Subject: Re: Sam was a Duck?
From: skonklesr@aol.com
Date: Sat May 30 2009 - 22:09:14 CDT
Hey did anyone ever find Marcia Copp?? And who was the beautiful girl that lived over near Giddings and Alger......Sally Something??? I remember she always had "make out" parties at her house and it was Billy Kamels job to sit at the top of the basement stairs and flip the lights on and off.? As I recall, I never did very well at those events......probably too messed up to find my date.
Take care,
Steve Konkle
-----Original Message-----
From: Davis, Ann <Adavis@carmel.in.gov>
To: Ottawa Hills - 1959 <ohhs59@venus.soci.niu.edu>
Sent: Fri, 29 May 2009 4:50 am
Subject: RE: Sam was a Duck?
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 separa
te 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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