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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: GUEST,Colwyn Dane Date: 30 Jun 00 - 08:45 PM Most of the Irving Berlin song book - the guy was a jeanyus - would make the US list: White Xmas Easter Parade God Bless America There's No Business Like Show Business Alexander's Ragtime Band Blue Skies How Deep Is The Ocean? Cheek To Cheek Puttin' On The Ritz Change Partners ecetera, ecetera. Songs titles that feature State or City names: Deep In The Heart Of Texas Oklahoma! California Here I Come Indiana Chicago Moonlight In Vermont The Sidewalks Of New York Hello 'Frisco Hello I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City and many more.... Good Readdance, Colwyn.
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: L R Mole Date: 30 Jun 00 - 10:37 AM The problem is all inside this thread, they said to me; Each song I think about starts up another three; I'll meet you on the porch--this one starts off in D, (There must be) fifty more we haven't thought of. |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: Kim C Date: 29 Jun 00 - 04:01 PM Annie Laurie |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: SINSULL Date: 29 Jun 00 - 03:45 PM Can it be there is not a single lullaby on these lists?
Hushaby, don't you cry... |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: harpgirl Date: 29 Jun 00 - 02:19 PM refresh |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: reggie miles Date: 26 Jan 00 - 12:47 PM I've always thought "The First Time Ever I Sawed Your Face" would be a perfect musical saw number. |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: GUEST,Leprechaun Date: 26 Jan 00 - 01:21 AM So this thread is a year old and nobody's mentioned Mo Ghile Mear? How about The Ballad of Pancho and Lefty, El Paso, The Beverly Hillbillies. |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: GUEST,ddw Date: 25 Jan 00 - 11:57 PM Amos, If I'm not mistaken, you're still right about it being associated with Peggy Seegar. Wasn't the song written by Ewan McColl as a wedding gift for his bride, Peggy S.? At least that's what I always heard was the origin on the piece..... david |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: GUEST,_gargoyle Date: 25 Jan 00 - 10:02 PM DEARST ALLAN C>
From: Allan C. refresh
Now why the Amster---, Amster---, did you do this?
For the entire last week....my brain has been doing dejavu, hip-hop, flip-flops
Last year's, and this year's DATES are too close....(my checks are still being initialed with "gg's" for wrong years
I kept ignoring the thread...and then it became TOO MUCH .....TOO INSISTANT it was necessary to "check in"
Boy, this looked familar, been there, done that....WHY WAS THREAD here!!!! (Too much science fiction....too much abasinth wine???)((Good Lordy, I DON'T WANT TO BE CYSIPHUS AND RELIVE ALL MY PAST MISTAKES)) or in this case...."best suggestions."
Out of ALL the previous four year's postings....YOURS ....is the closest to fulfilling all the various "Wyoming Womens' Dreams" (note the "plural" positioning of the apostrophe) and rendering me into a "permanent state of appolexy" and permanently removing my personae from ANY future web prescence. WHAT possessed YOU to post SUCH a "refresher?????"
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: GUEST,Stupidbodhranplayerwhodoesn'tknowanybetter Date: 25 Jan 00 - 07:31 PM I wholeheartedly agree with Song for Ireland for the Irish list. It should probably have "You're not Irish (you don't know Danny Boy)" as well. A few for the American list would be Christmas in the Trenches; Just a Few More Days (Carter Family); 6 O'Clock News (Robin & Linda Williams); The Lonesome Road Blues, The Car Song(Woody Guthrie), I'm My Own Gran'pa. Kat, Sorry to hear about your loss. That's a really painful experience because there is no end of memories to come flooding back. GIve yourself time to heal LOve, Rich |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: Amos Date: 25 Jan 00 - 04:25 PM Re: First time Ever I Saw... Humble apologiae; I had it associated with Peggy Seeger in my aged mind. A. |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: Midchuck Date: 25 Jan 00 - 02:38 PM Canadian songs that have transcended Canadianness and become North American songs: Four Strong Winds Someday Soon You Were on my Mind