OT: Old Songs

[Schanilec]

My Favotite song when I was 5 years old. Gave me my start in history.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Ufc2h ... 8D&index=4 A classic.

[BBfanboy]

I liked that one when I was around that age too. Part of what got me interested in battleships. Too bad the lyrics are not accurate.

I liked most of the other Johnny Horton hits too - North To Alaska, Battle of New Orleans, etc.

[dr.hal]

As my wife says, I'm "thrifty" and I can still remember the first song I played on one of those old dinner table jute box things, you know, the ones that were at the table in your local greasy spoon and you could select songs from it. I played Horton's Battle of New Orleans, for a nickle. I was thinking of all the other things I could buy with a nickle but decided to play this tune. I don't think I've ever used one of those table jute box things since. And yes, it was a long time ago....

[Oberst_Klink]

ORIGINAL: Schanilec

My Favotite song when I was 5 years old. Gave me my start in history.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Ufc2h ... 8D&index=4 A classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Ufc2h ... 8D&index=4

Try this, lad... alas, you're in ND and maybe not an ACW buff like ye'ole Oberst..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ0JxkaRd3o

Nice ACW song by Horton.

Klink, Oberst

[Schanilec]

ACW fan also. Good tune.
 
I do miss those table side juke boxes. Whitey's restruant and bar in East Grand Forks had them right up to the 1997 flood. Still a drive-in theater up in Warren Minnesota about 40 miles Northeast of here. Quite a popular place in the summer.[:)]

[Oberst_Klink]

ORIGINAL: Schanilec

ACW fan also. Good tune.

I do miss those table side juke boxes. Whitey's restruant and bar in East Grand Forks had them right up to the 1997 flood. Still a drive-in theater up in Warren Minnesota about 40 miles Northeast of here. Quite a popular place in the summer.[:)]

At least your state capital still bears a jolly good name of a great German (OK, Prussian Junker), who coincidently became the Prussian Prime Minister 155 years ago

Klink, Oberst

[Schanilec]

ORIGINAL: Oberst_Klink

ORIGINAL: Schanilec

ACW fan also. Good tune.

I do miss those table side juke boxes. Whitey's restruant and bar in East Grand Forks had them right up to the 1997 flood. Still a drive-in theater up in Warren Minnesota about 40 miles Northeast of here. Quite a popular place in the summer.[:)]

At least your state capital still bears a jolly good name of a great German (OK, Prussian Junker), who coincidently became the Prussian Prime Minister 155 years ago

Klink, Oberst

Yep The only state capital that had a battleship named.[:D]

[Schanilec]

And this one. Written at the time grandparents were born. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqowmHgxVJQ

[Oberst_Klink]

ORIGINAL: Schanilec

ORIGINAL: Oberst_Klink

ORIGINAL: Schanilec

ACW fan also. Good tune.

I do miss those table side juke boxes. Whitey's restruant and bar in East Grand Forks had them right up to the 1997 flood. Still a drive-in theater up in Warren Minnesota about 40 miles Northeast of here. Quite a popular place in the summer.[:)]

At least your state capital still bears a jolly good name of a great German (OK, Prussian Junker), who coincidently became the Prussian Prime Minister 155 years ago

Klink, Oberst

Yep The only state capital that had a battleship named.[:D]

Good one

Klink, Oberst

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Schanilec

And this one. Written at the time grandparents were born. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqowmHgxVJQ

We kids had The Big Rock Candy Mountain as a single vinyl record back in the day. The record was red or yellow - a little extra to appeal to the kids when all the other records were black.

[BBfanboy]

Here's a nautical song, recorded relatively recently ( ~ 25 years ago) but the song is much older I'm sure. Listen at least 35 seconds to get to the chorus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV2Y6juYhTA

[Schanilec]

Remember singing it in grade school. Don't recall if we sang the same lyrics though. Up here you never know. We sang a lot of songs in school and Sunday school back then that would shock todays generation.[:)]

[Schanilec]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Here's a nautical song, recorded relatively recently ( ~ 25 years ago) but the song is much older I'm sure. Listen at least 35 seconds to get to the chorus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV2Y6juYhTA

Hadn't heard that in a loooong time.

[Schanilec]

This one is real bad. But we sang it in junior high boys chior (circa 1972-1974), Mr. Ramsey made us all do the actions. My voice was changing trying out for high school chior and failed miserably for bartone. I never sang again. Except for this one. Especailly at the of the movie 'The Jerk' and act it out. Everyone thinks I am one crazy Bohemian.[:'(]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q46ZKx6oCEoice

[geofflambert]

ORIGINAL: dr.hal

As my wife says, I'm "thrifty" and I can still remember the first song I played on one of those old dinner table jute box things, you know, the ones that were at the table in your local greasy spoon and you could select songs from it. I played Horton's Battle of New Orleans, for a nickle. I was thinking of all the other things I could buy with a nickle but decided to play this tune. I don't think I've ever used one of those table jute box things since. And yes, it was a long time ago....

You mean this:




I must have sat at a booth like that with that song selector a thousand times. You'd wait for all the songs some other goofs picked at other booths before yours played. "Somewhere, [ba-dup ba-dup] beyond the sea, [ba-dup ba-dup] waiting for me, [ba-dum ba-dum] my lover stands on golden shores watchin' the ships, they go sailin'"

[dr.hal]

You got it!!!!

[dr.hal]

Speaking of which Schanilec, what is the only state in the Union (lower 48) NOT to have a commissioned battleship named after it??????

[geofflambert]

Montana? Was planned but never executed. Right?

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

Montana? Was planned but never executed. Right?

Montana was over 70% completed and had been named, so one could count that.
I am guessing North Dakota. Not enough lobbyists from that state!

[dr.hal]

Montana is right, never commissioned. BB-29 USS North Dakota.