Marais and Miranda Documentary

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Mar 02 - 01:35 PM

I don't dare paste in my mother's version of "Hush Little Baby" but there's Jean Ritchie's well known "What'll We Do with the Baby-O?" with similar sentiment. Gallows humor is often a survival strategy for the frustrated, but my brother and I had no such excuse for enjoying such songs; we were simply perverse.

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: Abby Sale
Date: 29 Mar 02 - 03:15 PM

Charlie: Please see my reference to it above. I see it's not in the DB...I sent it up to Dick in Feb of '99.

º Siembamba º
º º
º Siembamba, mommy's baby, º
º Siembamba, mommy's baby, º
º Twist his neck and hit him on his head, º
º Throw him in the ditch and he'll be dead. º
º º
º Siembamba, mommy's baby, º
º Siembamba, mommy's baby, º
º Just for love she throws him in the ditch, º
º Mommy's sweet little, sweet little.......baby º
º º These sentiments must be universal - see (in the DB) Sorrels' 'Hostile baby-rocking song' at filename[ HOSBABY or even our usual "Lullaby" (when the bough breaks.)

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Mar 02 - 03:59 PM

Abby - thanks for a better and more complete set of lyrics to "Siembamba;" "until he's dead" didn't make much sense to us but I now see how we could have easily misinterpreted the lyrics.

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 29 Mar 02 - 06:38 PM

In later years they recorded some marvelous children's albums. They were part of a series called Science Songs that were put together by the noted songwriters Zaret & Singer. They recorded two albums for the series that are really beautiful. I hope someday they will be re-issued. Tom Glazer also recorded some albums for the series.

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: Abby Sale
Date: 30 Mar 02 - 01:24 PM

I just realized - is this 5:00 pm special replacing the regular 3:00 "Traditions" show? (Or has that changed somehow?)

If youse guys are on the air with the morning show, the 3:00 and this special, too, won't that be much like having a regular job?

Be careful there.

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 30 Mar 02 - 07:43 PM

The documentary is part of the Traditions 3pm to 6pm show. Traditions is doing fine and remains in that time slot, just as it has been for 30 years. You are right, it does seem that Bill and I have a full time gig at WFDU! In addition to Traditions I host the weekly Sunday Session every Sunday morning at 9am. Bill hosts a monthly talk program on Radio Omnibus at 8am. It keeps us off the streets!

Ron Olesko

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 31 Mar 02 - 10:55 AM

Sorry, one more reminder - the show is on this afternoon at 5pm!

Thanks!

Ron

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: Abby Sale
Date: 02 Apr 02 - 08:03 PM

Oi! After all this & the rushing home just in time & then finding the stream to crowded to get in without monster re-buffering then finding my computer's resources all used up in the process then taking a full half-hour to reboot & get back online, I just managed to catch the second half-hour which was very good, yes, but it was the bio part I was really interested in and that I missed out on but it's not that I'm whining here it's just that I'm still pissed off but I think you posted that the whole segment was to be archived with yer other shows here at Links | Radio but I see that it ain't quite yet but I assume it soone will be and all will be well?

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: Ron Olesko
Date: 03 Apr 02 - 10:34 AM

Abby,

I'm not sure if the program will be archived at Mudcat, but we will be re-broadcasting the show on WFDU in the future. We would like to thank you and everyone else who expressed interest in this program. I am so glad that it was well received by those who heard it!

Ron

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 01:56 AM

The Marais and Miranda Website was mentioned above. I see that they now have a CD available. Apparently, the site is operated by Miranda's son.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 25 Nov 04 - 09:55 AM

I gather, just from the fact that nothing further was said about it, that the program was NOT archived at Mudcat. Right?

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jan 05 - 09:51 PM

Refresh.

I'm moving around some books that belonged to my Dad (John Dwyer) and came across a copy of World Folk Songs. I see in this thread that at least one other Mudcatter has a copy. There's a nice little section on mountain dulcimers in it. It also has some nice wood cuts. Amazing little book.

SRS

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: GUEST,miked
Date: 01 Feb 05 - 11:32 AM

Hey, I'll take one of those "World Folk Songs" copies.

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: open mike
Date: 01 Feb 05 - 02:47 PM

neither of those copies is available, but if you look here
www.abebooks.com you will find several copies
MARAIS & MIRANDA, Illustrated by DIANE AND LEO DILLON
Ballantine 1964. softcover good pb words and music for guitar, 220 pages
from $2 to $8
if you search for World Folk Songs you will get over 90 matches..
some more copies of World Folk Songs were listed here..probalby
because the book dealer listed them not by author but by illustrator(s)
good luck

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: Cool Beans
Date: 01 Feb 05 - 04:54 PM

A friend of mine just gave me, obtained from the Marais and Miranda web site, a reproduction (I assume it's a reproduction) of a full-page ad for the duo from the February, 1953, issue of "Musical America."
The ad reproduces a Feb. 2, 1953 New York Times review of Marais & Miranda's sold-out concert at Town Hall. It concludes thusly:
    "The size of the audience is perhaps worth special comment. At many a recital following conventional lines the house has been more than half empty. Yet in the last few weeks, Richard Dyer-Bennett, Andres Segovia and Marais and his wife have packed the hall. It is surely an indication of a strong interest on the part of listeners in guitar playing and in songs sung gently in the language the audience understands."
The review is signed only with the initials: R.P. Whoever he or she was, R.P. was onto something.

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Feb 05 - 06:08 PM

Thanks open mike--I was a little confused when I looked at the thread today. I didn't think I'd offered it anywhere! It's nice to see that the book is not only available but affordable.

The review you quote from that poster actually seems kind of off-kilter to me, kind of general ad copy stuff. I think Richard Dyer-Bennett, Andres Segovia and Marais and Miranda would pack houses wherever they went--and it involved a lot more than just "guitar playing." They were consumate performers. And I don't believe Andres Segovia sang anything, gently or otherwise.

SRS

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: Cool Beans
Date: 01 Feb 05 - 08:20 PM

Actually, Segovia sang a helluva "Roll Me Over in the Clover." But that's better left for antoerh thread.

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: GUEST,Cathy Yarensky
Date: 01 Oct 18 - 02:05 AM

Is the M & M documentary available for listening?

Subject: RE: Marais and Miranda Documentary
From: keberoxu
Date: 01 Oct 18 - 01:11 PM

Dear Cathy / Guest,

You might look up the organizations behind that radio documentary.

For one, there was Ron Olesko's station,
Traditions with Ron Olesko.