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"Vintage Songs Of Yosemite" is a compilation of rare
recordings of past Yosemite entertainers, along with Tom Bopp's own
performances of previously unrecorded songs. You'll also hear a
recreation of the famous "Fire Fall Calls" that were
exchanged between Glacier Point and the valley floor, before the
singing of "Indian Love Call." Call it music, call it high
camp; these unique artifacts come alive in 'Vintage Songs Of
Yosemite', providing a nostalgic tour through the dizzying variety of
ways Yosemite has been interpreted by popular culture over the years.
From
the Artist
It is such a pleasure to share these musical impressions of
Yosemite, most of which have rested unsung in piano benches for
decades. These songs and old records remind me that, while current
expressions of Yosemite will someday become dated curiosities, the
best of them will commemorate the timeless Yosemite experience for
years to come.
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Vintage Songs Of
Yosemite
On CD and Cassette
To hear samples:
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1. Yosemite
(1954)
2. To Yosemite Falls (1940)
3. Yosemite March & Two Step
(1896)
<MIDI--entire
march!>
4. The Bridge By Yosemite Falls
(1945)1949 recording by Dick Jurgens and his Orchestra, vocal by
Jimmy Castle, added vocal and instrumentals by Tom Bopp
5. Down In The Valley
(Traditional) Excerpt from 1950s recording in Yosemite by
the Valley Singers, Glenn Willard, director.
6. Let The Fire Fall (1951)
7. Indian Love Call (1924)
8. By The Waters of Minnetonka (1917) Ca. 1920
recording by Yosemite (Camp Curry) musicians Only on CD version.
9. The Fire Fall Song (1928)
10. Falling Waters or Waters Of The Yosemite
(1874)
11. Yosemite, God's Wonderland (1921)
12. Lost Arrow Trail
(1925)
13. Yosemite (1947)
14. The "Stentor" March
(1914) 1914 recording
15. I'm Strong For Camp Curry
(1914). 1915 recording
16. Toot Your Horn For Camp Curry (1915)
17. Dans Les Sierras, Mazurka (1888)
18. Spirit Of The Evil Wind (Pohono), a Lullaby (1910)
19. Yosemite March And Two-Step
(1903)
<MIDI--entire
march!>
20. Yosemite (1936)
with ranger Carl Sharsmith
21. The Strawberry Roan (1880) 1930s
recording by Glenn Hood Only on CD version.
22. Home On The Range (Traditional) 1930s recording by Glenn
Hood
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Take a fascinating tour of Yosemite music-history,
with sheet-music cover-art and soundclips at:
VINTAGE SONGS OF YOSEMITE
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Piano/vocal, live performance. "Just A Bowl" is
Tom's musical romp from the Great War (W.W.I) through the Great
Depression, including two duets with Bill Coffman at the mighty
Wurlitzer Theater Pipe Organ, and Tom on the Bosendorfer Imperial
Concert Grand piano. Recorded before a live audience in El
Segundo, California. From
the Artist
This album manages to capture me doing my cabaret shtick--the
thing I more often than not lapse into when performing at the Wawona
Hotel in Yosemite. It is also fairly typical of the sort of
thing you're likely to hear at one of my concerts.
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Just A Bowl
(Live At The Old Town Music Hall)
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1. Keep The Homefires Burning
2. Ragtime Nightingale
3. Hello Ma Baby / Goodbye My
Ladylove
4. Just A Gigolo
5. Cole Porter Medley:
When Love Comes Your Way
I Never Realized
I'm In Love Again
6. Gershwin Medley:
That Certain Feeling
Sweet And Low Down
Driftin' Along With The Tide
7. Delishious
8. He Goes To Church On Sunday
9. Muddy Water
10. Blue Skies
11. Mamie's Blues
12. I Found A Million Dollar Baby
13. I’ve Got The World On A String
14. Street Of Dreams
15. Roll All Your Troubles Into A Cigarette
16. Graceful Ghost Rag
17. Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries Medley
with:
Now's The Time To Fall In
Love
There's No Depression In Love
18. Bluebird Of Happiness
19. At A Georgia Camp Meeting
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Solo piano. "Meadowloop" is named for a gentle, pastoral
buggy-path that circles the Wawona meadow in Yosemite. The music
is mostly Irish and Scottish in origin (with a brief foray into some
old cowboy songs), recorded on the 1906 Kanabe parlor grand in
Yosemite's historic Wawona Hotel.
From
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John Muir once wrote "In the Sierra I sang and whistled
[the songs of Robert Burns] to the squirrels and birds, and they were
charmed out of fear and gathered close about me." For me, music
of the Celtic spirit is the best accompaniment for Yosemite scenery,
and the old piano at the Wawona Hotel, which has been my companion
since 1983, is the best instrument on which to interpret that music.
