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Thread #148569   Message #3450814
Posted By: eftifino
12-Dec-12 - 01:40 AM
Thread Name: I need a word or term: spoken song?
Subject: RE: I need a word or term: spoken song?
One from the '70s is "Convoy' by C W McCall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnJEeHND_lQ

My Dad, Noel Purcell, recorded 2 on Glenside in Dublin in the '50s, but called them recitations, even though both had piano accompaniment.
they were:
'The Man Me Mother Married" and 'Pretty Polly'.