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Thread #123669   Message #3305018
Posted By: GUEST
09-Feb-12 - 02:41 PM
Thread Name: Sub-Titles for Songs
Subject: RE: Sub-Titles for Songs
What about 'What d y'er think of that?'. In 1922 Joe Hill recorded this as a singalong anthem in gigs. This tune was already an existing folk song but in 1960 Lonnie Donegan decided that he would bring in new words. Now most people sing the 1960 song 'My ol' man's a dustman' but some folks from schools sing the 1920s song and the first song 'The Elder Dempster line' but not as much. When I went to school I never did sing these 2 songs before 1986. When we used the tune it was always the 1960 one. The 1939 song 'Wimoweh' was also 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight', a 1961 hit for The Tokens, and the tune was sung in the 1994 film 'The Lion King'. In the list of songs no one mentioned 'Love Me Tender' which Elvis claimed to have written in 1956, but what folks don't know is that this tune was called Aura Lee, which is still sung at schools today and some folks' gigs but most folks when they hear the tune it is 'Love Me Tender'.