[bookshare-discuss] folk songs on a 45 rpm record search, really it was "really really off topic"
- From: Rik James <rixmix2009@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:54:43 -0600
Okay, I changed the subject header. It was, "this is really really off
topic."
But I am just curious about Folk music, and with a question about a record
it just plays on my mind.
I had a nice box overflowing of 45's during those years.
I can hear those songs but that record, here are the names of who it could
be. But really to research it properly, we could go to the Library of
Congress database, or we could go to the All Music Guide. If it really was
1964, and if we could get a bit of a good idea more about what the singer
sounded like, it might help. So, Duane, what else can you remember? Was it
an individual singer or a group, for one?
Write to me off list if you do not want to take up the discussion list with
this.
but the other Bookshare folks who are also Folk music fans may want to get
in on it, so...
Sam Hinton?
He just died yesterday. Marveloous singer and harmonica player.
They have a nice website up, at samhinton.org.
Could not find it exactly there.
Sam's stuff was on Decca records, so it could be a path to research, if we
knew that much.
6 songs on a 45 rpm, I used to have those, too. But they were not all that
common.
Of course it could have been someone local, too?
Win Stracke?
he was a great folksinger and might have recorded those songs.
Then there are some obvious guesses
Like Burl Ives. He did lots of records of tradtional songs.
And this I can hear him singing in my head. Buit he was so well known and
you would remember him, right?
The Weavers, They did Drill Ye Tarriers I now, and probably others.
So this is where I stop my speculating and get back to scanning.
Radio show tomorrow, gotta run. Thanks, and good luck, Duane.
Rik
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From: "Duane Iverson" <diverson@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 6:52 PM
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Blind exchange and discussion"
<BLIND-X@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] OK This is really really off topic.
Can any of you folk guys out there help me with a name?
When I was young I had a 45 with six songs on it. This folk singer I know
had at
least one album because one of the grade school teachers at The North Dakota
School for the Blind had a copy and this was about 1964 or so.
The record I had had a version of John Henry, Drill ye Terriers Drill, Oh
Shenandoah, and a song whose first line was "there were two little frogs
that
fell in a well.
Kee Mo Kitty Wont'ya Ky Me Oh.
And too this world they said Farewell.
I sang my kids to sleep with that song. I'd love to find out who that was.
The only name that comes to mind is Wayne Powell and I know that's not
write.
help!
You can write me off list.
I've tried ITunes, no luck! I've searched on Google, no go.
diverson@xxxxxxxxxx
Sincerely Yours:
Duane Iverson
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims
may
be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than
under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes
sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us
for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the
approval of
their own conscience."
C.S. Lewis
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