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Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: lamarca Date: 27 Oct 04 - 10:53 AM All right, folks - this has gone on far enough - I've started a new thread here Guilty Pleasures to pursue this wallowing in our favorite songs we'd never sing in front of Bill Day! |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Big Mick Date: 27 Oct 04 - 10:49 AM White Bird, in a golden cage, on a winters day .... There's a girl in my room and her face on the wall with no eyes.... Eres tu, eres tu, asi, asi, eres tu....... Coming to me in the morning..... and the rainbow has a beard Just walk away Renee...... The lights go down and the curtains are drawn, and when it was over it felt like a dream .... tell them, broken arrow.... Janie, see what thou hast wrought??? Mick |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: SINSULL Date: 27 Oct 04 - 10:46 AM FEEEEEELINGS Oh Oh Oh FEEEEEEELINGS... I'll leave now PS See the tree how big it's grown But friends it hasn't been so long since it wasn't big ... And Honey I miss you But I'm being gooooood |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Janie Date: 27 Oct 04 - 10:25 AM No comprende. Mi espanol es muy malo y mi vocabulario es muy, muy pocito. en ingles por favor? Juanita |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: GUEST,el Santo Secreto de Open Mike Date: 27 Oct 04 - 09:41 AM *Toca su guitarra andele.* *Baila, baila, baila Bamba* *Malagueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeena Selarosa* *Sin ti, no podre vivir jamas* *Vamos al baile, veras que bonito* *A la colorada que tenemos que tentar* Que bonito!!! Getaway el año próximo para seguro. Hasta entonces amigos. el Santo Secreto de Open Mike |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Janie Date: 27 Oct 04 - 09:08 AM "Patches, oh what can I do...." "Blue, navy blue, I'm as blue as I can be...." "My boyfriend's back and you're gonna be sorry...." etc. ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!!!!!! Somebody get some pictures posted quick to distract this crowd. I fear Memory Lane could turn into the River of No Return. LOL Janie |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: George Papavgeris Date: 27 Oct 04 - 04:13 AM Till the white rose blooms again.... Ta-RAM - plink-plink-plink, ta-RAM - plink-plink-plink (Zorba) I'll get me coat... |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Amos Date: 27 Oct 04 - 02:52 AM "Hello? Yas, this is the Big Bopper speakin'...what I like? what I LIKE???? Oh, baybeee---you KNOW what I like!" A |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: GUEST,KT Date: 27 Oct 04 - 02:31 AM In the chilly...hours and minutes...of uncertainty...... There's a new world somewhere....... My folks were always putting him down....down, down Oh, great! Now y'all got ME going!! |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Amos Date: 27 Oct 04 - 02:20 AM While riding in my Caaadillac, much to my surprise.... Things are gonna be all right, I think the worst is over now, the mornin' sun is shinin' like a Red Rubber Ball.... There's an ole pianner an' they play it hot behind the greeeeeen DOAH! I know a dark secluded place!! AS place where no-one knows your face!!.... Call my baby Lollipop, I'll tell ya why.... And so I'm clippin' your wings, you Butter fly!! (Just warmin up for next year!!! LOL!!) A |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Big Mick Date: 27 Oct 04 - 01:53 AM I'm sitting in the railway station, got a ticket.... Monday, Monday, so good to me ..... Hey-ey Joe, where you going with that gun your hand..... I went down to the crossroads, got down on my knees.... G - L - O - R - I - A..... Sloopy, let your hair down girl, let hang down on me.... And the name of the place is I like it like that .... There is a little place beyond the tracks, the name of the place is the Sugar Shack.... I was out on a date, in my Daddy's car, we hadn't driven very far.... The eastern world, it is explodin', with violent flareups and bullets loadin'..... Dammit, Sins, see what you got going????? I can't sleep thinking about all these lyrics. Got to have this workshop next year. Mick |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Carly Date: 27 Oct 04 - 01:11 AM Every other day Every other day of the week Is fine,yeah But whenever Monday comes Monday comes You know I'm crying all of the time... And I can do my Joni imitation for hours! |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Big Mick Date: 27 Oct 04 - 12:41 AM In the white room, with black