Dialect variation in the Times

[Eric Nielsen]

Here's the Charles Segar version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuFjdHZgElw

Very interesting: Segar's is a twelve bar blues. All the other
versions (that I am familiar with) are eight bar blues. In fact, "Key to the
Highway" is often given as an example of the eight bar form.

Eric



On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> At the iTunes Store there are 200 versions of "Key" to sample (90 =
> seconds each), including some nice get-togethers: Sonny and Brownie with =
> Big Bill Broonzy, B. B. King with Eric Clapton, and so on.   None of the =
> 200 versions are by William Charles Segar.  It is a good song. =20
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