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Thread #166435   Message #4001640
Posted By: MickyMan
22-Jul-19 - 08:02 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Leaving Home (Charlie Poole)
Subject: Did Poole come up with this alone?
"Leaving Home" is Charlie Poole's amazingly unique re-write of the Frankie and Johnny murder song story.   Does anybody know if this pronounced departure from other F&J songs sprang completely from Poole himself?   Do other songs that he wrote show similar signs of off the charts creativity. It came out way back in 1926, and I've never heard another previous version of the song/story that resembles it much at all. Was Charlie Poole that sophisticated of a writer, or did he update something similar that was around at the time?