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100 Best Songs of the South
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Posted on 11/12/2006 8:25:07 PM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: Colonel Kangaroo
you're just PITIFUL.
sadly for you, nobody else here thinks you're as wonderful & marvelous as you do.
DU is awaiting your arrival with bated breath.
free dixie,sw
141
posted on
11/15/2006 2:12:20 PM PST
by
stand watie
("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
To: Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin
142
posted on
11/15/2006 2:13:09 PM PST
by
stand watie
("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
To: stand watie
143
posted on
11/15/2006 3:50:30 PM PST
by
Rte66
To: Mr. Blonde
And why Copperhead Road isn't on this list I will never know.I assume the folks who compiled the list Disapprove of Marijuana. (I do, too, in a "mind your own business" sorta way, but that's another thread.)
Steve's a total goofball, but he is an incredible songwriter. What he records is only a fraction of his writing output. When I used to watch videos on CMT (back when we had cable) I was amazed at all his songwriting credits.
I'm pretty sure he wrote "Black Velvet," which was recorded by a lovely, tall girl with a powerful soprano voice. That should be on the list of Best Southern Songs, too.
144
posted on
11/15/2006 6:23:07 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Your friends are very small. They do not speak Greek.)
To: linda_22003
"That's your failing, not the song's. It's a classic, and very well known."
Just lucky, I guess. I never thought the South was mostly about lynching.
Do you?
145
posted on
11/15/2006 6:57:16 PM PST
by
outdriving
(Diversity is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.)
To: outdriving
I never thought the South was mostly about lynching. Is there a "Ballad of the Wichita Massacre" that could go at the top of a list of Northern songs?
146
posted on
11/16/2006 4:31:22 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Your friends are very small. They do not speak Greek.)
To: outdriving
147
posted on
11/16/2006 4:32:55 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Your friends are very small. They do not speak Greek.)
To: Rte66
good for you.
free dixie,sw
148
posted on
11/16/2006 7:41:49 AM PST
by
stand watie
("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
To: outdriving
Not mostly, but it shouldn't be bypassed if the song is a classic. No one said it was only jolly "feel good" songs about the south.
To: outdriving
Not mostly, but it shouldn't be bypassed if the song is a classic. No one said it was only jolly "feel good" songs about the south.
To: Rte66
you're in EXCELLENT company.
our former governor, Douglas Wilder, ALWAYS stands for "Dixie" (AND for our CSA flag) & nobody in VA (i don't think) sings "Dixie" LOUDER or WORSE, except me of course.
one of my favorite chuckles was a few(4-5) years ago when the governor & i were standing near each other at a CSA memorial ceremony in Richmond. a "nice lady" came up to the two of us & said, "it would be better if the two of you gentlemen stood QUIETLY at attention during the singing of Dixie. i've heard both of you TRY to sing." (DW & i both "cracked up". we did NOT sing that day.)
free dixie,sw
151
posted on
11/16/2006 7:54:29 AM PST
by
stand watie
("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
To: Tax-chick
that could go at the top of a list of Northern songs? That spawns a question: Are there 'songs of the north'?
152
posted on
11/16/2006 12:37:14 PM PST
by
cowboyway
(My heroes have always been Cowboys)
To: bmwcyle
I attended a concert at Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, the Boston Pops I think and there was wild applause and inducement for encores.
Fiedler played and left and came back and bowed and played and repeated the process several times.
He had Pops play Dixie. The House went wild and of course everyone stood up. Halfway through the violinist came up and took the baton. Fiedler waved and departed as the piece was finished.
153
posted on
11/16/2006 12:46:16 PM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. Rozerem commercials give me nightmares)
To: cowboyway
Good question. How about "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"?
154
posted on
11/16/2006 1:23:12 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Your friends are very small. They do not speak Greek.)
To: Tax-chick
that's one of my favorite songs.
did you know that the ship has been found??? (a special about the EF was on cable TV last week.)
free dixie,sw
155
posted on
11/16/2006 2:46:56 PM PST
by
stand watie
("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
To: stand watie
I think I saw something about that on PBS. It's definitely a Northern song :-).
156
posted on
11/16/2006 3:28:31 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Your friends are very small. They do not speak Greek.)
To: bert
157
posted on
11/16/2006 4:21:11 PM PST
by
bmwcyle
(The snake is loose in the garden and Eve just bit the apple.)
To: stand watie
I don't believe I've seen any mention of Lynrd Skynrd's "Workin For MCA" on here. I think its a great song because it trashes Yankee know-it-alls. You have to listen close to the words, but its there!
158
posted on
11/17/2006 5:21:12 AM PST
by
Colt .45
(Navy Veteran - Thermo-Nuclear Landscapers Inc. "Need a change of scenery? We deliver!")
To: Tax-chick
How about "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"? I think so. That's a fun song to play on guitar and sing around a campfire, but you gotta have a helluva memory because it's got about 30 verses.
I guess some of those Broadway tunes about NY would count, also.
Indiana wants me,
Lord I can't go back there.
159
posted on
11/17/2006 5:29:36 AM PST
by
cowboyway
(My heroes have always been Cowboys)
To: Colt .45
I think its a great song because it trashes Yankee know-it-alls.(first verse)
Seven years of hard luck comin' down on me
from a motor boat, yes, up in Nashville, Tennessee.
I worked in every joint you can name, yes, every honky tonk.
They all come to see yankee slicker saying, baby, you're what I want.
Actually, it's a record of what's happened to Country music over the last 30+ years. Yankee slickers in Nashville.
(see post #36)
160
posted on
11/17/2006 5:41:06 AM PST
by
cowboyway
(My heroes have always been Cowboys)
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