Re: The song Wah! Hoo! by Cliff Friend

1999-02-17 Thread Diana Quinn

My latest ebay acquisition (and count me among those of you who have
bought an un-needed accordian from this site! I think I'm going to have
to have a feature (on the soon-to-be-launched ezine) called Accordian
Tales! stories of people who have been forced by supernatural powers
to buy accordians on ebay!  --- anyway, by latest ebay acqusition is the
sheet music to Wah! Hoo!, by Cliff Friend. 

The question: what movie was this song featured in? The song was
written in 1946, i know that Riders in the Sky have recorded it, and
Garrison K has sung it on his radio show.
The movie is a mid-30s musical with the typical Depression-era
good-times-are-just-around-the-corner attitude. All I remember of the
song is cowgirls in full cowgirl getup RIDING stationary HOBBY HORSES
in a most --er-- coquettish? way and singing Wah Hoo, Wah Hoo, Wah
Hoo. I was so happy when my hunch that the sheet music I bid on and
bought turned out to be right. The lyrics go:
   Way out west where men are men and women are very sweet
  that's where I wanna be, that's where I'm gonna be
   Way out west just once again where happiness is complete 
  there's just one thing I miss -- and it is this.

Oh gimme a horse, a great big horse and gimme a buckaroo, and let me
Wah! Hoo! Wah! Hoo! Wah! Hoo
Oh! gimme a ranch, a big pair of pants and gimme a stetson too and let
me you get the idea.I love this song!
but what's the movie?? (driving me crazy)
diana



Re: The song Wah! Hoo! by Cliff Friend

1999-02-17 Thread John Patterson

Diana Quinn wrote:

 Oh gimme a horse, a great big horse and gimme a buckaroo, and let me
 Wah! Hoo! Wah! Hoo! Wah! Hoo
 Oh! gimme a ranch, a big pair of pants and gimme a stetson too and let
 me you get the idea.I love this song!
 but what's the movie?? (driving me crazy)
 diana

Look up Bill Boyd (Bill Boyd's Cowboy Ramblers) in
AMG and explore from there. He wrote the song, and 
he and his group appeared in several films in the '40s
including Raiders of the West and Prairie Pals.

-jp



Re: The song Wah! Hoo! by Cliff Friend

1999-02-17 Thread James Nelson



 Diana Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/17 3:32 PM 
by latest ebay acqusition is the sheet music to Wah! Hoo!, by Cliff Friend. 

The question: what movie was this song featured in? The song was written in 1946, i 
know that Riders in the Sky have recorded it, and Garrison K has sung it on his 
radio show.  

Do you really mean 1946?  I have a 78 record of this number by Bill Boyd and his 
Cowboy Ramblers that dates from the mid-thirties.  It's not in fromt of me, but it may 
have the title of the movie on the label.  

Jim Nelson