[78-L] Bad news on record

Taylor Bowie bowiebks at isomedia.com
Wed Jul 8 18:10:21 PDT 2009


Yeah,  got that one...keep 'em coming,  folks.  If you think it's getting to 
boring for everyone else,  please write to me off line.

Thanks from

Taylor


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From: "Gregg Kimball" <gdkimball at cox.net>
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> Al Craver (I assume Dalhart), Sinking of the Submarine S-51, Columbia
> 15044-D.
>
> Gregg
>
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> From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
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>>> 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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