Hi Marion,
My wife just passed your website link to me. Wow! What a wonderful gift
you have given to those of us who remember and love these songs. Also to
those, like us, who still play and sing them. I can tell it's going to
be a top-of-my-list favorite. And a resource I will really enjoy
visiting and using.
When I have some free time I will try to send you a few of your missing
lyrics. I have a practically photographic memory for most songs written
before 1965. And quite a few written afterwards, although when melodies
and harmonics changed (for the worse) and I couldn't "hear" a tune or
its chords to play by ear, the songs didn't stick in place.
By some chance, do you have or can you find a song recorded (I believe)
by Bing Crosby and Evelyn Knight called "How It Lies, How It Lies, How
It Lies"? It's from the 40s but I think it was post WW2. I've been
trying to find the recording for years and years. It's one of the songs
I play on my tenor banjo. (I mostly play piano, sometimes professionally
though mostly for my own pleasure, but have figured out 5 or 6 other
instruments.) If you can get your hands on it, perhaps you could add it
to your play-list. And let me know!
Thanks again for your wonderful website and for all the marvelous music
on it.
Stephen
Stephen Kravette, Writer/ND/Musician.
Tucson, AZ