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[Marion Thompson]

"Daddy sang bass, Momma sang tenor ...."

Marion, a pilgrim
On 12/29/2014 10:03 AM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> Since both my parents grew up with all those hymns and we kids knew a lot
> of them (thanks to the aforementioned John Charles Thomas radio program),
> they were standard fare for singing in the car on long road trips. By the
> time I was in my teens we were heading for 4-part harmony as one of my
> brothers developed into a passable tenor, my dad was a bass, and I sang
> alto. The melody line was left to mom and the brother whose voice hadn't
> yet changed. (He later turned into a tenor and the other brother slid down
> to baritone.)
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:
>> I remember an episode of "Colombo" where a sea captain (the murderer that
>> Lt. Colombo was doing his usual number on) was  humming "Lower Lights" and
>> my mother kicked in with the lyrics.
>>
>> She might have been a militant agnostic but she knew her old hymns (and
>> the Bible, for that matter) better than most people.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jim Guthrie
>>
>>