From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V3 #109 Reply-To: shindell-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk shindell-list-digest Friday, March 23 2001 Volume 03 : Number 109 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [RS] VT song [Pfleary@aol.com] RE: [RS] Re: State Songs ["Dupas, Edward (E.M.)" ] [RS] State List Leftovers ["Dupas, Edward (E.M.)" ] [RS] state songs, indiana [Lee Wessman ] Re: [RS] State List Leftovers [jalvo@mbay.net (John Alvord)] [RS] state: New Mexico [Elwestrand ] RE: [RS] State List Leftovers ["Dupas, Edward (E.M.)" ] [RS] The last six states ["Gene Frey" ] [RS] Denice Franke [Tricia9999@aol.com] Re: [RS] State List Leftovers ["Susan Koval" ] Re: [RS] state songs [Frére Jacques ] RE: [RS] The last six states ["Dupas, Edward (E.M.)" ] RE: [RS] The last six states [Jeff Gilson ] Re: [RS] State List Leftovers [patrick t power ] Re: [RS] The last six states [Rongrittz@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:12:09 EST From: Pfleary@aol.com Subject: [RS] VT song I have yet to see a song mentioned about VT. How about Diane Ziegler's Rock of Ages. Its about the granite quarries of Barre, Vermont, which supply much of the Northeast with granite for their graveyards. I'll see if I can think of more, but unfortunately, Vermont girls don't have big hair! Peter ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:36:16 -0500 From: "Dupas, Edward (E.M.)" Subject: RE: [RS] Re: State Songs <> ...it being taken under advisement. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:22:27 -0500 From: "Dupas, Edward (E.M.)" Subject: [RS] State List Leftovers Wow! I have a huge list of songs to sort through for the "50 States CD set" and any/all suggestions are still welcome. However, I would like to point out that there remains a short-list of states that are yet to be represented by any song (my apologies if I missed suggestions for any of these). On my list of states/songs these 6 stand alone. Delaware New Mexico Pennsylvania Rhode Island Washington Wisconsin I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that these states account for 57 electoral votes all totaled. Those are real votes from real people who represent masses of real people living real lives...someone must be writing about it all. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 09:23:16 -0800 From: Lee Wessman Subject: [RS] state songs, indiana John Hiatt's "Real Fine Love" opens with these great lines: "Well now I never went to college/ I did not have the luck/ I stole out of Indiana/ On the back of a pickup truck." ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:50:12 GMT From: jalvo@mbay.net (John Alvord) Subject: Re: [RS] State List Leftovers The song isn't explicit about the location, but Dar Williams said that Mortal City was about an actual incident in Philadelphia. On Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:22:27 -0500, "Dupas, Edward (E.M.)" wrote: >Wow! I have a huge list of songs to sort through for the "50 States CD set" >and any/all suggestions are still welcome. However, I would like to point >out that there remains a short-list of states that are yet to be >represented by any song (my apologies if I missed suggestions for any of >these). On my list of states/songs these 6 stand alone. > >Delaware >New Mexico >Pennsylvania >Rhode Island >Washington >Wisconsin > >I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that these states account for 57 >electoral votes all totaled. Those are real votes from real people who >represent masses of real people living real lives...someone must be writing >about it all. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:33:06 -0500 From: Elwestrand Subject: [RS] state: New Mexico Well its a bit of a stretch but The Nields, "Georgia O" starts out "driving in to Sante Fe" and is about a hero of New Mexico. It could work in desperation anyways, and of course its a very cool tune. E ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:31:48 -0500 From: "Dupas, Edward (E.M.)" Subject: RE: [RS] State List Leftovers <> I know, I was thinking of that because I love that song so much. I just keep putting myself in the shoes of someone else listening to the "Pennsylvania song" and hearing mortal city..."what the hell does this have to do with Pennsylvania?" Damn our uninformed society! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:13:14 -0500 From: "Gene Frey" Subject: [RS] The last six states Hey you guys, Regarding the last six states on Ed's list, maybe it's time to think outside the folk box: 'Seattle,' the theme from the TV epic 'Here Come The Brides,' was sung by one of the show's stars, Bobby Sherman. Perry Como also had a hit with this one. Keeping the TV theme thread, 'Making Our Dreams Come True' was the theme from Laverne and Shirley, set in Milwaukee. 