Dialect variation in the Times

[Laurence Horn]

On Aug 23, 2011, at 7:00 AM, Eric Nielsen wrote:

> Here's the Charles Segar version:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuFjdHZgElw
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> 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.
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> Eric

That is quite different from those of the 200 versions I sampled, including the more prominent ones.  I ended up e-plunking down my $0.99 for one of the Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee versions (a very nice 5:12 cut from a "Blues Six-Pack"),  EP, which Sonny/Brownie introduce by thanking their friend for writing it—Big Bill Broonzy.  I imagine Segar must have ended up feeling a bit like Rodney Dangerfield.

LH
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> 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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