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Thread #109463   Message #2798120
Posted By: MGM·Lion
28-Dec-09 - 09:23 PM
Thread Name: Lyric meaning: Red Apple Juice
Subject: RE: Lyric meaning: Red Apple Juice
This (in the minor version Richie refs to in his admirable & extensive clickie notes) was the song that the late & much lamented Isla Cameron would always sing at end of her set at Ballads&Blues at the Princess Louise in 1956-7-ish, in teasing defiance of Ewan MacColl's rule about Brits not singing American songs, always smiling roguishly at him the while — he once threatened her at the end with 50 lashes, in a voice more in sorrow than in anger. I sang her version, in her memory, as final track to my Brewhouse record Butter&Cheese&All [BH8904].