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OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 4:25 am
by 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.
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 4:40 am
by 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.
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:07 pm
by 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....
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 2:29 pm
by Oberst_Klink
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
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 3:09 pm
by 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.[:)]
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 3:17 pm
by 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
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 3:30 pm
by 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]
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 3:32 pm
by Schanilec
And this one. Written at the time grandparents were born.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqowmHgxVJQ
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 3:37 pm
by 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
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 3:42 pm
by BBfanboy
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.
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 3:46 pm
by 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
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 3:48 pm
by 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.[:)]
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 3:54 pm
by 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.
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 4:07 pm
by 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
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:04 pm
by 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'"
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:40 pm
by dr.hal
You got it!!!!
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:43 pm
by 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??????
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 6:46 pm
by geofflambert
Montana? Was planned but never executed. Right?
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 7:21 pm
by 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!
RE: OT: Old Songs
Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 7:30 pm
by dr.hal
Montana is right, never commissioned. BB-29 USS North Dakota.