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Mystery tune - id'ers/ideas wanted...

TonyReesTonyRees New South Wales, Australia
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Hi all, a friend is trying to identify this mystery tune as played by little known UK guitarist Fitzroy Coleman on a British TV show "Hullabaloo" (not the US one of the same name) in 1963. I am stumped - any ideas?

Kinda in the McDonough/Van Eps vein - very pretty!

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  • ChrisMartinChrisMartin Shellharbour NSW Australia✭✭ Di Mauro x2, Petrarca, Genovesi, Burns, Kremona Zornitsa & Paul Beuscher resonator.
    Posts: 959

    Although I can't really see a connection the file opens in Windows Media player as 'Night and Day'. Strange.....

  • TonyReesTonyRees New South Wales, Australia
    Posts: 140

    Hi Chris, the original downloader wondered if it might be that, so added it in to the mp3 metadata as a working title - but it is not (of course)...

  • TonyReesTonyRees New South Wales, Australia
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    100 views of this post as at now but no suggestions... surely we are not giving up...?

  • kapetekapete New
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    Sounds like "Salty Dog" with a tag

  • BillDaCostaWilliamsBillDaCostaWilliams Barreiro, Portugal✭✭✭ Altamira M01F, Huttl, 8 mandolins
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    Does indeed. That explains why I found it familiar too but couldn't pin it down.

    So it could be an instrumental derived from Salty Dog.


  • BillDaCostaWilliamsBillDaCostaWilliams Barreiro, Portugal✭✭✭ Altamira M01F, Huttl, 8 mandolins
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    I’d never heard of Fitzroy Coleman but a quick search shows he was Trinidadian and played the jazzy electric guitar solo on The Roaring Lion’s 1946 calypso hit ‘Mary Ann’ .


  • TonyReesTonyRees New South Wales, Australia
    edited March 2021 Posts: 140

    Hi Kapete, I also thought along similar lines but it starts with a VI chord - initial progression is VI maj - II maj - V - I , so more like "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down" in the bluegrass world - - then it goes IV - IV#dim - I - VI maj // II maj (x2) V (x2), a bit like "Lazy River" but again different, then round again but resolving to I . I also hear a distinctive melody line which is unlike the bluegrass possibilities mentioned. So my feeling is that there is a jazz song out there somewhere that I/we have not figured yet. Somewhere in the "Tangerine" area, but again, not that. Mystery continues, at this end anyway...

    I am sure Fitzroy Coleman deserves further detective work - he sounds like a versatile player. There are a small number of videos on youtube - most uploaded by a subscriber called Yeshua Listens, see https://www.youtube.com/c/Yeshuaragbirlistens/videos - worth a look. He is a neat player!

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