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07 Jul 05 - 11:09 AM (#1517066) Subject: Folklore: New Lost City Bang Boys!? From: GUEST,Art Thieme In the 60s I had what I remember as a 4-song, ten inch, 33 and 1/3 little LP by the New Lost City Ramblers---still with Tom Paley. Titled "The New Lost City Bang Boys---BANG AWAY LULU. One song went: Bang away, Lulu, Bang away good and strong, What ya gonna do for bangin', When Lulu's gone? Anybody remember this---and were the songs ever on a full album by Mike, John, and Tom??? Art Thieme |
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07 Jul 05 - 11:35 AM (#1517088) Subject: RE: Folklore: New Lost City Bang Boys!? From: Cool Beans I knew of it only by rumor. Allegedly, one of the songs on it was called "Then It Won't Hurt No More." |
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07 Jul 05 - 01:29 PM (#1517184) Subject: RE: Folklore: New Lost City Bang Boys!? From: Cool Beans Well, well. Neither of us is delusional. A little googling brought me information about this 1961 release: "Earth Is Earth" sung by The New Lost City Bang Boys - My Sweet Farm Girl - Bang Bang Lulu - Then It Won't Hurt - Women Wear No Clothes At All The New Lost City Bang Boys: Wilbur Seeger McKinley Cohen Delmore Paley 7" disc Folkways FF 869 re-released 1978 (custom CD) Folkways FF 369 |
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07 Jul 05 - 01:31 PM (#1517187) Subject: RE: Folklore: New Lost City Bang Boys!? From: GUEST Folkways FF869 "Earth is Earth" With: "Then it won't hurt" "Women Wear no Clothes at all" "Bang Bang Lulu" "My Sweet Farm Girl" -I don't think any of these were issued on a 12" - I may have them on an old reel to reel - I'll Start lookin' F.S. |
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07 Jul 05 - 01:37 PM (#1517190) Subject: RE: Folklore: New Lost City Bang Boys!? From: dick greenhaus If it's on Folkways, it's available as a custom CD. $20 from Smithsonian Folkways; $16 from CAMSCO. |
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07 Jul 05 - 01:58 PM (#1517202) Subject: RE: Folklore: New Lost City Bang Boys!? From: GUEST Jeez that's $4.00 a song! |
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08 Jul 05 - 12:02 AM (#1517701) Subject: RE: Folklore: New Lost City Bang Boys!? From: 12-stringer Name of the group is a tribute to the little-known oldtimey band, "The Bang Boys," who recorded two sides for Vocalion in 1936 ("Bang Bang Lulu" b/w "Doin' It the Old-Fashioned Way"). They were more familiarly known as Roy Acuff and the Crazy Tennesseeans but used the alias for a slightly smutty 78. Acuff played fiddle but didn't sing on either side, as I recall, not having heard them in 35 years. The NLCBB's version of "Lulu" comes from the Bang Boys, I believe. These tracks are from Acuff's first recording session. Possibly Vocalion was looking for a mountain counterpart to their group the Prairie Ramblers, a slick western swing-y band from the WLS Barn Dance, who also recorded slightly off-color material as "The Sweet Violet Boys." No further Bang Boys 78s were issued, so it's likely the experiment didn't pan out commercially. The records are quite rare, though they're not very dirty. Seems to me that Buster Carter and Preston Young recorded "Then It Won't Hurt No More" for Columbia c1931, but I don't think I've ever heard it. "Sweet Farm Girl" was recorded by the Carolina Tar Heels (smutty) and by Tom Ashley (smuttier). I think both are available on CD, and Ashley's is downloadable at Honking Duck. "Women Wear No Clothes" is from a 78 by Fiddlin' Bob Larkan and is mostly a fiddle tune, with occasional chorus, "Oh, the women wear no clothes at all (x3), But they get there just the same." |
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08 Jul 05 - 12:15 AM (#1517704) Subject: RE: Folklore: New Lost City Bang Boys!? From: Peace Might wanna look here. Get some of it from the horse's mouth. |
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08 Jul 05 - 12:34 AM (#1517707) Subject: RE: Folklore: New Lost City Bang Boys!? From: GUEST,Art Thieme Well, thanks folks. Now I'm remembering some of these details you've so kindly provided. Onward, Art |
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15 Apr 12 - 04:08 PM (#3338770) Subject: RE: Folklore: New Lost City Bang Boys!? From: GUEST from AshGove days, re: The New Lost City Bang Boys Q record The appearance of the NLCR and this record prompted a satirical drawing of "The New Lost City Rumblers" picturing them as leather-jacketed punks, complete with chains, brass knuckles & facial scars. They got a kick out of it. I got a kick out of drawing it. Rita Weill Byxbe |
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15 Apr 12 - 07:42 PM (#3338848) Subject: RE: Folklore: New Lost City Bang Boys!? From: Mark Ross Rita , any chance of getting to see the picture? Mark Ross |
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16 Apr 12 - 07:37 AM (#3338983) Subject: RE: Folklore: New Lost City Bang Boys!? From: GUEST,Lighter Peace, the link won't work. What are the lyrics we're talking about? |
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16 Apr 12 - 01:48 PM (#3339122) Subject: RE: Folklore: New Lost City Bang Boys!? From: 12-stringer For the lyrics, try here (link is still hot as of 1:47PM EDT): http://allensarchiveofearlyoldcountrymusic.blogspot.com/2010/09/new-lost-city-bang-boys-earth-is-earth.html |
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27 Jan 21 - 01:05 AM (#4090113) Subject: RE: Folklore: New Lost City Bang Boys!? From: GUEST,Anton Saw/ heard them at Oberlin. |