Suggestions Sought: Songs for two people

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: Genie
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 04:23 PM

Cab Calloway did a song called "Daddy Dear" with his daughter Lael. It's a bit schmaltzy but definitely designed for a duo like yours.

Depending on how old your daughter is, I think the two of you might be able to pull off the Makeba-Belafonte duet beautifully. The duet is between a man (either the paramour or just one of those "society" types who calls everyone "darling") and a woman whose husband is home ill. It's a comedy "routine" song.

As you said, what else is poetic license for? Or "role playing," for that matter.

If you sing "Edward," nobody's gonna think one of you is really guilty of fratricide. LOL

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: DMcG
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 04:16 PM

Thanks, all, for the suggestions. I'm sure we can use some of them.

As an added complication, the two people involved are my daughter and I, so there's something a little off if either of us is trying to bed the other, or if she's my mother. Still, what else is poetic licence for?

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: Don Firth
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 04:12 PM

Or any of the other dialogue ballads as well, such as "Edward."

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: Genie
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 03:20 PM

Lord Randal(l)

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: Genie
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 03:19 PM

Darling, Go Home (Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba) [see One More Dance]


Leather & Lace (Stevie Nicks - sung as a duet with Don Henley)


Less "folkish" -
Up Where We Belong
You Don't Bring Me Flowers


Country:
Jackson - Johnny & June Carter Cash

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: Don Firth
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 01:58 PM

Good one, eric!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 04:56 AM

The Saucy Sailor as performed by Steeleye Span

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 31 Dec 06 - 04:35 AM

From David Grisman and Jerry Garcia,

' Will you wear orange Jenny Jenkins ? '

' No orange I won't wear and it rhymes so there '

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: Don Firth
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 05:17 PM

Back around 1962-63, a young lady named Judy Flenniken, with a very big voice, and I did a number of concerts together. Two dialogue songs we did that got a good response from audiences were "Buffalo Boy" and "Jennie Jenkins."

In "Jennie Jenkins," I tossed in a verse that said, "Will you wear orange, oh, my dear, oh, my dear? Will you wear orange, Jennie Jenkins?" Then there was this long pause (vamping on our guitars) while Judy just stared at me with her mouth open. The audience sat there snickering and cackling to see what rhyme Judy would come up with. After about ten or fifteen seconds, she sang, "No, I won't wear orange, 'cause the color's too strange. . . ." (very odd pronunciation of "strange," by the way), but the tension was broken (the essence of humor) and the audience both groaned and laughed.

Most satisfying!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: JohnB
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 04:58 PM

The Copper Family did a lot of two part arrangements.
JohnB

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: GUEST,gleaner
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 02:23 PM

I'm sorry. That's Jim and Kim Lansford, not Lunsford. I must have been thinking back to a girl I once dated.

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: GUEST,gleaner
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 02:20 PM

Today I heard an interesting song,"Do You Call That Religion," as recorded by Jim and Kim Lunsford. Reportedly it's an old gospel song, but I haven't checked it out.

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: DMcG
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 10:59 AM

Good suggestions all - I'd forgotten about Colin & Pheobe. Keep 'em coming.

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 10:52 AM

What about - Colin and Phoebe (Harry Cox) or Captain Wedderburn's Courtship or even Seventeen Come Sunday?

Tim Radford

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: open mike
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 10:12 AM

look for another thread where we discussed duets recently.
my pick would be Nanci Griffith's Blackbird's Wing (Gulf Coast Highway)
or any of the John Prine songs from "In Spite of Ourselves" collection.

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: Bert
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 10:11 AM

Oh No John.

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: GUEST,gleaner
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 10:03 AM

"Mockingbird." James Taylor and Carly Simon sang it; I don't know whether they entirely wrote it or not.

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 07:41 AM

Arkansas Traveller?

eric

Subject: RE: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: GUEST
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 07:13 AM

There's a hole in the bucket dear liza

Subject: Suggestions Sought: Songs for two peopl
From: DMcG
Date: 30 Dec 06 - 07:00 AM

I'm looking for songs for two people, preferably with a dialogue structure. Examples would be "Husbandman and Servingman" or "The Keys of Canterbury". All suggestions are welcome.

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