[Dixielandjazz] Sweet Fields -- the search

[Ingemar Wågerman]

Dear Ken, Bill et al,

The Sweet Field Mystery came up on this list about a decade ago. There 
is still no further information available. However, I have found a 
reference to a hymn "Sweet Fields of Eden, I long to Behold" by Emma 
Pitt, published 1882 in "Chapel Echoes No.1, #d28". I have not been able 
to find this hymnal so I don´t know the lyrics or the melody. I hope 
that someone can find "the 8th dwarf"...

Ingemar Wagerman
Gota River Jazzmen, Gothenburg, Sweden
www.jazzhistoria.se



Ken Gates skrev:
> Thanks to the several people who took an interest in the search.  :I have
> made contact with several off list that I had hoped had some information.
> One was a person who was close to the Ken Colyer scene when he first
> recorded it a few years after returning from New Orleans.  He made the
> observation that he doubted it had a hymn source, more likely a strain 
> from
> an obscure march or even ragtime piece.  The title had led me to the 
> speculation
> that it had some religious reference.  Furthermore, he stated that Colyer
> rarely played it in live performances.   So I shall change my 
> detective work
> to other areas.  Maybe a search for the 8th dwarf who is rumored to know
> where the map to the lost gold mine is hidden.  The internet does make 
> for
> these kind of searches does it not?
>
> Ken Gates   ---  Detective still in apprentice mode
>
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