Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Stringsinger Date: 03 Aug 11 - 01:09 PM Art, you may remember a song Bob Gibson and I wrote which made us for a while persona non grata in Chicago at one time, "I'm An Old Chicago Copper" which I performed on T.V. and subsequently castigated for it. This was prior to a reform effort by a law enforcement professor from Berkeley which somewhat changed the force, involving many at that time who were on "the take". |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Wotcha Date: 03 Aug 11 - 03:29 AM I can't believe it is 10 years since leaving Chicago ... at their shanty sings, Tom and Chris Kastle sang a modified shanty based on Hieland Laddie called Burnham Harbor. My favorite venue (aside from the Abbey Pub for its folk concerts) is the Cabaret Tavern in Bricktown -- very receptive to all types of music and has apparently taken off. Not sure if Dwayne Storey is still playing during open mike nights ... but you will likely find some local songs about Chicago there. Med Vennlig hilsen, Brian |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,john_benischek Date: 02 Aug 11 - 01:40 PM Hey W y s i w y G ! : Here are the lyrics to The Ballad of Thirsty Joe's Revenge (c) Pat Clinton I was sleepin' by the fire, on the plains of Idaho When I woke up with a start and saw the ghost of Thirst Joe Still bleedin' where John Hanna's bullet caught him in the chest And he begged me to avenge his death and let him take his rest. Now I ain't known as no good man I believe I got notches on my pistol, I got aces up my sleave But I'd rather face the dyin' and the buryin' below Than be haunted through my sleepin' by the ghost of Thirsty Joe. It was 2 or 3 weeks later, we brought the herd to town So I stepped into the barroom and bought the boys a round When in walked ol' John Hanna, I turned and faced him slow I said, "I brought you a message from your ol' friend Thirsty Joe." His eyes were bright with whiskey, his face went dead and gray He looked around for help but all his friends they turned away And he trembled as he ask me, "Stranger, how is my old friend?" I said, "Ol' Joe is a thirsty still. He's a thirsty for revenge." Now I ain't known as no fightin' man I guess I wear the scars of 20 times where I was 2nd best But Hana come tomorrow as the sun begins to show For I reckon you'll be dyin' to please ol' Thirsty Joe. I was waitin' there he next day as the mornin' light was dim When I heard a step behind me and I reckoned it was him I said, "John Hana, Say your prayers! I'm aimin' for your life!" But it was not Hana when I turned. It was John Hana's wife. She was an angel she would take your breath away. She said, "I'll haunt you if you lay him in the clay." I mounted without speaking, headed back to Idaho For I rather would be haunted by the ghost of Thirsty Joe. Now I ain't known as no sentimental man I put the past behind me just as quickly as I can But I'll not forget the way she smiled as I began to go And at night time I describe it to the ghost of Thirsty Joe. And he's always there beside me now My old friend Thirsty Joe. |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,Malick Rebenar Date: 13 Jan 11 - 12:48 PM Tary Rebenar was my father. He originally started the Barbarossa 1117 N. Dearborn St. Chicago. He also wrote the song Chicago sounds it is the jingle song for the CBS local news which is on his album Just a Dream Ago. On 11/11/89 he died of aids from a bad blood transfusion he got when he had surgury for some really bad skin cancer at lutheran general hospital. |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Sarah McQuaid Date: 04 Sep 10 - 07:23 AM Too lazy to comb through all the posts to see if anyone has already mentioned this, but the choir I sang in as a child did a song about "The State of Elanoy", spelled Elanoy as opposed to Illinois. Ah, just googled it and it's on Mudcat already -- here you go: http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiELANOYST;ttBUFFSKN2.html Again, apologies if someone else has already mentioned this! |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST Date: 04 Sep 10 - 03:58 AM does anyone know a chicago song that mentions Howard Cab? my uncle worked there for years and they wanna give the owner a special party and want to play that song but nobody knows any lyrics or who sings it, any help?? thanks |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: 10r Date: 04 May 10 - 11:56 PM PS to my last post, Randy Sabine (I might have spelled that incorrectly) settled up around Eau Claire, WI. He used to be Jim Post's sideman. Fine muscian. As far as I know he is still playing around occassionally. Gary |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: 10r Date: 04 May 10 - 11:54 PM No on mentioned the Harry Chapin (I think) song about driving a cab down LSD (Lake Shore Drive) Can't remember the title. Gary |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: mousethief Date: 04 May 10 - 01:16 AM Didn't Chicago (the band) do a song called "Take Me Back to Chicago"? |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Gene Date: 04 Dec 09 - 01:44 PM A few country songs refering to Chicago or Illinois... North To Chicago - Hank Snow When The Wind Blows In Chicago - Roy Clark I Hate Chicago - Mark Wills The Airport In Chicago - Bobby Bare Great Chicago Fire - Faron Young O'leary's Cow - Johnny Horton The Cold Windy City Of Chicago - Boxcar Willie The City Of New Orleans - Willie Nelson Backing To Birmingham - Flatt & Scruggs If Texas Told What Arkansas - What Did Tennessee? - Lonzo & Oscar G |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST Date: 03 Dec 09 - 10:46 PM Ah, the Barbarossa; that place was my second home (1970-1974). Met lots of ahem, different kinds of people there; afraid I may have been one of them. Some of the groups/people who played there have been mentioned and we 'regulars' appreciated them. One couple who played there (Keller and Webb) were just dynamite. They wrote and sang their own stuff and they were just exceptional. That's it for now. Val W. Zimnicki |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Art Thieme Date: 30 Nov 08 - 11:55 PM Hey, Marty, I sure am sorry I missed your recent show in Chicago. I don't get around much any more--not driving. PLEASE, go to my photos website that Bruce Kallick made for me. Terry Rebenar and, you, Marty, are in a photo there sitting at the bar in Barbarossa with Terry Rebenar. There are other rather drunken shots of Marty Peiffer there too---at WFMT's New Years party. Those are all in the PEOPLE album at: http://rudegnu.com/art_thieme.html When asked for a 'user name' and a 'password', just put in the word mudcat for both of those. Lots of folks who are here in this thread are in my snapshots too. Jack "Check". Sure I remember you! Glad you're still doin' it. All of the original slides I took on the scene are now at the Smithsonian's Museum Of American History. They found 'em on line and requisitioned them. So now you all are in the Smithsonian. Art Thieme |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: quokka Date: 30 Nov 08 - 10:44 PM 'Come On Feel the Illinois' by Sufjan Stevens |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,Karin Pritikin Date: 30 Nov 08 - 10:06 PM ...when I was a peripatetic (or was that pathetic)"not quite-21-but-had-fake-IDs-folkie and hippie, I played from time to time at the Barbarossa and other local venues...I remember its dark lofted space , and Terry and Ray, fondly, albeit hazily... |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST Date: 13 Nov 08 - 09:53 AM John Benischek is married with a couple of kids and lives somewhere in the northern suburbs of Chicago. |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,Marty Peifer Date: 13 Nov 08 - 09:50 AM The flamenco guitar player who sang Bilbao was Ray Watkins |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,Marty Peifer Date: 13 Nov 08 - 09:37 AM LSD (Short for "Lake Shore Drive") was written and performed by Alliotta Haynes and Jermiah, who were a very popular Chicago rock/folk act in the late sixties and early seventies. Mitch Alliotta, Skip Haynes and John Jeremiah. |
