A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....04-13-04....Mississippi - "Virtute et Armis"

Mama_Bear

[Mama_Bear]

How'd you like the way I spelled Mississippi?

Very cute!

Did you see what T Man posted about "Mr. and Mississippi"? I was sure he was making that up but, as it turns out, it really is a song. LOL.

[Pippin]

Hey!

Maryland's state song aint cheesy or weak!

Oh! Maryland! my Maryland!

oops!

Can't sing that on a thread about Mississippi! LOL!

[Pippin]

LOL!

I like T Man's song! cute!

[oyez]

As I remember it, the original melody fit a song that went with the lyrics, "Roll with Ross, Roll with Ross. He's his own boss."(wink-wink)

[Mama_Bear]

Maryland's state song aint cheesy or weak!

Well, no. But Maryland is the exception that proves the rule. ;-)

[Mama_Bear]

LOL!

[Mama_Bear]

I need to take off and drive my MIL to her hair and doctor appointment. I will get back to the thread as soon as I can and pick up where I left off.

You all have a Finest day!

[dansangel]

I love that graphic (((((Billie)))))))

Hope you are having a great day!

[Pippin]

:O)

[mwyounce]

Thanks for the great tribute to Mississippi!

Sure, when people think of music and Mississippi, they think blues, but did y'all know that Hattiesburg is the birthplace of Rock 'n' Roll too?

Read on...

IS HATTIESBURG THE BIRTH PLACE OF ROCK AND ROLL?
October 18, 1996
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~archives/blind.htm

Have you ever wondered why a local radio station signs on by saying, "Coming to you from Hattiesburg, the birth place of rock and roll. Look it up."? One reason may be that in the book The Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, published by Rolling Stone magazine, two songs recorded in Hattiesburg in 1936 by native Mississippi musicians are identified as possibly the earliest rock and roll recordings.

The two songs are "Barbecue Bust" and "Dangerous Woman." They were recorded in Hattiesburg in 1936 by the Mississippi Jook Band, consisting of the legendary Blind Roosevelt Graves singing vocals and playing guitar and his brother Uaroy Graves on tambourine and kazoo. They were joined for the recording session by one of Mississippi's most influential musicians, Cooney Vaughn, who played piano.

According to the Rolling Stone history, "The Graves brothers of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, who recorded 'rocking and reeling' spirituals for Paramount in 1929, made several blues records as the Mississippi Jook Band in 1936. Their 'Barbecue Bust' and 'Dangerous Woman' featured fully formed rock & roll guitar riffs and a stomping rock & roll beat."

Roosevelt Graves was born in Rose Hill near Meridian. After World War II, Graves moved to Gulfport, where he is said to have died in 1960. Piano player Cooney Vaughn performed weekly on radio station WCOC in Meridian prior to World War II.

In 1936 Paramount Records talent scout and Jackson furniture store owner H.C. Speir located the Graves Brothers, whom he had recorded in Indiana in 1929, performing in a church in McComb and arranged for them to do a second recording session in Hattiesburg.

To play piano in the Hattiesburg session, Speir chose Cooney Vaughn, described by Ed Komara, archivist in the Blues Archives at the University of Mississippi, as an influential live performer in Hattiesburg, where musicians from the Delta and New Orleans on their way by train to a gig would stop over in The Hub City to hear Vaughn play.

The combination of Vaughn's uninhibited piano style with the religious feeling and musical versatility of the Graves Brothers resulted in a the beginnings of a new type of music -- rock and roll.

[Billie]

Hi, Pippin. Hugs back to you, dear girl.

((((((((((Pip)))))))))

[Billie]

Have a lovely day, Sistah Billie.

Will try very hard to. :)

[Billie]

Thank you - the dresses fit today's thread. :) Hope your day is dandy, dansy. :)

[dansangel]

Thank you - the dresses fit today's thread. :)

I'm happy my dress fits *at all* after all the chocolate I've eaten since Easter!

[Billie]

A great big Finest Welcome to FReepers and FRiends of Mississippi!

[Billie]

I'm happy my dress fits *at all* after all the chocolate I've eaten since Easter!

LOL! Let's don't talk about chocolate bunnies and eggs and stuff. (or the fresh batch of chocolate chip cookies I just baked) :)

[Donaeus]

Ah declare Dahlin', look at all those Georgous Mahgnolias! I just can't wait until June for our family vacation, we're supposed to go to Louisiana but after this how can we miss Mississippi? I'll have to mention it to my Mother tonight.

Mmm, I can taste those shrimps...shrimp po boys, shrimp kebobs, fried shrimp, boiled shrimp, lemon shrimp, shrimp gumbo, shrimp etoufee, shrimp jambalaya, shrimp cocktail, grilled shrimp, coconut shrimp, barbeque shrimp...that's about all I know about shrimp. Had to put in a lil sumpthin' for our best good friend Bubba of Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. :) I had coconut shrimp for dinner last night but I might just have to have some more.

Everyone have a wonderful rest of the day.

Lakeside--you and your sons are added to my prayers. God bless and thank you for their service.

[dansangel]

Did somebody say "fresh-baked chocolate chip cookies"???[sniffing air]

:-)

[Billie]

Wishing a good Tuesday afternoon to some of our Finest Guys, ..... and you, too, T Man. :)

[dansangel]

shrimp po boys, shrimp kebobs, fried shrimp, boiled shrimp, lemon shrimp, shrimp gumbo, shrimp etoufee, shrimp jambalaya, shrimp cocktail, grilled shrimp, coconut shrimp, barbeque shrimp...that's about all I know about shrimp

Oh *man* - my stomach is growlin'....

((((((Donaeus)))))))

:-)