[Ads-l] big apple

[Laurence Horn]

So ‘pinch your toes’ is a bit of a euphemism, eh?

> On Feb 6, 2020, at 12:32 PM, Andy Bach <afbach at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Dormi Mon Enfant,
> 'Ti Marie Do-Do Cherie
> Si Li Pas Do-Do Cocotte
> Crab la va Mange, Cherie
> 
> From "Music Time" with Charity Bailey (pdf of the album and liner notes)
> https://folkways-media.si.edu/liner_notes/folkways/FW07307.pdf
> 
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 10:19 PM Mark Mandel <markamandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Oh my heavens! I had forgotten all about the Creole until you mentioned it,
>> and now there're a few ragged fragments in my mind. Maybe some more will
>> come back to me.
>> 
>> ??: Is this one of the songs you meant?:
>> 
>> *Dormi, mon enfant, *
>> *Close your eyes, my sweet babý.*
>> * If you do not sleep, my love, *
>> * Crab will pinch your toes, babý. *
>> * If you do not sleep, my love, *
>> * Crab will pinch your toes.*
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020, 4:54 PM Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> I found out several years ago when I googled her to find out who she was.
>>> I still remember (and sing, though not always safely in tune) the four
>>> songs I learned from that one record I mentioned.  It wasn't until I
>>> studied French, though, that I understood the creole words - I'd
>> basically
>>> learned them as a string of sounds.
>>> 
>>> ----------------------------
>>> MARGARET E WINTERS
>>> Former Provost
>>> Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
>>> Wayne State University
>>> Detroit, MI  48202
>>> 
>>> mewinters at wayne.edu
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ________________________________
>>> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of
>> Mark
>>> Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM>
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:47 PM
>>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
>>> Subject: Re: big apple
>>> 
>>> OMG! When I was a kid in the fifties, my family played a lot of folk
>> music
>>> (on records), probably instilling in me the love of and fascination with
>>> singing, especially folk songs, that I retained and reveled in to this
>> day.
>>> Among the singers were the Weavers, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Burl Ives,
>>> and *Charity
>>> Bailey*. And until five minutes ago I never knew she was Black. Thank
>> you.
>>> 
>>> Mark Mandel
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020, 8:20 AM Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Some time in the 50s there was a New York City local children's program
>>> on
>>>> TV with Charity Bailey, a black singer and educator.  I think I still
>>> have
>>>> the 78rpm record of her singing 4 songs, three in English and one in
>>> French
>>>> creole.  See
>>>> 
>>> 
>> https://folkways.si.edu/charity-bailey/music-time-with/african-american-music-childrens/album/smithsonian
>>>> [https://folkways-media.si.edu/images/album_covers/SF1400/FW07307.jpg
>> ]<
>>>> 
>>> 
>> https://folkways.si.edu/charity-bailey/music-time-with/african-american-music-childrens/album/smithsonian
>>>>> 
>>>> Music Time with Charity Bailey | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings<
>>>> 
>>> 
>> https://folkways.si.edu/charity-bailey/music-time-with/african-american-music-childrens/album/smithsonian
>>>>> 
>>>> Singer and educator Charity Bailey, who was director of music at the
>>>> progressive Little Red School House in New York City, offers a
>> collection
>>>> of songs aimed at a very young audience. Children from Sarah Lawrence
>>>> Nursery School in New York City participated in the recordings. The
>>>> traditional song “...
>>>> folkways.si.edu
>>>> 
>>>> ----------------------------
>>>> MARGARET E WINTERS
>>>> Former Provost
>>>> Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
>>>> Wayne State University
>>>> Detroit, MI  48202
>>>> 
>>>> mewinters at wayne.edu
>>>> 
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