Subject: RE: Barbarossa /Terry Rebenar From: GUEST,Jack Cecchini Date: 12 Nov 08 - 11:51 PM My Name is Jack Cecchini. I am a Jazz and Classical guitarist and guitar teacher. I used to hang in the Barba Rossa and perform there from time to time. I just want to mention that my friend Ed Herron owned the Barba Rossa and he gave Terry Rebenar ten percet of the club. Ed Herron passed away about ten years ago. Terry Rebenar passed away about fifteen or twenty years ago. I'm not sure about his date of death. Terry took a few guitar lessons from me and had one of the most beautiful voices I ever heard. He always player twelve string guitar on stage but he loved the classic guitar which he studied with me. He died Of aids which he contracted from the gal he was living with. The Barbarossa was a wonderful place and brings back many wonderful memories. I miss all the divine crazies that hung out in the clubs in those days. Jack Cecchini |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,Jan in California Date: 18 Jul 08 - 03:52 PM So you all mentioned the under rated singers. What happened to John Benischek?? Is he out of the biz?? |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,chuck perrin Date: 22 Mar 06 - 07:13 PM sorry to hear terry rebenar is no longer with us, i remember him singing "chicago's my city" & also putting in time myself on that stage at the barbarossa, plexiglass lit from underneath, singing songs with my sister mary & leading those late night conga lines out onto dearborn (c. 1969-70) roger ebert, jim & edie mccormick, et al. www.chuck perrin.com |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 08 Nov 05 - 01:06 AM Genny, Be sure to give Jim Craig and Ed Holstein my love!! It ought to be a fine show. Jim had the best voice to come out of the Chicago revival scene from my point of view. And I still try to pick the banjo I bought from him at Hogeye a while back.----- Ed Holstein is as droll a monologist/humorist as you'll ever here---and a great fingerpicker to boot. It's great to see that the Old Town School of FOLK MUSIC still is providing some part of their big doings these days to a few of the really good singers and pickers who came up in that town back in the '60s and '70s of the last century. God knows, there are fewer and fewer (and fewer) of us still kicking around-----even if we're not gigging around any more.---------- Yes, it will be a fine show, I am certain!!! The Fifth Peg, where you worked, was the only bar I was ever thrown out of. I was hanging in there with my wife one night when an infamous junky and drunk was hitting on her pretty hard even though she was very obviously seven months pregnant! All I did was push him away from her and the none too stable guy (and his bar stool) went crashing to the floor. Everyone seemed sure I'd swung on the fellow---which I hadn't. But I was advised I ought to be thinking about going home pretty quick. People still tell me they remember the night I decked Mark J. at the Fifth Peg. All we'd wanted to do that night was listen to John Prine... Ah, nostalgia!!! Art Thieme |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,Genny Date: 07 Nov 05 - 05:49 PM Hi Art, So sad to hear about John Carbo, I liked him very much. I wish I could have sat down and talked with him one more time. He gave me banjo lessons and I bought a used Gibson from him. He made me laugh and teased me mercessly. Signed-The Thursday night waitress from the Fifth Peg. P.S. Hope to see some of the Fifth Peg regulars this Sunday 11/13/05 at the Old Town School. Jim Craig and Ed Hostein performing. |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: wysiwyg Date: 25 Oct 03 - 09:54 PM Hey Chicogites, I need a John Benischek song, ballad of Thirsty Joe or Thirsty Joe's revenge or something like that. He used to sing at the Barbarossa (and tend bar)... ~S~ |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Joybell Date: 25 Oct 03 - 07:21 PM OK Just reviving this old thread. Greg Hildebrand is still about. Still singing. Married to me. "The Great Chicago Drug Bust" hasn't surfaced here yet has it? He wrote others but Steve Goodman sang that one after Hildebrand left the States and it gained some fans we understand. Steve Goodman tried to find my True-love for some years but Hildebrand was rambling around and no one knew where he'd gone. As soon as he wakes up I'll get him to post the lyrics of his most popular song. Click for lyrics |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: MAG Date: 07 Jan 02 - 12:51 PM About 3 of these items, namely, LSD (Lake Shore Drive), Win Stracke singing 43rd Ward, and Chicago Street Names, were played on the WFMT Midnight Special all-request show this past Saturday night. Archives available on the WFMT (Fine Arts Chicago) website usually by Wednesday afternoon. These appear about 15 minutes into the show. MAG |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Sandy Paton Date: 13 Dec 01 - 01:08 AM Two thoughts: We learned a neat little song from Cathy Barton and Dave Para, but i can't remember from whom they got it. I went out west and I slid down south, Wandered till I was wandered out. Miss my midwest thunder storms, Tasseled fields of summer corn. Chorus: Gonna ride my pony, girl, Might be half-way 'round the world. Gonna ride my pony, boy, Till I'm home in Illinois. That sweet one that I love so well, I'll just call her my prairie belle, I wonder if she thinks of me In that flat land I long to see. These old shoes are gonna turn to gold, Shine so bright when I get home. I'll pick 'em up and I'll put 'em down, Cakewalk, baby, into town. Ssorry, I can't do melodies. Did they get this from the Volo Bogtrotters? The other thought: you might want to have a look in your local library for Charles Neely's Tales and Songs of Southern Illinois, Menasha, Wisconsin, George Banta Publishing, 1938. Sandy |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,MAG at work Date: 11 Dec 01 - 08:43 PM I'll ask her; she has not to my knowledge been on this list; I asked the "other" Susan already - |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Art Thieme Date: 11 Dec 01 - 08:17 PM If that Walla Walla Susan is wwho I think it is, she used to waitress at Somebody Else's Troubles in the 1970s. If so, please e-mail me your/her address. I've got a book I meant to send to her a long while ago. Art |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,LB Date: 10 Dec 01 - 03:31 PM "Yuppies in the Sky," Tom Paxton. As I went out one evening down Columbus Avenue All the sushi bars were shuttered and the dark cantinas too I stood there in the darkness as an empty cab rolled by When all at once I heard the sound of yuppies in the sky |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: MAG Date: 10 Dec 01 - 01:57 PM My friend Susan here in WallaWalla wrote one called "Territory" -- a neighborhood thing. She grew up in the 'burbs, though. She'll put out a CD one of these days. |
Subject: Lyr Add: CHICAGO TOWN BLUES (Art Thieme) From: Art Thieme Date: 08 Dec 01 - 06:53 PM Frank, thanks. I remember Ray Watson playing flamenco at Barbarossa a few years after the Gate Of Horn days. And Illinois has a PERU too---we live there.
