| Subject: | Re: [RESOGUIT-L] Another YouTube clip: Roy Acuff & Brother Oswald | | Date: | Saturday, January 20, 2007 19:58:35 (-0500) | | From: | Neil <subs1 @.........ca>
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| In reply to: | Message 5758 (written by KCSteelPlayer) |
KCSteelPlayer@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/19/2007 9:59:02 PM Central Standard Time,
> mccloskey@gmail.com writes:
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>>Can someone tell me if this song or Wild side of life came first. Man, it
>>is
>>lucky people where less litigious back then.
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>
> Yeah, but you can't sue Trad Itional.
> Neither one of those songs came first, AFAIK (and I'm too lazy to go
> searching, but I'm pretty dang sure); as its melody seems taken from the old folk song
> (AFAIK, and I'm not gonna be bothered to look it up, if I'm wrong, someone
> will correct me soon enough) "I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes"
>
> Lane Gray,
A whole mess of these tunes are reworks of an old 1865 folk tune called
'the ship that never returned', including, 'wreck of old 97', 'the
prisoner's song' (probably the closest arrangement to 'the great
speckled bird', 'I didn't know God made honky-tonk angels', etc.
I think Maybelle Carter recorded 'the ship that never returned' at one
point.
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Have a great day!
Neil
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