Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: Jeri Date: 16 May 99 - 07:27 PM BMI Database I was just there, and it was OK. Now I can't get there. "Put Another Log..." is registered as having been written by Shel (alone) and performed by Tompall Glazer.
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Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: Susan A-R Date: 16 May 99 - 08:34 PM As I looked through this thread I kept recognizing songs which I'd never known were Shel's. I never pay enough attention to the authors of songs, and this has been a real education. I've done Put Another Log on the Fire, Little Green Buttons, and a few other songs mentioned here, and never really thought about Shel. I'll be checking out that website for sure. Aint it always the way it goes, you don't know what you've got 'til its gone. Susan |
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: DoRay Date: 17 May 99 - 07:53 PM To: Frank of Toledo...The song, "Me and Jimmie Rodgers" is on Art's Album, 'That's the Ticket'.....along with a lot of other excellent songs. |
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: Frank Of Toledo Date: 17 May 99 - 09:58 PM Thanks so much DoRay. I'll be calling Caroline at Folk Legacy for an order and I'll have her send me the tape. And another thanks for keeping this thread alive....... |
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: Art Thieme Date: 18 May 99 - 03:11 AM If Caroline & Sandy are out of the cassette for _That's The Ticket_ I've still got a few here. Same for _On The Wilderness Road---also on Folk Legacy. (The vinyl LP of TICKET is long gone but I've still got a box of about 25 WILDERNESS ROAD albums that's been serving as a door stop for several years.) Art |
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: Easy Rider Date: 18 May 99 - 12:13 PM I saw Ramblin' Jack Elliott a few days after Shel's death, and he talked about his long friendship with the man. He had some great stories to tell, and he expressed his regrets for not staying closer in touch. |
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: Paddy Date: 18 May 99 - 03:02 PM I only knew him from his work with Bobby Bare and Dr Hook.
Didn't he sing a verse of "Greasy Grit Gravy and Gizzard Greens", a track which included Willie Nelson, Dr Hook, Waylon Jennings and Bobby Bare?
"Jennifer Lohnson" is also his as is "Stacy Brown got TWO", "Tequila Sheila" and "Big Dupree"
A true genius who brightened up my life. Paddy |
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: Frank Of Toledo Date: 18 May 99 - 03:20 PM BIG FAT PIE AND HOBO BEANS.....MAKES YOU WANNA SPLIT YOU JEANS... GIMME GREASY GRIT GRAVY AND GIZZARD GREENS......... That was quite an album.....on Columbia "BARE" with Big Dupree.....Finger on the Button......Yard Full of Rusty Cars... And This Guitar is For Sale...and Sing for the Song...... Shel at his very best 1978....... |
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: Susanne (skw) Date: 18 May 99 - 06:40 PM Thanks, Jeri! Although the link didn't work for me either. Don't know what's wrong. - Susanne |
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: Dan Knudsen Date: 19 May 99 - 05:39 AM The Shel Silverstein song Me and Jimmie Rodgers was also recorded by Bob Gibson on an compilation album called Get Folked....anyone out there hear of this? |
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: Art Thieme Date: 19 May 99 - 11:21 AM __GET FOLKED__ was the first LP I was ever on. (1973) It was produced by a fine folk club in Rockford, Illinois called CHARLOTTE'S WEB. On it was Ron Nigrini, Tom Dundee, Richard Pinney, me, Susan & Richard Thomas, Ron Crick's band, Rose Hip String Band, Mark Henley and Dave (Snaker) Ray who produced & recorded the LP. Bob Gibson wan't there. Either was "Me & Jimmie Rodgers". I did record that song of Shel's later. I'd learned it from Bob. Could there have been a 2nd edition of _Get Folked_? I doubt it. They never did get over naming this one that. Art |
Subject: ADD: Many Shel Silverstein Lyrics From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Aug 00 - 06:08 PM Somebody e-mailed me this collection of Shel Silverstein lyrics, and it was too good a thing to pass up. I don't have time to edit them all, but I thought I'd post them so everybody can have access to them. -Joe Offer-
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Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: Sourdough Date: 29 Aug 00 - 10:20 PM What nice aurprises show up in the mail. Sourdough |
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: richlmo Date: 29 Aug 00 - 10:26 PM My first child was born in 1984 and my second in 1990. I can't imagine reading to my kids without Shel Silverstein. The Giving Tree is one of my favorite books , ever. Rootabega Stories by Carl Sandberg ain't bad , either. If you have kids. Or not!! Shel will really be missed. |
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: GUEST,Vicki Date: 06 Sep 03 - 03:27 PM If anyone has the song of "Singin' in the kitchen".....give me the link, or download it and send it to me. |
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: Ebbie Date: 06 Sep 03 - 11:27 PM And that's an order? Please and Thank you is good. |
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: Blackcatter Date: 06 Sep 03 - 11:45 PM Yea Gods. I agree with you Ebbie. I get it all the time on my site too - people writing like it's my job to solve their problems. At least Vicki knows how to use punctuation. |
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: GUEST,Big Jim from Jackson Date: 07 Sep 03 - 12:01 PM I dont have the words handy, but Bobby Bare recorded the song on an album by the same title. |