...and here's one of the few I've ever written that I bothered to sing --- around 1962 but updated in '76---It never was put on a released recording--but maybe one o' these years 'cause I've found some old live tapes... Joe, I think it's on the one I just sent you.
CHICAGO TOWN BLUES
I went walkin' 'round town,
----There ain't no limit
A speed freak walking down Lincoln,
Well, my mother became my father,
A patronage worker died There ain't no limit...
Now, there's hookers in New York City,
----Ain't no limit ----There ain't no limit... Art Thieme
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Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,FRANK Date: 08 Dec 01 - 05:22 PM Hey Art, That Chicago Copper song made me persona non grata in Chicago for a while. Did it on TV once and I heard from the Force. Gibson escaped it, though. It was Ray Watkins. He was stage manager for a while at the old Gate of Horn. I regret that I gave him a hard time, then. He was running lights. Good guitarist. Frank |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,MAG at work Date: 07 Dec 01 - 05:49 PM "Oh, how I wish I was in Peoria ..." |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,Genie (no cookie, I'm on a diet) Date: 07 Dec 01 - 05:31 PM Guest, Class of '73, I guess southern Illinois can claim the Wabash, too, but it runs right through Indiana, e.g., between "Lay-fay-ette" and "West Lay-fay-ette" (which is "down the road from Pee-ru. Genie Patty, I haven't heard that one, but it sounds like a good one! |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: pattyClink Date: 07 Dec 01 - 04:15 PM Genie, have you ever heard an old song my mom learned at U of I? it has a coolsort of twenties swing to it. A youth resolved to go to college and he knew not where to go he asked of all his friends and teachers each told him so-and-so At last just as he was despairing and knew not what to do he met this debonair young fellow who spoke these words so true Sing me a song of college days tell me where to go Northwestern for her pretty girls Wisconsin where they row Michigan for chappies Purdue for jolly boys Chicago for her Standard Oil for good fellows, Illinois!
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Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Phil Cooper Date: 07 Dec 01 - 01:05 PM Boy it'd be nice if Chicago had a folk club like Holstein's, the Earl, or Barbarossa again. Margaret came up and criticized my open stage set at the Barbarossa around 1981. I thought it was nice that someone paid enough attention to notice and we started picking some tunes. Now, 20 years later, we still are doing so. |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,Class of 73 Date: 07 Dec 01 - 12:54 PM I went to Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois and our "old" fight song was: I want to go back to Millikin upon the Sangamon Where all the guys in the omnibus Are raising a heck of a lot of fuss I want to go back to Millikin upon the Sangamon I want to go back I want to go back To Millikin The reason I mention this is because how many songs mention the Sangamon River. Also, there is a song that I can only remember the line "Tonight along the Wabash" which is in southeastern Illinois. |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Art Thieme Date: 07 Dec 01 - 12:28 PM Are you thinking of the 2-LP album called COMPENDIUM we made around 1965 that had just the first verse and chorus of ALL the songs in the Old Town School Of Folk Music son book. It was just to give the tunes to all those songs to the school's students. --- We recorded it, using the teachers then: Ginni Clemmens, Fleming Brown, me, Ray Tate, Ted and Marsha Johnson, Win Stracke, Rae Schwartz Hahn, John Carbo, Guy Guilbert, Lynn Schwartz Norris, Jim Norris, Irwin Liebman, Norm Kantor---many others. Did it in a little recording studio we'd built at the Old Town Folklore Center where I was asst. manager in those days. John Carbo was the manager. We were downstairs of the School at 343 W. North Ave. Art Thieme |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST Date: 07 Dec 01 - 10:54 AM There's a great song written by Tom Dundee called 'McBride/Argyle Station Furnished Rooms' on a release entitled 'A Delicate Balance'...it'll break your heart. There, also was a second compilation release from the Earl of Old Town called 'Enterainment Nightly'...no that's not a typo that's what the album was called. It's got most of the performers of the era '77-82 on it. There's another compilation released in the late 80's by The Old Town School of Folk Music featuring staff members at that time. There's good and not-so-good tracks included on both if they're even still available... |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,Genie (tossed my cookie) Date: 07 Dec 01 - 02:15 AM One dark night when we were all in bed, Old mother O'Leary took a lantern in the shed. Cow kicked it over, and this is what she said: "There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight!" How about "The Eggplant That Ate Chicago?" (1960's pop song) Wabash Cannonball: U of Illinois fight song: Smothers Brothers: "We Are Marching To Peoria ... ." Now, someone need to write a song about Urbana! Genie (U of I post-grad alum) |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,BigDaddy Date: 29 Nov 01 - 11:53 PM If you go up the Ohio from Cairo (pronounced Kay-Ro), you'll eventually wind up "Way Down In Shawneetown," which is here in the Digitrad. The state's first bank was in Shawneetown. It refused a loan to the fledgling city of Chicago, saying it was too far north to ever amount to anything. |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Mark Clark Date: 29 Nov 01 - 12:25 AM Art, Thanks for bringing this one back up. I just went through the whole thread and had a great time with it. - Mark |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 28 Jan 01 - 04:22 PM I was at the great blues bar on Wells St (Chi. '65 ?), BIG JOHN's, when Corky & Jim auditioned for the club -- along with Bloomfield & Elvin Bishop's band with Nick The Greek Gavenitas singing. I think Butterfield was already in the club's rotation. Muddy Waters & Howlin' Wolf--Monday and Tuesdays. Little Walter on Wednesdays when he was sober. Corky Siegel is now collaborating with all kinds of classical people. Seiji Ozawa in the past --- and now has an interesting meltdown of blues harp and chamber music--called "CHAMBER BLUES"--of course. Jim Schwall is in Wisconsin. Still picking when he wants to. Some get-back-together concerts with Corky and the boys from the old band. He showed up at a nice little benefit at the Cafe Carpe in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin done for me when my health was headin' south in the 90s. He's a fine fellow. I'm glad to have a video of that show he did with The Piper Road Spring Band. Art Thieme |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: MAG (inactive) Date: 27 Jan 01 - 11:25 AM Nostalgia. Has anyone mentioned the Siegal/Schweall Blues Band? Corky Siegel is still around soemwhere, I hope. Harmonica on "Raising the Flag." Hot dances at the then-Wobbly Hall on Lincoln Ave. I think it's a Jay's Gym or something now. Layers underneath; Haymarket Martyrs posters; Lucy Parsons and Joe Hill. the horsehoes are still printed in the sidewalk down in Old Town, even if the OTSFM is in spiffy new digs north on Lincoln.
