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Description: | Vickers is the only source with this title, but the tune is widespread among Scottish, Irish and English collections. Another local title is John Bell's I'll Never Gan To The Dark Cellar Ne Mair, sounding like a line from a song. The Old Grey Goose is a much longer Irish version, recorded by Sligo-born fiddler Michael Coleman. A curiosity is that that this tune and Vickers' next also occur together in Rutherford's and Thompson's Compleat Collections, despite the titles not being related in Vickers, who has a completely different tune called Breeches Loose.This tune forms part of the The William Vickers' manuscript, dated 1770. The Index to the manuscript shows that part of the book is now missing, but the very substantial surviving part contains 580 tunes, or 'Country Dances' as the author calls them. It is not easy to pinpoint Vickers's location as his name is not uncommon, but he may be the William Vickers who shows up in genealogical records as an 'Officer of Exise' [sic] in Newcastle. It is fairly safe to assume that the collection was made in North East England because although it contains a lot of Scottish and English tunes it has local material which is not found in other sources. ; 18th century tune book compiled by William Vickers | Rights holder: | rights holder : Society of Antiquaries | Temporal: | start=1761;end=1800; | Source: | Folk Archive Resource North East | Identifier: | farne:R0304201 | Go to resource |
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