curtains.... Listen to my bluebird laugh.... There's a woman, and she's hard to know.... Oh, my love, my darling, I hunger for your touch.... Oh yeah, I tell you something.... Well shake it a baby, (shake it a baby) Shit, I am just getting started. Mick |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Amos Date: 27 Oct 04 - 12:15 AM SHBOOOOM,. SHBOOOOM..... A |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: dick greenhaus Date: 26 Oct 04 - 11:45 PM Damn. That's what I got into folk music to get away from. |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: DonMeixner Date: 26 Oct 04 - 11:41 PM Jeri, That would be Tommy James and The Shondells. Don |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: GUEST,Dani Date: 26 Oct 04 - 09:02 PM Can we sort ourselves out by decades? Dani (who is waiting to see who can pick out the Lynyrd Skynyrd song I sang) |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Ferrara Date: 26 Oct 04 - 08:25 PM Ummmm, Mick, nice job on the post about the Ferrara-Day family, you got it almost word for word the way I dictated it, your fee will be in the mail in the morning :-) ... and ... love right back to ya. Yeah, yeah, let's have a session on Forbidden Pleasures or Our Misspent Youth or whatever we decide to call it. |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Amos Date: 26 Oct 04 - 07:01 PM I dooon't know how to lo-o0-o-o-ve him... Sounds like fun to me!!! A |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: SINSULL Date: 26 Oct 04 - 06:31 PM Now I have a reason to dig out my sosundtrack of "Hair". Let the sunshine Let the sunshine in The sunshine in or is it Let the sun shine Let the sun shine in The sun shine in...? |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Bill D Date: 26 Oct 04 - 06:16 PM hummmppff-first time Barbry Allen was sung, there WEREN'T much traditional 'ceptin some Druid Madrigals and other dull stuff like Egyptian water haulin' chants... ;~) (I truly admire folks like my wife & lamarca who can sort out all those genrés and be eclectic enough to enjoy most of 'em...especially when those ladies know so many of the very old and 'trad' stuff to swamp me!) we have had a few other Songs of the 60's and similar 'misguided youth' workshops at past Getaways...including, maybe 22-23 years ago, a sock hop" led by sometime poster Padre. I forget what I did instead... |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Joe Offer Date: 26 Oct 04 - 06:11 PM Hey, a number of us sang a lot of those forbidden songs at the Getaway on Friday night. I was surprised that Elizabeth LaPrelle knew so many of them. But yes, it would be nice to have a "forbidden songs" workshop. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Big Mick Date: 26 Oct 04 - 06:09 PM Mary, you are more trouble sometimes ..... if you get me started I will do everything from about 1962 until 1970. Mick as he goes off tiptoing through the tulips as he sings "last Train to Clarksville" and his girlfriend sings "Yummy Yummy Yummy I've ... oops, sorry folks. Got carried away there for a minute. |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Jeri Date: 26 Oct 04 - 05:43 PM Mary, I think it would be a load of fun! I also used to know a lot of Joni Mitchell songs, and there were the Troggs, and Tommy Whassisface and the Somethings ("I Think We're Alone Now"), and Lulu, and "Red Rubber Ball", and stuff I've forgotten I remember. It would be sort of like singing around a campfire with a bunch of people who're just folks, not folkies and are just singing what they know. (One of the most fun times I had camping was when I went with my office. Someone found an oldies station, and we sat around the fire singing our brains out along with the radio.) There are some people who sniffed and said "I don't like that. It's not traditional. Did you just write it?" when Barbry Allen was sung the first time ever. |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: lamarca Date: 26 Oct 04 - 05:27 PM Ahem, Rita - I don't think I've ever actually been permitted to lead a Workshop on "Forbidden Pleasures" (if I had been, they wouldn't be forbidden, now, would they?) Bill D. and I have had our differences of opinion about taste ("This bus is drafty and you can't deny it..."), mainly because I have yet to find a genre of music that doesn't contain at least one song or number that has redeeming social value (well, I haven't actually given rap/hip-hop a chance to prove itself yet...) Would other folks be interested in a workshop/song swap where we sing our favorite songs from our misguided