16 Jun 20 - 09:50 AM (#4059526) Subject: Lyr Add: MIMI THE COLLEGE WIDOW From: and e MIMI THE COLLEGE WIDOW (RECORDING) Transcribed from the singing of Mark A. Mandel. This song is is also titled "Nellie the Campus Widow". Variants to follow in later posts. I did several searches of Mudcat using the search box and also using Google but the only Mudcat reference I can find is the song title in Joe Offer's post of the index of Songs for Swinging Housemothers. Are there other posts of this song on Mudcat ? |
16 Jun 20 - 09:55 AM (#4059528) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: MIMI THE COLLEGE WIDOW From: and e NELLIE THE CAMPUS WIDOW (recording) Transcribed from the singing of John Frushour. The tune is the same as above. He learned the song while at Indiana University in the mid to late 1950s. |
16 Jun 20 - 10:05 AM (#4059531) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: MIMI THE COLLEGE WIDOW From: and e MIMI, THE COLLEGE WIDOW From pg 10 of The Unofficial College Song Book. This college drinking songbook is not dated [1950s], no location [internal references Univeristy of Wisconsin], no publisher. |
16 Jun 20 - 10:10 AM (#4059532) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: MIMI THE COLLEGE WIDOW From: and e Joseph Hickerson in his article, "College Songs in the Indiana University Folklore Archives," Folklore and Folk Music Archivists (1958), mentions that Mimi, the College Widow is popular song with many archived versions. |
16 Jun 20 - 10:26 AM (#4059535) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: MIMI THE COLLEGE WIDOW From: and e I love a Chi O, I always will, Sung by Jean Fox and Corol Adams of the Chi Omega sorority at Indiana University on March 14, 1964. They indicated that this version was sung by Chi Omega girls all over the state in Indiana. The tune is different than in the previous two recordings. See pg 133 of Richard Reuss An Annotated Field Collection of Songs from the American College Student Oral Tradition |
16 Jun 20 - 10:48 AM (#4059540) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: MIMI THE COLLEGE WIDOW From: cnd There are 14 books containing the phrase "Mimi, the college widow" on Archive.org (click). Of particular interest is a long version of the text from the 49th Tactical Fighter Wing (undated, est. 1960s) which appears to combine school songs from Cornell, Georgia Tech, Cornell, and Wisconsin. MIMI From 48th Tactical Fighter Wing (TFW) Hym-m-m-nal, circa 1960s There's another version comparing Mimi to a camel at the link above, so definitely check those resources out. |