mm@vaxine.UUCP (Mark Mudgett) (03/29/85)
>From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) >> >Ah, but who could forget the Captain & Tenneils(sp?) "Muskrat Love"? >> >> Ah, but remember that it was the group "America" who first did >> "Muskrar love", and I do believe they wrote it, also. > >Sorry, but the song was called "Muskrat Ramble" and it was penned and first >recorded by Texas singer/songwriter Willis Alan Ramsey. While other people >did record top-40-ized crap versions of the tune, Ramsey's own laid-back >rendition is a classic and doesn't deserve the insult of being mentioned in >this discussion. (Harrumph. :-) ) > >--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") >--- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle >--- riddle@ut-sally.UUCP, riddle@ut-sally.ARPA, riddle%zotz@ut-sally > "Muskrat Love" is NOT the same song as "Muskrat Ramble". "Muskrat Ramble" is a dixieland standard, and was NOT recorded by the Captain and Toenail. (Hrrumph-umph >8-( ) -- _TT /| |~ Mark C. Mudgett >====+++===< | O| |~ mm@vaxine.UUCP {_|||_} \| O| 617-667-7900x2456