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

Subject: RE: Origins:Amelia Earhart's Last Flight(Dave McEnery)
From: johncharles
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 03:37 PM

Hi, been singing this song for about five years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSpQ0xX-TQ4&feature=related
Nice to get more of the history.
john

Subject: RE: Origins:Amelia Earhart's Last Flight(Dave McEnery)
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 09 Mar 11 - 10:58 PM

For those of you who have never seen Red River Dave in person, he performed in gold lame boots and carried a trick rope with which he would lasso unsuspecting young ladies whenever the whim struck him. He drove a big Cadillac with steer horns mounted on the hood. To say he "was a showman" hardly does him justice.

We feel certain he would have said anything he thought would enhance is image whether it was true or not. That's why we chose our words carefully when we posted, "He *said* he wrote it on July 2, 1939, the day she disappeared."

Also, when we heard him sing this song it was probably in the late 1970s or early 1980s, about 40 years after the event. Unless his memory is a whole lot better than ours, he probably had no idea when he wrote the song.

Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: Origins:Amelia Earhart's Last Flight(Dave McEnery)
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Mar 11 - 09:57 PM

People have been correcting your date I guess without really noticing it. But if Red River Dave had really said he wrote it on "July 2, 1939" he had two years to think of it.

Subject: RE: Origins:Amelia Earhart's Last Flight(Dave McEnery)
From: GUEST,henryp
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 08:43 AM

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/earharts-plane-found-ndash-with--bullion-aboard-2232965.html

Saturday, 5 March 2011; Now locals in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the pair's last stop before they vanished, claim to have found the wreck of Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10-E in 230ft of water, on a reef near Buka island, in the Bougainville region.

I feel a song coming on!

Subject: RE: Origins:Amelia Earhart's Last Flight(Dave McEnery)
From: Art Thieme
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 04:45 PM

I think it's a great song when sung by anyone but Dave himself. I truly have a hard time with his attitude, voice and delivery.

Give a listen to Dave's song to little boy John John Kennedy after JFK's death. So much saccharine in there it'll give you cancer.

Art

Subject: RE: Origins:Amelia Earhart's Last Flight(Dave McEnery)
From: Bev and Jerry
Date: 13 Mar 11 - 11:09 PM

Yes, of course, 1937. And we agree with Art - didn't care for his performance. After he had a smashing success with Amelia, he wrote many songs about the deaths of other famous people in an attempt to have another "hit". In addition to those already mentioned, he wrote songs about Bing Crosby and Sandra West who was killed in a car crash and was buried in a blue Ferrari in San Antonio, Texas.

Bev and Jerry

Subject: RE: Origins:Amelia Earhart's Last Flight(Dave McEnery)
From: BK Lick
Date: 02 Jul 12 - 04:25 PM

Happy landings to you, Amelia Earhart!
Amelia Earhart's Last Flight, as rendered by Kinky Friedman

Subject: RE: Origins:Amelia Earhart's Last Flight(Dave McEnery)
From: Cool Beans
Date: 02 Jul 12 - 04:58 PM

Red River Dave wrote many a song to commemorate events, not necessarily a death. I once received a press release from him that listed his then-recent songs, among them "The Pine-Tarred Bat," referring to accusations that slugger George Brett had used pine tar on his bat (for a better grip). Overseas 'Catters: This is about baseball in the US.