[78-L] Jack Lawrence (1912-2009)

[David Lennick]

Okay gang..I just spoke to my mother, who's 93 and knows every song ever 
written and whose mother knew every other song ever written and she says "Yes 
My Darling Daughter" is NOT "Minka". You want to argue with her, go ahead. (She 
then phoned back and sang part of something that began "Don't forget me" and 
that WAS based on Minka.)

dl

David Lennick wrote:
> Kristjan Saag wrote:
>> David Lennick
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>> And here's where he says he wrote both music and lyrics:
>> http://www.jacklawrencesongwriter.com/songs/yes_my_darling_daughter.html
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>> That's proof, for sure.
>> Didn't Elvis Presley write "Aura Lee"? Says so on the record label.
>> Kristjan
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> 
> Hey, never let the facts get in the way of a good argument. I always thought 
> YMDD was adaptated from a Yiddish song but I'm not coming up with anything, so 
> I'll stick with my "starting point" theory. Then I'll put it in a liner note 
> and it'll be in WackyPackia within a year.
> 
> As for the Elvis argument, I was just thinking that if the song had been 
> introduced on the Al Jolson program, guess whose name would have been on the 
> sheet music? Except that Jolie wasn't on the air between 1939 and 1942 and 
> Lawrence probably would have told him to get lost.
> 
> dl
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