Posted by Peter Ceresole on May 16, 2013 at 06:10:30 user PeterC.
In Reply to: Re: In Ransome country posted by Mike Dennis on May 16, 2013 at 04:10:23:
As for Miller, Goodman and Parker - why destroyed? Real quality in any art form survives
I always felt that with 'AK', Arthur Kyrilovitch, I ought to listen to some Russian folk music. Or Lakeland ditties. Romany songs. The nearest I get (one of my favourites, with a killer bridge) is 'Yes my darling daughter'. According to the Wiki, "The music... is based on a Ukrainian folk-song "Oj ne khody Hrytsju", often ascribed to the Ukrainian songstress Marusia Churai. It first appeared in the 1812 vaudeville "The Cossack-Poet" by Catterino Cavos."
So that's all right then. Of course it's a bit different when Glenn Miller plays it.