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Thread #23310 Message #3031229
Posted By: Don Firth
13-Nov-10 - 03:22 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: The Troubadour Song (sung by Burl Ives)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: The Troubadour Song (sung by Burl Ives)
I recall hearing a recording of Burl Ives singing it back when records were on stone tablets. I learned it from The New Song Fest, compiled by Dick and Beth Best, along about 1955 or so. No program notes, but music and words of all kinds of good songs. Lots of folk songs, spirituals, camp songs, odds and ends.
Obviously not a genuine Troubadour song (11th and 12th centuries). But then, Rudy Vallee used to bill himself as "The Vagabond Troubadour" which, of course, he was not.