Re: [ARSCLIST] Jack Johnson

[Matt Sohn <mahatma@xxxxxx>]

> Greetings!
>
> I don't know of voice recordings of Johnson, but are you aware of the
> reference to him in blues and lyric folksongs about the ocean liner
Titanic?
> I don't have any discographic citations handy, but others who monitor this
> list (Dick Spottswood?) might:
>
> Jack Johnson wanted to get on board
> [They] said. "This ship don't haul no coal..."
>

One instance of this would be "The Ballad of the U.S.S. Titantic" by
folksinger Jaimie Brockett on his album "Remember the Wind and Rain" (Oracle
Records). This song takes up the whole second side of the album, and is
hilarious. Lyrics to the song can be found at:
http://www.rkdn.org/dead/lyrics/Legend_of_the_%20U.S.S._Titanic.txt

Matthew Sohn
Audio Preservationist
Louis Armstrong House and Archives
mahatma@xxxxxx