Up Front: It's Not Sex, and It's Not Education
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"Oh Yea. Oh Yea. Hear ye! Hear ye!"
Just in case you missed the point of this whole 33 page post.
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Islander, in reply to
One of the sauciest songs ever, from 1928:
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Lilith – o wow, did that bring back a torrent of memories!
Nothing interesting/salacious but-one of my great-aunts was reportedly the first woman in ANZ to earn her teaching letters in piano & organ (her most illustrious pupil was Gillian Weir.)
She did so , so she could support her mother & 2 of her sisters (one of whom was Down’s Syndrome, the other who was widowed early & lost her only child when he was 10.) She was also widowed early, and brought up her only child in this household of women…The memory bit: this son was more than a bit of a lad, but he had inherited his parents’ musicianship – but he especially loved playing stride piano & jazz & pop
(his mother was classically-trained, his father (my grand-dad’s brother) also.)One night – along with my uncle Bill & a greatuncle (both of whom really liked their booze) – he got to playing his favourites – their favourites too. Among others-
the inimitable Waters. I especially remember “Stormy Weather” & “My Handy Man” because of the sniggering going on during the singing of the latter – and because uncle Bill played his record of her songs the next day…It was many many years later that I started to wonder about the origin of some of her….analogies-
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Lilith __, in reply to
Thanks for the stories, Islander :-)
How awesome for a family to be able to sit around singing and drinking together.
I first heard My Handy Man on someone else's compilation tape in a shared studio. I remember not really paying attention until one night working late I suddenly noticed the words, and had to stop what I was doing and have a good long blush.
I love the way Jazz songs can carry any sort of words or emotions in a light, nonchalant way. If you're not paying attention you may miss the feeling tone or content entirely.
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Islander, in reply to
How awesome for a family to be able to sit around singing and drinking together.
We still do it, whenever we can - and I also love Jazz (especially the older singers & players...)
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Lilith __, in reply to
Ah, I wish I could sing in tune. I can follow someone else tolerably well if they sing loudly and confidently but I can't do it by myself ;-)
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Islander, in reply to
I have one of those loud confident voices (I have very big lungs*) but for the nuance and true tone I am happy to follow my mother & one of my brothers, one of my sisters.....we make harmony-
there are also 4 others on the southern Maori side we love to sing with (and drink with!)
I literally have more than 15% normal lung capacity for age & sex. Which explains why, if I truly karaka, I can be heard from one end of Big O to the other-
slainthe va' - kia ora tatou!
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Islander, in reply to
It also explains why I am so very susceptible to lung infections, and why I can no longer fly anywhere-
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Lilith __, in reply to
I like the idea of your being heard all over town :-)
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Islander, in reply to
O thanks! (shyly said)
-but is a tiny town…we call it the settlement or village and I think those titles
are a bit rich for a few houses & baches and less than 40 people living here fulltime-
but yeah: if I yell/karaka – from my home or either end of this place – I can be heard all over…
the really lovely thing is, if it’s important (some one has died e.g) our birds will join in-
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