Happy!
Abby Sale
Australian poet Bernard Patrick O'Dowd was born 4/11/1866 (d Sept 2 '53).
According to Ency. Brit., he was solely responsible for the demise of
traditional Australian balladry.
Abby Sale
*** Happy Birthday ***
In Cambridge, MA:
singer/folklorist/collecter/producer
Harry Oster
b4/12/1923
[One of those names worth looking for on a record of book.]
Tim.Shirley
I didn't know it had died...
Tim
Abby Sale
*** Happy Birthday ***
In Rolling Fork MS:
Muddy Waters
(McKinley Morganfield)
b4/14/1915
(He was also born on 4/4/15)
(d4-30-83)
[Ever hear his stuff for the Loibrary of Congress way back when?]
Abby Sale
*** Happy Birthday ***
Bessie Smith b4/15/1894, Chattanooga, Tenn (d9/26/37)
Gerry Myerson
In article <3355f6d8...@snews2.zippo.com>, abby...@orlinter.com
(Abby Sale) wrote:
-> *** Happy Birthday ***
->
-> In Rolling Fork MS:
->
-> Muddy Waters
-> (McKinley Morganfield)
->
-> b4/14/1915
-> (He was also born on 4/4/15)
Is this the origin of the term, "born-again Christian"?
GM
Abby Sale
*** Happy Birthday ***
In Texas: Vernon Dalhart (nee Marion Slaughter)
was born 4/16/1883
(d9/14/48)
[thanx Dick Greenhaus]
Dalhart recorded the first country golden record ("Prisoner's Song,"
flip: "Wreck of the Old 97") in Nov 1924. "The Prisoner's Song" may have
been the biggest selling record of the entire acoustical era. [Lots more
details at http://www.garlic.com:80/~tgracyk/dalhart.htm.]
His "Lavender Cowboy" (on Bluebird) appeared to refer to homosexuality,
so radio considered it a "blue" song and banned it from the air. I sing
it, though. Got it from Ed McCurdy.
Abby Sale
4/17: At U of Colorado, it's Alfred E Packer Day
Happy Alfred E Packer Day!
(only US convicted anthropophagus see 10/23)
On 2/9/1874 Packer, as guide for a mining party, with 5 miners left camp
in the (now-called) Cannibal Plateau in the San Juan Mts of Colorado. On
4/17, Packer reached town alone, but fit & healthy. In August their
bodies were found. It was evident that they had been murdered and that
flesh had been cut from them. Packer served 18 years of a life sentence.
He admitted eating the men but always claimed he didn't actually kill
them. They killed each other & the last one attacked Packer. Packer
barely saved himself by shooting the actual murderer. He died 4/23/1907.
In 1995, a medical forensics team, as an exercise, exhumed & examined.
They showed the knife cuts on the bones but radioactive, etc exam showed
no trace of lead. Ergo Packer did not shoot. All died by having their
heads smashed in. They concluded he was the murderer & was correctly
convicted. They found, AND I QUOTE, "like Packer's victims, justice had
been served."
Six miners went into the mountains
To hunt for precious gold;
It was the middle of winter,
The weather was dreadful cold.
Six miners went into the mountains,
They had nor food nor shack--
Six miners went into the mountains,
But only one came back.
"The Lost Miners," Olive Woolley Burt, Amer. Murder Ballads, 1958
ALSO:
When the judge pronounced the sentence
He was in a righteous rage;
And what he said can still be read
Upon the yellowed page;
He wished that they could hang old Al
Until completely dead,
So when he banged the gavel,
It was in anger that he said:
"Oh, Alfred Packer,
You should be skinned alive!
There was only seven Democrats -
And you bastard, you et five."
"Ballad of Alfred Packer," by Jack Guinn, _10,000 Goddam Cattle_,
Katie Lee. [Thanx Alan Thiesen <PTHI...@us.oracle.com>]
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---
I am Abby Sale - abby...@orlinter.com (That's in Orlando)
Abby Sale
The Irish Republic finally proclaimed= 4/18/49
"Three quarters of Ireland a nation," I told them,
"Tied on to the Empire with Red, White and Blue;
And an oath they must swear to King George and Queen Mary
An oath they must swear to the son-in-law new.
I'm teaching them Irish and painting their boxes
All over with green, sure, what more can I do?
