BS: Is there a song for every day?

Subject: Is there a song for every day?
From: bunkerhill
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 09:54 PM

I'd like to make a calendar with a song for every day, but lack the knowledge of holidays, historical anniversaries, etc., to make it work. Here's what little I have for January. Can anyone help fill in the many blanks? 1. Auld Lang Syne/Morning After. 2..3..4...5...6...7...8. Eighth of January 9...10...11...12...13...14...15 We Shall Overcome 16...17...18...19...20...21...22...23...24...25...26...27...28...29...30...31...

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a song for every day?
From: Caitrin
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 10:00 PM

Well, you could use "We Three Kings" for the 6th. That's Epiphany, supposedly the day the Three Wise Men arrived in Bethlehem with the gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a song for every day?
From: catspaw49
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 10:09 PM

Cute idea Mark!! I'll be thinking on it. I know you can use "American Pie" on February 3rd, but I'd prefer "Everyday" or "Rave On."

It may not help, but Banjo Bonnie wears days of the week underwear, but now she says she's playing Banjo nekkid so maybe we could have a panty raid and see if she left any musical highlights in her u-trou.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a song for every day?
From: Mary
Date: 08 Dec 99 - 11:36 PM

there is a Newfoundland song called the 25th of January..once we canoodleoodled right fol the doodle doodle on the fifth the 25th of Januaryo

and Matty Groves for the first

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a song for every day?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 02:13 AM

Abby Sale, who drops in here from time to time used to post Happy posts to the folk music newsgroup so time ago. There were different types of happy/Happy posts but the main idea of one was the each day he'd take that date & from his files he'd post a song with that days date in it (day & month not matching year). He did this for quite some time then stopped (forgot the reason now)sure wish he started it up again, it was just great. Dick should be able to shed much more light on this. Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a song for every day?
From: Wolfgang
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 04:21 AM

Mark, look for the old thread Songs for each month that later in its fate digressed into the theme 'songs for each day'. For the sake of example take any month (March, May and June are bad examples for they get too many 'unmonthly' hits; why June? June Tabor, of course) and enter its name into the search box and you will find that about one third of all days of this month are mentioned in one of the songs in the DT-database already. Happy hunting, it's easy at first and gets very difficult later on.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a song for every day?
From: Abby Sale
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 08:53 AM

True, Barry.

Odd thing is, I can tell you why it _started_ not why it stopped as easily. It was just such a challenge as Markf posted. I'd been colledting Almanac trivia & songs & got into it. By the time I stopped posting, I had a minimum of two posts daily - that is, I had one that Folk-celebrated the day, such as "Happy James Hogg, The Ettrick Shepherd baptizmal day! (Dec 9, 1770)" Normally it would be a birthday but his isn't really clear - seems he lied about it.

And the second (more to this point) of a song that either mentioned this day as you said, or else dealt with an event that occured on this day, eg:

"The Cross Mountain Explosion" (150 miners die in Briceville, TN) On the ninth day of December, In nineteen hundred and eleven; Many were killed in Coal Creek mines, I hope they are in Heaven.

from George Korson, _Coal Dust on the Fiddle_

Many of them can be seen at Gaughan's web site. He got off the web & back to life before I completed the series so he only shows many days.

One day "The Happy File" will rise again. It needed a rest. Dick (with much hesitation & consideration about my wasting the time & space of all the good folk at Mudcat and otherwise messing up and occasionally scandalizing this dignified website) said I may post them here when I get back to it. Say, one more year. I'm still collecting & editing stuff on it. There's a LONG list of dates I wish I had but don't.

Thanks for remembering this.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a song for every day?
From: Abby Sale
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 09:02 AM

Mary,

While Jan 25 is a pretty good day in Folk History, I don't have that Newf. "25th of January" you cited. Please send me as much of the words as you have and the reference. (I don't actually know how one sends private messages here from Mudcat - are our e-mail addresses shown anywhere?)

I'd much appreciate it.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a song for every day?
From: Clifton53
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 09:19 AM

Steve Goodman did a song called, I think, "Roving Cowboy", and it mentions the 4th of January as the day of a robbery committed by the singer's friends and the subsequent murder of the perpetrators by sheriff's officers.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a song for every day?
From: T in Oklahoma (Okiemockbird)
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 09:29 AM

For the last days of Advent there are the O-antiphons, which can be found at http://www.op.org/domcentral/life/#advent

T.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a song for every day?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 09:34 AM

ahh...I had almost forgotten that old thread Wolfgang linked to~..We did a lot of speculating about the possibilities there....and I never DID make a complete list of the songs I found...with the new MudcatMidi page and Noteworthy Composer. etc.. perhaps that is a good project to start the 2000s with!...at least it would add a lot of stuff to the Database!

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a song for every day?
From: KathWestra
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 10:16 AM

Rich Galloway, who lives here in the Washington, DC, area, was collecting songs for the days of the calendar when I first met him 20 years ago. He'd made a lot of progress already then. He's an English dance enthusiast and caller and you can probably find his e-mail address in the CDSS directory to ask him how far he's gotten with this project in the intervening years.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a song for every day?
From: Jeri
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 10:25 AM

Abby's archived "Happy?!" posts are here, at Dick Gaughan's Website. (At least what Dick got around to putting in. Look about halfway down the bage for the J and L. (That's a smiley or frowny face if it just looks like "J" and "L" on your machine.)

I loved these posts, and look forward to reading them again.

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a song for every day?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 11:21 AM

hmmm....neat trick, jeri..lets see if I can.... and k

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a song for every day?
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 11:30 AM

right concept, wrong letter..being a neutral sort, I was trying to straighten out that grin.... and K

Subject: RE: BS: Is there a song for every day?
From: lamarca
Date: 09 Dec 99 - 02:04 PM

Rich Galloway was working on that hobby with Mark Gilston; Mark is a wonderful singer, concertina player and player of unusual dead goats and sheep (various ethnic pipes, of course) who currently lives in Florida. Mark is infamous in FSGW Getaway history for introducing the song swap topic "Songs of Dismemberment" - in addition to calendar songs, Mark collects songs that mention severed ears, in particular...