drinking songs

RichD

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Jul 22, 2012, 7:23:59 PM7/22/12

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I'm looking for a source of beer drinking songs;
irish, english, scotch, most likely.

Can anybody recommend a CD? (or LP. or even
tape cassette) Better yet, with piano sheet music.

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Rich

docd...@panix.com

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Jul 22, 2012, 10:35:20 PM7/22/12

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In article <0c4b760b-3658-4117...@lq16g2000pbb.googlegroups.com>,

You can start with the ever-popular:

DRINK drink drink drink!
Drink DRINK drink drink!
Drink drink DRINK driiiiiii-iiiiink.....
(urgle urgle urgle) Ah!

DD

Abby Sale

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Jul 23, 2012, 6:54:20 AM7/23/12

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There are many _called_ that but I suggest you consider...

Do you want songs about drinking?
Or do you want songs traditionally sung _while_ drinking?

The two are very different.most
For the latter, "convivial" songs might be anything that go well in a
group - around the piano, as it were. They may be "folk songs" or show
tunes or Elvis. See Robert Burns, Hash or Rugby songs, army songs,
"tavern songs."

I think that most CDs calling themselves tavern or drinking songs are
just the notion of the record company or sheet music publisher but key
word search.

And, pardon me, do you want Scottish songs or songs about scotch?

A bare few that occur to me off the top of my head:

Lloyd, AL; English Drinking Songs; 1956 (LP or CD)

MacColl, Ewan; Scotch Drinking Songs; Offbeat Records; 1989 (See? They
make the same misteak) - Reissue of _Scots Drinking Songs; Riverside
RLP 12-605; 1956

MacColl, Ewan; Saturday Night at the Bull and Mouth; Folkways; CD 1978
(original LP)

Makem, Tommy & Clancy Bros.; Irish Drinking Songs; Tradition; CD-R 1959
(original LP)

You might ask your library or their Inter-library Loan dept. fot Frank
Shay's _My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions_ AND _More Pious Friends
and Drunken Companions_ (often as a single volume.)

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Michael Liebmann

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Jul 23, 2012, 5:50:05 PM7/23/12

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<docd...@panix.com> wrote in message news:juid98$3v3$1...@reader1.panix.com...

I know that the Brobdingnagian Bards and Golden Bough have CDs of drinking
songs. I have the Golden Bough one available.

Michael Liebmann
sff...@bellsouth.net

Inyo

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Jul 24, 2012, 8:12:04 PM7/24/12

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"Abby Sale" <NO_SPA...@ft.newyorklife.com> wrote in message
news:ct9q085ussne0mpne...@4ax.com...

> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:23:59 -0700 (PDT), RichD
> <r_dela...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>I'm looking for a source of beer drinking songs;
>>irish, english, scotch, most likely.

> Do you want songs about drinking?
> Or do you want songs traditionally sung _while_ drinking?

Or, how about songs about the consequences of drinking?

Case in point--that golden oldie sea shanty called "(What To Do With A)
Drunken Sailor."

Here's a version of the song my father and I recorded at Harltley Springs
Campground many years ago (sometime back in the 20th Century, as a matter of
fact); it's situated at 8,400 foot elevation on the eastern slopes of
California's Sierra Nevada a few miles south of Lee Vining:
http://inyo1.coffeecup.com/storage/musicalhistory/whattodowithadrunkensailor.mp3 .
Dad's on vocals and banjo; I'm playing the 1970 Stella 12-string guitar,
plus the attempts at solos, of course.

Dad's on vocals and banjo; I'm playing the 1970 Stella 12-string guitar,
plus the attempts at solos, of course.

http://inyo.coffeecup.com/site/music/inyocybercd.html
"The Acoustic Guitar Solitaire Of Inyo"--a free cyber-cd where I play 30
solo, acoustic, 6-string guitar instrumental covers of some of my favorite
songs.

RichD

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Jul 26, 2012, 5:19:04 PM7/26/12

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On Jul 23, Abby Sale <NO_SPAM_as...@ft.newyorklife.com> wrote:
> >I'm looking for a source of beer drinking songs;
> >irish, english, scotch, most likely.
>
> >Can anybody recommend a CD? (or LP. or even
> >tape cassette) Better yet, with piano sheet music.
>
> There are many _called_ that but I suggest you consider...
> Do you want songs about drinking?
> Or do you want songs traditionally sung _while_ drinking?

The latter.

> The two are very different.most
> For the latter, "convivial" songs might be anything that go well in a
> group - around the piano, as it were.

Right.

> They may be "folk songs" or show tunes or Elvis. See Robert Burns,
> Hash or Rugby songs, army songs,
> "tavern songs."

When I was in Germany, years ago, I noticed
how germans will sing in the bars, clinking steins,
scenes of jocundity. (in Munich, anyhow)

While american bars seem glum. I'd rather make merry.

> I think that most CDs calling themselves tavern or drinking
> songs are just the notion of the record company or sheet music
> publisher but key word search.

yes, that's why I ask for reviews.

> And, pardon me, do you want Scottish songs or songs about scotch?

I guess either!

> A bare few that occur to me off the top of my head:
> Lloyd, AL; English Drinking Songs; 1956 (LP or CD)
>
> MacColl, Ewan; Scotch Drinking Songs; Offbeat Records; 1989
> (See? They make the same misteak)

?

> - Reissue of _Scots Drinking Songs; Riverside
> RLP 12-605; 1956
>
> MacColl, Ewan; Saturday Night at the Bull and Mouth; Folkways; CD 1978
> (original LP)
>
> Makem, Tommy & Clancy Bros.; Irish Drinking Songs; Tradition;
> CD-R 1959 (original LP)
>

> You might ask your library for Frank

> Shay's _My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions_ AND _
> More Pious Friends and Drunken Companions_ (often as a single volume.)

Great, thanks!

--
Rich

Abby Sale

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Jul 27, 2012, 6:16:03 PM7/27/12

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Here's a large, spectacular website. Sadly, John stopped maintaining it
several years back but there is still a vast storehouse of material.
Mostly, but not all bawdy. THere are many books in full but only clips
of recordings (the evil ASCAP threatened nuclear war).

There are full recordings, mostly very low quality, telephone even -
just to get the idea out there - of "field recordings." THat is, his
friends who tried to provide as much of this unprinted material as
possible. Including moi.

Have fun.

Tim

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Jul 28, 2012, 1:22:20 PM7/28/12

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There's at least three great ones by George Thorogood and the
Destroyers

RichD

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Jul 28, 2012, 5:55:04 PM7/28/12

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On Jul 27, Abby Sale <NO_SPAM_as...@ft.newyorklife.com> wrote:
> Here's a large, spectacular website.

??

Uni

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Jul 29, 2012, 8:09:28 AM7/29/12

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He was okay, but never got into his music!

Uni

Tim

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Jul 29, 2012, 10:38:25 AM7/29/12

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You would have after consuming one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.

injipoint

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Jul 29, 2012, 3:58:47 PM7/29/12

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http://www.musik-sammler.de/media/129164

http://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Best-Ever-Songs-Wester/dp/B00005260W

Duncan - Slim Dusty
Beer Drinking Christians - Lacy J Dalton & Bobby Bard
Bugger Off - The Tim Molloys
Beer Beer Beer - The Pogues

Not drinking but in a bar:-
They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Any More - Kinky Friedman

Abby Sale

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Jul 30, 2012, 7:28:33 AM7/30/12

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Oops!

(Hi, Joe.)

http://www.csufresno.edu/folklore/drinkingsongs/index.htm

Note the index on the left - Songs, Recitations, etc.