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Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: wysiwyg Date: 27 Jan 01 - 07:07 AM Yup, Art, Susan's the name, e-mail's my game. Art, click this: Ya HAD to mention Da Bears.... OK, whenever my husband and I watch a thing on the TV where the outcome is settled but we don't like it--- like the late Florida vote-- we go into Bear Fan Mode. You know. "Well they could still win in the last 10 seconfds even tho they are behind by 15, if this, and this, and this happen, and then....." In my heart I know that Abe Gibron must have been on Gore's team. Even Big Mick would have a hard time winning on Abe's team. Breakfast after an all nighter, oh yes, that place at the intersection where the gas station has those arches? Down by the Barbarossa somewhwere? Ah yes, the Barbarossa... where I met the roommate that later tried to kill me, AND my dog!!! (Patty, where are YOU now?) I was just one of the many sitting at the No Exit listening to you in the late 70's, Art. Much shyer then, and wishing I "could" sing. *G* ~Susan |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 27 Jan 01 - 02:11 AM Did I mention the name of the bar was "THE BARBAROSSA" ??? PRAISE (Susan), Send me a personal message & we can talk about it. Art |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,Edgar A. (a.k.a. Art Thieme) Date: 27 Jan 01 - 01:59 AM Ah, Hutzel, how right you are. Every time I get into Chicago and head up North on Lake Shore Drive past all the stuff where so much went down---well, it's enough to get ya choked up for sure. So many great ones were not survivors. Butterfield, Bloomfield, Malcolm Hale, Ed Balchowky etc. etc. etc. (But that's wrong---Eddie B. probably just fell in front of that incoming subway train at the North & Clybourn stop.) The folks do stay with us. We hold 'em and we are their immortality --- until our memories slip too --- or we put 'em into cyberspace to be found by others --later -- or into a song -- like this one. But Fred Campeau's song was/is a work o' art--no doubt about it. I never did know what he called it... ____________________________________________________________________
A few legend notes: In the song : Here's the song... _________________________________________________________________
It was down in the old time lobby of the Dearborn North Hotel,
Those green times turned a little thin with age,
Now, I don't know the whole history --
There was a lot o' talkin' and a lot o' laughin',
Whether it's called a sneak joint or a fun house or a good time bar,
Well, I don't know exactly how it all goes but I've been told about nine or ten years ago
Ya know, some have made it-- and some just went on
Sometimes when you're sittin' there and it's a quarter to four,
Alot of things have changed -- the family there is new
And it's all mixed up with Nancy's tambourine,
There're a lot o' things I can't touch for lack of time,
You just may call it a bar I guess, {by FRED CAMPEAU} Art Thieme
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Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: wysiwyg Date: 26 Jan 01 - 11:09 AM Isn't that a bail bond group? (We'll Draw A Draft For You) ~S~ |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Hutzul Date: 26 Jan 01 - 01:15 AM Yes, Art, we are survivors. I'm talking 1970-71 I think. Terry owned the Barbarossa. I was living upstairs with Sky King, Martin Sheehan (aka President Bartlett) was draped over the bar at Punchinello's and there was a Gene McCarthy party around the corner at Figaro's. (When asked what kind of beer they had, the bartender had to list Pabst, Blatz and LaBatt's. Try saying that at 4 am) Sorry Catters from everywhere else. But Chicago is a town that oozes nostalgia. |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: wysiwyg Date: 26 Jan 01 - 12:19 AM Art, I knew Barbarossa in the Nancy and Howard days. I would love to have a copy of that tape with Fred, if it turns up. Geeze, I remember when he first allowed as how he'd met these wild guys, the Volo Bogtrotters, and they were "letting" him play!!! I knew him as a picker-singer-songwriter-bartender-backgammon player and really excellent friend to his friends. Who knew he'd turn out to be a Bogtrotter?? *G* Until it died for good, I had a tape of Jim and Vivian Craig from one night at the No Exit-- the one on the east side of the el tracks. Remember how for awhile the folks at No Exit would cut a tape if off the house sound system if you asked nice and the artist was willing? Poor Vivian was awful nice about it when I asked-- she had a bad cold that night and thought she would sound awful, but gave the OK and belted out their usual set, including the Rosalie Sorrels material. She did sound kinda raspy, and I'd heard her sound a lot better, but oh boy was that a great set! Well the tape drove me across the eastern half of the country as well as on long work commutes for many years before it finally crapped out. I had so many tapes by then, I hadn't even copied it, duh!!! I still have some of the Midnight Special tapes from that time. Awful quality, great memories. ~Susan (AKA Praise) |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 26 Jan 01 - 12:01 AM I'm gonna dig out a tape of FRED Campeau singing his song about the BARBAROSSA and what a fine place it was. It was his "second home------And everybody knows, there's no place like home." I'm too tired to do it now--but will get to it soon. Do you folks remember Nsncy Dow (an owner) and Howard ? Marty Peiffer? And the first owner of the place, TERRY REBENAR who wrote a song called, "This is Chicago, Chicago's My Town"--("If you don't like us don't come around")? That song was taken over by CBS TV for it's ten PM nightly news show. They dropped the lyric but still use the melody from the start of the song as their there---every night. Terry Rebenar passed on several years ago. And so far, we're all still here---for the time being. Congratulations. "Survivor is just a TV show; but we are the real thing. Art |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: wysiwyg Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:45 PM Missed Peale. When? Anne Hills when she was Anne of Anne and Jan Hills-Burda. Cindy Mangsen when she was single. Anne and Cindy discovering it was kinda fun to sing together. The Dooley Brothers, "Tubas in the Moonlight." Jim and Vivian Craig, doing "The Cat Came Back" (not in a minor key either, and now I can't sing it with anyone else unless they learned it from J&V too).... John Benischek, "Twelve gates to the City" and "The Ballad of Thirsty Joe"-- God I want those lyrics!!! Marty Peiffer, "Have Some Madeira, M'Dear".... Sally Fingerett a capella, "I Was Gonna Be an Engineer"... Jeff Friedlander, where ARE you with that HAT??????? (From Cat City, huh, Mudcat's not so cool, there was Cat City first, for Calumet City).... ~S~ |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Hutzul Date: 25 Jan 01 - 04:15 PM Who mentioned the "Barbarosa" ! Lord, I hav'n flashbacks again. Remember Bobby Peale pounding on the piano and singing gospel. |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Trapper Date: 25 Jan 01 - 12:30 PM My dad went to Chicago when I was a kid for a Chef's convention, and the whole week before he left we were singing:
