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Tune: Navy Boots/Where the Coho flash silver
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WHERE THE COHO FLASH SILVER
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Could you help with copyright issue?-coho flash (2)
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Tune: Navy Boots/Where the Coho flash silver DigiTrad: WHERE THE COHO FLASH SILVER Related thread: Could you help with copyright issue?-coho flash (2) |
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Subject: Tune Req: Navy Boots/Where the Coho flash silver From: MMario Date: 17 Apr 03 - 12:31 PM still looking for missing tunes - the tune for 'Where the Coho flash Silver" is adapted from the tune "Navy Boots" anyone know either? |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Navy Boots/Where the Coho flash silver From: harpgirl Date: 17 Apr 03 - 01:12 PM mario ...where the coho flash silver was done by Sally Rogers. Don't have the album at work, though....H |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Navy Boots/Where the Coho flash silver From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 17 Apr 03 - 01:17 PM You wouldn't be thinking of Navvy Boots? |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Navy Boots/Where the Coho flash silver From: Ebbie Date: 17 Apr 03 - 01:21 PM Bill Staines also sings the song although I don't know if he recorded it. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Navy Boots/Where the Coho flash silver From: mg Date: 17 Apr 03 - 01:23 PM coho flash silver also done by Virgo Rising out of Victoria B.C. Tons of people in NW know this song..well, I don't but someone will have it soon. Is it in the Phil Thomas book? mg |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Navy Boots/Where the Coho flash silver From: Joe Offer Date: 17 Apr 03 - 01:26 PM My Rhode Island mother-in-law says that it's "Where the Quahaugs Flash Silver..." [grin] Hmmm. I see that this song won the Song of the Month prize at the Victoria Nautical Song Circle. Nice collection of songs there. Nice collection here (click), too. Ah, it's in good company - look here for more sea songs. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Navy Boots/Where the Coho flash silver From: MMario Date: 17 Apr 03 - 01:32 PM *grin* joe - could you check the midi of Navvy Boots (linked by Malcolm) and see if that's the tune for "Where the Insert seafood here flash silver"? the hard part of this is when you don't know the bloody tunes to begin with - it's hard to tell if you are finding the right ones |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Navy Boots/Where the Coho flash silver From: Joe Offer Date: 17 Apr 03 - 01:55 PM I suppose the two tunes are close, MMario, but it's not the same tune. "Coho" repeats the last line and brings it to resolution. Maybe it's better to say the second-last line is an unresolved version of the last. Wish I could transcribe by ear. Where's Blessings Barbara when you need her? I can e-mail a realplayer recording to anybody who can do a MIDI transcription for us. You can hear the last verse here (click). -Joe Offer- Here are the lyrics we have in the Digital Tradition: WHERE THE COHO FLASH SILVER (Lloyd Arntzen) In Port Hardy one morning I cast off my lines The sea was all smooth and the weather just fine And for Castle Rock I was headed away Where the coho flash silver all over the bay It was just before dawn when I reached the fish ground And I lowered my poles and I let my lines down And I lit up my pipe and I waited and prayed To see the coho flash silver all over the bay Well, the sun came up shining and so did the fish All the bells were ringing -- what more could I wish And the gurdies were humming; I was making it pay Where the coho flash silver all over the bay Well, they bit all that morning until well after two They're so hungry they'd strike at an old leather shoe "This has got to be heaven!" to myself I did say Where the coho flash silver all over the bay When I tied up that night, they asked, "How did you do?" And I showed them silver darlings two hundred and two They said, "Arnt, you're the high boat, the best here today Where the coho flash silver all over the bay" Now there's doctors and lawyers and bankers and more And big wheels and promoters with their deals galore But let me be a troller and king for a day