The Mary Ellen Carter Barrett's Privateers plus any number of Lightfoot's that Tony Rice sort of took over..... Peter (who can't figure out why no bluegrass band has ever done "Canol Road....) |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: GUEST,Aldus Date: 25 Jan 00 - 11:16 AM I would like to offer A Canadian version, or at least a version with some Canadian songs; Farewell to Nova Scotia The Squid Jiggin Ground Alouetta Un Canadien Errant Out On the Myra Norhtwest Passage Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald Brave Wolf Cape Breton Lullaby Four Strong Winds Citadel Hill The Maple Leaf Forever Ise The Bye True Newfoundlanders Fogartys Cove Barretts Privateers She's Called Nova Scotia The Bluenose is Sailin Once Again You Ain't A Nova Scotian If You Don"t Drink Rum Flyin' On Your own There are probably lots more. Also, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face is not an American song as far as I know. I believer it was written Ewan Mccoll. I could be wrong. |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: Amos Date: 22 Jan 00 - 05:51 PM Gotta add The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, as a great American love song. Personally I would LIKE to see everyone know the Unreconstructed Rebel and, on a different theme, O'Reilly's Daughter, and the Gathering of the Clans and Keep on Truckin' just so we could have a common ground to get bawdy on!! A. |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: bseed(charleskratz) Date: 22 Jan 00 - 01:12 AM I may have missed some of these while skimming some of the longer lists:
Abilene --seed |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: TheOldMole Date: 21 Jan 00 - 10:07 PM I've read in a couple of different sources that the most widely known composed song, worldwide, is the Rev. Thomas A. Dorsey's "Take My Hand, Precious Lord." |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: BK Date: 20 Jan 00 - 10:54 PM A lot of Oklahoman Tom Paxton's & Canadian Gordon Lightfoot's songs would probably qualify as being entrenched in the American musical mind-set, as would some other Canadian writers material, such as "Circle Game." some other examples: Last Thing On My Mind & (Can't Help But Wonder) Where I'm Bound, also Marvellous Toy; Early Mornin' Rain, If You Could Read My MInd... Seems the list could be endless. Cheers, BK |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 20 Jan 00 - 08:04 PM Well, the original suggestion was that we should try to identify the songs people knew already: "the songs have to be ones that most people know already, songs that are an actual part of the mainstream of our culture - not songs we wish people would know" |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: alison Date: 20 Jan 00 - 06:36 PM cousinraven we do it as "going on a bear hunt" one person leads, the others echo each line
we're going on a bear hunt then follows a variety of obstacles to fight your way through with actions
like long wavy grass (swish swish)
ending up with a dark gloomy cave
two big hairy claws then you run back through all the obstacles again until you are safely home.... slainte alison
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: GUEST,bet Date: 20 Jan 00 - 12:14 PM Interesting lists of songs, thanks. Boy do I have nmy work cut out for me. Will, I only have the kids thru 4th grade so I'll leave a few for the next music teacher. bet |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: GUEST,honestfrankie Date: 20 Jan 00 - 11:11 AM The suggestions so far are a little biased toward the aging folkie. Not that the ones I am suggesting are like really cool now but they have their place. Johnny B. Goode Secret Agent Man Peter Gunn Purple Haze Whole Lotta Love And I have to acknowledge the good choice that somebody mentioned in Log Driver's Waltz which the group I performed on New Years with voted as the Canadian song of the century |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: GeorgeH Date: 20 Jan 00 - 03:54 AM GUEST MTed: I reckon that suggestion is spot-on. G. |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: cousinraven Date: 20 Jan 00 - 01:53 AM Speaking of Camp songs (somewhere in this thread) Someone told me of a song that went something like
Going on a snipe hunt.
clomp...clomp...clomp...clomp
Any help would be apreciated.
