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Sing a Song of Murder: With a little pen knife held in her hand . . .
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Sing a Song of Murder. Murder, music, mayhem. It's all killer . . . no filler. Tuesday, April 30, 2013. With a little pen knife held in her hand . . . Weegee (Arthur Felig), Untitled, ca 1940. 2/5/13: Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender. 11/14/12: Yet Another Look: Stagger Lee. 11/11/12: Day of Rest: I Want Jesus to Talk With Me. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads Project. 10/18/11 : Stagger Lee, Pt 2. 10/10/11: Stagger Lee, Pt 1. 9/13/11: Song of Joy. 11/9/12: The Lonely Grave of Virginia Rappe.
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Sing a Song of Murder: NCBS Murder Ballads Project. 2. Stagger Lee pt 1
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Sing a Song of Murder. Murder, music, mayhem. It's all killer . . . no filler. Monday, October 10, 2011. NCBS Murder Ballads Project. 2. Stagger Lee pt 1. Stagolee was a bully man, an' ev'y body knowed,. When dey seed Stagolee comin', to give Stagolee de road,. O dat man, bad man, Stagolee done come. Stagolee, 1911, Journal of American Folklore. Stagger Lee. AKA Stackolee. Stack O'Lee. Armed and extremely dangerous. Shot a man over a Stetson hat. A bad, bad, man. Another version recorded by Hurt in 1964.
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Sing a Song of Murder: January 2013
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Sing a Song of Murder. Murder, music, mayhem. It's all killer . . . no filler. Tuesday, January 1, 2013. That is about the ugliest song I have ever heard, ugly in the sense that it is violent and tears at the guts of what white people have done to my people in this country.". Sprung from the AIDS crisis. And the lynchings in the American South inspired the protest song, Strange Fruit. In 1871, in response to restoration, and the lost in the Civil War (3). To music, became Strange Fruit. Writer Dorian Lyn...
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Sing a Song of Murder: The Lonely Grave of Virginia Rappe
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Sing a Song of Murder. Murder, music, mayhem. It's all killer . . . no filler. Friday, November 9, 2012. The Lonely Grave of Virginia Rappe. While I was in LA this summer, I made a point to visit Hollywood Forever Cemetery. One of the graves I wanted to check out was the grave of Virginia Rappe. Who was Virginia Rappe? The details of her life are pretty sketchy. Biographies. On September 5th, 1921 she attended a party at the St. Francis Hotel suite of legendary actor Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Fatty Arbuck...
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Sing a Song of Murder: April 2013
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Sing a Song of Murder. Murder, music, mayhem. It's all killer . . . no filler. Tuesday, April 30, 2013. With a little pen knife held in her hand . . . Weegee (Arthur Felig), Untitled, ca 1940. 2/5/13: Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender. 11/14/12: Yet Another Look: Stagger Lee. 11/11/12: Day of Rest: I Want Jesus to Talk With Me. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' Murder Ballads Project. 10/18/11 : Stagger Lee, Pt 2. 10/10/11: Stagger Lee, Pt 1. 9/13/11: Song of Joy. 11/9/12: The Lonely Grave of Virginia Rappe.
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Sing a Song of Murder: Farewell Possum.
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Sing a Song of Murder. Murder, music, mayhem. It's all killer . . . no filler. Tuesday, April 30, 2013. George Jones wasn't a murder ballad type of guy, he was more of "drinking whiskey and crying 'cuz she left me" honky tonk guy. But looking at his life, it's almost surprising that he didn't become the topic of a murder ballad: violence, drug addiction, divorce, occasionally singing like a duck on stage, more divorce, and a lot of booze. I'm not kidding about the duck thing either:. I've been racking my...
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Sing a Song of Murder: El Paso
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Sing a Song of Murder. Murder, music, mayhem. It's all killer . . . no filler. Wednesday, November 7, 2012. Songwriter and singer Marty Robbins, a native of Arizona and one of ten children, grew up listening to his maternal grandfather tell stories of the west. (1). This obviously had a profound impact, which can be heard on the, 1959 album Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs. And the track El Paso. In what writer James Miller calls "the last great cowboy ballad" (2). Her "spell" is so powerful that the d...
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Sing a Song of Murder: Yet Another Look: Stagger Lee
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Sing a Song of Murder. Murder, music, mayhem. It's all killer . . . no filler. Wednesday, November 14, 2012. Yet Another Look: Stagger Lee. I know you're all probably getting tired of old Stagger Lee but . . . this blew me away:. The Collins Kids. Larry and Lorrie. Larry is probably around twelve or thirteen here. All the little teenyboppers of today ain't got nothing on this kid. Lorrie is pretty stellar as well. This has nothing to do with murder but here's another one of their songs:. Marty Robbins - ...
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Sing a Song of Murder: Hello Darling . . .It's been a long time.
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Sing a Song of Murder. Murder, music, mayhem. It's all killer . . . no filler. Sunday, October 14, 2012. Hello Darling . . .It's been a long time. Yeah, I've been gone awhile. At the end of last year I decided to stop hemming and hawing and devote my free time to writing a novel. It's been a long process, and has left me with little time for other writing activities, including this blog. So am I back? Not entirely. But fear not! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Dance of Death - Holbein. The Cramps - B...
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The journey to Ellis Island, New York, was made by hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants
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The journey to Ellis Island, New York. Facts about Ellis Island. The immigration museum at Ellis Island. Rarr; The immigrants' journey to Ellis Island. Ellis Island from the water. The problem for many of those who wanted to emigrate was that they couldn't find any regular employment in the first place. Without steady income, saving such a fare could be difficult if not impossible. Ship journey to Ellis Island. Arrival in New York. Through' tickets were also available. For example, the Lanagan family...
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