Guild Sighting - Van Ronk next to Joni

Guildmark said:

I think the person who posted it prolly did that, since it was intended to highlight just Joni. I would've loved to hear the Chapins and Dave Van Ronk, and even Oscar himself! I actually have an 8 track tape (Yes, I know,) of Oscar Brand performing a bunch of ribald folk songs! My girlfriend's brother gave it to me when I lived in Calgary in the 70's. Titles include such classics as: "Friggin' In the Riggin'" and "The Hairs On Her Dicky-Dido (Hung Down To Her Knees)". The songs themselves are hilarious, but the fact they were performed by Oscar Brand, who was best known for wholesome hootenanies and children's programming....well, it was as if Kaptain Kangaroo was on the Playboy Channel. One of these days I need to find an 8-track player on eBay and try to get those tunes transferred to MP3.

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Guildmark said:

I actually have an 8 track tape (Yes, I know,) of Oscar Brand performing a bunch of ribald folk songs! My girlfriend's brother gave it to me when I lived in Calgary in the 70's. the fact they were performed by Oscar Brand, who was best known for wholesome hootenanies and children's programming....well, it was as if Kaptain Kangaroo was on the Playboy Channel.

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• Folk Festival [compilation]
  Everybody Sing
  American Drinking Songs
  Oscar Brand Sings for Adults
  A Folk Concert in Town Hall, New York
  Songs Inane Only
  The Best of the Worst
  We All Sing
  Paul Bunyan
  Songs of '76 [4 Lps]
  Cough! Army Songs Out of the Barracks Bag
  Riddle Me This
  Morality
  U.S. Presidential Campaign Songs
  On Campus (Concert in Canada)
  The Americans
  Up in the Air
  An Oscar Brand Songbag
  Every Inch a Sailor
  Folksongs for Fun
  Brand X
  Songs and Poems of the Sea
  Noah's Ark
  Songs for Tadpoles
  Macdougal & Bleeker
  Children's Concert at Town Hall
  Celebrate
  For Doctors Only
  Happy Birthday (World Songs)
  Bring a Song Johnny
  Shivaree
  Come to the Party
  Town Hall
  Courting Songs
  The First Thanksgiving
  The Best of Bawdy Songs
  Sing-A-Longs: I Sing, You Sing, We All Sing, Vol. 2
  Sports Car Songs
  Party at Oscar's Place [video]
  Out of the Blue
  Tell It to the Marines
  Boating Songs and All That Bilge
  Your Birthday Party
  Hop, Jump, & Sing with Oscar Brand
  2006 Pie in the Sky [Empire Musicwerks]
  1999 Presidential Campaign Songs: 1789-1996
  1995 Get a Dog
  1995 We Love Cats
  1994 I Love Cats
  1988 Singalongs: I Sing, You Sing, We All Sing, Vols. 1 & 2
  1988 I Sing, You Sing, We All Sing, Vol. 2
  1987 I Sing, You Sing, We All Sing, Vol. 1
  1987 100-Proof American Drinking Songs
  1985 American Dreamer
  1985 Oscar Brand Celebrates the First Thanksgiving in Story & Song
  1983 My Christmas Is Best (Traditional Songs for the Season)
  1982 Singing Is Believing (Songs of the Advent Season)
  1981 Billy the Kid in Song & Story
  1981 Trick or Treat
  1980 Oscar Brand/Jean Ritchie
  1978 Singing Holidays
  1977 Sing-A-Longs: I Sing, You Sing, We All Sing, Vol. 1
  1970 Laughing America
  1969 Pie in the Sky [Tradition]
  1957 Bawdy Western Songs
  1956 Sing-A-Long Bawdy Songs
  1956 The Wild Blue Yonder
  1955 Bawdy Hootenanny
  1955 Bawdy Songs Goes to College
  1954 Rollicking Sea Shanties
  1952 Bawdy Sea Shanties
  1951 Bawdy Songs & Backroom Ballads, Vol. 4
  1950 Bawdy Songs & Backroom Ballads, Vol. 3
  1948 Absolute Nonsense

• If all them young ladies was up for improvement,
  I'd give them some help with a ball bearing movement
  Roll your leg over, roll your leg over, roll your leg over,
  The man in the moon.
  . . .
  
  Oh, the minstrels sing of an English King of many long years ago,
  He ruled his land with an irn hand, though his morals were weak and low . . .
  He was dirty and lousy and full of fleas, but he had his women by twos and threes
  God bless the bastard Kind of England
  . . .
  
  Oh, dear, what can the matter be
  Seven old ladies locked in the lavatory,
  They were there from Sunday till Saturday
  Nobody knew they were there
  . . .
  
  Oh, the ring-dang-doo now what is that
  It's round and black like a bowler hat
  It's good for me and it's good for you,
  and it;'s what they call the ring-dang-do
  . . .
  
  Oh, the moon shone down on pretty Red Wing
  As she lay sleeping, this buck came creeping
  With his one good eye he was a'peeping
  He wanted to explore her promised land
  . . .
  
  Cats on the rooftops, cats on the tiles
  Cats with the clap and the crabs and the piles
  Cats with their butts all wreathed in smiles
  As they revel in the throes of fornication.
  . . .

• Passengers will please refrain
  from flushing toilets while the train
  Is in the station,
  Darling, I love you
  While the train is in the station,
  we encourage constipation
  Moonlight always makes me think of you
  
  If you have to pass some water,
  kindly call the pullman potter
  He'll place a vessel in the vestibule
  If the potter isn't near
  Then try the platform in the rear
  The one in front
  Is likely to be full
  
  If these methods are all vain
  Then simply break a window pane
  (this novel means is used by very few).
  We go strolling through the park
  Goosing statues in the dark
  If Sherman's horse can take it
  Why can't you?