[78-L] Lusitania and other ships on record

[simmonssomer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian Vein" <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Lusitania and other ships on record


> simmonssomer wrote:
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:39 AM
>> Subject: [78-L] Lusitania and other ships on record
>>
>>
>>> Bob Rice noted:
>>>>  ESPECIALLY the 1908 version, considering she sank in 1912!! Would like
>>>> to
>>>> hear THAT one? A clip,link, anyone/where?The 1908 Titanic version 
>>>> SHOULD
>>>> be
>>>> a collector's item???
>>> Of course the 1911 version would be just as interesting and 
>>> Nostradamian,
>>> if there were such a thing!
>>>
>>>
>>>>     The Lusitania, vocal NEVER mentioned WHY the Lucy sank? Submarine?
>>>> Black hole???"American Ships that sail from our slips, are safer for 
>>>> you
>>>> and
>>>> me" A US~ian sales pitch for our mini Merchant Marine? The Lucy was set
>>>> up!
>>>> The Brits wanted US in the war, figguring that, correctly; " a Thousand
>>>> or
>>>> more, who sailed from our shore, have gone to eternity" would get US 
>>>> into
>>>> the war? They were right!
>>> Sad but true...very few historians these days try to argue otherwise. 
>>> I'm
>>> surprised that there were no more Lusitania songs recorded after the US
>>> entered the war in 1917.  I would be very interested if anyone has seen
>>> any
>>> such thing.  I have a few pieces of sheet music about the "Lucy" but 
>>> they
>>> were all issued close to the May 1915 sinking.
>>>
>>> While we're on the subject,  can anyone add to my list of other ship
>>> disaster songs?  I have records about the Titanic,  Lusitania,  Vestris
>>> and
>>> Morro Castle...any more from pre-1940?
>>>
>>> Taylor
>>>
>>> Taylor
>>>
>> Let's hear it for "The Zimmerman Rag"
>>
>> Al S.
>>
>> _______________________________________________
> Or the Zimmermann Telegram?
>
>      Julian Vein

Gotta get up early in the morning to slip one by you Julian.

Al S.