Klarinet Archive - Posting 001155.txt from 2000/05

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] [C] Sounds2You.com ("Oh Didn't He Ramble")
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 05:12:39 -0400

I don't know much about the tune, but the *words* stem from an English
folksong known usually as "The ram of Derby".
(On this account, Derby County football (soccer) team are known as the
"Rams").
Roger S.

On Thu, 25 May 2000, Dr. Laroy Borchert wrote:

> Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:19:46 -0600
> From: Dr. Laroy Borchert <lborcher@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] [C] Sounds2You.com ("Oh Didn't He Ramble")
>
> This is not totally clarinet related, but do you have any of the
> other information on the "Oh Didn't He Ramble" tune? I have seen it in a
> hymnal as a spiritual with no composer designation. Did W.C. Handy compose
> it or arrange it? That is the tune to NMSU's fight song, which, by the way,
> was rated #1 by _Sports Illustrated_ - the #1 WORST fight song in the NCAA.
> The lyrics have to do with drinking to excess.
> Laroy
> ________
>
> Dr. Laroy Borchert
> Professor of Clarinet
> Music Department
> New Mexico State University
> Las Cruces, NM 88003
> (505) 646-3735 (office)
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>
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> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 10:28 AM
> Subject: [kl] [C] Sounds2You.com
>
>
> > Oh, Didn't He Ramble
> > W.C. Handy
> > Jimmy McPartland, trumpet/ Peanuts Hucko, clarinet/ Tyree Glenn, trombone/
> Dick Cary, piano/ Bill Crow, bass/ Al Casamenti, guitar/ Cliff Leeman, drums
>
>
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