Happy Holidays All, I just wanted to thank Kevin McElhone, Ian Alderman
and Robbie Rhodes for the information they provided regarding the
missing tune numbers and titles. It has provided me with information
from which I can search for the correct numbers or titles to the discs.
Rust is definitely the enemy of disc music box collectors.
Below is the information provided to me. I hope that you will find it
as useful as I have.
From Ian Alderman:
A possible contender for your music might be the "Holzschuh-Tanz"
which comes in Act III of Albert Lortzing's opera "Zar und Zimmermann".
I think Schuhplattler are more to do with clogs than the slapping of
the backside which has had such a fascination for the English speaking
world.
Lortzing (1801-1851) concerned himself in this opera with the
story of Tsar Peter I working undercover in a shipyard in Holland,
presumably in case a job as ship's carpenter proved a better career
option than being Tsar of all the Russias. Choosing the right job is
always difficult.
This music (and most of Lortzing's operas) remain popular in
Germany, and the Holzschuh-Tanz is frequently played. What I do is
arrange music for street organs, and this is one piece I did for Berlin
organ grinders. I would be surprised if Polyphon had not arranged this
music.
From Kevin McElhone:
I found this as a second number series discs --
50964 Die Parade der Zinnsoldaten, Charakter-stuck. Rheinlander.
by L. Jessel.
From Robbie Rhodes:
The song "Die Parade __ Zinnsoldaten" is most likely to be
Die Parade der Zinnsoldaten - Charakterstück, Op. 123 by Léon Jessel,
1905. The title means "Parade of the Tin Soldiers" but in English
speaking lands the song is "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers".
Many thanks,
Dave Corkrum
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