18 Sep 00 - 09:02 AM (#299844) Subject: I Learned About Women From Her From: Moleskin Joe Many years ago I had an LP by Alex Harvey before he bacame "the sensational". It was made in Holland or Belgium and contained a variety of Woody Guthrie and American country songs. One of the songs I have never come across since. It starts "When I was a young man in ..." and each verse ends "And I learned about women from her." I would welcome any information about this song. |
18 Sep 00 - 05:26 PM (#300180) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Learned About Women From Her From: dick greenhaus sUre you don't mean the Kipling verse? |
18 Sep 00 - 06:16 PM (#300223) Subject: Lyr Add: THE LADIES (Rudyard Kipling) From: The Walrus Moleskin Joe. I think Dick may be right, your description sounds like Kipling's "The Ladies". I've lifted the text straight off the Poetry Lovers' Page, I hope it turns out OK Regards
Walrus |
18 Sep 00 - 07:17 PM (#300262) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Learned About Women From Her From: Stewie There was an earlier thread in which versions of this were posted. It related to Frank Crumit who also recorded it. Art Thieme posted the Kipling lyrics and I posted the lyrics as sung by Goebel Reeves, the Texas Drifter. --Stewie. |
19 Sep 00 - 05:22 AM (#300506) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Learned About Women From Her From: Moleskin Joe Many thanks Dick, Walrus and Stewie. This is indeed the song. I would never have associated it with Rudyard Kipling. The earlier thread was very interesting as I did not know of Frank Crumit or Goebel Reeves. I presume Alex Harvey got the song from one of their records. He only sang three or four verses and Americanised the words. |
19 Sep 00 - 04:36 PM (#300910) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Learned About Women From Her From: Art Thieme The first time I ever heard this song was when I opened a week of shows for Jim Kweskin (solo) back around 1974 (?). Jim said that he had learned it from Crumit's 78 rpm record. I did manage to find the Crumit version eventually. It's a great song. Fred Holstein sang it around Chicago for many years after learning it from Kweskin. Art Thieme |
20 Sep 00 - 07:22 PM (#301791) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I Learned About Women From Her From: GUEST,Giac, not at home I think I might cry, or otherwise display emotion! I've been trying to find out Frank Crumit's last name for more years than I care to count. When I was so little I had to have a stool to reach the Victrola, we had a 78 with Billy Boy on one side and Grandfather's Clock on the other. I obcessed on Billy Boy and played it over and over and over and .... It was during the war (WWII) and I used so many needles that my dad started making needles out of Locust thorns. They worked perfectly and gave the music a nice, mellow sound. However, I was forbidden to play Grandfather's Clock in my father's presence, because he considered the phrase, "old man died," to be disrespectful. So, I just didn't play it when he was home, but when he was at work, another story. The record was broken some time in the 50s and I promptly forgot the singer's last name, only knew his first name was Frank. Mudcat strikes again! Thanks to the link to the previous thread, and the link there to another page, maybe I can find that CD and once again hear those delicious sounds! Yeeee Haaaaa! Giac (wandering off singing Grandfather's Clock, but leaving out the "old man" part) |