[78-L] Double response, "Answer Songs," question

[David Lennick]

A song whose composer credit should have gone to Alan Mills and Rose 
Bonne..actually that's right at the top of my list of reasons not to like the 
guy. And yes he was brilliant in that film. We forgive Abe Burrows, too.

dl

On 7/31/2011 3:03 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
> I like him a lot as a performer.  Generally,  I try to avoid judging actors
> and musicians on the basis of their politics or personal lives.
>
> He is brilliant in the movie of  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...and one of the
> first 78s I can remember playing was a plastic Decca (pink label?) of him
> singing   "I Know An Old Lady (Who Swallowed a Fly)."
>
> Taylor
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 11:45 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Double response, "Answer Songs," question
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>
>> Sheesh, isn't anybody offended by what I just wrote about Ives? I would
>> be, if
>> I liked him (which obviously I don't and never have).
>>
>> Oh well.
>>
>> On 7/31/2011 1:31 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>>> Would "Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor" count?
>>>
>>> I didn't know about Tex..Burl Ives also recorded that thing (as his
>>> descent
>>> into worse than mediocrity continued unabated, but he was a rat bastard
>>> informer anyway).
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 7/31/2011 1:08 PM, Dennis Flannigan wrote:
>>>> The Tex Williams' recording, "CLOSE THE DOOR RICHARD (I Just Saw the
>>>> Thing)", got me thinking. It's the only answer song that I know
>>>> responding
>>>> to two different originals -- "Open the Door, Richard," and, "The
>>>> Thing,"
>>>> from the early 1950s. Or is it? That's my question.
>>>>
>>>> Are there other, double song answer songs? Seems likely, but can't think
>>>> of
>>>> any. Thank you.
>>>>
>>>> Dennis
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