[78-L] THE DONKEY SERENADE

[David Lennick]

No, it's legitimate.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/jenny+ass

dl

On 8/27/2013 4:11 PM, Dave Burnham wrote:
> That's where I knew it from too. Knowing Nash, however, he may have made up the word.
>
> db
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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