{"id":983,"date":"2010-06-24T01:22:37","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T06:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2010-06-24T01:22:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T06:22:37","slug":"silver-crown-schottische","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"Silver Crown Schottische"},"content":{"rendered":"

Silver Crown Schottische (mp3<\/a>) is an 1895 song by J. H. Jennings that I stumbled onto via sheet music on a personal site<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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This song isn’t well known, I guess, but in a way it’s not obscure at all, since a little part of it was adopted by a TV commercial and became known as The Oscar Meyer Weiner Song: “I wish I was an Oscar Meyer weiner, that is what I’d really like to be \/ cuz if I were an Oscar Meyer weiner \/ everyone would be in love with me.”<\/p>\n

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This song wasn’t completely lost. Look it up on Google and you will find references here and there<\/a>. There’s another version on YouTube<\/a>, for example, though I think it’s from a different version of the source, maybe retroactively arranged to emphasize the part used in the famous commercial.<\/p>\n

The source site that I learned this from is a good hearted project. It was a page titled “19th Century Tunes” that describes itself this way: Click below to get gif files of some 19th Century Tunes from old books I own.<\/q> That’s it. Nothing complicated — somebody took a bit of trouble to scan some old books, and after a while other musicians had the pleasure of turning the scans into sound. I believe the person who created that page and the scans is mandolinist named Jim Garber. <\/p>\n

The instrument on this recording is an 1900 Fairbanks mandolin<\/a>. Made in Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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