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Lyr Req: This Ole House (from Rosemary Clooney)
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Subject: Lookin for a song From: OuldSoul@aol.com Date: 10 Jul 99 - 04:40 PM I am trying to fing a song called, I think, " This Old House ". It starts, " This old house once knew my children,this old house once knew my wife." I'm looking for the words to it. |
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Subject: Lyr Add: THIS OLE HOUSE (from Rosemary Clooney) From: Joe Offer Date: 10 Jul 99 - 04:54 PM THIS OLE HOUSE (recorded by Rosemary Clooney) - words and music by Stuart Hamblen This ole house once knew his children This ole house once knew his wife This ole house was home and comfort As they fought the storms of life This old house once rang with laughter This old house heard many shouts Now he trembles in the darkness When the lightnin' walks about CHORUS:
This ole house is a-gettin' shaky |
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Subject: RE: Lookin for a song From: seavey40@aol.com Date: 10 Jul 99 - 05:06 PM Looking for Way down in Shawnee Town, a western Pennsylvania song which mentions Chillikothe (sp?) |
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Subject: RE: Lookin for a song From: Joe Offer Date: 10 Jul 99 - 05:21 PM Darn. You try to be nice, and things get away from you. We have too much information about this song, and it doesn't make sense to repeat it. Best for you to do a Forum Search (click here) for shwanee in the subject title, and you'll find all we've got. We like to help, but we get grumpy if you don't search our forum and database first. If you can't find a song after that, start a new thread with a specific title (like the name of the song) in the thread title. We tend to go ballistic over generic thread titles like "Lookin for a song" -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: generics, searches, threadiquette From: Philippa Date: 10 Jul 99 - 06:08 PM Joe, look what a temper does to the typing. If the former thread was called "...Swhanee..." , it would be hard to find in a forum search! I checked this out anyway; the thread has the spelling "Shawnee" so it could be located okay. Still, it isn't always so easy to locate songs by forum search (I recently nearly messed up searches by creating a thread called 'Politian speak', but I corrected the spelling to 'Politician...' in the message title.) People should search the DT database, of course, but as several of us have pointed out it would be helpful if the screen had a notice advising people to search the DT before starting new threads. Also, someone pointed out and I had to agree, that people who ask for songs already on the DT make a contribution in drawing our attention to songs we might not have noticed or might have forgotten about. I consider the use of terribly general "looking for a song" thread titles as a far greater problem, because the thread is liable to become a dumping ground, a muddle of requests for many songs with response to the various requests all jumbled. We see the phenomena starting to happen again in this thread. I don't know if I'm wise writing on this thread rather than (hopefully!!) allowing it to die. Please folks, if you're looking for lyrics to a song, start another thread with a better title. Don't add it to this thread!> |
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Subject: RE: Lookin for a song From: Richard Bridge Date: 10 Jul 99 - 06:40 PM My, ain't we cross tonight? Must be the heat. |
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Subject: RE: Lookin for a song From: Rick Fielding Date: 10 Jul 99 - 08:01 PM Joe's not cross because of the heat, it's the stupidity that's makin' him sweat. rick (with first even remotely sarcastic comment in many a week) |
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Subject: RE: Lookin for a song From: Night Owl Date: 10 Jul 99 - 09:48 PM Joe couldn't be cross.....he DID get the girl!!! Maybe he's just being "hurriedly polite"???? |
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Subject: RE: Lookin for a song From: Banjer Date: 10 Jul 99 - 10:06 PM "it's the stupidity that's makin' him sweat." Interesting thought, but I'm stupid and I don't sweat! Maybe ifn' I weren't so stupid I'd figure out how, huh? (TIC,NOI, etc.) |
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Subject: Generic thread titles - big no-no From: Joe Offer Date: 11 Jul 99 - 02:46 AM Actually, usually the only time that stupidity makes me sweat is when it's my own stupidity. Ever get that feeling? You know, the mixture of shame and embarrassment that you get when you figure out you really blew it. This time, I was trying to be firm and cut off the proliferation of generic thread names before it became epidemic. Things have been real quiet lately, and then a bunch of generically-titled song requests came up all at once. In some ways, I've given up and have started another tack. You might notice that I have sometimes changed the subject title of messages that contain lyrics (you can do this yourself at the time you're submitting a post). I hope nobody minds - it seemed to me that it should help us find songs that have already been posted. the "body" part of the forum search isn't working, but the "subject" search still works very well. If I change the subject title, the thread title stays the same, so I don't think my title-changing should cause confusion. -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: Lookin for a song From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 01 Apr 05 - 05:02 AM A midi file anyone? I remember this song sung by a male voice in the 1950's or early 60's. A thread title change might help too.. |
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Subject: RE: Lookin for "this old house" (answered) From: MMario Date: 01 Apr 05 - 08:00 AM I haven't been able to find a midi with the MELODY. |
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Subject: RE: Lookin for "this old house" (answered) From: GUEST,Janie Date: 01 Apr 05 - 08:31 AM I have it on a Critten Hollow String Band tape. It is so much fun to sing! janie |
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Subject: RE: Lookin for "this old house" (answered) From: Midchuck Date: 01 Apr 05 - 09:14 AM There's at least two songs with the title, "This Old House," that I know of. The old Rosemary Clooney one Joe posted, and one by the Rice Brothers recorded in the '80s, sometime, which is considerably prettier. This fact often causes considerable confusion and argument in Country and Bluegrass music cirles. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: Lookin for "this old house" (answered) From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 01 Apr 05 - 09:29 AM I just picked up a Stuart Hamblin album that has This Old House on it.. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: Lookin for "this old house" (answered) From: Auggie Date: 01 Apr 05 - 11:58 AM At the risk of getting chastised in Red Ink or being found guilty of ETD (extreme thread drift), I just know somebody else beside me is going to open this thread and expect it to be about the theme music from the long running PBS television series, "This Old House". In case you wondered, as I did, that song is really called Louisiana Fairy Tale and was recorded by guitarist Guy Van Duser and clarinetist Billy Novick on the CD "Guy and Billy". Definitely tasty stuff, and that's no April Fools. |
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