'Willin' includes a reference to Tucumcari, NM, among other places. Pennsylvania? Elton John's 'Philadelphia Freedom.' Not exactly Woody Guthrie, but freedom songs have always been rooted in the folk tradition. Richard Shindell Content Alert! Delaware gets mentioned, very peripherally, in 'Transit,' but it's not really even a Delaware state reference. There is a blues tune called the 'Delaware Slide,' which was covered by the incredibly derivative George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers. Rhode Island? Sheesh. How about 'On The Rhode Again?' Gene F. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:33:37 EST From: Tricia9999@aol.com Subject: [RS] Denice Franke I was first introduced to her when she sang back-up for Nanci Griffith. The recent album is her second and produced by Eric Taylor who is very soulful. I only have her first cd, not the new one, but expect to get it. Alto with some very nice songwriting. She has apparently honed her skills with the audience (shyness) so should be a good opener. Tricia ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:39:40 -0500 From: "Susan Koval" Subject: Re: [RS] State List Leftovers For New Mexico: "Land of Enchantment" by Michael Martin Murphy Sue K ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:38:32 -0800 From: Frére Jacques Subject: Re: [RS] state songs Whenever I think of Oklahoma, Shades of Gray is not the first song that comes to mind. I always herar Hoyt Axton's 'Never been to Spain,' even though other places are mentioned in it. - -- john andrew clary "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." ~Hunter S. Thompson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:44:59 -0500 From: "Dupas, Edward (E.M.)" Subject: RE: [RS] The last six states <> Ha! Nice call. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:23:29 -0500 From: Jeff Gilson Subject: RE: [RS] The last six states At 03:44 PM 3/23/2001 -0500, you wrote: ><> > >Ha! Nice call. Well, there are several songs that mention Providence, but I think they're talking about the religious concept and now the city. On the other hand, someone has to have done a song about the Newport FF at some point. jeff. - -- Defied I'm tongue tied when I try to explain how I feel so foreign all blushed with emotion and rough terminology laced up with language o lest you forget me --Susan McKeown - -- (an index of free radical activity) http://www.onefreeradical.com/Journal/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:46:00 -0500 From: patrick t power Subject: Re: [RS] State List Leftovers <> Woody Guthrie's "Grand Coulee Dam" . . . Well the world has seven wonders, the travelers always tell: Some gardens and some towers, I guess you know them well. But the greatest wonder is in Uncle Sam's fair land. It's that King Columbia River and the big Grand Coulee Dam. She heads up the Canadian Rockies where the rippling waters glide, Comes a-rumbling down the canyon to meet that salty tide Of the wide Pacific Ocean where the sun sets in the west, And the big Grand Coulee country in the land I love the best. In the misty crystal glitter of that wild and windward spray, Men have fought the pounding waters and met a watery grave. She tore their boats to splinters but she gave men dreams to dream Of the day the Coulee Dam would cross that wild and wasted stream. Uncle Sam took up the challenge in the year of '33 For the farmer and the factory and all of you and me. He said, "Roll along Columbia. You can ramble to the sea, But river while you're ramblin' you can do some work for me." Now in Washington and Oregon you hear the factories hum, Making chrome and making manganese and light aluminum. And there roars a mighty furnace now to fight for Uncle Sam, Spawned upon the King Columbia by the big Grand Coulee Dam. <> Neil Young's "Albuquerque" Pat ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 16:55:33 EST From: Rongrittz@aol.com Subject: Re: [RS] The last six states >> Pennsylvania? Elton John's 'Philadelphia Freedom.' Not exactly Woody Guthrie, but freedom songs have always been rooted in the folk tradition. << Actually, the title cut of Mark Knopfler's new CD, "Sailing to Philadelphia," is a gorgeous duet with James Taylor about the guys who "invented" the Mason-Dixon Line. Seems folkie to me. RG ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V3 #109 ***********************************