Sunday Morning: A Song History

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The "Sunday Morning" in Bing Futch's All Over The Map is his own composition: the DulcimerDownloads listing credits it to Futch, puts it in DAA tuning, and notes that it comes from his album Dulcimerica: Volume 1.[1] The book, a J.O.B. Entertainment publication of dulcimer tablature, downloads with MP3 recordings of its songs.[1] In his April 2007 post announcing the songbook, Futch flagged this title with the asterisk that marked the collection's completely original tunes.[2] His store page for the digital book names it among the album pieces carried into the collection, most of which it describes as original compositions.[3] His store describes that album as entirely instrumental, so this "Sunday Morning" is an instrumental rather than a song with words.[4]

Etching of a young woman in a large fur hat and a wide bow at her collar, standing before bare winter trees

James Tissot, Sunday Morning, etching and drypoint on laid paper; only state, 1883. Shown for its title alone; it has no connection to Futch's tune.

Futch's blog follows the piece into the studio: on the first night of the album's sessions at Full Sail in August 2006, he and harmonica player Charles Stansell opened by recording "Sunday Morning" and "Gold Trails Hotel" together in one room.[5] Later that month he wrote that Full Sail students had engineered the sessions and that Stansell's rhythmic harmonica accompanied the dulcimer on this track and two others.[6] Apple Music's listing of the album, which carries a 2006 sound-recording copyright in Futch's name, places it fourteenth of sixteen tracks, and at 4:53 it is the longest of the sixteen by the running times listed there.[7] That November he included it in his closing set at the staff concert of SEODfest '06, an Ohio festival where he also taught workshops.[8] The sources consulted here do not say when Futch wrote the tune or what its title refers to.[2][5][6]

Futch first played with the post-punk act Crazed Bunnyz, in 1986, and in 1999 he co-founded Mohave, playing mountain dulcimer, a group that made its debut at the House of Blues at Walt Disney World, according to his DulcimerDownloads biography.[9] The same biography notes that he went solo in 2006, makes his home in Orlando, Florida, and produces Dulcimerica, a YouTube video series.[9]

Our book that contains the song "Sunday Morning"

Sources

  1. J.O.B. Entertainment: "Bing Futch, All Over The Map".
  2. Bing Futch: ""All Over The Map" Now On Sale!".
  3. Bing Futch: "Digital Book Download: All Over The Map: Dulcimerica Volume 1".
  4. Bing Futch: "Digital Music Download: "Dulcimerica: Volume 1"".
  5. Bing Futch: "Dulcimerica Vol. 1: Full Sail Night One".
  6. Bing Futch: "Here It Is".
  7. Apple Music: "Dulcimerica: Volume 1" (Bing Futch).
  8. Bing Futch: "Hit The Home Running".
  9. DulcimerDownloads: "Bing Futch".
  10. Image: James Tissot, Sunday Morning, etching and drypoint on laid paper; only state, 1883. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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