--- david ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: JE> > (The rest of that winter was fun.) > > And you're going to tell us what happened, right? > How it was fun, or > what fun it was? No. Not just because it might be boring for you, but because it's become a diffuse memory of three months of snow that made a rather pedestrian part of Wales beautiful. I found this (it says 2 months) http://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/weather/2002/12/winter63.shtml Surely that was three years before > the winter of > '65, when they drove ol' Dixie down? 1962-3. > > On the weirdness of that song--four Canadians and > one guy from > Arkansas making something called "the Brown Album," > singing in a Los > Angeles mansion owned by Sammy Davis Jr. in sunny > L.A., a song about >obert E. Lee's defeat--see > > http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HEO/is_2002_Oct_1/ > > ai_92280881/pg_2 I didn't know they were Canadian (I loved The Band). Here's some stuff about that song http://theband.hiof.no/articles/dixie_viney.html Judy ___________________________________________________________ WIN ONE OF THREE YAHOO! VESPAS - Enter now! - http://uk.cars.yahoo.com/features/competitions/vespa.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html