[78-L] song about women drivers
David Lennick
dlennick at sympatico.ca
Fri Dec 21 15:27:40 PST 2012
Anybody have a copy of this? I remember one being in the CBC Record Library.
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dl
On 12/21/2012 6:16 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> The Uncle Josh routine UJ Buys An Automobile has some comments from one
> of the women about how "maybe the spindle is too tight or the bobbin is
> threaded wrong" when Josh can't get the car started. That relates women
> to sewing machines -- but the men are just as clueless and Josh ends up
> causing a disaster when the car does start.
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> Maybe there's a verse in "My gasoline Automobile" from around 1903 on a
> Victor Monarch. I have 2 copies but not here, and I don't remember if
> it mentions anyone driving but him, and he keeps blowing a horn to get
> people out of the way. The final verse of Bert Shepherd's 1902 "And
> Other Things Too Numerous To Mention" has a woman falling off a bicycle
> "Her skirt was out of place, I saw frills and bits of lace, and other
> things are numerous too mention."
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> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [78-L] song about women drivers
> From: Bud Black<banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
> Date: Fri, December 21, 2012 10:47 am
> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>
> Why Did I Teach My Girl To Drive? - Ziggy Talent
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Dec 21, 2012, at 10:20 AM, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> wrote:
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> > Doesn't the subject line sound like a 20th Century Russian People's
> Song? On
> > black label Stinson.
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> > dl
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