Key signature: Gmajor
Submitted on March 2nd 2009 by nickthefiddle.
This tune has been added to 7 tunebooks.
Also known as Betty Fisher's Wedding.
Recordings of a tune by this name:
X: 1
T: Miss Betty Fitchet's Wedding
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K: Gmaj
|:DGFA GBAc|B2d2 dcBc|A2c2 cBA2|GDEF GABd|
DGFA GBAc|B2d2 dcBc|A2cA FDEF|G2BA G4:|
[K:D]A2d2 FGA2|G2B2 A2d2|cdef gecA|dfAd FADA|
A2d2 FGA2|G2B2 A2d2|cdef gecA|1d2fe d2 FG:|2d2fe d2D2||
From the playing of John Kirkpatrick and Jimmy Shand and with reference to Betty Fisher's Wedding also on this site
http://www.thesession.org/tunes/display/7216
# Posted on March 2nd 2009 by nickthefiddle
Betty Fitchets Wedding
This tune was written as a polka and normally played as one
# Posted on March 3rd 2009 by Iain Gent
Betty Fitchet's Wedding
This tune was entered in 2007 but wrongly titled Betty Fisher's Wedding. Jimmy Shand played a third part usually in C
# Posted on March 3rd 2009 by ph
I submitted it and Brass Monkey,which incuded John Kirkpatrick and Martin Carthy called it Betty Fisher's Wedding on their album,ditto when I saw them live and diito when I heard them in concert on BBC radio.
# Posted on March 5th 2009 by dafydd
Just got hold of a full if low quality copy of Jimmy Shands version , instead of the 30 second clip I had before. I think the 'C part' is another tune medlied into Betty Fitchet's. Sounds like a version of the verse of 'Oh Joe the Boat is Going over' and, or ' Clee Hill, Not for joe' is there a scottish name for it? Or can anyone identify it more positively.
low quality flash player version at last.fm
http://www.last.fm/music/Jimmy+Shand/_/Scottish+Country+Dances+In+Strict+Tempo+side+1
This is the first tune I've posted and I was tripped up a little by headings system. I assume this must be necessary to fit Jeremy's Database.
I was told the tune was written by Angus Fitchet one time fiddle player in Jimmy Shands Band. Web search says he had a band of his own at some point and made some recordings aswel.
I got it from a local Shropshire session where it was definitely Betty Fitchet . All the track listings on the web I've seen also refer to Betty Fitchet. I assumed that Betty Fisher's, which I half learnt originally was a variation that had taken on a life of it's own. If it came from JK of course it may well be his variation on the tune, it's what he believes in doing.
# Posted on March 10th 2009 by nickthefiddle