tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post6137743501815717016..comments2024-03-28T07:58:41.643-04:00Comments on pancocojams: 19th Century & 20th Century Examples Of "Aunt Jemima's Plaster" ("Sheepskin And Beeswax") Azizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-84984836496770219492014-10-12T12:25:04.061-04:002014-10-12T12:25:04.061-04:00Here's the link to that Wikipedia page http://...Here's the link to that Wikipedia page <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_the_Pink_(song)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_the_Pink_(song)</a><br /><br />And here's a quote:<br />The U.S. American folk (or drinking) song on which Lily the Pink was based is generally known as "Lydia Pinkham" or "The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham". It has the Roud number 8368...the compound was mass-marketed in the United States from 1876 onwards.<br /> <br />The song was certainly in existence by the time of the First World War. F. W. Harvey records it being sung in officers' prisoner-of-war camps in Germany, and ascribes it to Canadian prisoners...<br /><br />During the Prohibition era (1920–33) in the United States, the medicine (like other similar patent medicines) had a particular appeal as a readily available 40-proof alcoholic drink, and it is likely that this aided the popularity of the song. A version of the song was the unofficial regimental song of the Royal Tank Corps during World War II.[3]"Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-80320274111369671532014-10-12T04:23:09.457-04:002014-10-12T04:23:09.457-04:00Not nasty, just satisfyingly shocking - Skinny M g...Not nasty, just satisfyingly shocking - Skinny M goes to the cinema and breaks wind with considerable force:))<br /><br />Yes, I think there may be a revenge-motive in the mockery of older women and their potions. Most of us as small children were obliged to swallow something 'good for us' by our mums or grannies! <br /><br />'Lily the Pink', according to wikipedia, was apparently a riff on a US folk ballad dedicated to an actual 19thc medicine marketed by a savvy lady called Lydia Pinkham. Her cure was actually for 'female complaints' - which in the ballad became increasingy ribald. slam2011https://www.blogger.com/profile/03112153426493772446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-44283974055017137752014-10-11T22:56:50.839-04:002014-10-11T22:56:50.839-04:00Good catch, slam2011. I thought that "skinna-...Good catch, slam2011. I thought that "skinna-ma-link" came from a song h which was aknew that chorus remined me of something, but I couldn't think of it. I vaguely know that "Skinny Malinky" song. That name was may have contributed to the American childhood insult "skinny Minnie" for a girl who is thin.<br /><br />I don't know those other two songs. I'll have to check them out.<br /><br />On a serious note, could it be that people were afraid of the power that women with knowledge about natural healing cures had, and so they made up comic songs about them?<br /><br />Btw, when you described the "Skinny Malinky" song as rude, did you mean "nasty"? <br />Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-88683802144566737622014-10-11T19:45:30.124-04:002014-10-11T19:45:30.124-04:00The 'skinna-ma-lick' chorus on the last ve...The 'skinna-ma-lick' chorus on the last version reminds me of a rude little Scottish street-song about a character called 'Skinny Malinky' :)<br /><br />I wonder why it is people like to write comic songs about old ladies and their homemade cure-alls? There's also 'Auntie Maggie's Remedy'( 1940s) and 'Lily the Pink' (1968).slam2011https://www.blogger.com/profile/03112153426493772446noreply@blogger.com