Subject: Moving Tunes From: bflat Date: 04 Sep 00 - 10:01 AM There must be some songs written about packing personal property and filling up the moving van. Relocation! I remember a Richard Berman song about the kids moving back,not what I had in mind. I was thinking more along the lines of striking out on one's own. Any ideas? bflat |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: GUEST,JackieB Date: 04 Sep 00 - 11:47 AM There is quite a funny County Down song called, 'The Moving of the Furniture', as far as I know not yet recorded. It must be over 60 years old as my father remembers singing it at school. I must look up the song and post it sometime. |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: Bert Date: 04 Sep 00 - 11:48 AM The Farmer's Boy. The Oregon Trail So Long it's been good to know you. Bert.
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Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: sophocleese Date: 04 Sep 00 - 11:50 AM "Out From St. Leonards", I can't remember the details of that one. |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: Mbo Date: 04 Sep 00 - 12:28 PM My Old Man (Said Follow The Van) |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: Metchosin Date: 04 Sep 00 - 12:38 PM Moving On by Hank Snow, more trains than vans but definitely striking out on ones own. |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: jacko@nz Date: 04 Sep 00 - 04:39 PM Granny Fraser's Flitting by Ian ManIntosh |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny Date: 04 Sep 00 - 04:44 PM Leaving on a Jet Plane |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny Date: 04 Sep 00 - 04:45 PM (almost forgot) Wandering Star |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny Date: 04 Sep 00 - 04:46 PM Pack em up, head em out, Rawhide! |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: GUEST, Banjo Johnny Date: 04 Sep 00 - 04:47 PM (they keep popping into my head) Wagon Wheels |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: Marion Date: 04 Sep 00 - 10:40 PM Jeannie's packing up, Jeannie's moving out... pack all her clothes, tonight away she goes! Say all goodbyes, tonight away she flies! It's from the musical "Brigadoon". |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: Mbo Date: 04 Sep 00 - 10:43 PM Big Old Jet Airliner --Steve Miller Band |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: Oversoul Date: 04 Sep 00 - 11:07 PM MEMPHIS MINNIE! "You Got To Move" (1934), With her husband Kansas Joe, and by the way, I think the "Stones" did a cover of this during the '70's. I'm not much of a name-dropper, but this gal had it all, I relish just about everything she recorded. |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: Anglo Date: 05 Sep 00 - 12:00 AM Well, no-one seems to have mentioned "It's Moving Day," which I think was from a 1930s old-time string band recording by someone like Charlie Poole. Bob Davenport used to do (probably still does) a stirring rendition. |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: Oversoul Date: 05 Sep 00 - 12:38 AM Agnes "Sis" Cunningham, founder of BROADSIDE Magazine wrote another great "moving song". KEEP MOVING. It is one of those great dustbowl/depression era songs. What optimism in the verse "how can you keep moving unless you migrate too?" I probably should mention Woody Guthrie, too, but enough already! |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: sian, west wales Date: 05 Sep 00 - 09:52 AM Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile! 8-} sian |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: catspaw49 Date: 05 Sep 00 - 11:01 AM How about that Wild Thing variant, "Prune Juice?"
Prune Juice......You make my bowels loose. Wrong kind of moving huh? Oh well.......... Spaw |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: GUEST,Pete Peterson at work Date: 05 Sep 00 - 11:46 AM glad somebody did mention Poole's Moving Day. The original Sterling and Von Tilzer recording had two verses, but Poole only recorded one, then Peter Stampfel of the Holy Modal Rounders wrote (and recorded) another one. I sing ig every time I move or assist in a move. Loudly. |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: Bob P Date: 05 Sep 00 - 01:22 PM Check Loudon Wainwright's "Cardboard Boxes" It's on "I'm Alright" (1985, Music Club Records) and "Best Of LWIII 1982-86" (1994, Virgin Records) It's a great song - If your on LWIII's wavelength (meaning your close to certifiably nuts)! |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: Bert Date: 05 Sep 00 - 01:57 PM Wanted Man |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: harpgirl Date: 05 Sep 00 - 03:42 PM Well, I like Ry Cooder singing "How Can You Keep on Movin?"... |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: bflat Date: 05 Sep 00 - 09:20 PM You folks are the best!! Some really great suggestions, well except for Spaw, and his body function ditty above. Then again we could start a thread on "Great Movements" and see what passes. Thanks! Mucho! bflat |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 05 Sep 00 - 10:52 PM I'm On My Way (from Porgy and Bess) The Old Ark's a Moverin' Ease on Down That Road (from The Wiz, analogous to Follow the Yellow Brick Road in the Wizard of Oz story)-- a friend of mine says "Ooze on down the road." A Home in the Meadow (from How the West Was Won, to the tune of Greensleeves) I'm Goin' to Leave Old Texas Now Goodbye Old Paint (I'm leaving Cheyenne or wherever) Well We're Movin' On Up (from the Jeffersons) Califonia Here I Come! Mary (just getting started)
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Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: Mary in Kentucky Date: 05 Sep 00 - 11:05 PM Ain't nothing gonna break my stride Nobody gonna slow me down, Oh no I got to keep on moving Ain't nothing gonna break my stride I'm running in a one touch ground, Oh no I got to keep on moving. |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: JamesJim Date: 05 Sep 00 - 11:06 PM My favorite: Woody Guthrie's, "Do Re Mi" "Lots of folks back east they say, leavin' home most every day, hittin' that hot old dusty trail to the California line.," etc. Jim |
Subject: RE: Moving Tunes From: Kim C Date: 06 Sep 00 - 05:11 PM This is a little different, maybe, but I absolutely LOVE "Midnight Rider" by the Allman Brothers. |
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