Yet they tell me they want just an Irish Republic
Without any trimmings of Red, White and Blue!
"The Irish Free State," From Patrick Galvin, _Irish Songs of Resistance_
[Established as the Irish Free State in 1922, Ireland officially became
the sovereign state of Eire in 1937. The Republic of Ireland was
proclaimed on Easter Monday, April 18, 1949.]
Stephen L Suffet
Greetings---
I know that this is oprning up a hornet's next, but the Irish
Republic, or Poblacht na hEireann, was proclaimed from the steps of the
Dublin General Post Office on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. Within a day,
approximately 250 printed broadside copies of the Proclamation went up on
walls throughout the city. (Only three original copies survive today.)
Some folks in London (and their subordinates in Dublin Castle)
took exception to the Irish Republic, and that led to a bit of nastiness
-- including the execution by firing squad of all seven signers of the
Proclamation of the Irish Republic, as well as eight other leaders of the
1916 Rising.
The Republic was again proclaimed -- actually re-established -- by
the Dail Eireann, or the Irish Assembly, when it met for the first time in
1919.
What happened in 1949 was a proclamation re-re-establsihing the
Republic. No gunboats or Sherwood Foresters or Auxies or Black & Tans that
time. Just the RUC and some B Specials looking down from the North!
Kindest regards once again,
Steve Suffet
"...I'm a cousin of Briscoe,
and you are one, too!" :-)
Abby Sale
*** Happy Birthday ***
In Princeton, NJ:
Paul Robeson
b4-19-1898
{He was also born on 4/9 & 11/9 of the same year}
(d1976)
Read "Here I Stand"
[thanx Doug Henkle]
Abby Sale
4/20/1808: birth of Louis-Napoleon (Napoleon III), emperor of France
(1852-71)
Louis Napoleon after all is emperor of France
And all Europe begins to tremble accordin.
But the Yankees don't care for if with us he wants to fight
He'll wish he'd staid on de oder side ob Jordan.
So take off, &c.
"Jordan Is A Hard Road To Travel," Daniel Decatur Emmett;
filename[ JRDNHARD
["Bonny Bunch of Roses" is not about this Napoleon, see 3/20 & 9/14]
Steve Carnes
In article <335bd077...@snews2.zippo.com>, abby...@orlinter.com (Abby Sale) writes:
>
> 4/17: At U of Colorado, it's Alfred E Packer Day
> "Oh, Alfred Packer,
> You should be skinned alive!
> There was only seven Democrats -
> And you bastard, you et five."
Actually, the controversy still rages over the correct spelling of his
first name. At the Univ. of Colo., we spell it "Alferd". Just this
year, the student gummint has suspended the celebration of Alferd
Packer Day, since last year's student turnout for the raw meat eating
contest, et al, was so abysmal.
According to legend, the presiding judge was heard to say: "They was
seven dimmycrats in Hinsdale County, and you, ya man-eatin'
sonunabitch, you et five of 'em." In reality, the judge gave a quite
learned and well-spoken judgment.
Tim.Shirley
Richard Robinson wrote:
>
> In article <3361ccf9...@snews2.zippo.com>,
> Abby Sale <abby...@orlinter.com> wrote:
> >
> > And all Europe begins to tremble accordin.
>
> Umm .... should there be an 'o' in that last word ??
>
and no 'm' in the second last word? When played high, of course.
cheers
tim
Richard Robinson
In article <3361ccf9...@snews2.zippo.com>,
Abby Sale <abby...@orlinter.com> wrote:
>
> And all Europe begins to tremble accordin.
Umm .... should there be an 'o' in that last word ??
<darfc>
--
Richard Robinson, Leeds, UK.
"The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem
Nothing in the above should be read as suggesting that
I may wish to receive bulk mailshots. I do *NOT*.
Abby Sale
*** Happy Birthday ***
Queen Isabella I of Castille born 4/22/1451
(d11/24/1504)(see 1/2)
"Just wait a bit," said Isabella.
"And don't forget essentials,
For I've a mind to have a grind
And check on your credentials."
She gave her guest no time for rest,
The pace was fairly killing,
With legs apart he gave the tart
A cream and cherry filling.
