Happy! - Oct 14 (Dorsey Dixon)

14 Oct 05 - 09:43 AM (#1583016)
Subject: Happy! - Oct 14 (Dorsey Dixon)
From: Abby Sale


Happy Birthday!

Singer / songwriter (many)/ mill worker,

Dorsey Murdock Dixon

born 10/14/1897
(d.Apr 17, 1968)

         Who did you say it was brother?
          Who was it fell by the way?
          When whiskey and blood run together
          Did you hear anyone pray?
  
                  "Wreck on the Highway," written by Dorsey in late 1937
                       after a serious road accident near Rockingham [NC]
                It was originally recorded under the title "Didn't Hear Nobody Pray" 
                [thanx Manfred Helfert

Copyright © 2005, Abby Sale - all rights reserved
What are Happy's all about?    See Notes and Index

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14 Oct 05 - 07:35 PM (#1583383)
Subject: RE: Happy! - Oct 14 (Dorsey Dixon)
From: RangerSteve

One of the hazards of having an unusual name: the author is listed as Dorothy Dixon on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Bands first "Circle" album, at least for the first pressing. Maybe by now it's been corrected.

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14 Oct 05 - 09:38 PM (#1583446)
Subject: RE: Happy! - Oct 14 (Dorsey Dixon)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)

Holy Cow! Non-music, but the 14th is the birthdate for Margaret Thatcher and Mahatma Gandhi.

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15 Oct 05 - 10:51 AM (#1583587)
Subject: RE: Happy! - Oct 14 (Dorsey Dixon)
From: Abby Sale

? Thatcher isn't holy!




(I don't even mean anything by that. Just couldn't help it.)

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15 Oct 05 - 09:10 PM (#1583874)
Subject: RE: Happy! - Oct 14 (Dorsey Dixon)
From: GUEST,Joe_F

Ewan MacColl, IIRC, wrote a song about Maggie.

--- Joe Fineman    [e-mail]

||: Every laugh contains an element of self-congratulation on having seen the point. :||

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16 Oct 05 - 09:26 AM (#1584052)
Subject: RE: Happy! - Oct 14 (Dorsey Dixon)
From: Abby Sale

The Happy file only finds "The Iron Lady," by Ian Robb. A Falklands war protest.

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