The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #11922   Message #91278
Posted By: Roger the zimmer
01-Jul-99 - 03:44 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Mah Lindy Lou (Lily Strickland, 1920)
Subject: RE: Lindy lou
.. I knew you could do it , Joe! I went home and listened to my solitary Burl Ives record ( I don't know why I'M answerng folk enquiries, I have several hundred -thousand SHE says- jazz & blues recordings from piano rolls to CDs but fewer than 2 dozen folk recordings) "Return to the Wayfaring Stranger", Hallmark 514- originally recorded 1960 on CBS) and got much the same result. His second verse third line is:
Clingin' round my cabin door, reckon it's 'cos she loves it so,
Before skiffle in the '50s about the only folk I heard on the radio was Burl Ives, Paul Robeson or Elton Hayes (songs to a small guitar) [NOT another tiple joke].