[Magdalen] RIP Fred Hellerman, 89.

[Sibyl Smirl]

On 9/3/16 9:48 AM, Marion Thompson wrote:
> I cast my mind back a long, long way, to age perhaps + or minus 9 years
> old (was born in 1938) when I was at boarding school in the Eastern
> Townships of Quebec.  My best friend, Helen Weissman, and I used to sing
> Goodnight Irene.  What I can't figure out is how or where I ever could
> have heard it enough to learn it, likewise the Anniversary Song.

Bands always used to do "Goodnight Irene" as their last song of the last 
set, even just instrumental, to clue people to get it together and go 
home from wherever they were, even things like community "sings" that 
didn't have a professional band, and music variety programs on radio 
before television.  You were probably familiar with it subliminally even 
before you learned to talk.  It was around before there were recordings.


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