[78-L] Are Long Messages OK Here? (within reason)

[DKing]

Hello All,

I hope my long message wasn’t out of line here.  But I honestly hadn’t thought
about hearing that family story until I listened to “Ten Little Bottles” kindly posted
by Peter Muhr.  If long messages like mine are frowned upon, please let me know,
as I’m still relatively new here.

- Dave King


> On Mar 2, 2020, at 6:04 PM, DKing <ginku_ledovec at att.net.invalid> wrote:
> 
> 
> Thanks, Peter.  I enjoyed the song.  Some of my Irish forebears would have
> thought that song was scandalous, lol.
> 
> True story:  when I was much younger, I remember my older relatives laughing
> among themselves - because of the blue air letter one of them received from
> one of the cousins back in the “old country”.
> 
> One of our cousins lived in the same small town as a woman who’d suddenly
> lost her husband after many years.
> 
> The woman began to go through everything in what amounted to a “man cave”
> left behind by her now deceased husband.  She found a locked closet in there
> that she hadn’t thought about for years.
> 
> Managing to finally get the closet open, she went into shock.  She and her
> husband had been teetotalers for many years.  But the closet was full of empty
> rye and whiskey bottles.  Apparently the damp Irish climate called for a nip
> now & then to help ward off the chill.
> 
> The wife faced a predicament:  if she threw out all the bottles at once, her
> neighbors would learn of the dead husband’s secret.  And if she only threw
> one out at a time, her neighbors and relatives would hear of it and think she
> had taken to drink after her husband’s death.  Either choice would have
> created a minor scandal back then.
> 
> I honestly don’t know what she did with the bottles.  It was a long time ago
> and I don’t remember hearing or being told how she disposed of the bottles.
> 
> “Ten Little Bottles” reminded me of the story.
> 
> - Dave King
> 
> 
>> On Mar 2, 2020, at 1:04 PM, Peter Muhr <pemuhr at gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Sorry, 1st word of the next to last stanza should be "TWO little
>> bottles...", of course….
>> 
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 4:01 PM Peter Muhr <pemuhr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> "Ten Little Bottles" by Ballard MacDonald & James V. Monaco, sung by Jack
>>> Norworth on Pathe 20458 b/w "I'm on Strike", released ca. early 1920.
>>>    "Ten little bottles standing on the shelf, hard luck had only begun
>>>      for my wife's mother went and got the flu, and that left only one".
>>> YouTube:
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOYH418LR-0?rel=0
>>> 
>>> Peter Muhr
>>> 
> 
>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2020 at 12:44 PM DKing <ginku_ledovec at att.net.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Hello Everyone,
>>>> 
>>>> Did any early recorded music refer to the flu pandemic of 1918-19?
>>>> 
>>>> Or maybe it was so traumatic that people just wanted to forget about it
>>>> ...
>>>> 
>>>> - Dave King
>>>> 
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