dialect tidbit

[sagehen]

>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
>
    Beverly Flanigan   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.

>>> Most likely you got it from the 1950 Huddie Ledbetter / John Lomax song
>>> Michael Procter
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We were singing "Goodnight, Irene" at Reed in '48-'50, simply known to us
as a Leadbelly song.  /The Weavers' Songbook/ gives the first copyright as
1936 (to Macmillan Co, and later reassigned to Spencer Music in 1950).  The
Weavers sang often with Leadbelly, but the songbook doesn't state exactly
when they learned this song from him.
A. Murie