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Thread #11976   Message #1839462
Posted By: GUEST,Mike Miller
20-Sep-06 - 04:43 PM
Thread Name: What 'serious' song do you giggle through?
Subject: RE: What 'serious' song do you giggle through?
Back in the early 60's a wonderful folk club, The Main Point, was opened in the siburbs of Philadelphia and, for their first weekend they presented the great Canadian singer Ed McCurdy, who was best known for his albums of ribald songs and his composition, "Last Night, I Had The Strangest Dream", which was the best known anti-war song of the time. My jugband, The Uncalled Four, was the opening act and, just before Ed went on, I asked him to sing that song he wrote about puberty. In later years, he told me that he hadn't been able to sing it after that without stifling a laugh.

                   Mike