Subject: RE: Sam was a Duck?
From: Davis, Ann (Adavis@carmel.in.gov)
Date: Fri May 29 2009 - 06:50:38 CDT
You betcha and according to Tom the best piece of music written. I think all the grandchildren know how to play it. He really has such good memories of those camping trips. We have a picture that was in the Press of you boys camping on a very cold night!!!
Ann Davis
Clerk Treasurer's Office
571-2414
-----Original Message-----
From: ohhs59-bounce@venus.soci.niu.edu [mailto:ohhs59-bounce@venus.soci.niu.edu] On Behalf Of harry rosenzweig
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 6:54 PM
To: Ottawa Hills - 1959
Subject: RE: Sam was a Duck?
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
> 571-2414
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ohhs59-bounce@venus.soci.niu.edu
> [mailto:ohhs59-bounce@venus.soci.niu.edu]
> 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:
>
> 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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