[78-L] Oysters Anyone?

[Harold Aherne]

"This was a real nice clambake" is from Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Carousel", and it 
does relate to a seafood feast, though it concentrates more on the fun had by 
its participants ("The victuals we et were good, you bet / The company was the 
same"). The only 78s I can find of it at the moment are both on Decca, one by 
Hildegarde and the Song Spinners, the other from the Broadway cast album. 
 
I have to confess that I'm not at all a Rodgers & Hammerstein fan. Their work 
separately is quite brilliant, but their work together seems really pretentious and takes 
itself way too seriously. Perhaps they were innovative, but I really and genuinely prefer 
the approach to plots and songs that existed before they screwed everything up. ;-).
But obviously they have legions of fans, so dismissing them in the middle of a 
discussion about their clambake song is just shellfish.
 
-Harold
 


--- On Sat, 2/28/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:

From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Oysters Anyone?
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 8:23 PM

Hi Mike,

The Carroll poem is The Walrus and the Carpenter...if put to music,  it 
would make a good oyster song.

Cockles and Mussels is a good one.

I don't know the lyrics to the "Clambake" song but I'm
betting it's not 
about a seafood feast and the beach!

Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Oysters Anyone?


> This Was A Real Nice Clambake.
> Cockles and Mussells, Alive Alive O.
>
> And isn't there a Lewis Carrol poem about oysters in their bed?
>
> But would somebody tell us -- what kind of noise DOES annoy oysters???
>
> Mike (this stuff isn't kosher, is it) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com