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Thread #88216   Message #1692315
Posted By: Ferrara
13-Mar-06 - 03:23 PM
Thread Name: RSVP Here for WYSIWYG's Last MudGather
Subject: RE: RSVP Here for WYSIWYG's Last MudGather
Well I said I'd try to list some of the songs we sang. There were a LOT and as usual I slept through a lot more -- four hours of the singing on Friday night for starters! But ... right now my mind is almost blank. I can just list a few songs, for now. Maybe I'll get my memory back if I take a nap or something.

Susan Friedman sang (that I remember right now)
Mill o' Tifty's Annie
Lady Jane (Susan, I can't remember the full title.)
Love for Love (that's not the title Susan uses though.) It's one of my favorites of the songs she does.

Dharmabum sang two songs he wrote. They're both real winners. One is about the price of gasoline and the other about the Great Super Bowl Booby Prize.

WYSIWYG sang two gospel songs that I slept through. One was Working on a Building and the other wasn't. The word was that they were great. Bill and I also heard WYSIWYG & Greg rehearsing for a Saturday evening service. One of the songs was Jerry Rassmussen's Fields of Clover. What a beautiful song. The church is lovely. I sat in a chapel in the back and listened to their music. Wow. Great acoustics and Susan's voice and her autoharp playing both sounded "heavenly."

Dick Greenhaus & Uncle Dave O each have huge repertoires and we heard an awful lot of music from them over the weekend. What a privilege IMO. Right now the only title I can remember is Greenhaus singing "Four Prominent Bastards." Great song.

Bill sang "Towser Jenkins," "Mrs. Revoon," "The Twa Corbies" (which was better than I've ever heard him sing it), "Noah," much more.

I played a bunch of nice schmaltzy songs on the zither which made for some good jamming and nice swelling choruses. WYSIWYG has an autoharp stand that made a good zither stand. Bill was just thrilled -- another carpentry project, and another piece of furniture for our crowded house, are in the offing because a zither stand is now high on my list. I sang some ballads, I remember "Sheath & Knife" and Sheila Kaye Adams' version of "The Cruel Mother."

I can't remember the titles of Uncle Dave O's songs even though I remember a lot of the songs. Brain dead I guess. Somebody help here. I have some recorded so will listen later & add to the list. Oh, yes, I do remember one he wrote that has a very traditional feel and is a great song, I guess it's called "The Box the Cherry Came In." You can see how my mind works and which songs I remember, huh?