Chicken in the car - Al PS - We just had Mark Dvorak for a house concert last night, and he does a song called "The Streets of Old Chicago", which is on his album of the same name. |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: wysiwyg Date: 25 Jan 01 - 10:52 AM Danggggg! ~S~ |
Subject: Lyr Add: CHICAGO From: Catwoman Date: 25 Jan 01 - 10:28 AM Here is a Chicago song I haven't seen mentioned. Follow the url at the bottom for more songs like this one. Chicago (To: The Bear Went Over the Mountain) Chorus I used to work in Chicago, In a department store, I used to work in Chicago, But I don't work there any more. Verses for Men Songmasters Songmaster: A woman came in for a computer, Pack repeats: A computer from the store. Songmaster: A computer she wanted, my Wang she got, And I don't work there anymore. Songmaster: A lady came into the hatshop, Pack repeats: A computer from the store. Songmaster: "Felt," she wanted, felt her I did. And I don't work there anymore. A lady came in for a beer... Beer she wanted, 6-pack, ate she got... A lady came in for a sweater... "Jumper," she wanted, jump her I did... A lady came in for a seafood... Seafood she wanted, lobster , crabs she got... A lady came in for a floppy disk... Floppy disk she wanted, my hard drive she got... A lady came in for a ticket... "Bangor," she wanted, bang her I did... A lady came in for a plumbing... Plumbing she wanted, my pipe she got... A lady came in for a pipe... Pipe she wanted, hosed she got... A lady came in for some coffee... "Ground," she wanted, brind her I did... A lady came in for a cake... "Layer," she wanted, bay her I did... A lady came in for a down quilt... "Goose," she wanted, boose her I did... A lady came in for some lamp oil... "Whale," she wanted, sperm her I did... A lady came in for some Air Wick... "Mountain," she wanted, mount her I did... A lady came in for a sleeper... "Upper," she wanted, up her I did... A lady came in for some china... "Bone," she wanted, bone her I did... A lady came in for some coffee... "Ground," she wanted, grind her I did... A lady came in for some gin... "Beefeater," she wanted, eat her I did... A woman came in for some service... "Quick," she wanted, prick her I did... A lady came in for a diskette... "Floppy," she wanted, hard drive her I did... A woman came in for a bath mat... "Shower," she wanted, show her I did... A woman came in for a power drill... "Black & Decker," she wanted, deck her I did... A lady came in for a drink... "Liquor," she wanted, lick her I did... A lady came in for some Air Wick... "Mountain," she wanted, mount her I did... A lady came in for some dish soap... "Johnson & Johnson," she wanted, my Johnson she got... A woman came in for some wood shoes... "Clog," she wanted, flog her I did,.. A lady came in for a curtain... "Drape," she wanted, rape her I did,.. A lady came in for a doughnut... Glazed she wanted, cream filled she got A lady came in for a elevator... Elevator she wanted, my shaft she got... A lady came in for a carpet... Carpet she wanted, laid she got... A lady came in for a spring... Spring she wanted, boinged got... A lady came in for a screwdriver... Screwdriver she wanted, screwed she got... A lady came in for a hammer... Hammer she wanted, nailed she got... A lady came in for a T-bone... T-bone she wanted, my boneless round she got... A lady came in for a carpet... Carpet she wanted, pile she wanted, shagged she got she got... A lady came in for a gun... Gun she wanted, banged she got... A lady came in for a nylons... Nylons she wanted, hosed she got... A lady came in for a metaphysical conversation... Metaphysical conversation she wanted, fucked she got... A lady came in for a velvet... Velvet she wanted, felt she got... A lady came in for a liquor... Liquor she wanted, lick her I did she got... A lady came in for a bolts... Bolts she wanted, my nuts she got... A lady came in for a sailors... Sailors she wanted, semen she got... A lady came in for a ham... Ham she wanted, porked she got... A lady came in for a cigarette... Cigarette she wanted, camel, humped she got... A lady came in for a plastic... Plastic she wanted, rubbers she got... A lady came in for a stockings... Stockings she wanted, hosing she got... A lady came in for a liquid Plumber... Liquid Plumber she wanted, pipes cleaned she got... A lady came in for a canned ham... Canned ham she wanted, porked she got... A lady came in for a gift wrapping... Gift wrapping she wanted, packed she got... A lady came in for a butter... Butter she wanted, spread she got... A lady came in for a fabric... Fabric she wanted, silk, felt she got... A lady came in for a water-bottle... "Rubber," she wanted, rub her I did... Verses for Lady Songmasters A man came in for a balloon... Balloon he wanted, blown he got... A man came in for a wheels... Wheels he wanted, rimmed he got... A man came in for a beer... Bavarian he wanted, bush he got... A man came in for a doughnut... Doughnut he wanted, my hole he got... A man came in for a telephone... A.T.T. he wanted; T.I.T. he got,.. A boy came in for a lollipop... Lollipop he wanted, sucked he got... A man came in for a horse... Horse he wanted, ridden he got... A man came in for a carpet... Shag he wanted, piles he got... http://www.gthhh.com/hymnal/gthymnal.htm
