tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post2965928938681810037..comments2023-09-26T03:53:17.142-04:00Comments on Pentimento: Rainy DaysPentimentohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-38125030072816973002008-10-02T14:43:00.000-04:002008-10-02T14:43:00.000-04:00Yeah, I remember him on "Everybody Loves Saturday ...Yeah, I remember him on "Everybody Loves Saturday Night," singing in English and Spanish. He made less of an impression than Grandma Yvette, but I also had different songs than you did.<BR/><BR/>It always baffled me that the performers aren't really credited on the CDs. I'd love to see a name and photo to connect with the "character."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-18522157816279491192008-10-02T10:53:00.000-04:002008-10-02T10:53:00.000-04:00OK, what about "Uncle Jerry"? He's the overly-sin...OK, what about "Uncle Jerry"? He's the overly-sinere folk-singer in the Pete Seeger/Oscar Brandt vein - a real throwback. He sings all the songs in Spanish with painstaking diction.Pentimentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-74969979279088559602008-10-02T10:19:00.000-04:002008-10-02T10:19:00.000-04:00Exactly! Grandma Yvette! Loved her.Exactly! Grandma Yvette! Loved her.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-84742214764149187592008-10-02T10:18:00.000-04:002008-10-02T10:18:00.000-04:00Oh yeah, that's the sort of thing I mean! "Grandm...Oh yeah, that's the sort of thing I mean! "Grandma Yvette" sang all the traditionally black songs on the MT CDs . . .Pentimentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-16769001807596017712008-10-02T10:17:00.000-04:002008-10-02T10:17:00.000-04:00No, we had a Yiddish lullaby called "Raisins and A...No, we had a Yiddish lullaby called "Raisins and Almonds," that's translated into English on the CD, but the German teacher sang it to the class in the original Yiddish.<BR/><BR/>What made me laugh and shake my head was the gospel song, "Good News, Chariot's a-Comin'" which got re-purposed into "Beep! Beep! The Bus is Comin,'" sung by an obviously African-American voice on the CD. I could only guess at what she might have thought at being asked to sing that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-35553546183345144212008-10-02T10:10:00.000-04:002008-10-02T10:10:00.000-04:00LOL! That wasn't my intention! Well, I certainly...LOL! That wasn't my intention! Well, I certainly heard my share of folk music and wore my share of aproned peasant dresses growing up in the 70s and early 80s, so I guess I assumed the folk revival went later.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-28549157202210173842008-10-02T10:08:00.000-04:002008-10-02T10:08:00.000-04:00Did your son's Music Together curriculum use "Tumb...Did your son's Music Together curriculum use "Tumbalalaika"? I always thought it was a Russian song, but it's on that Everybody Sing! LP in Yiddish. <BR/><BR/>One thing I didn't like about Music Together was the way they sanitize the traditional lyrics. It didn't kill us to know that slave songs were about being a slave, after all.Pentimentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-41489428727778974012008-10-02T10:06:00.000-04:002008-10-02T10:06:00.000-04:00No need to correct your usually impeccable grammar...No need to correct your usually impeccable grammar, Dreshny; I got it.<BR/><BR/>My commenters all seem to be making me out to be older than I actually am. The height of the folk revival was actually in the 1950s and early 1960s, before I was born. I suppose it had filtered into elementary school by the 1970s, however, when I was a young 'un.Pentimentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-82889940739465842872008-10-02T09:56:00.000-04:002008-10-02T09:56:00.000-04:00I meant "its."I meant "its."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-19083269559752630852008-10-02T09:54:00.000-04:002008-10-02T09:54:00.000-04:00Well, you were in elementary school during the hey...Well, you were in elementary school during the heyday of the folk revival, and I was elementary-aged during it's tail end. I wonder if music is taught totally differently now, though my toddler's Music Together curriculum did feature folk songs from around the world.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-20693637913852655252008-10-02T09:18:00.000-04:002008-10-02T09:18:00.000-04:00This sounds like my primary school music instructi...This sounds like my primary school music instruction. I loved those songs! I was amazed, when I was dating my first right-wing boyfriend a few years ago, to discover that he loved Woody Guthrie - in fact, I'm still a little bemused about that one.Pentimentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-74064864628611124452008-10-02T08:36:00.000-04:002008-10-02T08:36:00.000-04:00I remember being taught to sing Harry Belafonte's ...I remember being taught to sing Harry Belafonte's "Jamaican Farewell" when I was in kindergarten! And in second grade we were taught some sort of slave song, "Cotton Needs Pickin' So Bad," to be sung while we mimed picking cotton.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-71897132685926036892008-10-02T07:17:00.000-04:002008-10-02T07:17:00.000-04:00That's funny, Otepoti! Actually, some of the song...That's funny, Otepoti! Actually, some of the songs on the LP I downloaded I recognized from my primary school days, where they were taught pretty faithfully, like "Linstead Market" - but I suppose the Beach Boys cannibalized that one.Pentimentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-50346468689358968342008-10-01T20:51:00.000-04:002008-10-01T20:51:00.000-04:00International folk songs? Yes, sure - like[class ...International folk songs? Yes, sure - like<BR/><BR/>[class of bawling ten-year-olds]:<BR/><BR/>"This land is your land,<BR/>This land is my land,<BR/>From Cape Reinga<BR/>To Stewart Island,<BR/>From the kauri forests<BR/>To the southern mah-ah-tains,<BR/>This land was made for you and me.'<BR/><BR/>You have to hand it to our teachers for cannibalizing the cultural capital of the world...<BR/><BR/>OtepotiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-61251637013353989132008-09-30T06:47:00.000-04:002008-09-30T06:47:00.000-04:00Let me know if you find anything wonderful on the ...Let me know if you find anything wonderful on the vinyl records site when you have the chance, Otepoti.Pentimentohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17161146891505294679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5554498168264477884.post-52821289540587733352008-09-29T16:06:00.000-04:002008-09-29T16:06:00.000-04:00Thank you! OtepotiThank you! <BR/><BR/>OtepotiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com