[Dixielandjazz] PC lyrics

[EDWIN COLTRIN]

Mike, I wasn't advocating the use of non-PC lyrics. Only commenting upon the prevalence  of the tone of music during the early period. 
   
  I have the Circle series of JRM LoC records, and had made notation on the disc regarding comments which were not considered polite for the more genteel ears of that time. I played these recorde for several different groups at parties and knew that he records had to have been "cleaned-up"
   
  I now possess the Rounder set. JRM doesn't hold back, and the pre -60s language was as coarse as the lyrics of the time.  One only needs to look at the pidgin language of Hawaii describing the nationalities, the use of descriptive words that I was exposed to during the war, covering all races. Of course the venacular on some of my early 78s.
   
  I don't advocate the use of objectionable words purely for shock, however bowing to the PC crowd, there should be some latitude.
   
  Music has always been somewhat of a recorder of it's time. As diverse as the record shops of the 30s/40s, where you had to go to a race record shop to get records of black performers, some of the lyrics at that time were somewhat raunchy. But that was the way it was.
   
  Slainte
   
  Ye Olde Mouldy Fygge
   
  Ed Cotrin