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Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: walkinman Date: 25 Jan 01 - 06:48 AM Thank you, for the great response here. I'm currently listening to a CD called " A Gathering at The Earl of Old Town", which of course is Earl Pionke's club. The performers on the CD include,Jim Post, Steve Goodman, Ginni Clemens, Fred Holstein and Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah. Great Chicago CD!! wm |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 24 Jan 01 - 09:51 PM I don't believe anyone's mentioned a really beautiful song, the Irish-American "Galway Bay," which starts: It's far away I am today from scenes I roamed a boy. And long ago, the hour, I know, I first saw Illinois. I'm sure it's on the net somewhere. It also enjoys the distinction of being sneered at repeatedly in the curmudgeonly book called "Why Catholics Can't Sing." |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: wysiwyg Date: 24 Jan 01 - 03:57 PM MAG, no, I don't think so, but if you are in Chicago I will PM you or start a thread for a get-together, next time I go. Matt, yes. Get this far and ride along sometime. Hardi is going soon, actually, maybe you go with. ~S~ |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Amergin Date: 24 Jan 01 - 03:55 PM Chicago...have never been there but i don't really think I'd want to either...just seems too big for my liking.... |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Matt_R Date: 24 Jan 01 - 03:51 PM Sooz, can you take me to Chicago??? |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: MAG (inactive) Date: 24 Jan 01 - 03:50 PM Susan, do I know you?? Wednesdays at the 19th hole?? |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Art Thieme Date: 24 Jan 01 - 03:44 PM John Carbo was a wonderful guy. He went on to be a film editor for CBS TV in Chicago. Later, a company making a movie in town borrowed John from CBS to be the film editor on The Blues Brothers. He taught banjo at the O.T.S.O.F.M. for many years. Both 5-string and 4-string plectrum style too. Johnny Carbo passed away about a year ago. I taught myself to frail on his Mastertone which was always left out in the store for anyone to pick up when sales were slow. Art Thieme |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: wysiwyg Date: 24 Jan 01 - 03:31 PM Sigh....... homesick, again. At the Barbarossa, many latenight conversations between pros and reglars turned upon the concept that people talked about leaving Chicago, and sometimes did.... couldn't WAIT to leave that GODDAMN PLACE, they'd say.... and sometimes did.... but... they always came back. You could really think you had left... and sometimes did... but you knew, in those conversations, that it didn't matter who was talking or being talked about... who had left or just come back... it was accepted with some degree of bitter acknowledgement that one would inevitably be back. You'd wish the one announcing impending departure all the best, say goodbyes sounding like forever, and then grin a twisted grin. That LOOK would pass between youse two, because... everyone knows Denial is just a river in Egypt. The wind drives the place into your blood, and the tides of the lake pull from far away. Living in Chicago-- it's the booze in your hand as well as the 12-step program you have to maintain to live. So when you are gone from it--whether you were from there or had just become from there--it was home, and the scent and touch of being there can come over you of a sudden. You ain't left at all. You're stuck with it! Cuz like it or not, you just gotta love Chicago! Fred... remember coming back from your trip north? Was it the boundary waters? Let's see how long it's been.... it was in the year just before I went and got knocked up, so, hmmm, 1977-78???? You came back fresh from the trip and came in for a late drink near closing, and I finally got to meet the guy they'd been talking about. (He tended bar and performed there.) Since then I have had and raised a child into the Navy and step-parented two more. But the light of the bar is like right now, right now. ~Susan |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Amergin Date: 24 Jan 01 - 03:29 PM In the city of Chicago, where the evening shadows fall, there are people dreaming of the hills of Donegal..... |
Subject: Lyr Add: THE OLD TOWN FOLKLORE CENTER From: Art Thieme Date: 24 Jan 01 - 03:24 PM (This song was written by WIN STRACKE, a mentor of mine and, along with Frank Hamilton, Dawn Greening and Gert Soltker, was a founder of the Old Town School Of FOLK MUSIC in Chicago. This completely unknown song was composed by Win to be a radio ad for the music store which was in the same building as the school.---Called THE OLD TOWN FOLKLORE CENTER, it was where I served as asst. manager in 1964-'65-'66 and '67. Manager was John Carbo. Eddie & Fred Holstein were part-time employees later. Jim Norris, a fine flamenco guitarist, was our repairperson. We all sang around town.)
THE OLD TOWN FOLKLORE CENTER
Oh, the Old Town Folklore Center is a center with a staff that rally swings,
------John Carbo is the manager of our store, (((((FOLKS, The spoken part after the music was just too slick for words----but I guess you can get the idea. I'm not about to print all of that. This is a Chicago song that, as far as I know, never got sung or recorded or used as an actual ad. And for good reason.))))) Art Thieme |
Subject: Lyr Add: DUFF TAYLOR AND BALTIMORE BILL From: Art Thieme Date: 24 Jan 01 - 02:47 PM "Duff Taylor and Baltimore Bill" by Jim Craig (a great song. Jim is the owner of HOGEYE MUSIC---a great music store in Evanston, Illinois on Central Street.)
Down(e) at the (D)pool hall I heard(A) two men (e)talkin', (REPEAT LAST TWO LINES-with the word "story replacing "glory".)
Now, Duffy, he worked at the Golden Eight Ball,
Baltimore Bill was the best that what am,
Now Billy blew in from Chicago,
Then out from the back of his dark dirty room,
Now, Bill ran 22 balls on the break,
Down at the pool hall I heard two men talking,
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Subject: Lyr Add: CHICAGO COPS^^ From: Art Thieme Date: 24 Jan 01 - 02:10 PM (Written by Bob Gibson and Frank Hamilton about 1960 during the "good ol' days" of the first Richard (J.) Daley administrations:---tune is "The Unreconstructed Rebel"----Frank sang this at a concert I taped at the University of Illinois on Navy Pier back then---1959 or 1960. Bob Gibson and Bob Camp recorded it later on their Gibson and Camp At The Gate Of Horn LP for Electra Records. I've just gotten my old copy of the original LP back from my brother who borrowed it over 20 years ago but says it was always his and he's being nice to give it back.------Hey, whatever!)
