Origins:Amelia Earhart's Last Flight(Dave McEnery)

Subject: Tune Add: AMELIA EARHART'S LAST FLIGHT (D McEnery)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 14 Apr 99 - 02:59 PM

Hi, John - When I saw six responses to this thread, I was worried that somebody else had posted I had so arduously copied. This is from a terrific songbook called Here's to the Women, edited by Hilda Wenner & Elizabeth Freilicher. The songbook starts the lyrics with the words, "Well, a ship out on the ocean..." The tune won't scan right without the "well" that isn't in the version in the database.
-Joe Offer-

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Subject: RE: MUS REQ Amelia Earhart
From:
Date: 14 Apr 99 - 05:03 AM

Don't get your hopes up John. I got holt of him soon after he went out swimming that day. Had a pain in my left fin for days.

Da Shark

Subject: RE: MUS REQ Amelia Earhart
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 14 Apr 99 - 02:29 AM

Jerry, Bev and Les - This a special song for me because it was sung by a late friend of mine. It became one of his signature tunes. I have always wanted to present the framed tune and words to his widow - the second anniversary of his death is about 6 weeks away.

Re Amelia herself, it was through hearing the song first that I started to pick up on the snippets about her disappearance. Have they made an X Files episode about her yet? In a similar vein, an Australian Prime Minister disappeared while still in office in mysterious circumstances in the mid 60's, and even though I've met some people who claim that he was still alive until at least 10 years ago, the real facts may never be uncovered. If you're out there Harold, feel free to respond to this thread.

Regards
John

Subject: RE: MUS REQ Amelia Earhart
From:
Date: 14 Apr 99 - 01:25 AM

John:

We learned Amelia Earhart's Last Flight from the author, Red River Dave McEnery. He said he wrote it on July 2, 1939, the day she disappeared. He just needed something new for his band to perform so he dashed it off in the afternoon and performed it that night.

There have been countless alleged discoveries of traces of Amelia Earhart but none have ever been proven. We have lots of information on this subject so if you want more, just E-mail us.

We also have the tune in our heads but, alas, no way to transmit it through cyberspace.

Jerry and Bev

Subject: RE: MUS REQ Amelia Earhart
From: Les B
Date: 14 Apr 99 - 01:00 AM

Sorry, I don't have it written down, it's in my head. Too bad I can't hum a few bars and have these magic machines translate.

Subject: RE: MUS REQ Amelia Earhart
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 14 Apr 99 - 12:17 AM

Les, thank you, the words are in the DT. If you have the melody in written form, I'm sure that we can work out a painless way of getting this. In the meantime suuggest we wait and see what other People may be able to come up with.

Regards John

Subject: RE: MUS REQ Amelia Earhart
From: Les B
Date: 14 Apr 99 - 12:12 AM

Do you want the words or the melody ? (I have the words, no way to send melody)

Subject: MUS REQ Amelia Earhart
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 13 Apr 99 - 10:51 PM

I've been searching for this tune for some time and it's not in the DT. Any help please?

Courtesy of a Mudcatter's link to the Jug Band Rag I stumbled across the following reference to Amelia's death.

The News Story With No End - Regular readers of the JBR know the continuing saga of Amelia Earhart, in both story and song. Well, Connie Chung has added her own little pieces to the puzzle. The January 20 edition of Eye to Eye ran a story titled Whatever Happened to Amelia Earhart? Randall Brink's new book, Lost Star, says that Earhart's life ended quite differently than was publicly reported. The official version was that she was "...lost at sea after becoming hopelessly lost in the Pacific, along with her co-pilot Captain Fred Noonan." Brink did research on the tiny island of Mili in the Marshall Islands. He concluded that Earhart safely landed there, and that she had been tasked by U.S. intelligence to conduct photographic reconnaissance of Japanese buildups. Local residents recall seeing a twin-engine plane like Earhart's on a barge. It was shiny like Earhart's. He found old U.S. reconnaissance photos of the island, which clearly show an aircraft similar to Earhart's. Brink found a number of natives who saw Japanese prisoners who resembled Earhart and Noonan. In addition, Brink interviewed a U.S. Marine who was part of the invasion force on an island, where the Japanese had kept important war prisoners.. The Marine found a buried safe, which he and another Marine cracked open. They found a briefcase inside, which contained Earhart's documents. They were all dry and had never been in the ocean water. He knew what he had found, and called investigators. He never heard another thing about the briefcase, and investigators later denied that they had investigated such a briefcase. Brink used the Freedom of Information Act to gain access to documents and phone calls related to the investigation of her loss. He says that top U.S. officials did not want to release information which would "tarnish her image." The U.S. Government says nonsense.

Regards
John

The reference to Eye to Eye was (I think) 1994.