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tpryan
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response 232 of 244:
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Jun 24 14:16 UTC 2001 |
based on old Russian folk tune?
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gelinas
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response 233 of 244:
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Jun 24 18:35 UTC 2001 |
Is that the one Kool 107 used to play? (I've switched to WEMU, so I
don't know that 107 isn't still playing it.)
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bruin
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response 234 of 244:
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Jun 24 20:50 UTC 2001 |
There was a song by Mary Hopkin in 1968 called "Those Were The Days"
(not the AITF theme). It was one of the first recordings on the
Beatles' Apple label
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gelinas
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response 235 of 244:
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Jun 24 20:55 UTC 2001 |
I guess the answer to #231 is, "No." ;)
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dbratman
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response 236 of 244:
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Jun 26 04:59 UTC 2001 |
I guess the answer to 232 is probably "no", and the answer to 231 seems
to be "dashed close to it."
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gelinas
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response 237 of 244:
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Jun 26 05:54 UTC 2001 |
My guess is that the answer to #232 is "yes." The song is definitely
European; I'd always thought Greek, but Russian works.
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sspan
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response 238 of 244:
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Jul 1 16:45 UTC 2001 |
Heard today that Chet Atkins passed away.
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krj
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response 239 of 244:
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Jul 21 04:18 UTC 2001 |
I need to get back to writing about Chet Atkins.
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Folksinger Mimi Farina died on July 18. She was 56; we'd known she
had cancer and was sliding downhill fast when her sister Joan Baez
cancelled her Ann Arbor Folk Festival appearance, along with the
rest of her concert schedule, to care for Mimi.
Mimi Farina was best known for the two 1960s duet albums she recorded
with her husband Richard Farina; their best-known song was "Pack Up
Your Sorrows." After Richard was killed in a motorcycle accident
in 1966 (Mimi was 21), she tried to keep a solo career going
but it was not much of a success. In the 1970s she started a
charity group, "Bread and Roses," which brings music performances
to the imprisoned, the sick, the elderly and the poor.
A recent book, "Positively Fourth Street," reportedly chronicles the
tangled personal and artistic relationships among Richard & Mimi
Farina, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. I haven't read it; the reviews make
it sound like quite the soap opera.
The Farinas' recordings have rarely if ever gone out of print: there
was a new CD compilation issued last year. But I've found that few
people younger than me have ever heard of them. Time to dust off the
old Vanguard LPs.
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orinoco
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response 240 of 244:
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Jul 21 16:00 UTC 2001 |
I listen to my parents' copy of "Celebration for a Grey Day" now and again.
(Do you know if any of Mimi's solo albums are still in print? I think I'd
like "Celebration" a lot better if it weren't for Richard's voice...)
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krj
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response 241 of 244:
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Jul 23 16:37 UTC 2001 |
I haven't found any in-print listings for any solo Mimi Farina albums.
The only ones I found listed anywhere were "Take Heart," with
Tom Jans, from 1971; and "Solo", from 1985, which I dimly
remember seeing as a CD edition.
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dbratman
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response 242 of 244:
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Jul 24 05:27 UTC 2001 |
Despite all the reviews of "Positively Fourth Street", the interest
hasn't translated into obits of Mimi Farina in anything that I read,
before now.
Unfortunately, I don't know her work, solo or group. I've heard a few
Richard-and-Mimi songs, and though Richard's voice is nasal, it's
infinitely less annoying than that of Bob Dylan, whom I can't stand.
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orinoco
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response 243 of 244:
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Jul 24 20:39 UTC 2001 |
"Solo" turned up for sale on a few sites. There is a CD edition. I lost the
URL, of course, but it's out there.
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krj
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response 244 of 244:
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Aug 1 19:57 UTC 2001 |
From rec.music.country.old-time: I have not tested the links:
Now available for consumption by those who revered him, the program
"Stashed Behind Your Couch", a 6-part retrospective of John Hartford.
Has stuff from his first RCA material up to the most recent, and interviews
with such as Bela Fleck, Sam Bush, Pete Wernick, Bob Carlin, Tom Smothers,
Dr. Demento, some lesser-known friends and a few cherished bits of John
himself. Enjoy.
Playlist file: http://www.kfjc.org/hartford/slowfull.m3u
MP3 files: http://www.kfjc.org/hartford/SBYC1LOW.MP3 (and 2 thru 6).
This program aired on Sat. July 21 2001 on KFJC 89.7 in the SF Bay Area.
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