The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117272   Message #2524967
Posted By: GUEST,Bob Coltman
26-Dec-08 - 12:08 PM
Thread Name: Unresolved Songs
Subject: RE: Unresolved Songs
Surely one of the weirdest is John Jacob Niles' "Black is the Color." I well remember it put my mother's teeth on edge. Must have been a good few other people who couldn't stand how unresolved that one was.

Personally I always liked unresolved folksongs. We folkies don' need no steenkin' tonic note!

But I must say some of the popular orchestra song flourish endings that end up hanging like a corpse on a randomly selected note for a novelty effect give me the jimjams once in a while. Bob