Subject: Tammy's in Love From: Matthew B visiting in Florda Date: 18 Jul 99 - 09:45 AM Anybody know the words to a song that Debbie Reynolds sang about 40 years ago called "Tammy's in Love" or something like that? My mother used to sing it to me as a lullabye. |
Subject: Lyr Add: TAMMY (from "Tammy and the Bachelor") From: katlaughing Date: 18 Jul 99 - 10:38 AM My niece is named, in part, for this song. It's one of the first "pop" songs I remember learning. From Lyrics World: TAMMY- from "Tammy and the Bachelor" starring Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Nielson - words and music by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans - #1 hit for Debbie Reynolds in 1957- #5 hit for The Ames Brothers in 1957
I hear the cottonwoods whisp'rin' above |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Art Thieme Date: 18 Jul 99 - 02:34 PM I did this in a banjo medley some years ago---along with "The Bells Of St. Marys" and "Lazy Bones" & Pete Seegers version of "Ode To Joy" and the Greek song, "Miserlou".---just to show the versatility of the banjo. It was always fun. Art |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: katlaughing Date: 18 Jul 99 - 02:39 PM I'll bet it sounded Great, Art. Do you have it on any of your cd's? |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: WyoWoman Date: 18 Jul 99 - 02:57 PM My sister and I used to sing at the veterans' hospital and this was one of the songs we harmonized on. Along with "Catch a Falling Star" and "Dream, Dream, Dream." And many old WWII popular songs. WW |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Jul 99 - 05:05 AM Debbie Reynolds and that Leslie Nielson? Really? Sure enough, but it's hard to believe he once played serious roles. I guiltily admit I like his slapstick comedy. -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Bonecruncher Date: 04 Apr 09 - 08:35 PM I hope GUEST above means Church aisle, not an island! |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Rabbi-Sol Date: 04 Apr 09 - 09:07 PM The entire movie is available on You Tube in twelve 10 minute segments. The sound is good but the video quality is not. Also available on You Tube is the scene where Debbie Reynolds sings the song as a separate video and both, the sound and viseo quality are superb on that one. |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 04 Apr 09 - 09:14 PM Being constitutionally curmudgeonly, I have to say "Nay" to the tone I get from the above posts. I have always regarded "Tammy's in Love" as one of the most insipid, pointless songs I ever heard,both wordwise and tunewise. Dave Oesterreich |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: maeve Date: 04 Apr 09 - 09:26 PM When I was seven or eight years old I thought this song and "The Ballad of the Green Berets" were wonderful. I learned and sang them both with great feeling, usually one after the other. :) maeve |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 04 Apr 09 - 10:35 PM Saw this on the "big screen" as a kid. The film is about planting tomatoes. Fresh, luscious, glorius, pink-skinned, globuals bursting with lusty liquid that can only be secured through cultivation, planting and long term nourishing. (I lusted for those buxem spheres then ... and still do.)
Mom - (she also had buxem spheres which would slap-slap-slap in the early morning workouts) would occasionally ship us out on a Saturday morning (until a kid was castrated in the theatre) with 50cents. I would return with 10cents for the piggybank...(and sometimes 15cents - if the extra ten was loaned out with promise of immediate return for the purchaser's immediate purchase - ahhh...the returns of delayed gratification satisfying pentup desire) Movie was 25cents, "Flicks Chocolate in a Tube" was 15cents and 10cents went towards investments.
