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Thread #671   Message #2796119
Posted By: GUEST,999
25-Dec-09 - 01:49 AM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: After the Snow (from Dayle Stanley)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: After the Snow
Found this on a site:

" Is there anyone here from Boston, Massachusetts old enough to remember a local folk singer in the mid 1960's by the name of Dayle Stanley? She recorded two very fine albums for the Squire label--Child of Hollow Times and After the Snow--and then vanished from the music scene, never to reappear. I was fortunate to catch her in concert at Tufts University early in '66.

I recall that her voice, like Lisa's, was quite unique and had a certain angelic, other-worldly quality which made it unforgettable. In retrospect, her second album, especially, seemed to anticipate by many years some aspects of Lisa's music, being made up largely of original material co-authored with songwriter/poet Stephen Scotti of Cape Ann. One piece in particular, "Words Without Music", was sung wordlessly using what she called a "flutter-tongue" technique (David Crosby must have heard this one, for on his first solo album If I Could Only Remember My Name (1971), he did a number called "Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves)" which is conceptually similar). Accompanied only by a single acoustic six-string, and using no reverb or special effects of any kind, Dayle managed to create a spacey and haunting effect with just her voice.

Scotti himself was no slouch as a composer. "After the Snow" had an incredibly gorgeous melody that I remember as if I had heard it only yesterday, yet it was heard and remembered by almost no one else. He wrote the song for Dayle when she was pregnant with their love child; I recall these lines from the text:

Flower, flower, O my Love,
Whom (?) for me to love...
Giving life for me to hold and know--
In unconscious night, to you I'll go,
In the winter after the snow,
After the snow.

Sadly, those two albums are long out-of-print and have never, to my knowledge, been reissued. "