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Thread #68759   Message #1162422
Posted By: wysiwyg
15-Apr-04 - 11:29 AM
Thread Name: Review: Mike Miller's CD released!
Subject: RE: Review: Mike Miller's CD released!
Mike, is this right, and are there any to add?

Frankie and Johnny
Red River Valley
Three Jolly Rogues of Lynn
Tyin' a Knot on the Devil's Tail
When I First Came to This Land
I Wish I was Single Again
Down to the Valley to Pray
Mountains of Mourne
Fair Weather Friends
(That's a Johnny Cash composition and the only "new" song of the bunch)

I do a song in Yiddish (Let's face it, it's who I am) that I sing better than I spell it.

There is one mandolin-accordian duet of a piece that has no name. I learned it when I played in a little orchestra that performed for the various Jewish immigrant societies in South Philadelphia. I was twelve years old and it was my first professional job. I played violin, of course, and, one day, the manager/conductor/gonnif handed me a mandolin and the music for this song, which he called "Russian Waltz". I've never forgotten it and I've never learned the real title, either.


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