"Why reinvent the wheel?"

Excellent, Stu!

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Outrageous!!

Maggie, thanks a million! Several million, in fact! I shall do that!

You are an absolute jewel!

It never occurred to me that Stan Boreson might still be with us. His parodies, complete with heavy "Scandihoovian" accent used to crack me up when I heard him on radio and TV decades ago. It was Boreson's accent thing that inspired me to start singing "The Frozen Logger" that way, which sort of made the song.

When Patti McLaughlin and I were doing the "Ballads and Books" series on KCTS-TV in 1959, we had both Ivar Haglund and James Stevens (who wrote "The Frozen Logger") as guests on the show. Haglund and Stevens were old friends. And in the course of the show, I sang "The Frozen Logger," and being chicken with Stevens right there, I sang it straight, without the accent. Later, when we gathered in "the green room," I sang it for Stevens again, with the exaggerated "Scandihoovian" accent. And Steven wound up rolling on the floor with laughter.

"Yes!" he said. "I wish I'd thought of that! Keep doing it that way!"

I shall contact Stan Boreson right away and get a copy of the CD.

Again, many, many thanks, Maggie!

Don Firth