"Christopher Columbo," _Why Was He Born So Beautiful and
other Rugby Songs_
Abby Sale
*** Happy Birthday ***
In St. Petersburg, novelist Vladimir Nabokov was born 4/23/1899.
(d7/2/77)
And in the streets they sang:
Lolita, hey, Lolita
What you charging your Daddy for?
Lolita, hey, Lolita
Why you go away?
That's as well as I remember the sweet & sentimental calypso ballad.
Don't know more verses or if it actually passed into tradition. Someone
else, perhaps?
Abby Sale
On 21 Apr 1997 21:22:58 GMT, car...@sweng.stortek.com (Steve Carnes)
wrote:
>Actually, the controversy still rages over the correct spelling of his
>first name. At the Univ. of Colo., we spell it "Alferd".
Quite so. "Alfred" for this song but "Alferd" for all U Col. issues,
including Alan Thiesen's fine song. (see 4/17/98) Thank you & Eric Berge
for noticing.
Just this
>year, the student gummint has suspended the celebration of Alferd
>Packer Day,
I am deeply saddend to learn this. Another basic bit of tradition lost.
As unfurtunate as having Community Service Night on the Saturday
afternoon nearest October 31 or Nat'l Loyalty Day on May 1.
Have all remnants of the celebration been removed? How about the Alferd
G. Packer Memorial Cafeteria? Does it still?
Abby Sale
Thomas Addis Emmet b4/24/1764 (d11/14/1827), a leader of the Society of
United Irishmen, and elder brother of revolutionary Robert Emmet.
chorus: Bold Robert Emmet, the darling of Ireland,
Bold Robert Emmet will die with a smile,
Farewell companions both loyal and daring,
I'll lay down my life for the Emerald Isle.
"Bold Robert Emmet," _Irish Songs of Resistance_, Patric Galvin
(see 5/22,7/23)
Edward Zuckerman
It's Alferd here in Washington, D.C. The Alferd Packer Memorial Grill
plaque that was hung by the late Stan Weston on the wall outside the
U.S. Department of Agriculture cafeteria now reposes at the bar of the
National Press Club. We miss Stan and hope he's trading menus with
Alferd at that big barbecue in the sky.
We like to recall the words of the judge who sentenced Alferd: "There
was six demycrats in this county and you voracious, man-eating
son-of-a-bitch et five of them...I sentence you to hang until you're
dead, dead, dead."
There is a folk song, The Ballad of Alferd Packer, but neither the
words nor the music is at hand.
Regards to all my old Colorado friends from my days when I was the
Washington correspondent for the Boulder Daily Camera!
In <3366b8cd...@snews2.zippo.com> abby...@orlinter.com (Abby
Steve Carnes
abby...@orlinter.com (Abby Sale) writes:
> I am deeply saddend to learn this. Another basic bit of tradition lost.
> As unfurtunate as having Community Service Night on the Saturday
> afternoon nearest October 31 or Nat'l Loyalty Day on May 1.
Watching frat boys stuff themselves stoopid with raw meat isn't exactly
a tradition that moves me too much. The Packer look-alike contest was
kinda cool, though. To tie this into folk, however, a local bluegrass
band (Rufus Crisp) composed and played a tribute song for the first
Packer Day celebration, which made the national news.
> Have all remnants of the celebration been removed? How about the Alferd
> G. Packer Memorial Cafeteria? Does it still?
It's still here. It's motto: "Serving our fellow man since 19<something>"
Abby Sale
Ollie Cromwell b4/25/1599 (d9/3/1658)
A curse upon you Oliver Cromwell
You who raped out motherland
I hope you're rotting down in hell
For the horrors that you sent
"Young Ned Of The Hill," DT filename[ NEDHILL3
Note that this is the same Edmund (Ned) of the Hill as in the fine love
song. _Sam Henry_ has a love song called "Ned Of The Hill" that seems to
have no relationship to any of this though. Odd, that.
Abby Sale
*** Happy Birthday ***
Ma Rainey (Gertrude Pridgett) b4/26/1886 in Columbus GA
(died of a heart attack 12/22/39)
Abby Sale
*** Happy Birthday ***
18th president US Grant was born 4/27/1822.
Grant's tomb was dedicated 4/27/1897.
But do you know who (or what) is _really_ burried there?
Where volleyed thunder loudest pealed
Along the front of war;
The Gen'ral calmly viewed the field
A-smoking his cigar.
