[78-L] Charles Correll WAS RE: Stephen Foster

[Mark Hendrix 78L]

Hello, David:

You're not kidding, but surely Charles Correll was.  Or was it the
well-known and widespread practice of "Southerners" (of all ethnic
backgrounds) to wear blackface that led Correll and Gosden to do the same in
"Check and Double Check"?  I guess Mr. Correll  was kidding himself.

--Mark Hendrix

 > -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com]On Behalf Of David Lennick
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 9:18 PM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Stephen Foster
>
>
> That was always my impression. By the way, somewhere in the
> thousands of hours
> of quarter-track slow-speed half-mil tape recorded by the Lennick
> family in the
> 60s is the audio from a Canadian TV panel show in which Charles
> Correll said
> that the voices on Amos 'n' Andy were "not necessarily Negroes,
> but merely
> Southerners". I kid you not. I'd love to find that tape, but the
> wording comes
> from a script I wrote in 1966 and I quoted him verbatim at the time.
>
> So nyaa.
>
> (Duck, Lenny!)
>
> Ron L'Herault wrote:
> > In which case, the song becomes one about a guy having a good
> time at the
> > races.
> >
> > Ron L
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> > [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David Lennick
> > Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 3:29 PM
> > To: 78-L Mail List
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Stephen Foster
> >
> > I always thought it meant coin, loot, gelt, lettuce (no that's paper).
> >
> > dl
> >
> > Ron L'Herault wrote:
> >> Gee, it's written in dialect, a common practice.  The guy
> didn't have much
> >> and bet the horses.  I'm not sure if going home with a pocket
> full of tin
> >> meant that he won a little or a lot.  I'd have to see what tin meant at
> > the
> >> time.
> >>
> >> Ron L
> >>
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