BS: Thank You

Subject: Thank You
From: GUEST,Elaine
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 08:24 PM

I just wanted to thank all of you for a great web site! I just searched for a song my mother wanted for my grandmother's 100th birthday, "Let the Rest of the World Go By". I found exactly what I needed in a search of the site. Thank you!

Subject: RE: BS: Thank You
From: Ebbie
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 08:30 PM

Stick around, Elaine. It's a great place!

Subject: RE: BS: Thank You
From: Celtic Soul
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 09:46 PM

I'd say your welcome, but I have not done a lick to make this site what it is. All I can do is mirror your appreciation and thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Thank You
From: Genie
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 10:57 PM

Glad you discovered the motherlode, Elaine!

Subject: RE: BS: Thank You
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Aug 02 - 11:10 PM

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/a/a29/a2962/

link repaired by JoeClone

Subject: RE: BS: Thank You
From: Mr Happy
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 04:00 AM

celtic s,

of course you've done loads of licks to make mc how it is.

eeveryone who contributes their pov to the forum is keeping the cat alive & 9kicking!- many thanks to you too & all other catters!--absolutely bonzer!

Subject: RE: BS: Thank You
From: fat B****rd
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 06:10 AM

Good to hear that you found the right song, Elaine. "Let the rest of the world go by" was my parents "Special tuneI have a tape of my Fatjer singing it to my Mum at their Golden Wedding party. Pity is I can't bear to listen to it. Happy Birthday to your Gran.Best regards from thefB. XX

Subject: RE: BS: Thank You
From: SINSULL
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 07:15 PM

We'll build a sweet little nest
Somewhere in the west
And let the rest of the world go by...

Sounds like The House Of The Setting Sun, a nursing home for folkies.

Happy Birthday, Grandma.

Subject: RE: BS: Thank You
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 07:26 PM

fB, someday you'll be able to listen to it and you will be so glad that you have it. That is really something special.

Happy Birthday, Elaine's Grandma!

Subject: Lyr Add: LET THE REST OF THE WORLD GO BY
From: Tiger
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 07:36 PM

If you used the DT version, you missed a lot of the song. This is from a wonderful old '78.

Let The Rest Of The World Go By — Elizabeth Spencer and Charles Hart
Words by J. Keirn Brennan, Music by Ernest R. Ball
Copyright 1919 by M. Witmark & Sons

Is the struggle and strife
We find in this life,
Really worthwhile, after all?
I've been wishing today,
I could just run away,
Out where the west winds call.

CHORUS
With someone like you,
A pal good and true,
I'd like to leave it all behind,
And go and find
Someplace that's known
To God alone,
Just a spot to call our own.

We'll find perfect peace,
Where joys never cease,
Out there, beneath a kindly sky,
We'll build a sweet little nest
Somewhere in the West,
And let the rest of the world go by.

Is the future to hold
Just struggles for gold,
While the real world waits outside,
Away out on the breast
Of the wonderful West,
Across the Great Divide?

CHORUS

Subject: RE: BS: Thank You
From: Amos
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 07:55 PM

Man, what a sweet -- if somewhat unreal -- sentiment. Ya gotta love it!!

Happy BDay to your Gumma, Elaine!! A whole century and still kicking!! Congratulations to her!! Double!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Thank You
From: masato sakurai
Date: 12 Aug 02 - 10:30 PM

Listen to recordings (RA/MP3) by Henry Burr (tenor) (1920); Albert Chamberland (violin) & Henri Mio (celesta) (1921); and Coleman's Orchestra (ca. 1920) at The Virtual Gramophone. Burr sings "Out where the west winds [pronounced "wineds"] call."

~Masato

Subject: RE: BS: Thank You
From: GUEST,Elaine
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 05:47 PM

Wow! Thanks for all the nice responses! I'm going to print this out & take it to Grandma's party!

A special thanks to "GUEST" who posted the link to the sheet music, Tiger for the complete lyrics and credits, and masato sakurai for the link to The Virtual Gramophone! Can't wait to listen to it, but my 15 month old is sleeping right now! It's sure to wake him up.

Thanks again, everybody! Elaine

Subject: RE: BS: Thank You
From: masato sakurai
Date: 13 Aug 02 - 10:58 PM

Printed sheet music (the same as the one linked to by GUEST above) is in David A. Jasen, ed., A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody and Other Favorite Song Hits, 1918-1919 (Dover, 1997, pp. 65-68).

~Masato