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12 Jun 07 - 09:12 AM (#2074670) Subject: Lyr Req: Song about a dress From: Scoville A friend of mine needs some help. "I heard the song on the Thistle and Shamrock [Celtic music] NPR show years ago. The story of the song seemed to be a girl asking her mother what dress she should wear, and the mother offering various reasons why she shouldn't. I believe in the last verse they come back to the dress from the first verse, and realizing that there's nothing else to wear, the girl and mother finally agree." The idea sounds familiar but I can't come up with the song. (I'm probably thinking of 'Whistle, Daughter, Whistle', but that's about sex, not dresses.) |
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12 Jun 07 - 11:03 AM (#2074792) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about a dress From: dick greenhaus Jennie Jenkins? "Will you wear the green? etc." |
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12 Jun 07 - 12:32 PM (#2074880) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about a dress From: ClaireBear Maybe this one? I think jacqui McShee recorded it once, which sounds like a likely Thistle and Shamrock choice. But there's no mother in it, at least not by name. Still, it's a haunting song and just the type that would stay with one for years. |
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12 Jun 07 - 05:18 PM (#2075143) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about a dress From: Willa I wonder if Dick is correct. Janet Russell does a great version of this on her CD "Bright Shining Morning?" |
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12 Jun 07 - 06:37 PM (#2075236) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about a dress From: GUEST,Bob Coltman I learned the Wedding Dress song from Dick Weissman away back in 1959, so it is at least that old. Always did wonder where it came from. It sounds traditional, more or less in the east Kentucky style, but I know of no traditional source for it. Dick's version began "Lord, my little Lilly gal," unlike the one in the DT. But I'm with Dick Greenhaus, I think Scoville's query does sound as if it refers to Jenny Jenkins. The DT has a Vermont version different from the one I know. Here's a verse of mine, which I think is fairly common: Will you wear red, oh my dear, oh my dear, Will you wear red, Jenny Jenkins, I won't wear red, it's the color of my head, I'll buy me a fal de ral de, tildy doldy, use a cause a, Roll the find me, Roll, Jenny Jenkins, roll. (varies through half a dozen other colors, green, black, yellow, blue, etc. and ends "What will you wear ... What do you care if I just go bare?" Jennie always did have an attitude. (That's the common version. Bascom Lamar Lunsford sang a version with a different, and equally fun, chorus. A hundred singers have done versions of J.J.) |
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13 Jun 07 - 02:45 PM (#2076037) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about a dress From: Scoville Thanks, y'all--Jennie Jenkins it was. I'm surprised she recognized it; she's not at all into folk or folk-esque music and rarely pays any attention to lyrics. |
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13 Jun 07 - 03:34 PM (#2076073) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about a dress From: skipy Which dress to wear, yes, often a problem for me! Skipy |
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13 Jun 07 - 03:40 PM (#2076076) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about a dress From: GUEST,meself Devil with a blue dress, blue dress, blue dress, Devil with a blue dress on? |
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13 Jun 07 - 06:22 PM (#2076214) Subject: Lyr Add: LITTLE BLACK DRESS (Gene Kelton) From: oldhippie LITTLE BLACK DRESS As recorded by Mean Gene Kelton on "Most Requested" (1999) She looks so good in her tight blue jeans The faded ones with the holey knees Dancin' to the radio Barefoot cross our kitchen floor Shes always fine but she looks her best When she puts on that little black dress She bought it for a dollar in a resale shop Ran it through the washer and it shrunk right up When she tried it on I heard her scream Oh my God this things obscene I took a look and she took my breath There she stood in that little black dress CHORUS: Just a little black dress kinda plain and simple You'd never see it on the shopping channel It ain't fancy, it ain't in style But when she puts it on it drives me wild Baby loves me till it hurts Oh she makes her mojo work She knows that I can't resist When she puts on that little black dress Invitation to a social ball, It said RSVP y'all Drinks at seven, dinner at eight Promptness we appreciate We were later than the rest Blame it on that little black dress. CHORUS © 1999 Gene Kelton Music, BMI |