Where the coho flash silver all over the bay "My father, Arnt Arntzen, was a commercial fisherman in the Strait of Georgia near the coast of British Columbia. I wrote the song in 1970 on the occasion of his 80th birthday. He was getting on then. I used to notice him in the winter, getting shorter and shorter. But at the beginning of April, he'd start getting taller, because he was busy getting the troller outfitted to be ready by April 15, when he had to head out through the narrows. I'd swear he had grown two feet. He was also a musician -- he played guitar, flute, and piano accordion, and he was a singer, although not a professional. Arnt also loved to fish, and I wrote this song after he said that someone should write a song about when the coho salmon flash silver." copyright Lloyd Arntzen @fish filename[ COHOSILV JN oct96 |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Navy Boots/Where the Coho flash silver From: Lin in Kansas Date: 18 Apr 03 - 12:06 AM "Where the Coho Flash Silver" is also on an album called "Matters of the Heart," recorded by Heidi Muller (Cascadia Music, P.O. Box 95884, Seattle, WA), an excellent mountain dulcimer player. Words and music by Lloyd Arntzen SOCAN © 1970, per this site. Lin |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Navy Boots/Where the Coho flash silver From: Lin in Kansas Date: 18 Apr 03 - 12:07 AM Oops. Meant to add, that site also lists other albums on which the song has been recorded. Lin |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Navy Boots/Where the Coho flash silver From: GUEST,Les McAdams Date: 18 Apr 03 - 12:37 AM Seem to remember a band from portland oregon by the name of Shanghaied on the Wilammette having the Coho song on an album. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Navy Boots/Where the Coho flash silver From: Don Firth Date: 18 Apr 03 - 12:48 PM Good Song. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Navy Boots/Where the Coho flash silv From: Stewart Date: 18 Apr 03 - 12:55 PM Here's the tune transcribed from Shanghaied on the Willamette's CD "Weighing Anchor" X:1 T:Where The Coho Flash Silver C:Lloyd Arntzen M:6/8 L:1/8 Q:1/4=100 K:D D/2E/2|FFF EDB,|A,B,C D3|z2A AAA|AFA BAF|E3z2A |AAA AFA|BAF|E3z2D/2E/2|FFF EDB,|A,B,C D3|E3F3 |G2G/2G/2 FFF|EDB, A,B,C|D3z2 w:In Port Har-dy one morn-ing I cast off my lines,The sea was all smooth and the wea-ther just fine,And for Cas-tle Rock I was head-ed a-wayWhere the Co-ho flash sil-ver all o-ver the bay - - -Where the Co-ho flash sil-ver all o-ver the bay. |] Cheers, S. in Seattle |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Navy Boots/Where the Coho flash silv From: open mike Date: 18 Apr 03 - 02:09 PM i remember hearing this song on Fred Penner's tv show which, thankfully, we received when my kids were little, thru satelite back when there were 100 channels and none were scrambled. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. was much preferred in our house to U.S. shows, news, etc. Fred had a great kids show with lots of music and that is where i first saw and heard Connie Kaldor, Whiteley (is it Ken?) and other musicicans. It may have been Connie that i heard sing this on his show. Another Great canadian show i saw ws The Man Who Planted Trees, (and grew happiness) a wonderful, inspiring, heart-warming tale by Jean Giono done in beautiful, dreamy animation which looks like crayola crayon drawings...the story of a man who single-handed planted an entire forest in Durance, France. Elzeard Bouvier was the characters name..alas, it was fiction, and apparently no such person or forest exists. |
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Subject: RE: Tune Req: Navy Boots/Where the Coho flash silver From: GUEST Date: 18 Apr 03 - 04:51 PM Lloyd Arntzen's Coho tune is very similar to the "Don Valley Jail" ex Toronto and "The Grand Hotel" (in Phil Thomas' Songs of the Pacific Northwest: 2nd ed with new songs coming out in 2003)with an ornate last line (which starts and ends in the same place but goes on an interesting musical side trip first). They're both related, are they not, to "Sweet Betsy from Pike"? I mentioned in another thread that when we were recently in Port Hardy, the Chamber of Commerce people had never heard of either well-known Port Hardy song, the other being "Home, Dearie, Home". Jon Bartlett |
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