[78-L] Bad news on record

[Gregg Kimball]

Al Craver (I assume Dalhart), Sinking of the Submarine S-51, Columbia 
15044-D.

Gregg


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:53 PM
Subject: [78-L] Bad news on record


>> Down In The U-17 - Billy Murray
>> Throw Out The Life Line - Henry Burr
>>
>> Bud
>
>
> Did something bad happen to the U-17?    Does Throw Out The Lifeline 
> mention
> a specific ship or ships?  I'm looking for more pre-WW2 songs/records 
> which
> are about specific ship or maritime disasters.
>
> Well,  actually I look for songs about any horrible event,  be it a
> kidnapping, murder,  fire, flood,  etc. up to but NOT including 
> war-related
> material.   I have at least one song about almost every damn disaster 
> which
> happened between 1912 and 1946 (Winecoff Hotel fire) except for the big
> Molasses Flood in Massachusetts in 1918 and maybe one or two others.  This
> includes more obscure things like the Santa Barbara Earthquake of 1925, 
> the
> Ohio Prison Fire,  kidnapping and murder of Marion Parker,  deaths of 
> Bryan,
> Valentino, Sacco and Vanzetti,  Florence Mills,  John Dillinger,  Pretty 
> Boy
> Floyd,  Lindbergh Baby, Huey Long,  Floyd Collins,  etc. etc.
>
> Has anyone ever seen a record of a song mourning the death of President
> Harding?  Or about the Hartford Circus Fire or Boston Cocoanut Grove fire?
> I'm guessing the latter two might have been covered in some country or
> religious song but don't know of any.   How about the Hindenburg crash?  I
> have the Herb Morrison radio account on a Melotone but are there any songs
> about it on record?   My latest disaster song is The Burning of the 
> Winecoff
> Hotel by Leroy Abernathy on the White Church label, c. 1946-47.
>
> Taylor
>
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