[78-L] "The Night Alarm"

[Philip Carli]

The composer is actually David Wallis Reeves (1838-1900), who was conductor of the American Band in Providence RI from 1866-1892 and again from 1893 to his death.  His most famous composition aside from "The Night Alarm" is the march "2nd Reg't, Connecticut N. G", which is one of the cornerstones of the American march literature.  PC
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From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] on behalf of Michael Biel [mbiel at mbiel.com]
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2012 1:41 PM
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These are the types of things that the copyright police are now out to
eliminate.  How dare they sample a poem without permission and not
paying royalties!

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com


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Subject: [78-L] "The Night Alarm"
From: L78rpm at aol.com
Date: Sat, June 09, 2012 12:36 pm
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An instrumental "descriptive specialty" by Dan W. Reeves recorded by
Berliner, Victor, Columbia, Edison (and others?), all ca. 1900-1903. It
concludes with a four-line song:

"When fire is cried and danger is nigh,
God and the fireman is the people's cry.
But when the fire is quenched and all things are righted,
God is forgotten and the fireman is slighted."

Nobody asked, but --- it appears, without attribution, in The Fireman's
Journal of 18 October 1879.

Barbara Norman, in correspondence directed to oldsongs-l, observes that
it
sounds "remarkably like a poem by the 17th century British poet Francis
Quarles:

Our God and solider we alike adore
When at the brink of ruin, not before.
After deliverance, both alike requited,
Our God fogotten and our soldiers slighted."

She believes the title is either "Epigram" or "Of Common Devotion".

Paul Charosh

Enquiring minds want to know.
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