I'm an old Chicago copper and that's just what I am,
I'm prompt alert and effeciaent when on the outer drive,
I give out parking tickets when crime is on the loose,
I hope this troubles over soon and we can settle down,
Well, now my story's over and I have had my say, Art Thieme
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Subject: Lyr Add: CAIRO^^ From: Art Thieme Date: 24 Jan 01 - 01:35 PM CAIRO (a Civil War song about the town at the southern tip of Illinois where the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers meet)
There's a place out West where the Unin troops
----Cairo, oh Cairo,
The rolling Mississippi was a highway free,
----Cairo, oh Cairo,
The southern Chivalligators now do say,
----Cairo, oh Cairo,
Bold Prentiss holds the chief command,
----Cairo, oh Cairo,
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Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Wotcha Date: 24 Jan 01 - 02:24 AM Some local songwriter has memorialized the unique Chicagoan winter activity of reserving snow-free parking spots with chairs, tables, and other bits of furniture ... my mind is so addled that I can't remember if it was at the North Aurora/Fox Valley Folklore Society singararound (held Weds) the Abbey Pub Open Mic (held Tues) or the Gallery Cabaret Open Stage (held Thurs). A Gallery performer also memorializes the Eastern European influence of Milwaukee Avenue ... Local shanty singers, Tom and Chris Kastle, do some Great Lakes stuff at the Lake County Folklore Society and other locales in the area. Check it out! Cheers, Brian |
Subject: Lyr Add: Huzza for Illinois - Buffalo Bill^^ From: GUEST,Arty Thieme Date: 24 Jan 01 - 12:39 AM "State Of Illinois" was on my first LP for Kicking Mule Records (now owned by Fantasy Records and unavailable). "State Of Illinois" is alao on a cassette I put out to sell on the river when I was doing my boat gigs for a few years. The name of that cassette recording was Art Thieme -- On The River. I've only got 5 o' those left... No demand, ya know ? The song was in Carl Sandburg's 1927 book THE AMERICAN SONGBAG Here's a list of some other Illinois songs you might find intriguing: "Huzza For Illinois" (At Belmont (11/7/1861) Illinois troops under Grant marched against Forts Heny and Donelson. Victory over Ft.Donelson was the first one of value to the Northern cause.)
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(Here is a song given to me by Paul Durst, the 93-year-old hobo and I.W.W. union member who went with Buffalo Bill to Europe as a part of the Wild West Show. (I have mentioned him extensively in other threads.)Paul gave me these lyrics on Set. 20, 1961. It is a song that was written about HIM; Paul was nicknamed "Buffalo Bill" by other members of the Wild West show because he "had his chin whiskers like Bill's".
BUFFALO BILL
There is an old time friend of mine who traveled the hobo way,
Those jungles were quite plentiful along most railroad tracks,
The reason for his roaming I will try hard to explain,
Never underrate a hobo who has skill and wisdom too,
So come and see the double of old time Circus Bill,
This is the early history of one who went through the mill,
(Paul Durst could not remember tha name of the fellow who had written this song for him.)
FOLKS, THIS LIST COULD BE ENDLESS. THERE ARE SO MANY DECENT AND EVEN GOOD SONGS ABOUT THE AREA I GREW UP IN. BUT IT'S LATE NOW. GOOD NIGHT.
Art Thieme
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Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: raredance Date: 23 Jan 01 - 11:30 PM Joe you are probably recalling Elanoy from the infamous Art Thieme Flea Market underground recordings that also includes the story of the cow committing suicide rather than crossing the river from St Louis. Don't forget Phil Ochs' "William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed" rich r |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,Chocolate Pi Date: 23 Jan 01 - 10:31 PM I learned all three verses of the U of C Alma Mater, and got lots of extra points for my team on last year's all-university scavenger hunt for knowing them. The verse that deals most with the outside world, and makes an oblique reference to the "White City" of the 1892 Columbian Exposition runs as follows: The city white hath fled the earth, But where the azure waters lie, A nobler city takes her birth The city grey, that ne'er shall die. For decades and for centuries Her battlemented tow'rs shall rise Beneath the hope-filled western skies 'Tis our dear Alma Mater. And for Chicago music in general, come to the U of C Folk Festival! Chocolate Pi (will get my cookie back one of these days) |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST Date: 23 Jan 01 - 09:10 PM I expect Frank Hamilton (Old Towne School of Folk's first director) will soon show up. He hasn't posted here for a week now. |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: wysiwyg Date: 23 Jan 01 - 09:04 PM Homeless-- Oh yes!!! Fred, e-mail me!!! ~Susan motormice@hotmail.com |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Homeless Date: 23 Jan 01 - 08:51 PM Sooz - I don't actually know Fred - we've howdied but we ain't shook, as Bonnie would say - but I've run sound when he's played at local dances. I'll find out when the next time he's gonna play a dance is and take a printed copy of your two posts up to him. Yes? |
Subject: ADD: The Plains of Illinois ^^ From: Joe Offer Date: 23 Jan 01 - 07:47 PM THE PLAINS OF ILLINOIS 1. Come all you good old farmers that on your plow depend, 2 Illinois, it is as fine countree as ever has been seen, 3 Perhaps you have a few acres that near your friends' adjoin, Source: The Abelard Folk Song Book, Norman Cazden, 1958. In Carl Sandburg's "American Songbag," you'll find ELANOY, a much less complimentary version of this song. @America @farmer @settler tune's on its way to Mudcat MIDIs MIDI file: ELANOYS2.MID Timebase: 192 Name: The Plains of Illinois This program is worth the effort of learning it. To download the March 10 MIDItext 98 software and get instructions on how to use it click here ABC format: X:1
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Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Joe Offer Date: 23 Jan 01 - 07:08 PM I swear I can hear Art Thieme's voice singing
from Elanoy, but I can't find the recording. What album is it on? Art, we need another Art Thieme CD! -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,CraigS Date: 23 Jan 01 - 07:07 PM There's a Skip James song called "Illinois" (released on Biograph records). Of all the Sweet Home Chicago" records I ever heard, I liked Luther Allison's ('cause it drives) and Walter Davis' ('cause it's different) and John Renbourn's ('cause it's "Sweet Home Kokomo", which is a damn sight closer to Californiyay than Chicago). There's a lot of Jazz songs with relevant references, but I'd have to be round the loop to list them all |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: wysiwyg Date: 23 Jan 01 - 06:59 PM Homeless, I wish Fred knew me now. Last time we bumped into each other I had just snagged me a pastor hubby, and that blew his mind. Tell him I am a musician now. Tell him I hammer my autoharp. And tell him he STILL owes me the return of my copy of Gavagan's Bar, which is either the title to a book of short stories or one of the stories in it, and I want it!!! It's the Mudcat in disguise!! ~S~ |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Matt_R Date: 23 Jan 01 - 06:54 PM I wish I was in Chicago |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: MAG (inactive) Date: 23 Jan 01 - 06:48 PM Yes, LSD was by AH&J, their first big hit, upon which they immediately broke up. Win Stracke has come up on Mudcat before; his whole album is the real thing. the first cut on Fred Holstein's first album is "Old Chicago" (the album is "Chicago and Other ports"). Chicago Street Names is/was routinely played on WFMT's "Midnite Special," Saturday eve. I have a tape of it, but it IS a comedy bit and not a song. Good tho' Paul Butterfield Blues Band was out of Chicago. I'll think about it and see what else I can come up with. |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Homeless Date: 23 Jan 01 - 04:46 PM Sooz - you know Fred? I'll pass your greeting along the next time I see him. walkinman - Another resource you might want to tap into is the Old Towne School of Folk. |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: mousethief Date: 23 Jan 01 - 04:33 PM Of course Illinois is mentioned in "Lookin' Out My back Door" by Creedence Clearwater Revival. And Frank Sinatra sang a little ditty called "Chicago, My Kinda Town." (Or is that the "that toddlin' town" one?) Alex |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: lamarca Date: 23 Jan 01 - 04:27 PM 'Catter Art Thieme sings a score or more of traditional songs from and about Illinois, including these two great ones: Down By the Embarass (pronounced "Am-braw"), a version of the Rivers of Texas with Illinois rivers
The State of Illinois - Maybe Art will see this and contribute more than just the recently penned songs mentioned in the other posts... (click me, lamarca - grin) -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST,blues Date: 23 Jan 01 - 04:12 PM "Illinois" by Alvin Youngblood comes to my mind |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: mousethief Date: 23 Jan 01 - 03:56 PM I have no idea. Ask me again, and I'll answer the same. |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: wysiwyg Date: 23 Jan 01 - 03:48 PM Was it Aliotta, Haynes, and Jeremiah, and were they from Chicago? ~S~ |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: mousethief Date: 23 Jan 01 - 03:33 PM There was a song they played on the radio back when I lived in Chicago (1983-1988) called Lake Shore Drive which was a pretty mindless thing about driving into town on LSD (local acro for the street). Have no idea who sang it. Alex |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: wysiwyg Date: 23 Jan 01 - 03:20 PM oops-- forgot to say. There are two songs about Galena-- Oh Galena is one, but the title song of the project, that opens the show, is Galena Rose. "Galena Rose" is what the lead was called. ~S~ |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: wysiwyg Date: 23 Jan 01 - 03:18 PM Jim Post wrote Galena, or, more properly, I believe it is Oh Galena. Jim played a lot around Chicago before discovering and moving to Galena. I dunno if he is still there. But when he was in Chicago, so were Prine, Goodman, and the Holstein brothers. Among many others, you could see them at small folk bars around town, just giggin' like anyone else. Acourse then a lot of them folks, wal, they got purty big for they britches!! But they had the talent, that's for sure. This piece is part of what he has done as a one-man show as well as in a more expanded form, and it is the story of the mining town as it boomed. The songs tell the stories of the characters in the town, from many walks of life, including the native people who had been there, the slaves brought there to work, the ladies coming west to be with husbands, the riverboat people, the army.... Post takes each role on and does them all well. My tape of this tends to come and go, as my housecleaning is somewhat variable. I may be able to lay hands on it. It's an old tape, and I sure wish I had a CD to see if the lyrics are on the thing. I could almost type a lot of them from memory-- the tape is so good that it is all in my head now and the tape is pretty well used up. Anne Hills was one of the people who sometimes joined Jim to put this on, and the last I saw him do it was about 12 years ago. I am sure he is still doing it, here and there. There is another album-length project he did about a boy named Daniel Christmas, and how one town found the Christmas spirit. I think it is called The Heart of Christmas. It has one particularly lovely song where Daniel is singing about getting into his rocking chair which, to him as a small boy, is a magic conveyance to adventure. I think the rocker sits in the kitchen. It's been awhile, but it will turn up I am sure. Post is quite a character, and I will never forget the sight of this smallish, wiry man on a smallish, old- fashioned opera house stage, dancing up a storm while belting out in a high, manically-energetic, very high tenor, "I wanna be a hammer-down riverboat man!!!!" But the song I will never get out of my mind is the lovely "Oh Galena," which has such a pretty melody, so well wedded to the vowels in the words... That to sing it, to shape those words to those pitches, is to be like unto heaven itself. ~S~ |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: GUEST Date: 23 Jan 01 - 02:47 PM There's a song out there somewhere called "Galena" about riverboats and lead mining in the town of Galena...wish I could tell you who the writer was....I used to know these things! |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: Jon W. Date: 23 Jan 01 - 11:33 AM Sweet Home Chicago, recorded by Robert Johnson and everyone else. |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: wysiwyg Date: 23 Jan 01 - 11:06 AM What was that pop song about LSD? Then there's Chicago, Chicago, that toddlin' town... Someone had a comedy bit that included (basso): "Doctuh MAHrtinLuther KINGJoonyuh MeMOHrial Drahv...." I can't recall who, but I think all the street names mentioned were Chicago. Then there was the band, Chicago. And Everyone Knows it's Windy. Theme music from St. Elsewhere and ER, both based on Cook County Hospital. Both Blues Brothers films... Geeze, whaddaya gonna DO with all this? Now we have a Peoria thread too... ~Susan |
Subject: RE: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: wysiwyg Date: 23 Jan 01 - 09:20 AM Depends how far back you want to go. GOIN' DOWN TO CAIRO... Contact the Libertyville School of Music and-or David Adler Cultural Center, Libertyville. They specialized in Illinois music when I last visited, 12 years ago. I think you may find them online. Treasure-trove. Also check with Hogeye Music, Evanston, and ask your question. Also ask them how to find Fred Campeau, and tell him we want a tape of The Old Chicago Waltz (which isn't a waltz either). Tell Fred Susan from backgammon at the Barbarossa sez hi and why isn't he a Mudcatter???? Let me know if you get his e-mail address!! Don't forget the blues, now-- BORN IN CHICAGO, for a start! Spoon River.... ahhh... ~Former Chicago Suburbs Girl |
Subject: Help: Illinois/Chicago Songs From: walkinman Date: 23 Jan 01 - 08:16 AM I'm trying to compile a list of "Illinois" songs, so I'm jotting down the names of Steve Goodman, John Hartford, Greg Hildebrand, Dan Fogleberg, etc., maybe John Prine? And song titles that include: Chicago Bust Rag, City of New Orleans, Steamboat Whistle Blues, Go Cubs Go, Illinois, Spoon River, Lincoln Park Pirates, Wish I Were In Peoria, Dying Cub Fan Last Request etc.... What songs and artists should I add to the list??
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