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: GUEST,misshockey01@aol.com Date: 14 Apr 05 - 02:25 PM I am asking u a faveor can u send me an anylized pome from your book where the side walk ends.....thankYou please write back elaina |
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: Stilly River Sage Date: 14 Apr 05 - 03:51 PM Elaina, Shel Silverstien doesn't live here (or anywhere). Too often over the years I've received email from students who conducted a search and landed on my address as a scholar of any number of subjects, but who were unwilling to take the same amount of energy to do their own thinking for their homework assignment. I speak for myself, not other Mudcatters, though I'd wager that several of them have had similar experiences with random messages from students asking for detailed answers. The nature of the request, formulated in the current misspelled techno-speak of instant messagers, posted quickly with a short request and few requirements except that it get done, looks to me like someone hastily posting messages in various places, not expending much time because they know the request is impertinent, thus liable to be ignored, but hoping to get lucky nonetheless. This is the kind of request that must be handed back unfulfilled to the student--it's your homework, and you're expected to do this thinking for yourself. Don't write to total strangers and expect them to regurgitate information that you will then slap your name on and turn in for credit. It's as easy to do a search on Silverstein and get enough clues from essays online as it is to find Mudcat. It takes even less time to simply pick a poem you like, read it over a few times, then decide what it means to you. Discuss. Good luck getting that assignment finished on your own. SRS |
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein From: DADGBE Date: 14 Apr 05 - 04:45 PM Well, it took a while but I finally located them. SINGIN' IN THE KITCHEN Words and Music by Shel Silverstein Here we go - singing in the kitchen, All together - singing in the kitchen, Everybody - singing in the kitchen, Banging on the pots and pans. Mama and Daddy - singing in the kitchen, Baby's laughing - singing in the kitchen, All the kids - singing in the kitchen, Banging on the pots and pans. Supper's done and the table's clear, Baby wants a bottle and I want a beer, Lord, I sure am glad I'm here, Where there's lots of love to share. Now clap hands and everybody sing, Dishes clang and the banjo rings, There's gravy on these guitar strings, But I don't really care. 'Cause here we are - singing in the kitchen, All together - singing in the kitchen, Everybody - singing in the kitchen, Banging on the pots and pans. I'll play the comb and you play the spoons, I'll sing the words and you sing the tunes, We'll wake up the old man in the moon, 'Cause we sing so loud. I'll hug you, you hug mother, Snuggle up close to one another, Just like bread on a piece of butter, Lord, it makes me feel so proud. 'Cause here we are - singing in the kitchen, All together - singing in the kitchen, Everybody - singing in the kitchen, Banging on the pots and pans. Now the fireplace embers glowing red, Everybody's tired and it's time for bed, Baby's nodding his little head, So let's sing quietly now. (SHHHHHHHHH!) [quietly] Who do we love - singing in the kitchen, Can't get enough - singing in the kitchen, Whole lot of love - singing in the kitchen, anging on the pots and pans. Mama and Daddy - singing in the kitchen, Little bitty baby - singing in the kitchen, All the kids - singing in the kitchen, Banging on the pots and pans. [loud] Here we go - singing in the kitchen, All together - singing in the kitchen, Everybody - singing in the kitchen, Banging on the pots and pans. Mama and Daddy - singing in the kitchen, Baby laughing - singing in the kitchen, All the kids - singing in the kitchen, Banging on the pots and pans. |
Subject: RE: Obit: Shel Silverstein (May, 1999) From: Amergin Date: 14 Apr 05 - 05:53 PM I wonder if I have a seance if Shel would sign my copies of his books....or do Elaina's homework for her... |
Subject: RE: Obit: Shel Silverstein (May, 1999) From: robomatic Date: 15 Apr 05 - 12:04 PM See if Elaina is the type to take the garbage out! |
Subject: RE: Obit: Shel Silverstein (May, 1999) From: Stilly River Sage Date: 15 Apr 05 - 12:49 PM I love that one. My daughter was an early reader, and her first grade teacher didn't believe my note at the beginning of the school year that she read as well as she did. I told her that while Caroline occasionally skipped over words she didn't recognize, she would be bored if she couldn't read during the day because she loved it. A note came back to say that "recognition without true understanding wasn't really reading." To nip this misunderstanding in the bud I set up a conference and had Caroline choose something to read. Her teacher had that book up on a shelf, and Caroline had complained to me that it was up where she couldn't reach it, so we got that book down and Caroline chose "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out" to read to us. To her credit, the teacher was totally focused on Caroline as she not only read but understood and enjoyed this wonderful poem. I just pulled out our copy--it's held together with rubberbands because we read it so much that it's falling apart. SRS |
Subject: RE: Obit: Shel Silverstein (May, 1999) From: GUEST Date: 16 Apr 05 - 03:11 AM If exhaustion had not set in...and the mind was not numb as a bum on the run...and a noggin too many of rum had not fogged the mind.
