, which aggravates my arthritis.

[Jesse Smith]

On 9/6/2022 at 5:27 PM, Jim Besser said:

 

This, of course. 

 

The song was written by John Tams to the tune of Swaggering Boney. I prefer this recent version over the half-declamation style of singing in Roberts & Barrand's version. And I like that they included the Morris slows.

 

 

[Jim Besser]

2 minutes ago, Jesse Smith said:

 

The song was written by John Tams to the tune of Swaggering Boney. I prefer this recent version over the half-declamation style of singing in Roberts & Barrand's version. And I like that they included the Morris slows.

 

I forgot about that version; love it.  Two very different approaches - the raucous pub sing version and the pretty, very arranged version. Love both. And it's cool that the Oates/Spiers version went into the Whittlesea Straw Bear tune.

[SIMON GABRIELOW]

I like the deepest notes on that Baritone; my 30 key standard ( hohner branded stagi made)..treble type has that lovely low C ( octave below middle C) which is nice to use to add real depth to musical pieces.. and when you hear even below that it is.. quite something.