The lyrics posted above on July 18, 1999, 10:38 are not the ones emblazoned in my brain:
I liked the song then - today - insipid (but I liked Burl Ives then too...and still do)
Sincerely, |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Stilly River Sage Date: 04 Apr 09 - 10:42 PM Gargoyle, you're gushing. It's kind of cute. . . |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Little Robyn Date: 05 Apr 09 - 02:50 AM I absolutely loved it when I was 10! I had the 7"record and the sheet music. And I was going to name any daughters I had Debbie or Tammy (but I didn't because I grew up first). I'd like to see the film again with over 50 years living since the first time I saw it. Robyn |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: alanabit Date: 05 Apr 09 - 03:39 AM I remember seeing that film in the early sixties. It must have been before I was eight. It made me cringe then and I suspect that even at that tender age I reacted similarly to Uncle Dave O. Strange to think that the same Debbie Reynolds could be so vivacious and funny in "Singing in the Rain". |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 05 Apr 09 - 04:44 AM Hey Garg, what's "in a old hooty tree" s'posed to rhyme with? What is a hooty tree anyway? And... how'd that kid get castrated in a theatre? I used to spend a quarter to get into the movie, and blow the rest on popcorn and Jujubes. Didn't save nuffin - |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Murray MacLeod Date: 05 Apr 09 - 09:12 AM I think the the thread refreshment was a Mudcat glitch, I suspect Bonecruncher meant to post on a different thread but this one got refreshed instead. These things do happen. However, since we're here, how did that kid get castrated ? |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: VirginiaTam Date: 05 Apr 09 - 02:11 PM Ugghhh! I was named for that character in the film and the song was sung regularly at me, when I was little. Thanking my Dad that my birth certificate says Tamara Linn and not Tammy Linn as my Mom would have had it and as I was called all my growing up years. Tammy Linn died in my 30's. I killed her. |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: john f weldon Date: 05 Apr 09 - 02:59 PM Holy Cow! That song was a repressed memory, and now you've reawakened it!!! Aggghhh!!! Aaarggghh! VirginiaTam, I can feel your pain! |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: VirginiaTam Date: 05 Apr 09 - 03:38 PM Oh were you named Tammy too? |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: john f weldon Date: 05 Apr 09 - 03:59 PM No, I'm just highly empathic. |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Bill D Date: 05 Apr 09 - 04:08 PM this has awakened memories in ME, also....one of the early examples of posts totally irrelevant to folk music...(which, by the way, was still part of the title of Mudcat back then.) |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Rabbi-Sol Date: 05 Apr 09 - 05:17 PM "Tammy' would have won the Oscar for the best song that year were it not up against Frank Sinatara singing "All The Way" which was the eventual winner. |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Peace Date: 05 Apr 09 - 05:25 PM IMO, "Tammy" should have. |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: M.Ted Date: 05 Apr 09 - 05:32 PM Definitely a better song--the melody is memorable, and very playable. And, sorry Bill, but, given that Art Thieme used to perform it on banjo, it is not "totally irrelevant to folk"-- |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Rabbi-Sol Date: 05 Apr 09 - 05:58 PM Did Art record it and if so where can I obtain the recording? |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Rowan Date: 05 Apr 09 - 06:16 PM The film, when I saw it as a 14 yr old, convinced me that US movie morality was predictable and the pits; no matter what the rest of the plot might have as possibilities, if a person of one sex saw someone of the opposite sex starkers, they had to be married to each other by the last frame. Put me off MGM for decades. But I have let out the leather ferret and trotted the tune out as a waltz in sessions where people are (or need a bit of) reminiscing. It's amazing how many people still know the words. In Oz! And, while we're on folklore, I was once told that the tune was, at least partially, based on a Cajun tune. I don't have much experience in Cajun music, but I'm in the right place to ask. Cheers, Rowan |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Art Thieme Date: 05 Apr 09 - 06:22 PM Whew, after that kid went into that movie, I bet there was a VAS DEFERENS between how he felt when he exited the theater. ;-) Sol, No, I never did record "Tammy"--but "Lazy Bones" is on a CD though--called Chicago Town And Points West----from Folk Legacy.com. Art |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Art Thieme Date: 05 Apr 09 - 06:34 PM When I was in a play about Australia in a big theater in Chicago a long time ago, there was an ab-original cast recording of it and we in the play got a great cast rate on it if we bought 3 or more. Fond memories! That might be what Garg. was going on a bout. Art |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Art Thieme Date: 05 Apr 09 - 06:39 PM Gargoyle, Hooters on your mind, huh? \Art |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Art Thieme Date: 05 Apr 09 - 06:41 PM Hope it cums on the boob tube for you! |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: bobad Date: 05 Apr 09 - 06:55 PM Not to be confused with Pammie's On A Bummer |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: GUEST,Peace Date: 06 Apr 09 - 12:36 AM Youtube w/ DR singing it. |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: john f weldon Date: 06 Apr 09 - 01:06 AM VirginiaTam... I have a friend Tamara who was NOT named after