Three Tune Tuesday - The Last Tuesday Pri
It's time again for Three Tune Tuesday, that day of the week where members of the Hive community shares three songs of their liking with the rest of the community.
I take a slow, relaxing approach to Three Tune Tuesday: I like to share pre-1924 78rpm songs from my collection, and record them while playing on an appropriate time-period windup phonograph. I encourage you to take a few moments and slow down with me. Settle down, close your eyes, and take yourself back.. way back.. in time, to a distant uncle's parlour in the early 1920's. There are comfortable seats, pleasant conversation, and old music.
Throughout the month of December I have been sharing Christmas songs from days of old. Today is the final Tuesday before Christmas! I've taken a specific approach to this week and have decided to share "traditional" Christmas songs.
The Star of Bethlehem
Recorded in 1910, The Star of Bethlehem is sung by Evan Williams. It's maybe not a 'traditional' song in the sense anymore, but for the time it would have been something well enjoyed by the public.
Adeste Fideles
This 1915 version of Adeste Fideles (Oh Come All Ye Faithful) is sung in Italian by Irish tenor John McCormack. It's a really moving version. I'm not a particularly religious person, but I really enjoy this song, and this version in particular. It brings a sense of peace to my soul.
Silent Night
Sung in German by Ernestine Schumann-Heink, this version of Silent Night is perhaps the most traditional of all three songs today for a number of reasons. First, the song itself is widely known and, even in German, is easily recognisable. Second is the singer herself.
Ernestine Schumann-Heink was born in Bavaria in 1861 during the time of the Austrian Empire. Bavaria. Bavaria! How traditional is that? Further, she was born to a father who was a cavalry officer and then a cobbler. A cobbler! Do you not get wonderfully romantic images of an old Bavarian town with chimneys billowing smoke and the sounds of blacksmiths and smells of heavy leather just thinking of it? I do.
Three Tune Tuesday (TTT) is initiated by @ablaze.
I run a live stream of my TTT songs every Tuesday at 12:00pm EDT, then take that stream and share the songs from it here, on Hive, on Wednesday (or occasionally Thursday). These songs are all old pre-1923 78rpm records from my collection, played on my antique phonographs and recorded with a well placed microphone. Like what you hear? Come listen live!
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You are such an interesting human :)
So weird... busy listening to "Oh come all ye faithful" and was suddenly transported back to my old junior school hall.
I was in the choir. And we used to have xmas carol evening / show at year end. And I'm talkin' about around being eight or nine years old here. And I don't even know German.
Isn't music incredible.💥 (no question mark!)
Also... your intro reminds me of "Peter and the Wolf" :D My granny used to play the record for us as kids. Geesh, guy.
Thank you so much! I definitely enjoy both playing and sharing these songs. What amazes me about some of these songs is that, despite the language, they're instantly recognisable. Music really is the international language.
The intro piece is a short snippet from a song named "Peter Chin" from a band called Six Brown Brothers. They actually were brothers, there were six of them, and they were named Brown. They were a saxophone sextet, and were instrumental (no pun intended, but welcomed nonetheless) in bringing the saxophone to the public eye. Or ear, as the case may be.
Good lord!
How do you even know all of this??? :D
I think it's brilliant that you have such a passion. Underrated in a world so full of options that people don't seem to even bother choosing anything anymore.
Now that is a cracking collection of tunes for Christmas!
Aren't they though?? I could play these all day long.
Hell, I do play them all day long. 😂
Great tunes for the season and also can be considered adding to my playlist.
Nice meeting you man, greetings from Nigeria.
How is Christmas preparation over there?
Hey, thanks for stopping by! And I'm glad you enjoyed the music. There is so much fun and interesting music out there, it's nice to get suggestions for a variety.
Christmas is coming along well. Soon I will be wrapping gifts! Hope all is well on your half of the world!
Nice little story and history to go with that this week, makes the music all the better after reading that. Nice one man.