[78-L] Carson Robison Minstrel Show

[Bud Black]

He also wrote and recorded a great country ballad called "Just Wait And See.
  I've sung it many times.

Bud 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: David Sanderson
Date: 8/26/2009 9:49:28 AM
To: 78-L Mail List
Subject: Re: [78-L] Carson Robison Minstrel Show
 
Bud Black wrote:
> When I think of Carson Robison I hark back to his WWII patriotic war songs
> such as "Here I Go To Tokio," "Hitler's Letter To Mussolini," and "1942
> Turkey In The Straw" among others.  I believe he penned these tunes
himself.
>  I guess, by today's standards, you could call these tunes propaganda, but
> the rhyming was clever and humorous.
>
> Bud
 
Yes, he had a real touch with words, and with comic songs.  I don't know
if he wrote "Barnicle Bill, the Sailor" offhand, but his and Frank
Luther's recording popularized the tune.  A man who had access to
Robison's files claimed that Robison had a file of 1200 song copyrights.
  I may have mentioned here at some point that I think he is very much
underrated both as a performer and a songwriter.  Some of his best work
is the early stuff with Vernon Dalhart, "My Blue Ridge Mountain Home"
and many others popularized via Dalhart's recordings with Robison.  Jack
Palmer's Dalhart biography goes into Robison's work in this period
extensively.
 
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      David Sanderson
      East Waterford, Maine
 
      dwsanderson685 at roadrunner.com
      http://www.dwsanderson.com
 
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