My mom had that album when I was very young. I played it over and over until I pretty much knew it by heart. Yeah, Frank Mills is cute :-)

So the other night I'm driving with my friend Leanna in the car and Three Dog Night came on the radio. I told her I knew a better version. Later on I tracked it down on youtube and played it and we both got teary-eyed. I think it was the sad little boy in the white hat. Didn't strike us as sententious at all (wow, had to look that one up!). Maybe it's because we're women and Lee is black. We love sisters who can sing like that! You'll find very few songs that address that plague we have in our society of people caring more about the plight of strangers than they do their own neighbors.

On impulse, I posted it like that. I told Lee, "These people are folk this and folk that but they are not warm people. Somebody needs to play them this song." Lee says, "Ok, go ahead but I don't got a whole lot of faith in people that actually sit there and discuss whether it's ok to clap at their gigs." I had shown Lee that thread and we howled! Lee said, " Now you KNOW those people can't come in my church!" We like our jazz and other forms but we don't for care much for the modern singing style. Overdone. Too melismatic actually. If they really want to yodel, they should do it like Slim :-)

What do you think of the other one? Now that's a true song. It really happened. It's a great song. I love that song. Aunt Shirley dug that one out.