[Dixielandjazz] Songs about The Scopes (Monkey) Trial
Steve barbone
barbonestreet at earthlink.net
Wed Apr 12 11:56:21 PDT 2006
In addition to "You're Bound to Look Like A Monkey When You Get Old"
mentioned by Ed Metz, and played by Tex Wyndham's bands every once in a
while, the following songs were written about the Scopes trial and you can
hear sound bites at:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/sfeature/sf_music.html
The John Scopes Trial
There Ain't No Bugs
Can't Make a Monkey of Me
Bryan's Last Fight
Monkey Out of Me
Monkey Business
Additionally, one of the prosecuting attorneys named Sue Kerr Hicks (male)
suspected that he was the model for Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue" made
famous in 1969 at Folsom prison. Shel Silberstein was the lyricist and
though everyone denied Mr. Hicks was model, it seems that Shel S. had
visited a place where Mr. Hicks was, 6 months before the song was made
famous and seen his name.
Cheers,
Steve Barbone
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