French Folk Songs - Lyrics
Shawn Fitzpatrick
Hi. I am looking for french folk songs for a school report. Do you have the
lyrics to even one song that you could send me? They can be in either english
or french. Anything but Aloeta.
Thank you,
Shawn
Eric Berge
In Article<6abvqb$hf$1...@noc.vphos.net>, <sfit...@wkpowerlink.com> writes:
> From: sfit...@wkpowerlink.com (Shawn Fitzpatrick)
Here's a site with three or four:
http://acronet.net/~robokopp/french.html
Eric Berge
Eric Berge
In Article<NEWTNews.885658819.17395.Eric_Berge@tirnanog>, <e_db...@ibm.net>
writes:
PS to my previous post; here's a site with LOTS of French folk song lyrics
(including Alouette):
http://infoweb.magi.com/~yvondian/chanson/chanson1.html
Eric Berge
(remove _ for address)
Abby Sale
>Hi. I am looking for french folk songs for a school report. Do you have the
>lyrics to even one song that you could send me? They can be in either english
>or french. Anything but Aloeta.
>
Shawn,
If you will go to Digital Tradition folk song database
http://www.deltablues.com or http://www.onstagemedia.com/mudcat
("Don't look for songs without it.")
you will find texts for some 21 French (mostly Canadian) songs.
Search for <@french>.
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I am Abby Sale - abby...@orlinter.com (That's in Orlando)
Irwin Silber
You shouldn't have any trouble finding "Au Pres de ma Blonde," "A la
Claire Fontaine" amd "Sur le pont d'Avignon." Years ago, Alan Mills
put out a book of "Favorite French Folk Songs" published by Oak. These
were both French and Canadian. You might find it in some library.
Irwin Silber
Stephen Suffet
Dear Irwin:
I'm just curious: is that Alan Mills the same person as the actor
Alan Arkin?
I recall hearing Arkin singing a song called "The Klan," but then
I saw it published in "Sing Out!" with credit going to one Alan Mills.
I remember going to see Arkin in "Popi" on the strength of your
film review in the Guardian.
Finally, I vaguely recall a short film in which Alan Arkin is
sitting on a park bench playing guitar and singing "﹔ue Bonita Ban-
dera!" while some social worker is trying to convince him to get a
job.
Am I right? Or maybe the French songbook is by a different per-
son?
Regards,
Steve
MIKE REGENSTREIF
Alan Mills was a folk singer from Montreal who recorded many Canadian
traditional songs on Folkways albums in the 1950s and '60s. As a songwriter,
he is best known for "There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly." He died
in 1977.
Alan Arkin, the actor, would be about 20 years younger than Alan Mills.
As a young man in the '50s, Arkin was a member of the folk groups The Tarriers
and The Babysitters.
Mike Regenstreif
"Folk Roots/Folk Branches" on CKUT in Montreal
mre...@vax2.concordia.ca
Stephen Suffet
Dear Mike:
Thanks. Evidently the Alan Mills who wrote the songbook was a
different person than Alan Arkin the actor.
I still wonder if Alan Arkin may have been a second Alan Mills. By
that I mean: Did Alan Arkin ever use the name Alan Mills as a pseudo-
nym? Maybe so, maybe not?
Regards again,
Steve
Eric Berge
In Article<6akgou$l...@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>, <Suf...@worldnet.att.net>
writes:
> I'm just curious: is that Alan Mills the same person as the actor
> Alan Arkin?
Different person, although Alan Arkin has some musical talent; he provided
some instrumental backup for Ed McCurdy on the "When Dalliance Was in Flower"
record series.
Alan Mills is the Canadian folk singer who did the Folkways "Songs of the Sea"
record - which I recommend to anyone who asks about a good sea chanty
recording.
Gerry Myerson
In article <009C0E8F...@vax2.concordia.ca>,
mre...@vax2.concordia.ca wrote:
-> Alan Mills was a folk singer from Montreal who recorded many Canadian
-> traditional songs on Folkways albums in the 1950s and '60s. As a songwriter,
-> he is best known for "There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly." He died
-> in 1977.
Wait a minute --- an identifiable person actually wrote that? Live and learn.
Gerry Myerson (ge...@mpce.mq.edu.au)
James Prescott
One better than that. Alan Mills wrote the music to a poem by Rose
Bonne, who was from Saskatchewan.
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All my best,
James Prescott <ja...@nucleus.com> OR <pres...@acm.org> (PGP user)
Irwin Silber
From: Irwin Silber <isi...@igc.apc.org>
To: Steve Suffet <Suf...@worldnet.att.net>
Dear Steve: The only song called "The Klan" that I recall appeared in a
very early issue of Sing Out! (Vol. 1, Mo. 9) and is credited to Alan
Grey. I knew at the time it was a pseudonym and it may very well have
been for Alan Arkin, but it sticks in my mind that it might have been
written by Alan's father, Dave Arkin, who was an active member of the
Songmakers Workshop in L.A. It was definitely not written by Alan Mills
who is a real person and, during the fifties and sixties, one of the
most popular C anadian folksingers. He didn't do much in the U.S. but
he had many records on Folkways. I think he may also have collaborated
on a book with Edith Fowke.
Alan sitting on a bench singing "Que Bonita Bandera" may have been the
film "Popi."
Stephen Suffet
Dear Irwin, Mike, et al.:
Thanks for correcting my erroneous belief. I had let two memories
become intertwined:
1. Seeing a printed version of Alan Mills' "Swallowed a Fly" some
time in the late 1950s or very early 1960s.
2. Seeing a printed version of Alan Grey's "The Klan" right
around the same time, and hearing (rightfully or wrongfully) that Alan
Grey was in fact Alan Arkin.
Arkin did sing "﹔ue Bonita Bandera!" in "Popi," but I believe he
also sang it in a short film which had been produced earlier.
Regards again,
Steve
luvst...@gmail.com
> Irwin Silber wrote:
> >
> > You shouldn't have any trouble finding "Au Pres de ma Blonde," "A la
> > Claire Fontaine" amd "Sur le pont d'Avignon." Years ago, Alan Mills
> > put out a book of "Favorite French Folk Songs" published by Oak. These
> > were both French and Canadian. You might find it in some library.
> > Irwin Silber
>
> Dear Irwin:
>
> Alan Arkin?
>
> I saw it published in "Sing Out!" with credit going to one Alan Mills.
>
> I remember going to see Arkin in "Popi" on the strength of your
> film review in the Guardian.
>
> Finally, I vaguely recall a short film in which Alan Arkin is
> sitting on a park bench playing guitar and singing "﹔ue Bonita Ban-
> dera!" while some social worker is trying to convince him to get a
> job.
>
> Am I right? Or maybe the French songbook is by a different per-
> son?
>
>
> Regards,
> Steve
kaylame...@gmail.com
> Hi. I am looking for french folk songs for a school report. Do you have the
> lyrics to even one song that you could send me? They can be in either english
> or french. Anything but Aloeta.
>
> Shawn
no
ty...@parawai.school.nz
> Hi. I am looking for french folk songs for a school report. Do you have the
> lyrics to even one song that you could send me? They can be in either english
> or french. Anything but Aloeta.
>
> Thank you,
> Shawn