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Subject: Tune Add: THEY CALL THE WIND MARIA From: John in Brisbane Date: 17 Nov 98 - 09:50 PM This is the tune missing from the DT. Regards John
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Subject: they call the wind mariah From: roro Date: 29 Dec 98 - 05:44 PM Does anyone know the words to the song "They call the wind Mariah"? I don't know if that's its name, that is all I can remember of it and a little of the tune. Thanks. |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: Benson Date: 29 Dec 98 - 06:02 PM entered from the database..... THEY CALL THE WIND MARIA Away out here they have a name For wind and rain and fire (click here for the rest) |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: Benson Date: 29 Dec 98 - 06:14 PM For those who do not remember......Paint you Wagon featured the the singing prowess of your "favorites" and mine......Lee Marvin....and Clint Eastwood.....Hah!!!!!.... hahahaahahahahaahhaah!!! |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: Gene Date: 29 Dec 98 - 06:34 PM You can listen to one version of it: * HERE * |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: alison Date: 29 Dec 98 - 06:41 PM Hi, Here is an earlier thread we had on this one.... Slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind maria From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Dec 98 - 08:25 PM Hmmm. I wonder if what's-his-name in Connecticut noticed that the tune was posted in the other thread back in May, 1998.... "Hey, what's-his-name, did you get the hint?" he said, in a gently chiding manner, with all due respect...... |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: GUEST,Greg Date: 27 Feb 05 - 01:59 AM I remember this song being on "Lawrence Welk" in 1998. Sung by a male vocalist. Well done. great Song. But I too have been looking for this. |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: JJ Date: 27 Feb 05 - 08:43 AM Please remember that although they may pronounce the wind "Mariah" (as in Carey), they spell the wind "Maria" (as in Ave). This song was written by those great old folkies Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe for their 1951 Broadway musical, PAINT YOUR WAGON. |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: DonMeixner Date: 27 Feb 05 - 09:22 AM The Kingston Trio have recorded it a few times. Once on a studio LP and also on a Live at The Crazy Horse CD. Don |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: breezy Date: 27 Feb 05 - 09:30 AM is that because 'flatulence' didnt scan? I'm off, bye. |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: Joybell Date: 28 Feb 05 - 07:47 PM Has anyone ever heard Mariah used as a name for the wind, except in this song? Or for that matter - "Joe" for fire or "Tess" for water? True-Love is 66, grew up in America (although to be fair not "way out West") and has asked people all over and he has always wondered. Curious, Joy |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: Stewie Date: 01 Mar 05 - 04:06 AM Back in the late 60s or early 70s, I bought a record by a group called The Gaslight Singers. The record mainly consisted of covers of material by the likes of Spoelstra, Dylan, Hellerman etc. The stand-out track, however, was a rendition of 'They called the wind Maria'. Quite striking. --Stewie. |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: JJ Date: 01 Mar 05 - 08:35 AM I think Alan Jay Lerner made the whole thing up, truth to tell. Wasn't it the Smothers Brothers who used to start this number all big and manly and then sing, "And they call the wind --RALPH!"? |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 01 Mar 05 - 01:02 PM Joybell, the term 'black Maria (Mariah)' first was applied to police or prison vans in Philadelphia and Boston in the 1840s. Many in the south and west call it the black Mariah (mar-eye'-uh). Why, I dunno (see Lighter, Historical Dictionary of American Slang, vol. 1). I remember in school we were discussing a Hardy novel and one of the characters was Sophia. The fledgling prof, from the UK and working on a post-doctoral fellowship, pronounced the name with the long i. We pronounced it So-fee-a, or Sophie (the Spanish and German influence probably). JJ is correct; Lerner was having fun with nonsense definitions. |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 01 Mar 05 - 02:00 PM Forgot to mention, the funeral home meat wagon also is called the black Maria (Mariah). |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: Snuffy Date: 01 Mar 05 - 06:46 PM In UK it's the paddy wagon that's the Black Maria (as In Philly & Boston), not the "hearst". And Sophia sounds very like Sapphire with the wrong stress. |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: Joybell Date: 02 Mar 05 - 01:18 AM Pity the idea didn't catch on anyway. As for example, I'll just light the Joe while you fill the billy with Tess! Shield Joe from Mariah, though. She might blow him out. Pity as I say. Cheers, Joy |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 02 Mar 05 - 12:10 PM Calling the fire Joe seems a little strange, but there is a long tradition of giving names to winds. There's Zephirus (sp) the west wind, with his swete brethe, and there's Boreas, the north wind. Other winds have names, but not personal names, such as scirocco, mistal and foehn. Can anybody think of any others? |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 02 Mar 05 - 12:11 PM oops. mistral, not mistal |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: GUEST,MMario Date: 02 Mar 05 - 12:53 PM I think the point was that people had a close enough acquaintaince with natural disasters/occurences to be on a "first name" basis. "fire" was forest fire in this instance - not just a cookfire or the flame in a lamp. |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 02 Mar 05 - 02:45 PM More names for winds than you will ever remember- Wind Names |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: GUEST Date: 02 Mar 05 - 02:48 PM and from q's link: Maria A fictional wind popularized in "Paint Your Wagon" (Lerner and Lowe, 1951) and by the Kingston Trio (1959), whose name may have originated with the 1941 book "Storm" by George R. Stewart. (Jan Null, Golden Gate Weather Services |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: Joybell Date: 02 Mar 05 - 06:09 PM Well I think that since they came up with names for the wind, fire and water it should have been easy to name "Lonely" as in ".... aint no word for etc." I wish to nominate Cyril. No reason. Just tidying things up. Cheers, Joy |
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Subject: RE: they call the wind mariah From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 03 Mar 05 - 04:54 PM for the link to the Wind Names, Q. How could I have forgotten the Chinook and the Santa Ana? (There's a Raymond Chandler story where a cop socks Philip Marlowe, and his partner blames it on the Santa Ana.) Someday I would like to see this one, as described on that page: Papagayo: A violet northeasterly fall wind on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua and Guatemala. -------------- The violet wind and the lush greenery must make for a spectacular landscape. |
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