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Them Old Cowboy Songs
southendmd:
No, this is not about Annie's story, but rather about real, old, or not so old, cowboy songs.
It's a rainy day, and I got to thinking about the old song "Jingle, Jangle, Jingle". It seems to say that a cowboy can't court a girl because he's more interested in horsing around. I once heard the Connecticut Gay Men's Chorus sing this and it was hilarious.
It was a #1 song in the US in the summer of 1942 for Kay Kyser.
Here's a particularly campy version from the film "The Forest Ranger".
Do you have any favorites?
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CUXLuVjO-w[/youtube]
southendmd:
Here's the jazzy Kay Kyser version, vocals by Harry Babbit and Julie Conway:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq7wO1qtQuM[/youtube]
Sason:
I wonder what made you think of that song....?
;D
You gotta warn people for the first version of the song.
You risk falling off your chair from LOLing when you see it!!
Monika:
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CUXLuVjO-w[/youtube]
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girls with horse heads attached to their fronts? I bet Freud would have something to say about that :o
Don´t know if this counts as "old" but I quite like "A Song of Wyoming" by John Denver
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southendmd:
"Big Rock Candy Mountain"
This, of course, was in our film, as the inspiration for Lureen's "bluebirds sing and there's a whiskey spring". There are numerous versions, with different words, exchanging peppermint trees for cigarette trees, and gin or whiskey becomes lemonade or soda pop! The song apparently dates to the 1890s, with recordings from the 1920s and later recordings by Tex Ritter and Burl Ives in the 1940s.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKk_kPmAk4[/youtube]
Originally, the song described a child being recruited into the hobo life, with tales of fantastical things. Wiki shows the original last stanza:
The punk rolled up his big blue eyes
And said to the jocker, "Sandy,
I've hiked and hiked and wandered too,
But I ain't seen any candy.
I've hiked and hiked till my feet are sore
And I'll be damned if I hike any more
To be buggered sore like a hobo's whore
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains."
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