Thanks. |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: Brendy Date: 20 Jan 00 - 12:42 AM Arthur McBride The Holy Ground The Crack was 90 Uncle John Bright Blue Rose Crazy Dreams The Sun is burning Go Move Shift Fertile Rock As I roved out The Blacksmith Clare to Here Black is the colour Irish ways and Irish laws Dreams of summer Nancy Spain Lonesome Robin Paddy's Lament to the Emerald Isle The Isle of Inísfrí The Tinkerman's Daughter Crusader Almost ev'ry circumstance Only our Rivers Ride On Buddy can you spare a dime The Fields of Athenry Sam Hall The Lakes of Ponthartrain My True Love Clyde's Bonny Banks May you never Mountains of Mourne I Don't Want to Know about Evil Carrickfergus Whiskey in the Jar (only joking) Desperadoes waiting for a Train Tea and Sympathy The Dutchman Heart with no companion Rollin' in my sweet baby's arms Sacco and Vanzetti Margarita Boys from the Co. Armagh (of course) Lament on the passing of the 12 bar blues Boys of Barr na tsráide Takin' Names Gone crazy on you Níl sé 'na lá F.D.R. in Trinidad Whiter shade of Pale Me and Bobby McGee Space Oddity Then we take Berlin Help me make it thru the night Land of the Bottom Line No Woman no Cry Nothin' but the same old story The Ballad of Lucy Jordan Needle and the Damage Done The Weight Ain't Misbehavin' That'll do for a start |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: GUEST,ddw Date: 20 Jan 00 - 12:08 AM I haven't seen any mention of:
Wreck of the Old 97 And that's leaving out a lot of the great "bad man" songs about Jesse Jame, Pretty Boy Floyd, and a host of others. cheers david |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: GUEST,MTed Date: 19 Jan 00 - 07:55 PM How about lets just say everyone should know at least fifty songs, and leave it up to them which ones? |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 19 Jan 00 - 06:26 PM My eyes are getting dizzy skimming through all these lists.
But so far noone seems to have put in Music Hall songs and The Beatles, or George Formby. My Old Man said Follow the Van Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. Lily of Laguna. Yellow Submarine. Just a Song at Twilight. I'll Get By with a Little Help from my Friends. I'm Leaning on a Lamp post. And of course, the secret weapon opf all crowds and queues in England, "Why are we waiting?" (to the tune of "Come let us adore him", in case it hasn't made it across the Atlantic).
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: Martin _Ryan Date: 19 Jan 00 - 05:10 PM George (Henderson): Jeez, George - they were patient children to lie peacefully through the Flying Cloud, alright! Mine used to get "The Greenland Whale Fishery". They slept in bunks at the time and there was a lot of climbing the rigging, swinging from spars, miming telescopes etc. etc. They basically fell asleep through exhaustion! Regards p.s. Sorry about the thread creep, folks. |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: GUEST,Frank Date: 19 Jan 00 - 03:49 PM How about The City of New Orleans? Or Alice's Restaurant? The above lists are great but I'd have to add those two... Frank |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: kendall Date: 19 Jan 00 - 03:45 PM I'm not Irish, but, last Saturday night, I had some scotch in me..does that count? In my not so humble opinion, the Irish list must include Kevin Barry. Kat..my warmest best wishes go with you. |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: JenEllen Date: 19 Jan 00 - 03:31 PM UMMMMMMM...How's about: Mairzy Doats Swinging on a Star Toot,toot, Tootsie When You're Smiling Baby Face Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree Cool Water |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: Blackcat2 Date: 19 Jan 00 - 01:21 PM I'd love to see what Skarpi would consider to be the 50 Icelandic songs everyone should know! pax yall |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: Easy Rider Date: 19 Jan 00 - 11:47 AM What about "Glory glory hallelujah", from the Civil War? We all learned that, when we were children, and made up nasty verses to it too. You know... "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord..." or "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the burning of the school..." |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: MTed Date: 19 Jan 00 - 11:47 AM I couldn't help notice how contrived and patronizing the Music educators list was--and how much it varied from Gargoyle's list, which seems a much more accurate collection of the songs that Americans really do know-- I do have somewhat the same feeling as George, sometimes, that a lot of that stuff that everyone happens to know isn't pleasing to either sing or hear--(I must confess that I also regard the lists of songs that some person or group thinks I should know as being like the bumper stickers that say "Kill your television"--If you want to tell me what to do, I will tell you where to go)-- What would be interesting would be to see a list of the 50 songs that people wished they knew--
