tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679781135128711342.post1758416167311903795..comments2023-11-03T05:56:49.732-07:00Comments on The Bagelnosher Blog: bagelnosherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02693678110909662794noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679781135128711342.post-1301892522205672862009-07-21T00:17:13.859-07:002009-07-21T00:17:13.859-07:00Amazing. I learn so much by writing a blog!
See?...Amazing. I learn so much by writing a blog!<br /><br />See? I might even have thought that Lynn Soholt himself made up that song. I don't know if I thought that -- I guess I just hadn't thought about it at all.<br /><br />"Dirty 30's" -- I like that.bagelnosherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693678110909662794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679781135128711342.post-26255774319151286362009-07-20T23:20:48.524-07:002009-07-20T23:20:48.524-07:00I take that back. "Rock Island Line" doe...I take that back. "Rock Island Line" does go back to the Leadbelly (or Lead Belly as he spelled it) era of the 1930s. The Spearmint song dates from 1924.Sally Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07884260615866546213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679781135128711342.post-88954036879683196092009-07-20T22:17:34.422-07:002009-07-20T22:17:34.422-07:00"Does the Spearmint Lose It's Flavor"..."Does the Spearmint Lose It's Flavor" and "Rock Island Line" go back farther than Lonnie Donnegan and Leadbelly. They are genuine folk songs that were revitalized in the 50s and 60s. My mother sang them as she did housework when I was a child. I think she called them songs from the "dirty 30s" or Depression era.Sally Thompsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07884260615866546213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679781135128711342.post-53337332442999844952009-07-17T01:10:42.153-07:002009-07-17T01:10:42.153-07:00As Dennis Prager used to say -- maybe still does -...As Dennis Prager used to say -- maybe still does -- he'll talk about anything except architecture and poetry.<br /><br />Works for me. <br /><br />Thanks, Bobster!bagelnosherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693678110909662794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679781135128711342.post-12599505227310422332009-07-16T19:55:52.304-07:002009-07-16T19:55:52.304-07:00Well - I had to track down some facts and Donegan&...Well - I had to track down some facts and Donegan's "Rock Island Line" (I remember it clearly - or at least some of the lyrics) was his first hit in 1956; a song of Lead Belly's, thus a blues song, but others were classified as folk songs. From desert rhubarb to skiffle to questionable chewing gum - great blog going here, people!!Bobsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11712289168616930009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679781135128711342.post-76224299411617254602009-07-16T06:01:50.691-07:002009-07-16T06:01:50.691-07:00Really! -- folk singer from the UK, not a "co...Really! -- folk singer from the UK, not a "country song", as I was guessing? <br /><br />You can tell how much I know about music. To quote my old boss Jim Watt, that year when he was trying to keep the Beach Boys from performing at a Washington DC Fourth of July extravaganza, "If it isn't the Star Spangled Banner" or "Amazing Grace", I wouldn't recognize it."<br /><br />Except that I recognize HaTikva, too.bagelnosherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02693678110909662794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-679781135128711342.post-60667908656771590142009-07-15T22:22:54.096-07:002009-07-15T22:22:54.096-07:00As an aside about Lonnie Donegan, I remember his s...As an aside about Lonnie Donegan, I remember his songs from the late fifties (in the UK) when "skiffle" groups were the rage. He was a kind of folk singer and also sang funny ballads like the chewing gum thing; quite successful.Bobsterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11712289168616930009noreply@blogger.com