[78-L] The Official Boy Scout Record - 1924

[David Lennick]

Pity..you never can tell when you'll meet a chicken and need to cook for your 
entire troop. BE PREPARED!

This was not the most enlightened of times..Sam 'n' Henry were just around the 
corner, as was Paul Whiteman's recording of The Kinky Kids' Parade. In fact 
Correll & Gosden also recorded that ditty (not released).

dl

On 12/12/2011 8:27 PM, bruce78rpm at comcast.net wrote:
> Nope, dat ain't in de 1924 Boy Scout Song Book ! I can assure you of that !
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "banjobud"<banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 7:44:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] The Official Boy Scout Record - 1924
>
> How about "Bake Dat Chicken Pie?"
>
> Bud
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> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Cary Ginell
> Date: 12/12/2011 7:39:00 PM
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] The Official Boy Scout Record - 1924
>
> The melody, by the way, is the same as "Turkey in the Straw." This being
> 1924, I doubt it ever occurred to them that the song was a staple of early
> minstrelsy and could be deemed as inappropriate.
>
> Cary Ginell
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>
>> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:29:59 -0700
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] The Official Boy Scout Record - 1924
>>
>> At 19:51 12/12/2011, DL wrote:
>>>> "Old Zip Coon"..I think I'll flag it as inappropriate. dl
>>
>> From: bruce78rpm at comcast.net
>>> Actually the lyrics of the song are about a fiddler who plays the same
> song
>>> continously where ever he goes, and the monotony of it all causes him to
> lose
>>> all of his friends. "He played all night by the light of the moon but he
> never
>>> played anything but Old Zip Coon."
>>
>> Old Zip Coon. COON. Despite the nature lessons you might expect from
>> Boy Scouts, it is not about a raccoon. Yes, ethnic humor was quite the
>> norm in those days and I am not one who calls for censorship and
>> political correctness, but you would think that of all the types of
>> songs at their disposal, the Boy Scouts would have selected a more
>> fitting subject to have as one of their Official Scout Records.
>>
>> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
>>