Immortal Invisible and When A Knight Won His Spurs

[TheTecknician]

Fun fact, just in case you didn't know. The words to these hymns can be transposed to each other's tune. Both are in 3/4 time.

Similarly with Amazing Grace and I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing, although these two have different time signatures.

That's all!

We had The King of Love My Shepherd is at school too. Not heard it for years. We had a lot lot of Welsh hymns too and I’m often surprised when I hear an English hymn sung to one of the tunes.

Also I know of two separate hymns to the tune of the Londonderry Air (Danny Boy).

O Son of man our hero strong and tender
whose servants are the brave in all the earth

Don't think I know the other one.

The one we sing to the LA is:
"I cannot tell why He whom angels worship".

That's it! The "Cornetto" bit is sublime! I never could keep a straight face.

@NeverDropYourMooncup DH & I are listening to the songs to different tunes now - currently on 'Girlfriend in a Coma' to 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips' - both in fits of laughter - thanks so much for cheering up our Sunday morning (we both have stinking colds).😆

O Sole Mio is also It's Now or Never by Elvis.

I bloody love When A Knight Won His Spurs!

What was wrong with my list of hymn tunes ?

Me too! I always loved that hymn. We used to have daily assembly in school and always sang hymns. I also loved Lord of All Hopefulness, especially the final line to each verse.
Classical music pieces were played (and announced) in morning assembly, it broadened my musical knowledge immensely. Lots of Purcell, iirc.

AI has likely messed up, if you report the post and ask MNHQ, they'll unhide it.

I remember those from Assembly at school.

OK thanks.

At my first school you were given your own hymn book (Songs of Praise) once they thought you could read well enough, so it was very exciting to get it. Until then we were told to ‘sing it to la’.

God is our strength and refuge. A school favourite.

It's a fascinating thing with the transposed tunes and lyrics - it really does expose the banality of some supposedly serious songs 😆

On the other hand, 'My Old Man's A Dustman' sounded like a heartrending indictment of working class poverty when sung to 'The Power of Love' (Jennifer Rush version) 😯

That index of meters is so fun, you can fit other folk song tunes into the categories... While Shepherds Watched their Flocks can be sung to The Miller of Dee and actually works better I reckon

Yes, that's one of them. I can never remember the name of the other one although we've sung it several times.

This is rather lovely for those who like Londonderry Air https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0csns98

We are going to see him on tour in a few weeks, this thread has really whetted my appetite for it.

Slightly OT but I can think of three songs from the 70s/80s that all use essentially the same backing track:

You Can Do It by Al Hudson and The Partners
Don't Push It, Don't Force It by Leon Haywood
Ladies' Night by Kool and The Gang

Also, Caravan of Love by Isley Jasper Isley and Shake You Down by Gregory Abbot are virtually indistinguishable!

Off The Wall by Michael Jackson and Boogie Nights by Heatwave share the same source. Jeff Lynne took note for 'Last Train To London'.

1999 (Prince) and Manic Monday (the Bangles but written by Prince) are interchangeable.

I think 'The King of Love My Shepherd Is' is a relatively well known hymn.

Used to be quite popular at weddings back in the day.

Methodists have some extra 'twiddles' (technical musical term ) in 'Immortal, Invisible'. It used to really annoy our music teacher back in the day when we sang the twiddles if we sang it in assembly

it tells you that you can sing O little town of Bethlehem to It came upon the midnight clear and vice versa.

They also go rather well sung to the Archers theme tune.