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Meadowloop (Solo
Piano in the Celtic Mode)
On CD and Cassette
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1. Bridget Cruise
(three airs)
2. Fanny Poer
3. Medley:
Sweet Dublin
Bay
Paddy's Green Shamrock
Shore
Blind
Mary
4. The Derry Tune
5. Believe Me If All Those Endearing
Young Charms By Robert
Burns:
6. Ca’ The
Yowes
7. The Banks o’
Doon
8. It Was a’ For Our
Rightfu’ King
9. Is There For Honest
Poverty
10. Wantonness
11. A Red, Red Rose
12. Ae Fond Kiss
13. Medley:
Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie [2 versions]
Streets Of
Laredo
Home On The
Range
14. The Foggy Dew
15. The Foggy Dew II
16. Polkas:
Denis
Murphy's
The 42 Pound
Cheque
John
Ryan's
17. Land o’ The
Leal
18. The Derry Tune
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Solo piano. "Parlor Piano" recreates what might have been a
typical evening's entertainment in Yosemite's Wawona Hotel, perhaps 80
years ago. Recorded on the 1906 Kanabe parlor grand in
Yosemite's historic
Wawona Hotel. From
the Artist
In the summer of 1882, Yosemite artist Thomas Hill brought his
seventeen year old daughter, Estella, to Big Tree Station (yet to be
renamed the "Wawona Hotel"). There she met John Washburn
(one of the four brothers who founded the hotel in 1879); they married
in 1885 and moved into the front bedroom which is separated from the
hotel lobby by a small parlor. Estella’s upright piano stood against
the wall that backs one of the lobby fireplaces, and she would play
and sing for friends and guests; her favorite was "Love’s Old
Sweet Song."
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Parlor Piano
On CD and Cassette
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1. Tis’ The Last
Rose Of Summer
2. Love's Old Sweet Song
3. Mary Of Argyle
4. Annie Laurie
5. Flow Gently Sweet Afton
6. Vienna, City Of Dreams
7. Intermezzo, Op.118 No. 2
(Brahms)
8. Larghetto (Weber)
9. Carme
10. On The Banks Of The Wabash Far
Away
11. At Dawning
12. Mighty Lak A Rose
13. Let The Rest Of The World Go By
14. The World Is Waiting For The
Sunrise
15. Ethiopia Rag (Lamb)
16. The Weeping Willow Rag
(Joplin)
17. The Texas Fox Trot (Guion)
Recorded on the 1906 Knabe parlor
grand at the historic
Wawona Hotel in Yosemite National
Park.
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Tom's the featured vocalist on four songs in this CD with the
Royal Society Jazz Orchestra: Deja Vu?, Eureka!, Hetch Hetchy, and the
Wawona Waltz, all by band leader Don Neely. Read all about it at their
website:
RSJO.com
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Deja Vu?
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1. Hetch Hetchy
2. Redwood
3. Eureka!
4. Try Try Again
5. Tip of the Iceberg
6. How?
7. When Lulu Does that Zulu Dance
8. Ashkenaz
9. Do What You Can
10. Obligatory Polka
11. Lin's Lament
12. Wawona Waltz
13. Rover Got Run'd Over
From
the Artist
Recorded in January, 2007 live at the historic Ashkenaz in
Berkeley, CA -- what a thrill for me to realize the dream of singing
with an authentic Deco Era style orchestra! It was a blast!
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Including an atonal tango, a fantasy on Latvian folk-songs, a
meditation with electric guitar, a serenade for string quartet, and a
fascinating, mind-bogglingly silly set of computer variations on Paganinni's
24th Caprice, this is Tom Bopp as you've never heard him. All
the music is realized on a Kurzwiel electronic keyboard, with a
musical palate ranging from orchestral to synthesized. Excellent
sound, heartfelt and thoughtful music for the adventurous ear.
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Compositions 1980 -
1997
On CD only
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1. Latvia's Melnais Balzams
2. Three Sections
3. Chinese Winter
4. Watch Your Eyes
5. Serenade For String Quartet
6. Wawona Fantasy
7. Tango
8. Fractal Fantasy
9. Variations on a Theme by Paganinni
10. April Four
11. Joint Improv (with Jon Meek
12. Meek Meditation (with Jon Meek)
From
the Artist
You can think of these as "scores without
films." This CD compiles the best of my own musical works
since they released me from the UCLA music department (with a B.A. in
theory and composition). I'm making these discs to order out of
my own studio.
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Vintage 1948 Sheet Music
"The Bridge By Yosemite Falls" by H.L. McMillen
Description
800
mint condition copies of this 1948 printing of
"The Bridge By Yosemite Falls" (recorded by
Dick Jurgens' orchestra on my "Vintage Songs
album) were found in the composer's attic, signed
and numbered, suitable for framing, even more so for
playing!
SAMPLE
Click on title for Real Audio clip from the CD "Vintage
Songs Of Yosemite."
The Bridge By Yosemite Falls (1945, by Claire Porter and Harry McMillen). Recorded
1949 by Dick Jurgens and his Orchestra, vocal by
Jimmy Castle, added vocal and instrumentals by Tom Bopp
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