"A-Smoking His Cigar," _The American History Songbook,_
Silverman & DT filename[ HISCIGAR
Abby Sale
On 25 Apr 1997 17:19:02 GMT, car...@sweng.stortek.com (Steve Carnes)
wrote:
>> Have all remnants of the celebration been removed? How about the Alferd
>> G. Packer Memorial Cafeteria? Does it still?
>
>It's still here. It's motto: "Serving our fellow man since 19<something>"
>
I'm much relieved to learn this.
Some clean-up stuff. I see I originally posted "Happy Alfred E Packer
Day." I've happyly been corrected on the Alferd part but I just realized
I changed the middle initial. Should be "G" as I later posted. I think
it's a tribute to my own mentality that I Freud-slipped this into "Alfred
E," a sure reference to Mr. Newman. This simultaneous pleases & makes my
wonder just how much of my mental formation was influenced by _Mad_.
Probably a lot. THEY warned us, of course. I used to corner the local
market on the thing when there was only one store in the area that sold
multiple copies. Black-marketed them at scalper prices.
Even less important. Seems the judge never said anything like that at
all. Deepest & sincere honor & respect to Eric's aunt. She's probably
right about everything else she ever said.
Steve was mostly right about the judge's quote too. And with a name like
"carnes" we should expect he naturally pays some attention to stories
about meat-eating.
>According to legend, the presiding judge was heard to say: "They was
>seven dimmycrats in Hinsdale County, and you, ya man-eatin'
>sonunabitch, you et five of 'em." In reality, the judge gave a quite
>learned and well-spoken judgment.
Per Katie Lee, all the "7 Democrat" lines were the interpretation of the
trial by the Saguache saloon-keeper, Larry Dolan. He must have been a
fine story-teller.
She quotes Judge Gerry and it seems he was more straight & floridly
empassioned ...not especially learned or folksy in these quotes.
"Your every surropunding was calculated [by God] to impress your
heart and nature with the omnipotence of Deity and the
helplessness of your own feeble life. In this goodly favored
spot you conceived your murderous designs."
Jonathan Dresner
In article <336906ac...@snews2.zippo.com>,
Abby Sale <abby...@orlinter.com> wrote:
>Grant's tomb was dedicated 4/27/1897.
>But do you know who (or what) is _really_ burried there?
U.S. Grant. And his wife.
Mike Dana
Abby Sale wrote:
>
> *** Happy Birthday ***
>
> 18th president US Grant was born 4/27/1822.
>
> But do you know who (or what) is _really_ burried there?
IIRC, President and Mrs. Grant's remains are *entombed* there (above
ground). So technically, no one is 'buried' in Grant's Tomb. ;-)
--
Mike Dana
Everett, Washington, U.S.A.
Views expressed by me are mine, not my employer's.
"One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness." --
C.S.Lewis
Ada M. Prill
It's my understanding that, the immortal Groucho to the contrary
notwithstanding, NOBODY is buried in Grant's Tomb. Grant and his wife
are entombed in a crypt above the ground, not buried.
Ada
On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Abby Sale wrote:
>
> *** Happy Birthday ***
>
> 18th president US Grant was born 4/27/1822.
>
> Grant's tomb was dedicated 4/27/1897.
> But do you know who (or what) is _really_ burried there?
>
Abby Sale
*** Happy Birthday ***
Edinburgh: Jean Redpath
b4-28-1937
[thanx Doug Henkle]
Robert Lumley-Sapanski
US Grant AND his horse!
Abby Sale
Molloko was born 4/29/88 in San Diego...
the 1st captive California Condor birth.
The condor flew home in the evening,
And there ate friend Tommy so snug.
(The reason, it seems, was) she thought him
A remarkable specie of bug.
"Tom Twist," _Vermont Folk-Songs & Ballads_, Helen
Hartness Flanders; c1931
Abby Sale
Happy Walpurgisnacht!
Sabbat (or Roodmas)
(The night before the first of May)
Come Witches, to the Dance, to the merry dance
Our Lady loves our Lord, O!
With pipe and drum in moon and sun
For fair Dian and merry Pan
The old ways are made young, O
The old ways are made young!
"Come Witches To The Dance," Laurie Stidolph; DT
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