[78-L] THE DONKEY SERENADE

[Dave Burnham]

That's where I knew it from too. Knowing Nash, however, he may have made up the word. 

db

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On 2013-08-27, at 3:56 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> I knew that only from the Ogden Nash "Carnival of the Animals" verses.
> 
> dl
> 
> On 8/27/2013 3:48 PM, Dave Burnham wrote:
>> A jennyass is a female jackass.
>> 
>> db
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>> On 2013-08-27, at 3:44 PM, "Ray Kilcoyne"<kil at roadrunner.com>  wrote:
>> 
>>> Yes the first time.  Who's Jenny?
>>> RayK
>>> From: David Lennick
>>> Meaning that Jack could have been Jenny?
>>> David Lennick wrote:
>>>> "Jack" as in jackass?
>>> Ray Kilcoyne wrote:
>>>>> Thanks guys.  That's exactly why I asked.  Jack was born January 14,
>>>>> 1938.
>>>>> As the rumor goes , that is why Allan named his son "Jack".  Get it?
>>>>> The Victor Red Seal has the Nat Shilkret Orchestra backing.  I have 5 or
>>>>> 6
>>>>> recordings by Jones (none on 78) and I just listened to all of them.
>>>>> They
>>>>> are all different length crops from the soundtrack of "The Firefly" with
>>>>> the
>>>>> MGM Studio Orchestra, so I can't check the goof David mentions.  Even the
>>>>> track on RCA's 60 Years of Music America Loves Best Vol. II uses the
>>>>> soundtrack version.
>>>>> Related question...
>>>>> Is there no longer any way to search Ty's discography?  I thought it
>>>>> would
>>>>> be easy since I had the record label number, but I couldn't locate his
>>>>> listing.
>>>>> The Honking Duck site now seems to charge for a search.
>>>>> RayK
>>>>> From: David Lennick
>>>>> Don't have Rust's CED handy, but the story I heard years ago was that it
>>>>> was
>>>>> the same day or night Allan's son Jack was born, which could have
>>>>> accounted
>>>>> for
>>>>> his absent-mindedness (he totally misses the first couple of words in the
>>>>> second verse).
>>>>> Hollywood, January 13, 1938.
>>>>>       Julian Vein
>>> 
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