Happy! - Oct 14 (Dorsey Dixon)

Subject: RE: Happy! - Oct 14 (Dorsey Dixon)
From: Abby Sale
Date: 16 Oct 05 - 09:26 AM

The Happy file only finds "The Iron Lady," by Ian Robb. A Falklands war protest.

Subject: RE: Happy! - Oct 14 (Dorsey Dixon)
From: GUEST,Joe_F
Date: 15 Oct 05 - 09:10 PM

Ewan MacColl, IIRC, wrote a song about Maggie.

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Subject: RE: Happy! - Oct 14 (Dorsey Dixon)
From: Abby Sale
Date: 15 Oct 05 - 10:51 AM

? Thatcher isn't holy!




(I don't even mean anything by that. Just couldn't help it.)

Subject: RE: Happy! - Oct 14 (Dorsey Dixon)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 09:38 PM

Holy Cow! Non-music, but the 14th is the birthdate for Margaret Thatcher and Mahatma Gandhi.

Subject: RE: Happy! - Oct 14 (Dorsey Dixon)
From: RangerSteve
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 07:35 PM

One of the hazards of having an unusual name: the author is listed as Dorothy Dixon on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Bands first "Circle" album, at least for the first pressing. Maybe by now it's been corrected.

Subject: Happy! - Oct 14 (Dorsey Dixon)
From: Abby Sale
Date: 14 Oct 05 - 09:43 AM


Happy Birthday!

Singer / songwriter (many)/ mill worker,

Dorsey Murdock Dixon

born 10/14/1897
(d.Apr 17, 1968)

         Who did you say it was brother?
          Who was it fell by the way?
          When whiskey and blood run together
          Did you hear anyone pray?
  
                  "Wreck on the Highway," written by Dorsey in late 1937
                       after a serious road accident near Rockingham [NC]
                It was originally recorded under the title "Didn't Hear Nobody Pray" 
                [thanx Manfred Helfert

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