P.S. Kat--so sorry to hear about your mother-- |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: Roger the skiffler Date: 19 Jan 00 - 11:44 AM Joebro, Joebro, is this a penance? It's a great idea except it'll drive me mad & keep me awake at night! I'll not submit a list as most of mine have been mentioned already. At least 50 is a good number, 10 would be impossible to decide! I don't know all the patriotic American anthems and I beg to be excused learning them! RtS |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: Night Owl Date: 19 Jan 00 - 11:41 AM Thanks for this thread, Joe. Adding "Quiet Faith of Man" Bill Staines |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: Grab Date: 19 Jan 00 - 11:27 AM Alison, Off-topic, I know, but in my scout troop the first 2 lines went either Glory, glory what a hell of a way to die x2 or Glory, glory what a hell of a way to die When you're hanging by your braces and you don't know how to fly You usually got both, as some ppl preferred 1 and others preferred the other. Works OK with both anyway. Grab. |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: paddymac Date: 19 Jan 00 - 10:51 AM "Cassions" was noted above for the american list. I think two other "service songs" should certainly be listed: "Marines' Hymn" and "Anchors Aweigh". |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: Mbo Date: 19 Jan 00 - 10:34 AM Oh Alisom, your list was right on target. I love all those songs (except the fake-Irish ones.) Everyone should know all the songs of the Clancy Brothers Greatest Hits. Then theres my 14 volumes (and counting) on the Best of The Thistle & Shamrock I'm assembling. It has over 300 songs & tunes, personally selected by me, that every Celtic lover should know. No one has mentioned the greatest immigration ballad ever "Paddy's Green Shamrock Shore." My mother absolutely loves this song! I assembled from various sources, an 11-minute version, sure to please anyone who can't get enough of this song. Hmm...I don't think I saw "Wild Mountain Thyme," "When You And I Were Young, Maggie," and "The Road to Dundee." --Mbo |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: GeorgeH Date: 19 Jan 00 - 08:52 AM Yes, Liz, but how many of those 437 songs would you WISH to know . . . There isn't a single song in Joe's list I wouldn't rather disappeared entirely, even though a number of them are very powerful songs which CAN be performed to great effect. There's no point in promoting something to the status of "cultural essentials" if they're going to be hackneyed (?sp) and cliched in the process. (It doesn't, generally, happen to "Ode to Joy"; why has it happened to "Amazing Grace" in 99% of its performances?) Just my daily ration of sour grapes, folks!! Or can we nominate the defining performance of our cultural essentials? (In which case I nominate Peter Bellamy for Amazing Grace, and upset the USians even further.) G. |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: Liz the Squeak Date: 19 Jan 00 - 08:33 AM Well I make that about 437 songs already. Have you noticed how many of these are songs that no one actually writes down and learns, but sort of inherits as a folk memory or acquire by some form of osmosis? I've never sat down to learn 'You are my sunshine', but still, I know it..... We even wrote our own version.
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, LTS |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: Allan C. Date: 19 Jan 00 - 07:16 AM refresh |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: george Henderson NSC Date: 29 Jan 99 - 10:14 AM I used to sing all my kids to sleep with "The Flying Cloud" obtained from the singing of Lou Killen. I don't know whether they dropped off to sleep from boredom or what but it has always been a favourite of mine. |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: Laurel Date: 28 Jan 99 - 09:02 PM Don't forget "The Life Of a Voyager"!! Laurel |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: alison Date: 28 Jan 99 - 07:54 PM Hi Gargoyle, There is a version in the database, not quite the same and I'm sure we've had this in another thread ages ago. The one I learnt is
He jumped from 40,000 feet without a parachute (X3)
they scraped him off the runway like a lump of strawberry jam... slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: Laurel the x-girl scout Date: 28 Jan 99 - 06:49 PM Three of my favorite camp songs are.. 1. Linger 2. Bamboo 3. Small Blue Bottle--- at least that is what the song is about. Laurel |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: catspaw49 Date: 24 Jan 99 - 12:39 AM This seemed like fun, but every time I come back to this thread, I find my list is there somewhere. This time I brought a very short list and most of it was taken. But for once I'm left with 2 that haven't been mentioned. So howzabout "Ash Grove" and "Dixie". catspaw |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: gargoyle Date: 24 Jan 99 - 12:09 AM I concure.....On Top of Spaghetti is a fine candidate for 49.....however, I have never heard of 40K....in my day we were lucky to reach "six miles high and falling fast."
A DT search brings up Mrs. Robinson for under "40,000." Could you post the words???(Sound like Mr. Joe now) |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: alison Date: 23 Jan 99 - 07:39 PM hi,
I submit Slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: Fifty Songs Everyone Should Know From: gargoyle Date: 23 Jan 99 - 01:24 PM 50 Campfire Songs That Everyone Knows 1. All Together Again
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