[78-L] i don't want to play in your yard

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Sep 17 07:51:10 PDT 2012


Not in her 3 Columbia albums, but I haven't checked the RCA album, the 
Thesaurus transcriptions or the albums she did for late 50s cheapo labels.

dl

On 9/17/2012 10:55 AM, Bud Black wrote:
> Didn't Beatrice Kay sing this?
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Sep 17, 2012, at 4:45 AM, Kristjan Saag<saag at telia.com>  wrote:
>
>> Peggy Lee only sings the chorus.
>>
>> Full version can be heard here:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAdcEqAa7mY
>>
>> In the English version the final chorus repeats the words from the
>> previous. When Swedish cabaret king Ernst Rolf put words to the song
>> around 1915, he changed the final chorus (after the little maids had
>> become friends again in the final verse) so that they actually did climb
>> in each other's apple tree again etc.
>> In Sweden it has only been recorded as a children's song.
>> Kristjan
>> --
>>
>>
>> On 2012-09-17 10:18, RUSSELL BARNES wrote:
>>> Peggy Lee version is popular.    Also by Ellen Frohnmayer.
>>>
>>> Also a sung on a UK CD -  'Old Time Music Hall'.
>>>
>>> Russ Barnes
>>>
>>>
>>> ________________________________
>>>   From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, 17 September 2012, 3:12
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] i don't want to play in your yard
>>>
>>> We used to play it by Joan Morris on RSVP (album "After the Ball").
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 9/16/2012 9:58 PM, Eric Goldberg wrote:
>>>> I am looking for a recording of the song "I Don't Want to Play in Your Yard" which I believe is also known as "Two Little Maids". Does anyone know who did it or does anyone have an mp3 that they would share.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Eric Goldberg
>>>> ________________________________


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