Dirty old men sing dirty old songs
I can't manage to link to exactly where I want to send you guys, so you'll have to bear with me and follow these instructions. Trust me, it's worth it.
First, go to The Mills Music Library Special Collections. Click on "Search the collection" and type the keyword "vulgar". This will turn up a list of 19 songs collected in the 1940s as part of a folk music preservation program. You can play RealMusic files of men then in their 70s singing the vulgar songs of their youth. And I don't mean vulgar in a quaint "I spied the ankle of a merry maid" variety, I mean songs that couldn't get played on the radio even today. Horrifying, yet hilarious.
I learned about this very special special collection thanks to my esteemed coworkers. Isn't it fun to work in a library?
5 comments:
I heart Moody, Lewis Winfield, b. 1865!
According to someone else at the office, in some of the original recordings you can hear Moody telling the (young, female) librarian working on the folk music project that she should leave the room while he sings the next song.
I finally got around to visiting this collection, what a treasure trove!! My favorite is "The Whore With Curly Hair"! Awww shit.
I just disrupted the entire SLIS lab with my laughter...people are actually leaving!
Start singing along, and they'll probably run!
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