MR: Barrett & the Beach Boys

[edh@ascc01.ascc.lucent.com (Ed Hopkins)]

Poster: edh@ascc01.ascc.lucent.com (Ed Hopkins)

> >B: Singing songs about or from post-Period Scotland, Ireland, or Canada.
> >   (such as "How I wish I were in Cherbrook now")
> Do you mean "Barrett's Privateers" by Stan Rogers?  in which case that is a
> 20th century song written in the 1970s.

I do believe that Cherbrook, Halifax, and Stan Rogers are all from
post-Period Canada.

> What's the difference between "Barrett's Privateers" and
> "California Girls" at an SCA event?

It's interesting that you chose this Beach Boys song, rather
than "Sloop John B."  For a disturbingly long time I thought
"Barrett's Privateers" told pretty much the same story of a
miserable sailing trip, and sang it with a big grin, until
one night at Pennsic someone followed it with "And the Band
Played 'Waltzing Matilda'" (a song about embittered disabled
veterans) and I starting thinking, "What does this have in
common with the Sharbrook Song?"  Now I don't grin when I
sing it.

But since you did bring up "California Girls", it reminds
me of another type of singing I meant to survey about:
language from the Period set to modern melodies, such as

  London girls are fine; oh, leaze me on those styles they wear.
  And the Southern girls, wi' the way they talk,
  They knock me oot when I'm doon there.
  The Midlands' farmers dochters really mak you feel a'right.
  And the Northern girls, wi' the way they kiss,
  They keep their lemans warm at night.
  I wish they a' cou'd be Caledonia girls.

Or a better example (but harder to convey here) is my
"Cuccu Bugge" ("Sumer Is Icumen In" in boogy-woogie).
How does this sort of thing rate on a scale from negative
four to positive three?

-- Alfredo
 
Alfredo el Bufon
Elvegast, Windmaster's Hill, Atlantia
edh@ascc01.ascc.lucent.com
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So, where the hell was Biggles, when you needed him last Saturday?
And where are all the sportsmen who used to pull you through?

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