[lit-ideas] Re: Geary and the Tin Pan Alley
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:45:51 -0400 (EDT)
In a message dated 9/16/2013 5:01:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx writes:
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
Grice in fact discusses the song in his explication of 'quantity'
implicatures. After Kant, Grice proposes four categories of implicatures:
modus
relatio
qualitas
quantitas
The 'quantitas' implicatures arise from a disbelief in the idea that one
should provide all the info that is _needed_ ("for the conversation", Grice
adds).
In this case, the river gets unspecified ("a river" -- not "the river").
Cheers,
Speranza
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Cruising Down the River is a 1946 popular recording song.
Words and music were by Eily Beadell and Nell Tollerton, two middle-aged
women who wrote the song in 1945. It became the winner of a public
songwriting competition held in the UK. One of the original early recordings
of this
song issued in the UK in January 1946 on the Columbia record label (F B
3180), was by Lou Preager and his orchestra, with vocal by Paul Rich, This was
immensely popular on radio, with record and sheet music sales making it
one of the biggest hits of 1946 in the United Kingdom.
The recording by Russ Morgan was released by Decca Records as catalog
number 24568. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on
February 18, 1949 and lasted 22 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1. [1] The song
became one of the biggest hits of his career, as well as one his signature
songs. The recording was actually a two-sided hit, as the flip side,
"Sunflower," also reached #10 on the chart.
The recording by Blue Barron was released by MGM Records as catalog number
10346. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on January
21, 1949 and lasted 19 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1. [1]
The recording by Jack Smith was released by Capitol Records as catalog
number 15372. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on
February 25, 1949 and lasted 11 weeks on the chart, peaking at #14. [1]
The recording by Primo Scala and the Keynotes was released by London
Records as catalog number 356. It reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller
chart on March 4, 1949 at #27, its only week on the chart. [1]
The recording by Frankie Carle was released by Columbia Records as catalog
number 38411. It reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on April
22, 1949 at #28, its only week on the chart. [1]
It has been redone numerous times by various artists, including Connie
Francis on her 1959 album My Thanks to You.
Preceded by
"A Little Bird Told Me" by Evelyn Knight U.S. Billboard Best Sellers in
Stores number-one single
March 12–19, 1949 by Blue Barron
March 26–May 7, 1949 by Russ Morgan Succeeded by
"(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" by Vaughn Monroe
References[edit source]
1.^ Jump up to: a b c d e Whitburn, Joel (1973). Top Pop Records
1940-1955. Record Research.
Categories: 1949 songs
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