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18 Feb 99 - 09:56 AM (#59113) Subject: Salty Dog Blues/Rag From: mcurtis@mail.tds.net Looking for lyrics to "Salty Dog Blues" or "Salty Dog Rag", (unsure of the title, but not "....Honey, let me be your salty dog." Thanks for your help. Catherine |
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18 Feb 99 - 10:57 AM (#59117) Subject: RE: Salty Dog Blues/Rag From: Steve Catherine, you may want to check the lyrics to 'Candy Man', it has the salty dog phrase repeated numerous times. |
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18 Feb 99 - 11:12 AM (#59120) Subject: RE: Salty Dog Blues/Rag From: Steve Latimer Catherine, At the top right of this screen is the DigiTrad database. Type in Salty Dog Blues and hit enter and it will bring up the lyrics. I would have copied them over, but figured I would walk you through this one as it's a great lyrics source and you should get used to it. Steve |
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18 Feb 99 - 11:47 AM (#59128) Subject: RE: Salty Dog Blues/Rag From: Steve Parkes The chorus goes: Salty dog, salty dog, I just want to be your salty dog, Honey let me be your salty dog. If I can't be your salty dog I don't want to be your man at all, Honey let me be your salty dog. That's all I know... except: might it be a Jessie Fuller song? Steve |
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18 Feb 99 - 07:25 PM (#59200) Subject: RE: Salty Dog Blues/Rag From: Roger in Baltimore Although I am not named Steve, I thought I'd reply to this thread. Steve Latimer steered you straight. If you followed his advice you found this song. Enjoy the music! Roger in Baltimore |
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18 Feb 99 - 10:58 PM (#59227) Subject: RE: Salty Dog Blues/Rag From: Ferrara I don't think the song linked to above it the one Catherine was asking for. She said she doesn't want the one that goes "Honey Let Me Be Your Salty Dog." While I was in high school/college (circa 1964) I often square danced to a tune called Salty Dog Rag, which was different (both words and tune) from the one given above. It had a little more of a pop tune feel, I think, and less bluegrass or old-timey. Sorry, Catherine, right now neither the tune nor the words will come back to me. But I heard it before I heard "Salty Dog Blues" and if anything comes back I'll let you know. |
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19 Feb 99 - 05:02 PM (#59279) Subject: RE: Salty Dog Blues/Rag From: Ferrara The following Web sites courtesy of Bill D, my spouse, who told me to search for salty.dog.rag (not salty.dog) via AltaVista. Sorry, I don't know how to put in a direct link, and Bill is busy turning wooden bowls. 1. "...The lyrics - the dog - the dance - the drink..." The lyrics at this site are well done. They agree with the recorded version in Site 2: http://www.wco.com/~jbrux/bbrux/html/salty_dog.htm 2. Lyrics on following site are full of typos and other mistakes, but it has a full audio clip of the record. Warning: this page is BIG (1.37MB). It starts playing the audio before it finishes loading it. http://people.delphi.com/thereis/saltydog.html 3. This last site actually has the square dance steps: http://members.aol.com/ldarchives/salty_dog_rag.htm I'm so glad you asked for this. Hadn't heard it since around 1964. During high school and college years, my sister and I sang & played in hospital wards. Favorites, folk, etc. The Red Cross said they had a special need: a man named Gene (last name long forgotten) had given his time every Monday night for eighteen years to call square dances for servicemen recovering from psychiatric problems. Would we bring some of our friends to be square dance partners? Of course we did. "The Salty Dog Rag" was a favorite. At least one patient asked to be re-admitted long enough to thank us and say how much the dancing helped his recovery. Another nice thing came from those dances: Gene asked me to partner him in an exhibition square with the Ralph Case dancers. So I got to take part in one of the early National Folk Festivals. Good memories. Thanks. |
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19 Feb 99 - 08:13 PM (#59309) Subject: RE: Salty Dog Blues/Rag From: This is one of those songs, I believe, that has as many versions as there are singers. I have four different renditions including Flatt&Scruggs and Ricky Nelson from the mid '60s. I think (therefore I am)Bill Monroe has recorded it, too. But they all have the same basic chorus, "Let me be your Salty Dog/Or I won't be your man at all./Honey let me be your Salty Dog." Only the verses have been changed to protect the innocent, or to reflect the times or the performer's interest.--John (not Jon) |
