Favorite Song/Quote

[shoelessjoe]

Hope I don't banned for this, but I also like Rod Stewart's and (now hold on) Barry Manilow's versions, too ... lyricist, Mitchell Parish really put a face on Carmichael's tune, no?

 

[carebear]

I actually first heard the two songs I mentioned on a Bryan Ferry album, so you aren't alone.

 

[kysaddletramp]

The truth hurts

"The great tragedy of Science-------the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact." A. Huxley

There goes the UFO's last seen flying over Alabama!

May not be my FAV. quote but a good one.

 

[JP147]

Men cluster to me like moths around a flame
And if their wings burn, I know I'm not to blame

 

[Two Gun Bob]

From 'Way out West' (1936) by Laurel & Hardy

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

On a mountain in Virginia, stands a lonesome pine.

Just below is the cabin home of a little girl of mine.

Her name is June and very, very soon, she'll belong to me.

For I know she's waiting there for me, 'Neath that lone pine tree.



In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,

On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine.

In the pale moonshine, our hearts entwine,

Where she carved her name and I carved mine,

Oh June, like the mountains I'm blue.

Like the pine, I am lonesome for you.

In the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia,

On the Trail of the Lonesome Pine.

 

[JP147]

Help Please - Anyone know where this song lyric is from?

I can find variations of this song lyric but not this one specifically. Can anyone help me find the song/artist it's from?

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust,
If the women don't get you, the liquor must.

Any ideas gratefully received.

 

[Tango Yankee]

I can find variations of this song lyric but not this one specifically. Can anyone help me find the song/artist it's from?

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust,
If the women don't get you, the liquor must.

Any ideas gratefully received.

Google came up with this reference to it being a prologue to Jelly Roll Morton's "Didn't He Ramble?".

HTH!
Tom

 

[plain old dave]

Ida Red, Stay All Night -Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
Wabash Cannonball, House of the Rising Sun- Roy Acuff and the Smoky Mountain Boys

 

[KY Gentleman]

Some woman I know,
took off with my best friend.
Some joker got lucky, stole her back again!
Robt. Johnson "Come On In My Kitchen"

 

[HadleyH]

"You Are Too Far Away" Cole Porter


Till we're so close together that we
Can't tell any longer what's you and what's me,
I'll still maintain you are too far away.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

and now when I hear people curse the chance that was wasted, I know but too well what they mean;

 

[JP147]

Still need help with song quote

Many thanks to Tom but I am looking for the quote in the body of a song rather than spoken beforehand

Once again the quote is:

"Ashes to ashes and dust to dust, if the women don't get you the liquor must"

If anyone can help...

 

[StraightEight]

"Are you always much too busy?"--Spencer Tracy asking Katharine Hepburn out in "Woman of the Year."

Or is this just about songs?

"Now noise of the riveter rocks, don't mind it
'Cause the man with the whiskers has a lot behind it
But I can't keep punchin' with the victory crew
When you're making me punchy with that bottled moo

I wanna give my all if I'm gonna give it
But I gotta get my shuteye if I'm gonna rivet
So bail out, bud, with that milk barrage
Cause it's unpatriotic, it's sabotage"

--Nancy Walker with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, from the 1944 Broadway musical "Broadway Rhythm"