But it seems that bad taste isn't just a new thing - there's a new boxed set on shelves demonstrating Grandma and Grandpa had to put up with the same sort of headlines-as-song BS.
People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938
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.The boxed set has 70 gruesome classics - get a load of these song titles:
Burning of the Cleveland School
The Crash of the Akron
Ohio Prison Fire
Wreck of Number 52
Fate of Chris Lively and Wife
The Fatal Wreck of the Bus
The Wreck of the Westbound Airliner
Wreck on the Mountain Road
Memphis Flu
The Unfortunate Brakeman
Explosion in the Fairmount Mine
I can't help but notice how many of these seem to be Ohio-related... Seems like my birth state was a dangerous place to be, back in the day.
If you're wondering what to get the Coal Miner in your life....
ReplyDelete**snickering at your title, bty**
you are so pulling my leg!
ReplyDeletewhat's gotcha thinking about Ohio? planning a family visit anytime soon?
What's got me thinking about Ohio? Just the titles of those songs.
ReplyDeleteAnd I did not either make up those songs, nope I didn't not.
We ARE heading up to Cleveland for my Dad's retirement party in February, which will be cool.