As at December 2020, I think this is the only video on RUclips of Tuba Skinny performing 'When the Red Sun Turns to Gray'. At last, after frequent researches, I discovered the title. I did so while listening to Georgia White recordings from the 1930s. Georgia recorded 'When The Red Sun Turns To Gray' in New York in May 1939, when I - a toddler in London - was more into nursery rhymes than traditional jazz, so it's no surprise that I missed it at the time. Georgia sang this straightforward 12-bar blues in the key of G, which suited her voice perfectly. She was accompanied by a trio (Sammy Price, piano, John Lindsay, string bass, and Teddy Bunn, guitar). I did not know who composed it, but further research has shown the composer to be Richard M. Jones (who of course also composed other songs for Georgia - songs such as 'Biscuit Roller' and 'Late Hour Blues', which Erika has also recorded). Erika, with Tuba Skinny, takes it down a tone to the key of F, which also suits her voice perfectly. Note the five lovely relaxed instrumental choruses as fine examples of collective improvisation.
Thank you for great video. Great dog, with Tuba skinny music, vocal best, camera person nice. Till then keep smiling with lol politely & safely with Tuba skinny
Thanks to Pops who went into trouble researching for this beautiful tune, it must be awkward to post a video with no song title, and it's not easy searching for the song title, based on the song and pieces of lyric. Five year ago, everybody look younger and Tupelo still around.
Thank you Ivan for another video from the past. This tune is completely new to me. Erika singing so awesome. All in top Form as usual and Tupelo was still alive. Lovely Regards to you and your family. Dave from Berlin Germany
Thanks Ivan. I haven’t watched nearly as much of these videos as you have; but, I have watched a bunch and don’t remember them playing this tune. Excellent playing and singing. Better pickup of Erika’s voice than usual. Not a complaint, I realize that it almost always the mic on the front of a camcorder, or such.
Thanks Pops, informative as ever, very nice tune, was ever a band so well documented over so many years? In Britain we used to follow a band called the West Jesmond Rhythm Kings, whose leader, the late Mike Durham, delighted in tracking down obscure numbers from the 20s and 30s and giving them new life. They were as good, in a slightly more formal way, as TS, which is certainly saying something. Love to meet you one day!
Thank you for sharing this video and your great blog. I have a comment on the 'Owl Call Blues' text you posted . According to the metre of this poem, there should be a monosyllabic word before 'running' in the 'Running free above the glades' line. I hear smth like 'of' in this position (on the CD). And the poetic structure of 'Owl Call Blues' reminds me of Thomas Moore's 'Those Evening Bells'.
Thanks for those very interesting observations. I think you are right in saying the word 'Of' is just audible before 'running' and of course it fits the metre. Erika’s lyrics share the nostalgia and melancholy of Moore’s poem, as well as the use of the iambic tetrameter. His poem comprised four quatrains of iambic tertrameters and he varied the meter a bit to avoid monotony (as in ‘And many a heart that then was gay’). Erika’s poem comprises two 8-line stanzas of iambic tetrameters (mostly regular, as in ‘The ocean deep, the undertow’); but she too enjoys the poet’s licence to play around with syllables, in such expressions as ‘The owl calls a mournful tune’ and ‘To a fire that glows with sparks that fly’).
@@PopsCoffee Thanks for the interesting and detailed analysis. I would like to mention a few more similarities, such as paired male rhymes, caesura after the second foot, which coincides with syntagmatic division, and some rhythmic-syntactic parallels. For example, there are repetitive short, non-verb sentences in the first lines of both poems ('The valley wide, the valley low' and 'Those evening bells! Those evening bells!'). Moore's poem comprises three different quatrains. But the first quatrain is sometimes repeated before the third quatrain in songs, such as in the following performance of Beethoven's attributed song 'Those Evening Bells'. ruclips.net/video/NJplJEWlEX4/видео.html In this case, we can assume that the lyrics of Moore's song comprises two 8-line stanzas, in which the first 4 lines are the same, just like in Erica's poem.
Thanks for the contribution, Axel. I also started by assuming Richard M. Jones must have composed it, but I have not yet been able to find any evidence for this.
Better still: I have continued hunting on the internet and have at last found a picture of the 1939 record label. It gives the composer as 'Jones'. So I think that settles it. Website: www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/7608
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As at December 2020, I think this is the only video on RUclips of Tuba Skinny performing 'When the Red Sun Turns to Gray'. At last, after frequent researches, I discovered the title. I did so while listening to Georgia White recordings from the 1930s. Georgia recorded 'When The Red Sun Turns To Gray' in New York in May 1939, when I - a toddler in London - was more into nursery rhymes than traditional jazz, so it's no surprise that I missed it at the time. Georgia sang this straightforward 12-bar blues in the key of G, which suited her voice perfectly. She was accompanied by a trio (Sammy Price, piano, John Lindsay, string bass, and Teddy Bunn, guitar). I did not know who composed it, but further research has shown the composer to be Richard M. Jones (who of course also composed other songs for Georgia - songs such as 'Biscuit Roller' and 'Late Hour Blues', which Erika has also recorded). Erika, with Tuba Skinny, takes it down a tone to the key of F, which also suits her voice perfectly. Note the five lovely relaxed instrumental choruses as fine examples of collective improvisation.
Yay Erika’s back!!
What a band! Exquisite!
Sooo relaxed .......
Love you Tuba 💚💛💚💛
I hope you are all safe and sound after the bad storm. All the best from New Zealand.
