tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post7991454823279108839..comments2024-03-29T08:48:14.872-04:00Comments on pancocojams: 19th Century Black American Sources for "Ain't Gonna Rain No More" Song & Rhymes Azizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-42627572570979304992021-07-03T10:25:48.507-04:002021-07-03T10:25:48.507-04:00"Floating verses" is a term that refers ..."Floating verses" is a term that refers to verses/lines from songs or rhymes that are found in multiple songs and rhymes. These floating verses often cross song/music genres.<br /><br />This pancocojams post presents quotes that indicate that the floating verses that are found in Wendell Hall's 1923 song "Ain't Gonna Rain No More" came from various Black American songs/rhymes, some of which date back to the 19th century.<br /><br />Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-6329113619053524862021-07-03T09:27:08.054-04:002021-07-03T09:27:08.054-04:00Here are two comments from another YouTube comment...Here are two comments from another YouTube comment thread about Wendell Hall's recordings of "Ain't Gonna Rain No More"<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGxCGjidgb0&ab_channel=cdbpdx" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGxCGjidgb0&ab_channel=cdbpdx</a><br />1. ykrgfk, 2019<br />"I used to have a copy of the sheet music and Wendell Hall was credited as the composer. Doubt if he was though - lots of stock-in-trade 'floating verses'. I still wonder, though, what the idea is behind the lyrical claim that 'it ain't gonna rain no more'."<br /><br /><br />2. Barry I. Grauman, 2020<br />"Recorded on October 1, 1923. A few weeks later, Hall also recorded it for Victor."<br />Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-58650044094506933682021-07-03T09:24:03.451-04:002021-07-03T09:24:03.451-04:00Here are two comments from a YouTube comment threa...Here are two comments from a YouTube comment thread about Wendell Hall's recordings of "Ain't Gonna Rain No More"<br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQA2lcYbdo&ab_channel=RReady555" rel="nofollow"><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQA2lcYbdo&ab_channel=RReady555</a><br /><br />1. Edward Sharp, 2019<br />"This song was published in Chicago in 1923 and entered the public domain January, 2019. It is a historic song as the first to be popularized by radio play in the crystal set era. Hall traveled the country playing the song live at every radio station he could find until the song became the biggest seller in sheet music in the country. Chicago was then a national music center with many hit songs produced in 1923. As to why the City's music industry collapsed, read Chicago's Music Industry."<br /><br /><br />2. Jeff Whitman, 2021<br />"Am I the only one here who thinks that a white man who purposely tries to sound like a poor black man in a childish parody type of song in 1923 -- at at time when more serious blues recording from black artists were beginnign to emerge on to the music scene -- isn't racist?"<br /> Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.com