My father tells me it is a Columbia recording from 1960. It was called
"Stories in Song."
At 04:40 PM 9/21/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Dear Prof. Kent-Drury,
>poor Molly Malone is more and more to deplore. Can you tell me the date of
>William Clausons recording? Thank you very much for your help! Yours
>Barbara Boock
>At 09:42 21.09.99 -0400, you wrote:
>> _A Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue_ (1796) (by Captain Francis Grose) says
>>that to "cry cockles" is "to be hanged: perhaps from the noise made whilst
>>strangling." The version of Molly Malone I heard as a child (recorded by
>>William Clauson) and which I have no reason to believe was based on
>>authority, said "she died of a favor and no one could save her." I
>>assumed it was a different pronunciation of "fever," but based upon the
>>current discussion, "favor" also makes sense.
>>
>>
>>Roxanne Kent-Drury
>>Assistant Professor
>>Literature and Language Department
>>Northern Kentucky University
>>Highland Heights, KY 41099
>>e-mail: [log in to unmask]
>>website: http://www.nku.edu/~rkdrury/index.html
>>
>>
Roxanne Kent-Drury
Assistant Professor
Literature and Language Department
Northern Kentucky University
Highland Heights, KY 41099
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
website: http://www.nku.edu/~rkdrury/index.html
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