Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best part of his program was the series after the intermission; beginning with a fine, driving Frankie and Johnnie, he spun his way through two of the best blues ever written: House of the Rising Sun and Hard Times Blues. White followed these with a blues version of Molly Malone. This song, like Barbara Allen before the intermission, illustrates his tendency to convert songs alien to his background into personal vehicles; his Barbara and Molly come from New Orleans, but Josh makes them convincing...
Gary is Josh's perennial second-fiddle, an even more ingratiating figure who never falls victim to the slickness of his mentor. He began with a hammed-up version of Foggy, Foggy Dew, with exquisite footnotes from Josh's guitar, and the audience was his within a minute. His version of the Saints Go Marching In seemed to be a parody of his own singing, while his concluding His Eye Is On the Sparrow, aside from its own merits, convinced a perplexed audience that he was sober...
...Clearwater last week, softball put on its small-scale version of the World Series and crammed in a full measure of fine baseball. The final game, as usual, belonged to the pitchers. In an 18-inning final between the Sealmasters and the Bombers, Clearwater Schoolteacher Herb Dudley, 37, hung on to win, 1-0, and the Bombers hung on to their championship...
...years (1845-73). Leavell even owes his first name of Ullin to McGuffey. His parents were especially fond of Thomas Campbell's poem Lord Ullin's Daughter, which they had read as children in a McGuffey reader. For years Leavell has argued for a new version of old values. "It takes no more time to teach the child the phrase 'right or wrong,'" he says, "than it does 'quack, quack...
...four-seat version of Bavarian Motor Works' two-seater Isetta. The Plexiglas front still opens up to admit the driver and front passenger. The two back passengers enter by a new narrow door in the right rear...