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11 Sep 15 - 05:56 PM (#3736817) Subject: Lyr/Meanings Songs By Wini Beatty From: cnd So I'm making this thread for songs by Wini Beatty. Not much is known about her (at least online), so I decided I'd sort of gather it here, and post some lyrics/meanings to some songs of hers. Key Records was a right-wing record label started in 1955/6 in Los Angeles, CA, by Vick Knight[1]. Though it did release some original music, it mostly released speeches.[2] So now about Wini Beatty. Before she got political, "Miss Beatty's specialty songs [were] based on lamented love. An album she has made of those renditions for Key Records, by the way, has won her fame as the 'Losers Weepers Girl.' It was during an engagement at Howard Manor two years ago that Wini developed the special talent for selling a song dealing with frustrated romance. She was advised at the time to concentrate on this technique. She did and it proved to he the turning point in her career, leading to her lucrative contract with Key Records. Miss Beatty is a native of Arkansas. but received her education in Southern California schools. Her musical career was launched while she was an undergrad at Fullerton Junior College. Disk Jockey Al Jarvis heard her and opened the door to her first exposure to radio as a singing pianist. This led to her first waxing experience as a jazz pianist." Source: http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19561006.2.52 |
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11 Sep 15 - 06:04 PM (#3736818) Subject: RE: Lyr ADD: POTOMAC RIVER (Beatty) From: cnd The album that I can post songs from is her album "Folk Music for Tax-Payers." You can look at it here This song, titled Potomac River, is about the presidents and how they lie. I'm not sure what tune it's to, but it seems familiar. POTOMAC RIVER (Wini Beatty) Way down up in the Potomac River, in Washington they say There lives a famous Indian giver called "the Great Society" Just prior to the last election they went on TV Smiled and announced a cut in taxes, folks was as pleased as could be Then when they got back in office, what did they promptly do? Put back the tax--in fact, they raised it! Outside of that, what's new? |
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11 Sep 15 - 06:28 PM (#3736823) Subject: RE: Lyr/Meanings Songs By Wini Beatty From: cnd Oops, I forgot the link for the last song. You can listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pub65C8h8Vw This song, titled "Medicare - Billy Sol" is a medley of two songs, "Medicare" and "Billy Sol." The first one is obviously about Medicare, set to the theme of "Oh Christmas Tree." "Billy Sol" refers to businessman Billie Sol Estes, who is best known for a business scandal that sent him to jail for fraud multiple times and complicated by his ties to friend and future U.S. President Lyndon Johnson. MEDICARE - BILLY SOL (Wini Beatty) Oh Medicare, sweet Medicare Everyone deserves a share So go fall on your derriere Send the bill to Medicare Go strain your sack, 'roiliac* Have a big fat cardiac Why be a healthy lunatic? You're crazy if you don't get sick Oh Medicare, sweet Medicare Treats you like a millionaire Get clobbered on the thoroughfare Medicare will be right there Of course the treas'ry shows a loss It costs you much more than Blue Cross But what a pleasure to be ill And never know you paid the bill [tempo change to "Billy Sol"] Did you lay some dough away, Billy Sol, Billy Sol? Did you lay some dough away, Billy Sol Estes? Did you hide what they say you stole for The day you get your parole Go ahead, hibernate Let that int'rest accumulate You're still young, you can wait Billy Sol Estes * "Roiliac" probably refers to the joint disease Sacroiliac. You can listen to that medley here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwXOx9vbCjg |
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11 Sep 15 - 06:48 PM (#3736827) Subject: RE: Lyr/Meanings Songs By Wini Beatty From: cnd Here's the song "Hammers and Sickles--'The Y'," a medley of two songs: "Hammers and Sickles" and "'The Y'." The first song is probably alluding to some event, but I'm not sure what. I also can't find much on "The Y," partially (mostly) due to the fact that it's only 5 lines long. HAMMERS AND SICKLES - "THE Y" (Wini Beatty) At UN headquarters The network reporters Use hammers and sickles to edit the news Instead of exposing Their superimposing Their ideo-ideological views Concisely, succinctly Bluntly and pinkly The liberal establishment manages news They laugh at resistance And preach coexistence While watching the enemy lighting the fuse [Tempo changes to that of "The Y"] Oh, dear? What can the matter be? Dear? Dear? What can the matter be? My! My! What can the matter be? Walter so-long at the Y |
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11 Sep 15 - 07:15 PM (#3736830) Subject: RE: Lyr/Meanings Songs By Wini Beatty From: cnd "The Y" is to the theme of "Oh Dear! What Can The Matter Be." Also, somewhere along the way I lost the link to that song above, too, so here's the link to that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ayK1EAu8EM Here's the next song at the album, "I'd Rather Do It Myself." It's about some commercials on TV, and how weird they are. I'D RATHER DO IT MYSELF (Wini Beatty) Reuben, Reuben, I've been thinkin' What a strange world this would be To a man from Mars who just drops in And sees the commercials on our TV A bunch of people eating their hats While putting greasy kids' stuff on their hair Tripping acid in a stomach And hang a living room out to air A guy on a white horse does your laundry Leaves it right on you or takes the dirt Three Chinese are in a quandary Can't get a wrinkle out of the shirt The queen wears a crown but can't afford butter A board rides down a railroad track A girl crawls out of a tube of hair-cream Another has a witch sneakin' up and back A washing-machine is ten feet tall A fellas brain tells him when to cough A guy in the sky falls into an auto A girl tells her boyfriend to take it all off Who could afford to buy all these products? Who's got a house with a big enough shelf? TV makes your decisions for you But please, mother! I'd rather do it myself Listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuJJv3yZqqI |