[lit-ideas] Re: Geary and the Tin Pan Alley
- From: Mike Geary <gearyservice@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:02:17 -0500
Very perceptive of M. McEvoy, but wrong due to being wrong. Mine on dear
Uncle Tony was not Irish nor even of European extraction so far as anyone
knows. Most of the family holds to the belief that he was Abyssinian and
wrote the music to Patti Smith's "Pissing In a River" from her album "Radio
Ethiopia". This was two generations before Patti Smith came along of
course, but I'm sure that JL remembers well the song if not the album. In
fact, JL is probably more of an expert on my uncle than I am due to a long
standing feud between the Abyssinian
Gearys and the Adirondack Geeerees who were Iroquois and presumably
occupied the Adirondacks in New York. There's a big dispute as to which
group settled where first. But that's all old history -- but a noble
history and one not to be dismissed summarily. It did produce me after
all. It humbles me to realize how many people had to be born and die just
to produce me. Thank you, Baby Jesus.
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> *From:* Mike Geary <gearyservice@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> >Yeah, that was my uncle Tony. He got killed in the war. Never got to
> make a song about it though.
>
> > One Tin Pan Alley composer was T. Mayo Geary.
> Call me doubting Thomas/Tomas, but even the Irish spell Anthony/Antony
> with an 'A' and don't christen anyone 'Tony'. What about T for 'Tomato' or
> 'Tuna', that would go with the Mayo.
>
> Donal
>
>
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