Lyr Req: They Call the Wind Maria

Subject: Winds called Mariah
From:
Date: 24 May 98 - 05:31 AM

I am looking for information about a song recorded in the late fifties or early sixties. The song talks about the winds called Mariah. I would like to know the artist, album, lyrics, anything. Thank you for your help.

Subject: RE: Winds called Mariah
From:
Date: 24 May 98 - 06:28 AM

My correct email is [e-mail]. A response to this thread is probably better for all of us. I am looking for information about a song recorded in the late fifties or early sixties. The song talks about the winds called Mariah. I would like to know the artist, album, lyrics, anything. Thank you for your help.

Subject: RE: Winds called Mariah
From: Roger Himler
Date: 24 May 98 - 06:49 AM

This one is in the DT (Digital Tradition). Go to the top of this page where it says search. Type in [call the wind]. When you are sure of a phrase, putting it in brackets [ ] will cause the DT to look specifically for that phrase. The DT looked for that phrase, when I typed it in and the song popped right up when I clicked on the search button.

As the DT tells you, this song is from the musical Paint Your Wagon, That gives it lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. It was popularized during the folk scare of the 60's and 70's by a duo, Bud and Travis.

The Rise Up Singing songbook lists versions by The Country Gentlemen on their "Yesterday and Today, volume 3" (Rebel SLP 1535) and on Kingston Trio's "25 years." It will frequently show up in Broadway song books. Of course, RUS gives you a rough chord structure for the song.

One of those "composed" folk songs. It just may seep into the tradition, but not in my lifetime I'm sure.

Good luck with the song.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Winds called Mariah
From: Chet W.
Date: 24 May 98 - 10:56 AM

For fun, see the movie version of Paint Your Wagon, if only to see and hear Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin(?) singing those songs.

Chet W.

Subject: RE: Winds called Mariah
From:
Date: 24 May 98 - 11:15 AM

MARIACLICKHERE

Subject: RE: Winds called Mariah
From: alison
Date: 25 May 98 - 02:46 AM

Hi,

Does anyone else reckon they got the bloke in the movie to sing it because he looked really like Howard Keel?

Great song.

Slainte

Alison

Subject: Tune Add: THEY CALL THE WIND MARIA
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 May 98 - 04:00 AM

This is an important song for us here in Sacramento, since it's the best known song from the only musical ever to have been set in Sacramento. Therefore, it gets me really ticked off when people sing it wrong. The first couplet stays down, and it's the second couplet where the tune goes up. So, here's the tune. Maybe we can talk Dick into including it in the database so people might possibly learn to sing it right and give Sacramento the respect it deserves.
-Joe Offer-

MIDI file: THEYCA~1.MID

Timebase: 192

Name: THEY CALL THE WIND MARIA
Text: By Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe
Copyright: Copyright © 1951 by Lerner & Loewe
Key: F
TimeSig: 2/2 24 8
Start
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End

This program is worth the effort of learning it.

To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here

ABC format (not correct - maybe MIDITXT doesn't read sharps):

X:1
T:They Call the Wind Maria
M:2/2
Q:1/4=120
K:F
CF2A2A3|_AA2F2F3|CF2A2A2_A|-_AA2F5|CF2A2A3|
_AA2c2c2A|cd2c2A2G|-GA2A5|-A8|C8|-CF2A2A3|
_AA2F2F3|CF2A2A2_A|-_AA2c5|cd2A2A3|dc2A2A3|
cd2c2A2G|-GA2F5|-F8|c8|-cd2A5|-A8|d8|-dc2A5|
-A8|c8|-cd4c3|-cA4G3|-GA2A5|-A5/2||

Subject: RE: Winds called Mariah
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 May 98 - 04:22 AM

Well, the MIDI turned out OK, but the ABC version got thrown off by the sharps, I guess. Anybody who tries to sing it will get a charley-horse in their vocal cords. Guess we'll have to work on it.
By the way, Sacramento has a folk song, too - "Clementine."
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Winds called Mariah
From: leprechaun
Date: 25 May 98 - 02:54 PM

Trivia question - What was the name of the young man in Paint Your Wagon who had a "talent for dissipation like nobody I ever saw?" (Hint - it wasn't Florence Henderson)

Subject: RE: Winds called Mariah
From: Casey
Date: 26 May 98 - 10:26 PM

Leprechaun, as you well know I know the answer to your trivia question and it is not Sylvester Newel [the answer to a different and and even more difficult Paint Your Wagon trivia question].I've always enjoyed "Rotten Luck Willie [Harve Presnell] singing "They Call The Wind Maria". This great movie also features The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band classic " Hand Me Down That Can O' Beans".With "The Gospel Of No Name City" and "Wand'rin' Star" it is without a doubt the best movie that Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin ever sang in. Casey

Subject: RE: Winds called Mariah
From: Debbie
Date: 27 May 98 - 03:52 PM

Hi there, we do have the lyrics for the Paint your wagon version, and i believe it was Clint Eastwood, and Lee marvin and most of the main cast who sung in that that film, but this subject is now currently under discussion here, so we are going to check. But we do have the lyrics, eamail us at [e-mail] and ask for Debbie or Steven

Subject: RE: Winds called Mariah
From:
Date: 13 Jun 98 - 09:35 AM

Thank you for the responses.