[78-L] Two Black Crows

David Sanderson dwsanderson685 at roadrunner.com
Tue Mar 9 06:52:05 PST 2010


On 3/9/2010 12:03 AM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> Or because they had more of the white horses.
>>>>
>>>> dl
>>>
>>>
>>> I think these two veins are too close together.
>>>
>>> T
>>>
>>>
>> I won't even answer that one, but I'm sure Julian will. Oddly enough,
>> that's
>> one of the few gags not in this "best of" compendium:
>> http://www.stanfisk.com/Poems/The_Two_Black_Crows.shtml
>>
>> dl
>
>
> I guess the compiler and I have a different idea of what makes up  the "best
> of" the TBCs.
>
> T

My impression is that the material came mostly from Charles Mack, or at 
least he seems to get credit for it.  George Moran was good, but I 
regard Mack as brilliant, both in his material and that odd sort of lazy 
dialect he affected.  Listen to his phrasing and timing on the records. 
  My impression is that everybody had the 1/2 disk, but that the later 
disks were less common.  Moran turns up much later in several W.C. 
Fields movies as an Indian (Fields knew the pair from Ziegfeld 
appearances in the 1920's).

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David Sanderson
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