To: left that other site
The two pieces in fact have a common source. The movie "Crossroads" uses a blues guitar instead of a violin, but it's the same basic tale.
It all goes back to "Doctor Faustus" by Marlowe, and some say that Marlowe stole it from a German language original.
168 posted on
07/05/2014 7:25:23 PM PDT by
Publius
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To: Publius
A source on Wikipedia traces a possible origin of the Daniels version to a poem, “The Mountain Whippoorwill,” by Stephen Vincent Benet (the same poet who also wrote about the devil being beaten by Daniel Webster).
170 posted on
07/05/2014 7:31:03 PM PDT by
HiTech RedNeck
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To: Publius
Doctor Faustus really got around, Didn’t He?
BTW, “Crossroads” is a favorite movie of mine, and my all-time favorite opera is Gounod’s “Faust”.
There is an alternative to selling one’s soul in order to be a dynamite musician, though.
It’s called “PRACTICE”!
LOL
172 posted on
07/05/2014 7:31:29 PM PDT by
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