This is a tune that gets played in session from time to time.
Now it’s stuck in my head, but I have no clue what the name is. I don’t think I’ll be able to get it “unstuck” till I can call it by name.
Can anyone put a name to this:
http://www.flutesite.com/samples/whattune.mp3
Thanks,
–James
Gee, thanks a lot. :roll:
Now it’s stuck in my head too! Sounds like something from my childhood television days, almost. I’ll be watching to see what it’s called.
Jennie
ugh. ditto on all accounts.
Sousa?
dudes, sounds like something from a music box. a nice music box at that.
We have a vote here from my SO for ‘A Spoonful of Sugar’ from Mary Poppins, but
a friend here claims the timing is wrong for that and that it’s something ‘similar’.
Not very Irish if that’s what it is … 
I have no idea if it’s Irish or not…it’s just a tune that an old box player loves to start. It’s followed by a polka.
–James
Oh my goodness I think I found it. A ‘contra dance 2
step’. Now if only I could get it out of my head too. - Lesl
From Tune dB and FC:
SILVER AND GOLD TWO-STEP. AKA – “Silver and Gold.” Old‑Time,
Canadian; Two‑Step or Polka. USA; Nebraska, New England. D
Major. Standard. AB (Christeson): ABB (Messer): AABB (Welling). Tony
Parkes and Steve Woodruff (1980) suspect the tune may be of
French‑Canadian origin. It is sometimes played for contradances
in the northern New England states. Source for notated verison: Bob
Walters (Burt County, Nebraska) [Christeson]. R.P. Christeson (Old Time
Fiddlers Repertory, Vol. 1), 1973; No. 196, pg. 145. Messer (Way Down
East), 1948; No. 96. Messer (Anthology of Favorite Fiddle Tunes), 1980;
No. 183, pg. 125. Sannella, Balance and Swing (CDSS). Welling, 1976;
pg. 6. Alcazar Dance Series FR 203, Rodney Miller ‑ “New England
Chestnuts” (1980. Learned from caller Duke Miller). F&W Records
1, “F&W String Band.” Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40126, Rodney
Miller – “Choose Your Partners: Contra Dance & Square Dance Music of
New Hampshire” (1999. This version learned from caller Ralph Page,
who “probably learned it from a recording made by the Canadian fiddler
Don Messer”).
X:1
T:Silver and Gold
S:Ken McDouall, via EF - Nottingham Music Database - Tune DB
M:4/4
L:1/4
K:D
fg |a2 fd|A2 df|ag2f|g2 ef|g2 ec|A2 ce|
ba -a^g|a2 fg|a2 fd|A2 df|ag2f|g2 ef|g2 ec|
A2 ce|d3/2e/2 dc|d2 cB|Af Af|A/2ff/2 ff|fe2^d|
e2 EF|Ge Ge|G/2ee/2 ee|ed -dc|d2 FG|Af Af|
A/2ff/2 ff|ag2e|B2 cd|fe2c|A2 ce|d3/2e/2 dc|d2 ||
That’s it!!!
Lesl, you once again prove yourself to be a true genius as a tune detective!
Thank you so much…now that I’ve got a name, maybe I can get this durn thing out of my head.
–James
Very ‘Small, Small World-esque’
and knowing the name for it isn’t
getting it out of my head! 
You’re welcome James! I searched twice on Tune dB, using the first 2 bars
of each part, not just the beginning, and it showed up on one of those.
Now could you PLEEZE post some other tune to get this out of our
heads :roll: . Your whistling’s sounding real good!
Lesl
Yeah, I’ve still got the thing bouncing around in my head, too. Aaaarrrggghhhh!
I don’t have anything new to post this morning, but here’s a tune for you that I wrote about a month ago. Called the Pewter Plug, it’s played on a Hoover B-flat whitecap on a Gen body:
http://www.flutesite.com/samples/pewter_hoovbb.mp3
The title of the tune refers to the pewter plugs found on the footjoint keys of the old English 8-key flutes. My understanding is before you’d play you’d wet the pewter with oil so it would form an airtight seal against the metal seat. I wrote this tune one morning, drinking coffee and sort of looking to find my own airtight seal against the day, if that makes any sense. I hope you like the tune!
–James
Thanks James, yes that was a nice tune! Got me through my breakfast,
too!
Lesl