youth? (Not to mention our misguided adulthood?) In addition to Jefferson Airplane, I used to be able to sing everything on Joni Mitchell's first 6 albums, I've snuck an occasional Cowboy Junkies song into song swaps, and I'm about to leave work to go hear Richard Thompson doing his "1,000 Years of Popular Music". If there are other kindred spirits out there who are just looking for their chance to do their jugband version of "Layla", let Rita know we need a Forbidden Pleasures workshop next year. I'll bring the whips and mayonnaise. |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Big Mick Date: 26 Oct 04 - 06:59 AM Folks should come to Getaway if for no other reason to meet the formidable family of Rita Ferrara, Bill Day, and Darriel Day. And as handsome as that young man is, I am sure this family will increase ....... AFTER he is done learning Mandarin, studying advanced concepts in who knows what, and being a folkie of the first order. And I can hardly believe my ears, to think that someone would suggest that Bill is anything other than a paragon of society. :^> One of the highlights of the first two Getaways I attended was to watch and listen to Bill sing these delightful songs he comes up with. I think it was my third Getaway when Rita had her Zither. Fantastic folks, these. Love to that whole family, Mick |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Ferrara Date: 25 Oct 04 - 11:44 PM Tannywheeler, I think McG is on another thread. :-) ... And do save your pennies, and join us in this madness if & when you can. Bill, you don't have to tell your own stories no matter what WYSIWYG says -- your friends and family will be happy to tell stories on you. All you need to do is be ready with a rebuttal (or an alibi). |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Bill D Date: 25 Oct 04 - 11:04 PM ...except that we are not sure it is a modern song, Edmund! When I first learned it in about 1974, my ex said.."oh, my grandmother used to chord that on the pump-organ!" and look here and here is an essay which seems to claim it came from " Paul Dehn's obscure little 1956 collection of essays and squibs, For Love and Money." " One treasure in the Dehn book was his set of `Alternative Endings to an Unwritten Ballad', which introduced a new template character to the world of letters. Samples: I stole through the dungeons, while everyone slept, Till I came to the cage where the Monster was kept. There, locked in the arms of a Giant Baboon, Rigid and smiling, lay ... MRS RAVOON!".... so....scholars bicker... *grin* (It is fun, though...once a year!) |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: wysiwyg Date: 25 Oct 04 - 10:49 PM Bill! I ain't waitin' till yore dead, for NOTHIN'! I.... Bill... I know this ain't a serious thread, but I can't imagine my world without you in it. YOU gotta tell the lies yourself, you silly Billy! You can start now, too, since I'se going outta town for a coupla weeks-- I won't be here to correct any of them! :~) ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: CET Date: 25 Oct 04 - 10:32 PM For me, one of the highlights was Bill singing Mrs. Ravoon, which has to be a contender for weirdest song of the modern era. Edmund |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: KT Date: 25 Oct 04 - 10:21 PM "in the shoemaker's shop, this refrain will never stop As he taps away, working all the day....." Bill, you are a riot!! I haven't heard that song since I was a wee little lass! It was on a record that belonged to my brother!!!! A 78!!! Make no mistake, he's a LOT older than I am!!!!!!!! More pics on the way, folks. KT |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Janie Date: 25 Oct 04 - 10:16 PM Yeh. We've been home a week now and are starting to get a little peaked at this stage of Getaway withdrawal. We need a picture fix or 3 or 100 to help us through! Janie |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Susan A-R Date: 25 Oct 04 - 10:06 PM You'd think Bill was the only guy with a camera. Did we break 'em all? |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Bill D Date: 25 Oct 04 - 09:27 PM that's "bingle, bangle, bungle, I'm so happy in the jungle.."! see?..Purist snob, even in the bad stuff!..(and didn't someone do that in Nancy King's "Songs So Bad They're Good" workshop?) Gee, Susan, I know I'm old enuf to be 'trad', but a workshop on me would strain credulity...better wait 'till I'm dead and you all can tell all the lies you want, without me there to correct 'em! more pics tomorrow.... oh, ok...maybe ONE more tonight...KT, Ebbie, Micca & MMario listening at El Greco's concert. or maybe two...