Subject: RE: Sam was a Duck?
From: harry rosenzweig (hrosenzweig@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu May 28 2009 - 17:54:08 CDT
Ann,
Was "Sam was a Duck" composed on a camping trip to Tom's patch of land up state with Terry Schilling, Dan Gantos and I in maybe the 7th ot 8th grade?
Harry
--- On Thu, 5/28/09, Davis, Ann <Adavis@carmel.in.gov> wrote:
> From: Davis, Ann <Adavis@carmel.in.gov>
> Subject: RE: Class Song
> To: "Ottawa Hills - 1959" <ohhs59@venus.soci.niu.edu>
> Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 1:12 PM
>
> Tom never gives up the chance to play it on the
> piano. However his grandchildren don't find it the
> masterpiece that all of you have, mostly they laugh!!
>
> Ann Davis
> Clerk Treasurer's Office
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ohhs59-bounce@venus.soci.niu.edu
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> On Behalf Of jd3_41@yahoo.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 1:01 PM
> To: Ottawa Hills - 1959
> Subject: Class Song
>
>
> Hi Larry,
>
> I'm not quite sure what you have in mind as "the class
> song," but as far as I personally am concerned it was that
> marvelous little ditty "Sam Was a Duck" with music (kazoo or
> jew's harp) and lyrics by that Irving Berlin of Ethel
> Street, Tom Davis. I think Buck Marris may also have been
> part of the highly talented creative process. I was but an
> awe-struck bystander albeit one who joined in the first
> singing of the song. During the 1950s whether in school,
> summer camp or just hanging out, whenever in need of a laugh
> or a lift we would sing "Sam Was a Duck."
>
> After we all graduated and went our separate ways, I often
> visited remote places yet to be blessed by electricity and
> television. At night there usually were only three options:
> drinking, singing and that third thing. I always have been a
> terrible singer, but when my turn came up it would
> have been impossibly rude to prevaricate with excuses.
> Rather than choose "99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall," I
> always have given a boisterous rendition of "Sam Was a
> Duck." In certain longhouses along the Mekong and Irrawaddy
> Rivers, in Thimpu teahouses, at gatherings on the
> Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and in towns on the edge of the
> Taklamakhan and Gobi deserts, Sam now is not unknown.
>
> Did anyone else take this song in different directions?
>
> Best,
> John Dolfin
>
>
> --- On Thu, 5/28/09, eljay1@bellsouth.net
> <eljay1@bellsouth.net>
> wrote:
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> From: eljay1@bellsouth.net
> <eljay1@bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: Trivia question
> To: "Ottawa Hills - 1959" <ohhs59@venus.soci.niu.edu>
> Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 12:28 PM
>
> Another trivia question. Who wrote the Class Song, and
> can anyone remember the opening line(s). No fair if
> you had anything to do with its creation.
>
>
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