dialect tidbit

[Peter A. McGraw]

Well, but maybe Fritz isn't the only one who's "just too young."  I'm sure
I heard this song on the radio before The Weavers came along, and WAY
before I discovered the original Leadbelly version.  Wasn't there some
insipid popular version back in the 50s, maybe by somebody like Mitch
Miller?   (If that's when Mitch Miller was.  There's such a thing as being
too young to remember, and then there's being too old to remember.)

Peter

--On Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:28 PM -0400 Beverly Flanigan
<flanigan at OHIOU.EDU> wrote:

> Ah, you're just too young.  The Weavers were my first intro to folk music,
> and this song was played over and over again on the radio.  Leadbelly came
> later for me.
>
> At 11:31 AM 9/23/2004, you wrote:
>> I've never heard that song, though.
>> Fritz
>>
>> >>> mprocter at COIN.ORG 09/23/04 08:18AM >>>
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:02:33AM -0700, FRITZ JUENGLING wrote:
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>> > Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>> > Poster:       FRITZ JUENGLING <juengling_fritz at SALKEIZ.K12.OR.US>
>> > Subject:      Re: dialect tidbit
>> >
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>> >
>> > When I hear 'Good night, nurse' I think of Archie Bunker who said it
>> fairly frequently.  I don't think I've ever heard it off TV,
>> tho.  However, I use "Good night, Irene!"  I have no idea who Irene
>> is.  I tend not to make up things like that, but I do not know where I
>> got it. Has anyone else heard that?
>> > Fritz J
>>
>> Most likely you got it from the 1950 Huddie Ledbetter / John Lomax song
>> Good Night Irene:
>>
>> http://www.rienzihills.com/SING/goodnightirene.htm
>>
>> --
>> Michael Procter



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