Tammy, nor does she call herself Tammy. She was named after the beautiful Tamarack tree (I was there when they chose the name). So you have an escape route. f stands for Felix. I was named after a cartoon cat, and have seen the letters to prove it. _mr empathy |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Genie Date: 06 Apr 09 - 02:54 AM I have a relative named Tamara (Tammy) whose name was inspired by the Debbie Reynolds movie (and who used the song "Tammy" in lieu of the Wedding March when she came down the aisle). But FWIW, the Debbie Reynolds character in "Tammy" was not named Tamara. Her name was Tambrey (last name Tyree). |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 06 Apr 09 - 05:24 AM Tambrey?? Does any character in the film ever explain why she has such an unusual handle? According to the Gospel of St Google, it seems to be a place name in Western Australia . . . |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Bonnie Shaljean Date: 06 Apr 09 - 05:29 AM PS: Garg... c'mon... we know you're out there... what happened to that kid in the theatre??? Thousands of anxious boys need to be told - |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: GUEST Date: 06 Apr 09 - 05:31 AM According to several name sites Tambrey means immortal though the original source is unknown. |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Brakn Date: 06 Apr 09 - 05:32 AM that was me. |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Dave Sutherland Date: 06 Apr 09 - 07:36 AM The Graham Bond Organisation (G.B, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Dick Heckstall-Smith) released a version of this in 1965. It was probably a management/record company driven tilt at the charts as all bands needed a hit record in those days. Chris Welch's biography of Cream states both his and the band's opinions of this particular venture. |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: VirginiaTam Date: 06 Apr 09 - 08:27 AM Blissfully I don't recall much about the film except that I thought "how cool to live on a house boat." Beyond that it seemed it was all about some sticky sweet hillbilly girl trying to make a go in the big wide world. With my Appalachain roots (maternal side) I wanted to steer as clear as possible from the poor and poorly educated stigma attached to anyone who's family hailed from West by gawd Virginia. Both my Mom's parents were from WV and before anyone says anything NO they were not even remotely related. No extra digits in my family as far as I know. So as a teenie and tweenie I really despised being called Tammy and Tammy Linn. Oddly enough, even though I still don't like the name I am quite interested in learning about my Appalachain roots especially regards the music. My Gammy (maternal grandmother) played piano and autoharp sang mostly gospel songs even wrote a few. What happened to her work I don't know. Sadly there is no one to tap for info. My Mom and her twin don't remember much. |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Peace Date: 06 Apr 09 - 05:18 PM Tammikins would really have set you back then, huh? |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Genie Date: 06 Apr 09 - 07:38 PM Well, the original "Tammy And the Bachelor," with Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Nielsen was saccharine and faux-hillbilly-accent enough -- though as a young teen, I loved it -- but the sequels with Sandra Dee as Tammy were treacly and insipid enough to make me puke even as a teen. (Dee could never lose her New Yoak accent enough to even begin to sound 'southern' and she was so incredibly sweet that diabetics had to avoid the movie.) |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Peace Date: 06 Apr 09 - 07:40 PM I never did see the movie. YUK. It was about girls and love and kissing and stuff like that. I was nine. BUT, that song stayed with me from hearing it once. I thought then and think now that it's beautiful. |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Peter T. Date: 06 Apr 09 - 07:43 PM Vas deferens!!! (Art you are one of a kind). yours, Peter T. |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: GUEST Date: 06 Apr 09 - 07:53 PM Brilliant tune. This was recorded by fiddle player Mark O Connor as "Tammy's Waltz" on his first album and has been given the ultimate treatment by Ry Cooder on a recent CD which I have somewhere. Interesting how a good tune fits into somany different music catogories |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Notferjo Date: 07 Apr 09 - 08:45 AM Thanks so much for the ewe chube, Peace. I love this song with many early memories...When I was a small wee thing, my mother used to sing Tammy. NFJ |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: john f weldon Date: 07 Apr 09 - 09:16 AM At Gitmo, they used music to break the spirits of the prisoners. For me, they could play Tammy and I'd confess to anything! Yes! I shot JFK! And Lincoln! And I stabbed Julius Caesar! Just not the "old hooty owl" again!!! Arrrggghh! |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego Date: 07 Apr 09 - 01:05 PM Back in 1960, I was Activities Director for a summer camp in the Sierras. Our younger staff members (14 - 16)were having serious "nocturnal issues" over this Debbie Reynolds song. Our Camp Director went on record as saying this was the most treacle he had ever heard concentrated in one piece of music. I just thought it was terminally bland. |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: Art Thieme Date: 07 Apr 09 - 01:09 PM Peter T, Thanks. But I'm afraid I've just got too much time on my hands... Art |
Subject: RE: Tammy's in Love From: PoppaGator Date: 07 Apr 09 - 01:23 PM I remember the song, and liking the melody despite all my best efforts not to enjoy anything so mushy... |
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