(just to remind everyone that there was 'some' sun on SUNday)...Gutbucketeer, Pene Azul & M Ted heading down the hill after the blues jam....with Ed Trickett & Kendall just barely visible on the porch..(see link above) |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Tannywheeler Date: 25 Oct 04 - 09:12 PM So, here'a us new guys, pokin' our noses in a little -- wonderin' about why everyone was startin' to gab about runn--oops, no--getting away (with a capital gee). Now we're goggle-eyed. Subversive durn buncha world-domination geeks -- collecting from various corners of the known world, colluding, singing, hugging, laughing, eating, freezing, marrying, singing, playing, all ages and body types -- then scattering back to those corners to SHARE all the music/love cooties -- definitely a club I need to be in. Gotta start casin' banks. Tw |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: wysiwyg Date: 25 Oct 04 - 08:03 PM I agree on a Bill D workshop. Not just Bill D LEADING a workshop but a workshop ON Bill D! ~S~ |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Snuffy Date: 25 Oct 04 - 07:45 PM I'll second that too. Sorry I couldn't make it this year. Maybe next year, or in 06 with the Shellbacks Put your shoes on Lucy Don't you know you're in the city .... |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Jeri Date: 25 Oct 04 - 06:40 PM I think you should keep the number of politically incorrect workshops at the traditional level, and not reduce it to ONE. What I wanna know is, how come there are 137 cameras at the Getaway, 117 of them digital, and 108 wielded by Mudcatters, and there are NO photos on the Mudcat photos page!? I didn't get my camera out because I mistakenly thought other folks (than Bill D) were going to share. |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Ferrara Date: 25 Oct 04 - 05:31 PM Second! "I look through the magazines the missionary's wife conceal, I see how people who are civilized bang you with automobile, At the movies they have got to pay many coconuts to see Uncivilized pictures that the newsreels take of me! --Oh, Bongo bongo bongo.... " etc This reminds me I'm also hoping for a Politically Incorrect workshop next year. |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: SINSULL Date: 25 Oct 04 - 05:22 PM Bongo Bongo Bongo I don't want to leave the Congo Oh no no no no noooooo Bingo Bango Bongo I'm so happy in th eCongo I refuse to go I nominate Bill for a workshop next year. Anyone second it? |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Bill D Date: 25 Oct 04 - 03:07 PM "in the shoemaker's shop, this refrain will never stop As he taps away, working all the day....." "Threeeeeee coins in the fountain, each one seeking happiness..." "Now the Haciendas dark, The town is sleeping, Now the time has come to part, The time for weeping, Vaya Con Dios my darling,..." yes, I know some of those, because that's all there was... but one week there was a new song on the charts, and I watched in horror as Giselle MacKenzie tried to sing something called "Rock Around the Clock"....so began a 10 year hiatus in which I listened to very little music ...until Pete Seeger walked into a local concert. Now, I NEVER sing one of those at a Getaway, as I have a reputation as a "Purist Snob" to maintain..*grin* |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Ferrara Date: 25 Oct 04 - 11:28 AM Ah, Mike, Micca, glad to hear from you. Mind boggling to realize how very far you've traveled. Sorcha, I don't know about anyone else's pictures. Bill D's are in our computer but need editing, and he's too wiped out to do anything but vegetate. (Still? No, again.) We were in a two-day craft fair, with setup on Friday. A bit much for the weekend after the Getaway. I'll "remind" him about getting more pictures up. And yeah, biglappy & Dani, we're a pretty eclectic group. LaMarca said she knew she would fit in, because at her first Open Sing the song I did was "Rocky Raccoon." Did anyone go to LaMarca's "Forbidden Pleasures" workshop, last year or the year before? It was a workshop for singing all the stuff you really like that is definitely NOT folk music. Of course LaMarca's knowledge of folk music makes me feel like a kindergartner.... So does her knowledge of rock music.... You should hear her sing Jefferson Airplane/Starship's "White Rabbit". Bill used to have a T-shirt that said "Uncontrite Modal Folker." Can't remember if he actually had a T that said "Purist Snob" but he wears the title proudly. :-) But he sings 50's