Malvina Reynold's Turn Around

[LanceU1943]

While walking my dog this morning, I remembered Dick and Dee Dee
singing

"Where have you gone,
My little one, little one,
Where have you gone,
My babies, my own

Turn around and you're two
Turn around and you're four
Yurn around, you're a young man,
Walking out of the door."

I wonder who else might have sung the song. In my mind, I could hear
Judy Collins singing it. My memory hears Harry Belafonte singing it in
his own distinctive way. I can hear the Kingston Trio harmonizing it.
It is the kind of song that Ian and Sylvia did so well in their
Vanguard days. I would love to hear from anyone else who remembers the
early years of folk music who rememberthis beautiful song.

Lance

[Jim Capaldi]

It was used for a Kodak commercial!

"LanceU1943" <lance...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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[huh98]

Harry Belafonte who also is mentioned as a co-author along with Malvina
Reynolds and Allen Greene
Here's a link:
http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiTURNROND;ttTURNROND.html

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[Michael Black]

I figured you'd got the author wrong, because this is the first time
I've heard it credited to Malvina Reynolds. But I checked and you're
right.

That leaves the problem that I immediately recognize the lyrics, but
the version I must have heard couldn't have been by any of the people
you mention.

I can't figure out who though. It was something that got air play,
and I thought someone pretty big, in some fashion. But I can't figure
out who performed the version that's running in my head at the moment.

Whoever it was, it was so distant from Malvina Reynolds that I had
to assume she hadn't written it.

Michael

[Brad Sondahl]

I'm thinking Patrice Munsel covered it for a TV Campfire Girls promo ad
in the late 60s.
Anyway, what I want to say, is that it always amazes me how many people
it takes to write a simple ditty sometimes. I'm guessing the 3 people
were sort of jamming and it grew...
Brad Sondahl

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[Gerry Myerson]

In article <fq5bbb$lbt$1...@theodyn.ncf.ca>,
et...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Michael Black) wrote:

There's another song, a 60s topical song, with a chorus that goes
Turn around, turn around, don't you let nobody turn you 'round
That one is more in the Tom Paxton, Judy Collins mold.

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Gerry Myerson (ge...@maths.mq.edi.ai) (i -> u for email)

[Conrad Shiba]

"Michael Black" <et...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote in message
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> LanceU1943 (lance...@gmail.com) writes:
>> While walking my dog this morning, I remembered Dick and Dee Dee
>> singing
>>
>> "Where have you gone,
>> My little one, little one,
>> Where have you gone,
>> My babies, my own
>>
>> Turn around and you're two
>> Turn around and you're four
>> Yurn around, you're a young man,
>> Walking out of the door."
>>
>> I wonder who else might have sung the song. In my mind, I could hear
>> Judy Collins singing it. My memory hears Harry Belafonte singing it in
>> his own distinctive way. I can hear the Kingston Trio harmonizing it.
>> It is the kind of song that Ian and Sylvia did so well in their
>> Vanguard days. I would love to hear from anyone else who remembers the
>> early years of folk music who rememberthis beautiful song.

I remember it being used in a commercial for a film company, either Kodak or
Polaroid. It was one of the better commercials that's been on TV.

Nanci Griffith recorded a version on her "Other Voices, Other Rooms" album.

Conrad

[Michael Black]

Gerry Myerson (ge...@maths.mq.edi.ai.i2u4email) writes:

>> Whoever it was, it was so distant from Malvina Reynolds that I had
>> to assume she hadn't written it.
>
> There's another song, a 60s topical song, with a chorus that goes
> Turn around, turn around, don't you let nobody turn you 'round
> That one is more in the Tom Paxton, Judy Collins mold.
>

I know that song, that's not what I'm thinking of.
I definitely have some record with Joan Baez singing that one.

The song I'm thinking of definitely matches those lyrics that were posted,
but the performer I'm thinking of is like Chad & Jeremy, which I don't
think it was, but that sort of pop, and maybe British. It will be obvious
the minute someone points out which version, but until then it will nag at me.

[John Albert]

"Turn around and you're two
Turn around and you're four
Yurn around, you're a young man,
Walking out of the door."

This page:
http://www.actionext.com/names_k/kingston_trio_lyrics/turn_around.html

.... shows the composers as being Malvina Reynolds, Allen
Greene, and Harry Belafonte.

So does this one:
http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/nanci_griffith/turn_around.html

- John

[Paul Kirby]

LanceU1943 wrote:
I always love this one. The first version I can recall hearing was
Harry Belafonte's 1958 one (on "Love is a Gentle Thing" LP). Truly a
beautiful version. It makes for a great, and very appropriate, lullaby
for the little ones.

Paul