Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!ut-sally!riddle From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Muskrat Ramble (Re: worst [sic] song ever) (from net.misc) Message-ID: <1402@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 23:06:35 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.1402 Posted: Tue Mar 26 23:06:35 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 28-Mar-85 06:21:35 EST References: <155@greipa.UUCP> <83@tekcrl.UUCP> Organization: U. of Tx. at Houston-in-the-Hills Lines: 14 > >Ah, but who could forget the Captain & Tenneils(sp?) "Muskrat Love"? > > Ah, but remember that it was the group "America" who first did > "Muskrar love", and I do believe they wrote it, also. Sorry, but the song was called "Muskrat Ramble" and it was penned and first recorded by Texas singer/songwriter Willis Alan Ramsey. While other people did record top-40-ized crap versions of the tune, Ramsey's own laid-back rendition is a classic and doesn't deserve the insult of being mentioned in this discussion. (Harrumph. :-) ) --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle --- riddle@ut-sally.UUCP, riddle@ut-sally.ARPA, riddle%zotz@ut-sally