JIM BROWN

[Tim Twiss]

Okay, I hope somebody goes with me on this. Going down the Mahar list, I find this one. It is in the Glee Book, but if anybody has looked at this one....notice the oddities in the phrasing. Go to Levy's for a different perspective.

[Tim Twiss]

So, bypassing the weirdness of the Glee Book version, check out this one from Levy's.

Look up Jim Brown

http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/

This is from 1836, putting it in the Early Vintage of Minstrel material. Many historical references. Kind of a Dandy-Long Tailed Blue type character. It is grouped with Gumbo Chaff, and Long Tailed Blue for piano quadrilles.  Lots of words...like Albany.

I am considering singing it as is lyrically.....pitchwise, I took it down a P4.  

[Tim Twiss]

William Clifton-composer...who is that?

[Tim Twiss]

Check out the first page of these versions. Either sloppy editing or ignorance misplaced a bar line in the Glee version. I was trying this and thinking how it oes not work. Checking another version-Levy's, you can see how making the first notes pick up notes changes everything. 

[Tim Twiss]

So I did it....it's not strong, but I'm not going to spend a ton of time on it. I know how it goes, and have some sort of reference filed away now.