Ahhhh....what a splendid spell of syrupy swill the River Sage and I could feed to this poor pathetic soul with a fool for a teacher.
Shel was a shell of the man he could have been...but he was an ex-con....so who could expect more....and drugs included? His books, with verses like "There are too many kids in the tub, there are too many elbows to scrub, I just washed a behind, I'm sure wasn't mine; there are too many kids in the tub......were probably staples next to the Penthouse magazines at Michael Jackson's Neverland. |
Subject: RE: Obit: Shel Silverstein (May, 1999) From: GUEST,Stilly River Sage Date: 16 Apr 05 - 10:08 AM That prosecutor has done such a job on Jackson, don't suggest it too loudly or this might be his next project. (I suspect the truth lies somewhere way South of what the prosecution is suggesting. Have you heard the latest? The mother who is driving this case on behalf of her son is legally insane--psychotic and paranoid, but the prosecution is trying to prove that part of her insanity is admissable as evidence. . . sheesh. . . ) SRS |
Subject: RE: Obit: Shel Silverstein (May, 1999) From: GUEST,MC Date: 06 Feb 09 - 08:44 PM I still having breakfast with Shell in Hollywood. He drew so many cartoons on the walls there, napkins, waitress anyone near buy. I'll always miss him Martin |
Subject: RE: Obit: Shel Silverstein (May, 1999) From: GUEST,Allen in Oz Date: 07 Feb 09 - 05:52 AM Did he write "When She Cries" as sung by Burl Ives ? AD |
Subject: RE: Obit: Shel Silverstein (May, 1999) From: Joe Offer Date: 08 Feb 09 - 01:09 AM Hi, Allen - The book, A Boy Named Shel says that Shel did indeed write "When She Cries," which was recorded by Burl Ives. Can somebody post the lyrics? -Joe- |
Subject: RE: Obit: Shel Silverstein (May, 1999) From: GUEST,Allen in Oz Date: 08 Feb 09 - 03:21 AM Many thanks Joe Have you heard the Burl Ives version of " When She Cries"...it is simply beautiful AD |
Subject: RE: OBIT: Shel Silverstein has died (May 99) From: Joe Offer Date: 31 Jul 23 - 06:31 PM Joe - combine |
Subject: ADD: Payin' My Dues Again (Shel Silverstein) From: BrooklynJay Date: 01 Aug 23 - 02:40 AM I’m familiar with some of Shel Silverstein's work (loved his Playboy cartoons back in the day) and even do a few of his songs, but I confess I had never encountered this song until I read this thread. I immediately went to the Burl Ives recording on YouTube. Absolutely amazing. Took me several minutes to recover, old sentimentalist that I am. It's a bit late, but here are the lyrics from the Burl Ives recording on his album Payin' My Dues Again (1973): PAYIN' MY DUES AGAIN (Shel Silverstein) No one knows my lady when she's lonely No one sees the fantasies and the fears my lady hides There are those who share her love and laughter But no one hears my lady when she cries…but me No one hears my lady when she cries And when she cries, she makes you wanna run And chase the sun and bring it back To brighten up a corner of her dark and troubled skies You may have seen her lying in your lamplight And if you've heard her whispered words, it comes as no surprise So be the one she shares her secret smiles with But send me back my lady when she cries…for me My lady’s gonna need me when she cries And when she cries, she makes you wanna run And chase the sun and bring it back So, bring me back my lady when she cries 'Cause my lady’s gonna need me when she cries Here is the original Shel Silverstein poem. There are several differences from the Burl Ives recording. The recording by Dr. Hook (which came out in 1972) is nearly identical to Ives’s version. No one knows my lady when she's lonely No one sees the fantasies and fears my lady hides There are those who've shared her love and laughter But no one hears my lady when she cries…but me No one hears my lady when she cries And when she cries she makes you wanna run And chase the sun and bring it back To brighten up a corner of her dark and troubled skies When she cries She walks barefoot through the misty mornin' Dreams of golden yesterdays reflectin' in her eyes But soon the evenin' shadows crowd around her Frightening my lady till she cries…for me Frightening my lady, till she cries You may have seen her lyin' in your lamplight And if you've heard her whispered words, it comes as no surprise So be the one she shares her secret smiles with But send me back my lady when she cries…for me My lady's gonna need me when she cries |
Subject: RE: Obit: Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) From: BrooklynJay Date: 01 Aug 23 - 06:26 PM Of course, the title for the lyrics I posted should have been When She Cries, rather than Payin' My Dues Again (the title of the Burl Ives album). My mistake - but it serves me right for posting in the middle of the night with my brain half-functioning. Jay |
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