Hi Erika - willkommen zurück!
thank you Pops! Thank you Tuba Skinny!
Good to see Erika.
Thank you for great video. Great dog, with Tuba skinny music, vocal best, camera person nice. Till then keep smiling with lol politely & safely with Tuba skinny
I enjoyed the music; and loved the comments from Pops Coffee......
Thanks to Pops who went into trouble researching for this beautiful tune, it must be awkward to post a video with no song title, and it's not easy searching for the song title, based on the song and pieces of lyric.
Five year ago, everybody look younger and Tupelo still around.
Thanks for your appreciation of my efforts.
You're keeping us well supplied with previously unseen Tuba Skinny - thanks!!
Nothing better. Thank you, TS.
Thanks pops, what a great Saturday afternoon treat. Real tasty 👌🏻
Thanks Pops, a great way to start my Sunday. Nice work all, and always a pleasure to see Tupelo
Thanks, Craig. Stand by for my quiz, coming up on RUclips on 22 October. I have a notion you could be the winner!
Thanks James S. for that nifty piece of info about the use of the $ bills.Missing your video posts !
Thank you Ivan for another video from the past.
This tune is completely new to me.
Erika singing so awesome. All in top Form as usual and Tupelo was still alive.
Lovely Regards to you and your family.
Dave from Berlin Germany
Many thanks, Dave.
Hello from Oz... great to see them all banging out such great tunes...always loving it
È sempre piacevole ascoltare la voce melodiosa di Erika.
Siete magnifici come sempre.
P.s.: come invidio in questo momento il vostro clima caldo😉
Thanks Ivan. I haven’t watched nearly as much of these videos as you have; but, I have watched a bunch and don’t remember them playing this tune. Excellent playing and singing. Better pickup of Erika’s voice than usual. Not a complaint, I realize that it almost always the mic on the front of a camcorder, or such.
At last!
Very good, agradeço.
Asssooooooooouu.
RIP Tuepelo.....
Regresaste Erika...felicidades...
¡VIVA LOS SKINY! 🇲🇽DESDE MÉXICO
Entraînant ...
Magnificent
Thanks Pops, informative as ever, very nice tune, was ever a band so well documented over so many years? In Britain we used to follow a band called the West Jesmond Rhythm Kings, whose leader, the late Mike Durham, delighted in tracking down obscure numbers from the 20s and 30s and giving them new life. They were as good, in a slightly more formal way, as TS, which is certainly saying something.
Love to meet you one day!
Thanks for the kind words. I well remember The West Jesmond Rhythm Kings. They indeed had a lot in common with Tuba Skinny.
Thank you for sharing this video and your great blog.
I have a comment on the 'Owl Call Blues' text you posted
.
According to the metre of this poem, there should be a monosyllabic word before 'running' in the 'Running free above the glades' line.
I hear smth like 'of' in this position (on the CD).
And the poetic structure of 'Owl Call Blues' reminds me of Thomas Moore's 'Those Evening Bells'.
Thanks for those very interesting observations. I think you are right in saying the word 'Of' is just audible before 'running' and of course it fits the metre. Erika’s lyrics share the nostalgia and melancholy of Moore’s poem, as well as the use of the iambic tetrameter. His poem comprised four quatrains of iambic tertrameters and he varied the meter a bit to avoid monotony (as in ‘And many a heart that then was gay’). Erika’s poem comprises two 8-line stanzas of iambic tetrameters (mostly regular, as in ‘The ocean deep, the undertow’); but she too enjoys the poet’s licence to play around with syllables, in such expressions as ‘The owl calls a mournful tune’ and ‘To a fire that glows with sparks that fly’).
@@PopsCoffee Thanks for the interesting and detailed analysis. I would like to mention a few more similarities, such as paired male rhymes, caesura after the second foot, which coincides with syntagmatic division, and some rhythmic-syntactic parallels. For example, there are repetitive short, non-verb sentences in the first lines of both poems ('The valley wide, the valley low' and 'Those evening bells! Those evening bells!').
Moore's poem comprises three different quatrains. But the first quatrain is sometimes repeated before the third quatrain in songs, such as in the following performance of Beethoven's attributed song 'Those Evening Bells'.
ruclips.net/video/NJplJEWlEX4/видео.html
In this case, we can assume that the lyrics of Moore's song comprises two 8-line stanzas, in which the first 4 lines are the same, just like in Erica's poem.
Absolutely right. And thanks for extending my cursory analysis with such insights.
@@jouli_rew Why can't we skip this clinical analysis - and just enjoy the music? !!!
Fair point, Dave. But I personally appreciate and enjoy performances more when I understand something of what is going on.
Yes
Erika at her best!
I believe that Richard M. Jones was the composer.
Thanks for the contribution, Axel. I also started by assuming Richard M. Jones must have composed it, but I have not yet been able to find any evidence for this.
Better still: I have continued hunting on the internet and have at last found a picture of the 1939 record label. It gives the composer as 'Jones'. So I think that settles it. Website:
www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/7608
@@PopsCoffee For more grist to your mill search for 'Richard M. Jones' in www.discogs.com
@@axeleast8632 Thanks!
Il arrête pas de se gratter ! Il a des puces votre chien ! Il faut lui mettre de la poudre !
Too late! Le pauvre chien (Tupelo) est décédé en 2019.
@@PopsCoffee ah ok ! Dommage j'espère qu'il est parti au paradis des chiens !!! Il aimait la musique donc c'est un pacifiste !!!!