[78-L] Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner

[bruce78rpm at comcast.net]

http://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&hl=en&source=hp&q=Auntie+Skinners+Chicken+Dinner+Lyrics&btnG=Google+Search 

Here is a PDF on line file with the lyrics. Only these are the more socially acceptable ones by 1997 standards, not the original ones form 1911. So they substituted stuff like folks for Darkies etc. 

Bruce 
----- 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 11:26:02 PM 
Subject: Re: [78-L] Auntie Skinner's Chicken Dinner 

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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