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19 Feb 99 - 10:04 PM (#59329) Subject: Lyr Add: SALTY DOG RAG (Ed Crowe, John Gordy) From: Ferrara Salty Dog Blues is a great song, but somehow I keep waiting for someone to say, "I get it now -- there are two salty dog songs, and she's looking for the other one." Actually there may be more than two I suppose.... Here are the live links (I hope): For the curious, here are the words to the version of "Salty Dog Rag" that is used for square dancing. All I know about it is that it was around in 1959. SALTY DOG RAG
Away down yonder in the state of Arkansas
CHORUS:
Away down South 'neath the old Southern moon,
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22 Feb 99 - 07:25 PM (#59677) Subject: RE: Salty Dog Blues/Rag From: Catherine Yes, Ferrara, I am looking for the OTHER 'Salty Dog Rag", not 'Salty Dog Blues'. I will follow your links. My father has been searching for the lyrics/music. Says he last heard it 1952/53. Thanks to all for your assistance and directions around this site. Catherine |
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29 May 00 - 08:51 PM (#235599) Subject: RE: Salty Dog Blues/Rag From: GUEST,Joe "The Missing Link" Lindquist The song recorded by Red Foley in or around 1953 was a modern takeoff on a dance that had been around for decades. It was most likely danced to the song "Salty Dog" which was one of the early jazz-and-blues players' favorites. Vernon and Irene Castle "dumbed down" the dance in or about 1915 so that it would be accessible to the dancing public; this version became the Castle Schottische, which is still encountered occasionally in vintage dance circles. Perhaps the most intricate version of the dance now known as Salty Dog Rag was to be found in New Haven, Connecticut, where the local folk dance group (early '90's) threw in numerous swing-shag-Charleston conbinations, not to mentiion a triple pirouette! Numerous alternate versions of the lyrics abound. Neither the music nor the words as sung by Red Foley have ever been published!!! |
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30 May 00 - 04:38 AM (#235738) Subject: RE: Salty Dog Blues/Rag From: Steve Parkes "Swing-shag-Charleston"?! No wonder the Castles had to dumb it down! Or does the s-word mean something different over there from what it does on this side of the pond? Steve |
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30 May 00 - 10:14 AM (#235815) Subject: RE: Salty Dog Blues/Rag From: Gary T Steve Parkes, you guessed it "shag" in the U.S. is not the same as in the U.K. In the context in this thread, it is a dance, 1960's era I believe, that was regionally popular. It is also used to name a type of haircut and a type of carpet, in both cases apparently related to "shaggy", meaning essentially "long, stringy, and unkempt". It does not register in the American psyche as a nasty word, and is probably hardly ever used here as such, although a fair number of us are aware of its meaning overseas (many only because of the Austin Powers film title). |
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30 May 00 - 01:38 PM (#235902) Subject: RE: Salty Dog Blues/Rag From: bobby's girl I'm afraid the only context I've ever come across the tune was as a brilliant ceilidh dance called by Chris of "Melons for Ecstasy" band fame a few years ago. Sadly no-one seems to call it any more. |
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04 Jun 00 - 10:21 PM (#238269) Subject: RE: Salty Dog Blues/Rag From: GUEST,Joe "The Missing Link" Lindquist The dance referred to as "Shag" actually exists in three different versions. The Original Shag, from the mid-20's, was a rapidly jumping and kicking dance that is probably more similar to step aerobics than to anything done today as a social dance. The approximately contemporaneous St. Louis Shag, named for the city in which it originated, was a cross between the Original Shag and the Charleston. It is a great deal of fun, and easier than either of its parent dances. The more recent Carolina Shag bears a close resemblance to West Coast Swing, which has largely replaced it in swing dance circles, save that the Carolina dance was quicker and featured some fancy footwork, particularly for the gent. |
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21 Feb 07 - 12:50 PM (#1975068) Subject: RE: Salty Dog Blues/Rag From: GUEST The Red Foley version of the song came out on 78 rpm ; I don't know the exact year. The flip side was "Milk Bucket Boogie." |
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22 Feb 07 - 10:23 AM (#1975997) Subject: RE: Salty Dog Blues/Rag From: Mr Red Captain Swing play this for a rather unique dance - rarely seen from other bands/callers. What I calls the knocked-kneed dance. Never seen the words before. Zigging and Zagging is part of it but it sure ain't exactly wot is in the lyrics. |
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22 Feb 07 - 01:27 PM (#1976158) Subject: RE: Salty Dog Blues/Rag From: Q (Frank Staplin) More salty dogs in thread 44023: Salty Dog |
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13 Aug 10 - 05:24 PM (#2964651) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Salty Dog Rag From: Desert Dancer The Red Foley version is on YouTube: clicky With dancers: clicky2 ~ Becky in Long Beach |