[78-L] Bad news on record

[Margaret Still]

More disasters and bad news:

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Andrew & Jim Baxter	The Moore Girl
-Seattle, c. 1911: swimming instructor changes clothes before diving in to
save a girl from drowning in Puget Sound (this synopsis may not be entirely
accurate)


Mountain Meadows Massacre - recorded by George Harter in 1952, and more?
-the story of Mormons who dressed and acted as Indians and killed settlers
from Arkansas in 1857 (this synopsis may not be entirely accurate)


Galveston Flood by Tom Rush & others
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>>> From: "Gregg Kimball" <gdkimball at cox.net>
>>> For my money the best version of "Ommie Wise," is by G . B. Grayson,
Victor 
21625. Tom Ashley also did a version of it.

Good ones, but Roscoe Holcomb's version makes my neck hairs stand.


>>>From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> Where's Ray Stevens' "I Saw Elvis in a U.F.O."?

>This is probably the most tasteless genre of music outside of KKK songs.

>dl

The '69 Moonwalk unleashed some wretched songs, too.



> From: soundthink at aol.com
>>> These are cumulatively known in the folklore world as "event ballads."
Writers/musicians such as the Rev. Andrew Jenkins used to hang out on
courthouse steps, waiting to get the verdict for controversial trials so
that they could get the jump on finishing off a song and getting it
published. This was the paparazzi of their day.

Interesting. The rush job explains why so many of these songs are pretty
ordinary.

Best,
Margaret G. Still