[78-L] Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed Dec 15 20:26:02 PST 2010


Thanks to Mal's request, I have my first experimental file to work on. And he 
received the .wav file I sent.

Auntie Skinner could have been a Falasha.

dl

On 12/15/2010 11:18 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> The sheet music cover would have Auntie as being black.
> She would never have gone thru Ellis Island.
> Mal
>
> *******
>
> On 12/15/2010 5:31 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>> Incidentally, you aren't gonna believe this..I just found the record on top of
>> a pile I hadn't looked at in a couple of months.
>>
>> Wonder what Auntie Skinner's name was before they changed it at Ellis Island?
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 12/15/2010 10:28 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>> David,
>>>
>>> Did Auntie Skinner keep kosher?
>>>
>>> Taylor
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 7:22 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner
>>>
>>>
>>>> If I can find the disc, I should make that my first project..experimenting
>>>> with
>>>> Audacity, which seems to accept audio and convert it to WAV files easily
>>>> and
>>>> the next step is downloading the wherewithal to convert to mp3. With any
>>>> luck,
>>>> I should have this conquered by next Shevuos (see: Shavuot).
>>>> http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/671902/jewish/When-is-Shavuot-in-2011-2012-2013-2014-and-2015.htm
>>>>
>>>> dl
>>>>
>>>> On 12/15/2010 10:16 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>>>>> Anyone either have a nice, clean digital copy of Collins&     Harlan doing
>>>>> "Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner" or a transcription of the lyrics?
>>>>> I count four versions on uTube: the original played on a Sonora acoustic
>>>>> machine - the lyrics are somewhat garbled; some besotted Irishman and
>>>>> his buddy drunkenly mumbling the words ahkapp... er... acppll... uh...
>>>>> acapischl... ah, fergeddit!, and 2 nice contemporary versions with no
>>>>> vocals at all!
>>>>> This one's my favorite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjdkkUyRZx8
>>>>> Still, I really need the lyrics for a project.
>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>> Mal
>>>>>
>>


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