Junker/Junko/Junco Partner

[Wilson Gray]

BTW, I've just listened to "Vagabond Shoes" for the first time in a
half-century. What can I say? I was only a twelve-year-old
eighth-grader. :-)

-Wilson

On Jan 20, 2008 9:17 PM, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> On Jan 20, 2008 7:13 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Jan 20, 2008 1:14 PM, Benjamin Zimmer <bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > (BTW, Champion Jack Dupree recorded "Junker Blues" in 1941, but it
> > > doesn't appear to be the same song.)
> >
> > Isn't that "Junker'_s_ Blues"?
>
> If these sites are to be believed, the original 78 (OKeh 06152) has
> "Junker Blues":
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> http://www.wirz.de/music/duprefrm.htm
> http://settlet.fateback.com/OK6000.htm
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> But some later releases have "Junker's Blues".
>
>
> --Ben Zimmer
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