pop, the pre-Bill Haley kind. If it was sung on "Your Hit Parade," Bill probably knows it. Looking forward to more memories from Micca & Mike and anybody else. Sort of makes it last longer than just the one weekend, huh? (Well, let's see who makes the Rita |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: SINSULL Date: 25 Oct 04 - 11:12 AM Another missing Mudcat - what happened to BigChuck? |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Micca Date: 25 Oct 04 - 08:53 AM I got home an hour (about 12.50 pm local time) ago but my body is still in Maryland and thinks its 7.30 am!!! I will post more later, when I get back to what passes for normal around here. |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Alaska Mike Date: 25 Oct 04 - 03:34 AM I am home, must sleep/ Must sleep. Work in the morning. Bye for now |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: KT Date: 24 Oct 04 - 06:01 PM Well said, Dani. One of the things that impressed me most was, as you put it, "the mutual respect and love for what truly matters most." The sharing of music. I like what you have to say about learning taking place with all ages, and levels of development, too. We're all teachers for each other. I remember the time one of my little charges looked up at me in dismay and said, "Are you an ADULT!!????" Kendall, I'm looking forward to that pickin' party! KT |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Dani Date: 24 Oct 04 - 04:25 PM I have to second that emotion. At one point in the big Dining Hall sing I heard someone start "The Sloop John B.", followed by what some might call hackneyed, tired, overdone songs, and some very un-folky tunes. Afraid to sing out loud, when I looked around, I expected to see the tired rolling of jaded eyes. What I saw instead was a group of people who just love to sing, damn it, feeling unafraid to pull out the dusty best thing they love to sing and the world be damned. Nobody said a word, and if anyone hated it, they left. But I didn't see anyone leave, and I sang as loud as anyone. It was one of those moments of Getaway magic, to me, that the right chord could be struck with music like this, because of the mutual respect and love for what truly matters most. That's why I keep coming back. And, though I don't want to over-analyze, I do think the analogy of children is a good one. Adults have to be adults all day, teenagers are stuck in High School with other teenagers all day, and little ones spend their days in little worlds. Anyone who has had an opportunity to see kids of different ages interact at play or learning understands the dynamic of how people play and learn better when there is someone better/older/greener/younger than you are. Dani |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: Sorcha Date: 24 Oct 04 - 02:31 PM WHERE ARE THE DAMN PICTURES??? |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: biglappy Date: 24 Oct 04 - 01:58 PM All I've got to say is that some of these Getaway folks sure do know an awful lot of songs. I saw a song-sheet or two in some workshops but I saw some two-hour singalongs when it seemed like the same voices were there the whole time and the guitars never stopped. Jeesh! When we came up here last year we felt like kids in grade school compared to the level of folklore knowledge at the Getaway. Now we feel like kids when it comes to repertoire. You guys set some tough standards. Related to that, this sure is a supportive group. Is there anything that isn't "folk"? Cause I didn't see anybody sing anything whose offering wasn't welcomed and supported. If anybody had any qualms about the "folkiness" of anybody's offering it was raised later and too quietly for me to hear it. At one point I remarked to Rita that the thing that really distinguished this group is the generosity of the listening. There are 200 posts here about how great the other musicians at the Getaway were. When I look at the name on the post, sure enough the poster is one great musician taking time to appreciate another. It's hard to believe, but I think affection and decency has the upper hand here and that the cut-throat competition of show-biz is left even farther out in the cold than our sleeping cabin. |
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Subject: RE: Getaway 2004 - MEMORIES From: SINSULL Date: 24 Oct 04 - 12:01 PM Re: unedited tapes. If "Duke Of Earl" shows up anywhere but the cutting room floor, it will be pistols at twenty paces, Tink. If it sounded as painful as it felt...well SINS |
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