dialect tidbit

[Wilson Gray]

On Sep 23, 2004, at 2:43 PM, Peter A. McGraw wrote:

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> 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.)
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> Peter
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Yes, that was the Mitch Miller era, all right.

Here are a couple of euphemistic exclamations from Saint Louis;

God damp in the basement!
I don't give a Roosevelt damn!

-Wilson Gray

> --On Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:28 PM -0400 Beverly Flanigan
> <flanigan at OHIOU.EDU> wrote:
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>> 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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>>>> 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:
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>>> http://www.rienzihills.com/SING/goodnightirene.htm
>>>
>>> --
>>> Michael Procter
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> Peter A. McGraw       Linfield College        McMinnville, Oregon
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