Happy! – Feb 5 (Finn, Beck & some Bull)

Subject: Happy! – Feb 5 (Finn, Beck & some Bull)
From: Abby Sale
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 10:59 AM


Happy Birthdays!

Jack Beck was born 2/5/1942 – Scottish balladeer of White Springs, FL & Dunfermlin
Barry Finn was born 2/5/1951 – chanteyman, Finn & good guy.

Here's a funny thing. Two fellers born on the same day, both post here and I (likely along with two or three other people) consider them good friends. But I hardly know either. Perhaps in our small community of folkies we're all compatible. Perhaps I'd get along well with any Mudcatter I met. But that's a really scary thought.

Still, you don't get a Happy! just because you're a friend of mine and a folkie. Being a superb singer and knowledgeable carrier of traditional songs helps, though.

ALSO:
World super-star violinist Ole Bull was born 2/5/1810 (d.8/17/1880).
He ill-advisedly purchased Pennsylvania land for a Norwegian colony:

          In Oleana land is free,
          The wheat and corn just plant themselves,
          They grow 4 feet a day,
          While on the bed you rest your-selves.
  
                  Ole, Oleana... (The town is now called Oleona) 

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Subject: RE: Happy! – Feb 5 (Finn, Beck & some Bull)
From: Barry Finn
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 05:16 PM

WHOA, am I Happy? You'll never live this one down Abby. I must've sung my way into your heart. Awe Shucks!
Thanks
Barry

Subject: RE: Happy! – Feb 5 (Finn, Beck & some Bull)
From: Barry Finn
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 05:19 PM

Just to add (Ha,Ha), honorary shantey man aboard the museum Brig Carthaginian, 1979 Lahina, Maui.
Barry

Subject: RE: Happy! – Feb 5 (Finn, Beck & some Bull)
From: GUEST,Scotus (minus cookie)
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 06:22 PM

Well, well - what a great birthday surprise!

Jack (Beck)

Subject: RE: Happy! – Feb 5 (Finn, Beck & some Bull)
From: GUEST,Scotus (minus cookie)
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 10:39 PM

"Being a superb singer and knowledgeable carrier of traditional songs helps, though."

forgot to say - "takes one to know one"

Subject: RE: Happy! – Feb 5 (Finn, Beck & some Bull)
From: Anglo
Date: 06 Feb 06 - 02:38 AM

OK guys, less of the preening. (I could tell Abby I was born on exactly the same day as Andy Wallace).
An(onymous)glo