From: owner-shindell-list-digest@smoe.org (shindell-list-digest) To: shindell-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: shindell-list-digest V12 #511 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 Sunday, December 8 2013 Volume 12 : Number 511 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [RS] RE: Disaster. [Laurence Krulik ] RE: [RS] Mining for disaster songs. [Bernadette Marian ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 09:39:34 -0500 From: Laurence Krulik Subject: Re: [RS] RE: Disaster. Sorry Carol. Same number of letters in Janet and Carol so you can see how I could easily get mixed up. On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Carol Love wrote: > Laurence, > > That would be CAROL who mentioned it first and didn't win anything. > > Thanks for rubbing it in. :-) > > ...Carol > > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Laurence Krulik wrote: > > > That's why Janet didn't win anything. B > > > > b > > Sent from Mailbox for iPhone > > > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:14 PM, null wrote: > > > > > Actually, about five folks mentioned it. But it's funny, I never > > considered > > it a disaster song in any respect but name only. > > > richard rosenbloom wrote: > > >>Ron- > > >>Can't believe no one's mentioned the BeeGees first single "New York > > Mining > > >>Disaster 1941. Everybody thought it was the new Beatles single; the > sound > > >>was so Eleanor Rigby-ish. > > >>Richard in NY ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 12:32:44 -0500 From: Bernadette Marian Subject: RE: [RS] Mining for disaster songs. RG, I once heard Mark Erelli cover a song about a disaster at the Hoosac Tunnel in Western Massachusetts. I can't remember the name of it. Has anyone else heard Mark sing this? I think it might have been in North Adams at MCLA or presented through Railway Cafe, also in N. Adams. I don't think it was the Patrick Gray tune called "In the Tunnel" (although that one would fit your criteria too, check it out below). link to Patrick Gray's song http://www.amazon.co.uk/In-Tunnel-Theme-song-Hoosac/dp/B004UKZYTS Here is a description from Wikipedia about the worst disaster during it's 27 year construction: The horrendous Central Shaft accident was one of the most fatal; it occurred while digging the tunnel's 1,028-foot (313 m) vertical exhaust shaft, called 'Central Shaft.' On October 17, 1867, a lighted candle in the hoist building ignited naphtha fumes which had leaked from a 'Gasometer' lamp, triggering an explosion. The hoist caught fire and collapsed into the shaft. Four men near the top of the shaft escaped, but thirteen men working 538 feet (164 m) below were trapped, killed by falling flaming naphtha and pieces of iron. The pumps were also destroyed, and the shaft began to fill with water. A worker named Mallory was lowered into the shaft by rope the next day; he was overcome by fumes and reported no survivors. Workers assumed that nobody at the bottom survived, so no further rescue attempts were made. However, when the first workers got to the bottom several months later, they found that workers had, indeed, survived and had built a makeshift raft, but had died, suffocated by the fire. Bernadette > > So, I'm looking to put together a knee-slapping fun party mix of disaster-type > songs with a body count. "Cold Missouri Waters." "The Wreck of the Edmund > Fitzgerald." Slaid Cleaves' "Breakfast in Hell." Stan Rogers' "White Squall." > Not looking for 9/11 songs, but songs similar to the four I listed. > > > Extra credit for ACTUAL mining disasters. > > > Anyone care to help me flesh out the list? > > > RG ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2013 18:41:10 -0500 From: Janet Subject: Re: [RS] RE: Disaster. I never got the chance to weigh in but have been reading with great interest. Ron have you decided on what songs you'd use? > On Dec 7, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Laurence Krulik wrote: > > Sorry Carol. Same number of letters in Janet and Carol so you can see how > I could easily get mixed up. > > >> On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Carol Love wrote: >> >> Laurence, >> >> That would be CAROL who mentioned it first and didn't win anything. >> >> Thanks for rubbing it in. :-) >> >> ...Carol >> >> >>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Laurence Krulik wrote: >>> >>> That's why Janet didn't win anything. B >>> >>> b >>> Sent from Mailbox for iPhone >>> >>>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 8:14 PM, null wrote: >>>> >>>> Actually, about five folks mentioned it. But it's funny, I never >>> considered >>> it a disaster song in any respect but name only. >>>> richard rosenbloom wrote: >>>>> Ron- >>>>> Can't believe no one's mentioned the BeeGees first single "New York >>> Mining >>>>> Disaster 1941. Everybody thought it was the new Beatles single; the >> sound >>>>> was so Eleanor Rigby-ish. >>>>> Richard in NY ------------------------------ End of shindell-list-digest V12 #511 ************************************