09 Jan 23 - 08:31 AM (#4161841) Subject: Animal's Ragtime Band From: prodnose My father used to sing the following song. He only ever sang one verse and chorus. I feel sure there would have been more verses but I can find no trace online. Any ideas? "A wondrous sound of reverie awoke the zoo one night. The keeper cried: "By jingo, they've begun another fight." But soon they heard the fife and drum. The noise was great but grand And everybody cried: "Here comes the animals' ragtime band. chorus The elephant played the trumpet. The rhinoceros beat the drum. The kangaroo conducted them though he was deaf and dumb. The crocodile played the clarinet though he never would learn his scales And they played "God bless the weasel" and "Pop goes the Prince of Wales" All information welcome |
09 Jan 23 - 11:28 AM (#4161862) Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band From: leeneia I can't find it either, but in the first line, reverie (memory) should be revelry (merry-making.) Good luck; it looks like fun. |
05 Aug 23 - 03:28 AM (#4178414) Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band From: GUEST,John My dad used to sing it too. I found this online. http://www.robdempster.com/blogs/pmb/blog060.html And this is the recording (see next to last para of the above link): http://www.robdempster.com/blogs/pmb/gallaries/2015tagb/AnimalsGermanBandexOZ.mp3 |
05 Aug 23 - 08:53 AM (#4178450) Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band From: MoorleyMan The links above don't work - error message "The page robdempster.com redirected too many times". Can you do the blue clicky instead, Guest John? |
05 Aug 23 - 10:00 AM (#4178463) Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band From: Stilly River Sage I got the same error. If it's a small IP company the site owner may not be supporting all of its pages (this happens if they sell out or the owner dies, etc.) Dropping the URL into Internet Archive's the Wayback Machine lets me take a look at it. https://web.archive.org/web/20210121045932/http://www.robdempster.com/blogs/pmb/blog060.html The main page shows up but the Wayback Machine never "crawled" the rest of the site (I didn't try every link, but none that I tried work.) But this might give you enough information to continue your search elsewhere. |
05 Aug 23 - 11:13 AM (#4178481) Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band From: GUEST http://www.robdempster.com/blogs/pmb/blog060.html http://www.robdempster.com/blogs/pmb/gallaries/2015tagb/AnimalsGermanBandexOZ.mp3 |
05 Aug 23 - 11:19 AM (#4178484) Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band From: GUEST,John See above. The links work for me. I notice it's only HTTP not HTTPS, which your browser might not like. |
05 Aug 23 - 12:06 PM (#4178488) Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band From: Stilly River Sage My computer defaults to https, even when http is entered. And there is enough security software in the computer to push back at insecure sites that I don't usually force the issue. |
05 Aug 23 - 12:22 PM (#4178491) Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band From: GUEST,John If the link still doesn't work, See here for suggestions: https://university.webflow.com/lesson/too-many-redirects-error#:~:text=as%20the%20default.-,Troubleshooting%20tips,with%20browse This link suggests the error can be caused by https checks, so you could try turning that off in your browser settings: https://blog.hubspot.com/website/too-many-redirects |
05 Aug 23 - 01:01 PM (#4178496) Subject: RE: Animal's Ragtime Band From: Stilly River Sage I can click on your link and it works because you set it to http, and the browser followed it. But if I copy and paste it into my browser it automatically adds the "s" to http. We've come a long way from when using https was a novelty. A spammer has decided to try to occupy this thread. If you wish to post musical content, ask a moderator to reopen it for you. ---mudelf |