I spend much of my time in my office behind my computer looking out that skylight in my garage.
Hi Humble. Thank you for such a prompt email and on air response to my note. Usually my ranting and raving just falls on the deaf ears of my beloved family, not an entire listening audience. I should write weekly. It could be very therapeutic. My snail mail address follows. I must admit that I am cautious about giving it to you. I live in dread that you will send me a recording of the extended, dubbed, and remixed dance club version of Ain't No Sin. As for why I don't like the crazy song -- I don't know. I never realized the song was only about 90 seconds long. I would have guessed around four years. Although, the song does really seem to have a loyal following. I told you that I was probably the one with the poor taste. However, I still refuse to follow the pack. My fantasy of you being bombarded with "Kill the Bones Song" emails is gone. I'll just have to use that 90 seconds to dart from listening range and go pop some corn or run to the dooryard to check the windshield cleaner fluid level in the car. Will hear you on Friday. Rob
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Hello Humble, What do I do? Well...I'm a registered nurse in Bangor...I grew up in Boston but my mother's family originates from the South Berwick & Portland NH area. I came up here originally to attend grad school. The fact that I'm a nurse doesn't account for my affection for the "bones" song though...Why I just know good music when I hear it. It's a song about sheer delight...& wild abandon..."Take off your skin and dance around in your bones." It appeals to the (silly) child within us all...It says "forget your troubles" for a few minutes...and listen to the beat! The first time I heard this song I was in my car listening to your program as I was returning from a summer evening hike with my dog in Acadia Park. This song made me laugh out loud...and I turned up the volume "wicked" loud as I drove through the park...appreciating all the beauty around me. And, I enjoy it equally each time you play it. Such a delightful song can be heard no where else but on your fine program. I hope you won't be swayed by the opinion of one "bone phobic". As I mentioned previously, in my "humble" opinion, you couldn't play it often enough. Audrey O'C (also an "almost perfect" woman Subject: Bones
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Around 7:30 p.m. last night, you played "--- Lulu's Back in Town" with a marvelous piano rendition. Sounded like Oscar Petersen. Can you give me the name of the CD/tape it is on? Enjoyed your program! Met you years ago at your place where you gave a lobster feed. Thanks for your help.
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dear humblefarmer- could you send me a copy (or tell me how i could get a copy) of a poem i heard on your show on friday the 27th of September- it was about a man who had rigged up an outhouse with speakers to startle the ladies who happened to use the facility - my mother in law who is quite a poet herself would really get a charge out of it- (you have a great show) thank you bob c
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Hi humble. If I had my way I would keep the almost perfect office assistant barefoot. The Pingree-for-Senate crew wants me to attend a meeting in Bath, with your name on the program. October 18, Friday evening. I will have to do a quick check of my budget...maybe I can do it. I like to support social responsibility whenever I can do it. This is the beginning of my sixth year after discovering humble Farmer on the air Wednesday nights at 10pm on my way home from work at LL Bean on the second shift (temporary). Sometimes they keep you until midnight, sometimes they send you home, depending on the work. I don't think that listener,whom you read first on the program, knows that you go to Florida for the winter, if he thinks you have an assistant in the office all winter. Good hour of old fashioned music and entertainment. Robert , Bath.
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Dear Humble: re:THE BONES SONG
I first heard the Bones Song in the summer of 1963 at the piano bar of the Morton House, a rooming house/hotel, in Niantic Connecticut. It was played and sung by a superannuated lady who was known as "Lovable Bea". She had a repertiore of fascinating old tunes such that I believed I was witnessing a unique live historical experience from a bygone era never again to be seen or heard.
Her lyrics to the Bone Song went "When it gets too hot for comfort, and you can't get ice cream cones, hey, hey take off your skin and dance around in your bones. All the girls in dreamland, they got the right idea, hey, hey, take off your skin and dance around in your bones."
Another part of her lyric contained the phrase "If the Camels don't get you the Fatimas will". (a cigarette warning!)
Needless to say when I first heard this old tune on your program I was astounded and delighted as it dredged up fond memories of one of my own bygone eras.
Play on!! Its just great and I for one love to hear the Bones Song.
Art from Arrowsic
P.S. Do you know who wrote it and when? Maybe its time for someone to record it again.
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My mother, a unique and wonderful woman, with little musical talent, often sang the chorus of the Bones Song. I was surprised to hear how many different notes there actually are in that part of the song. I've been contra dancing for the past year and now that I know the rest of the words, it's my favorite song too. She's been gone for 27 years now and you could never play that song too often for me. Each time I hear it I'm back with my proper but quietly wacky mother. I just wish the song wasn't so short. Barbara
Dear Humble -
It's ALWAYS a good time to write to let you know how much we appreciate your marvelous playing of the old-time music, and your marvelous sense of humour. Both are so wonderful at the end of a long and drawn-out week. Tell me, though .... does the Almost-Perfect Woman have an unattached sister?
- Bob in Waterville
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>Forget the Credit slip. How else could he live on 250 Gajillion dollars per >year without ever leaving home? By sacrificing your package of CD's, perhaps >you've bought for him that perfect bauble that Mrs. Sam has been eyeing... >I say- Shop locally, if you can. Otherwise-well....-just stay away from those >Big Boxes.....mail is better, at least they're mostly nice... >More Cheers!Rebe.
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Shop locally? Where in the world can I go into a Maine store and buy 150 sixty minute cassette tapes, 200 brown envelopes with no metal hooks on the back, 600 sheets of cd label paper, and 300 blank cds? Not in any Sam's Club in Maine.
And if you can buy this stuff locally, you don't live in St. George, Maine.
I can buy all these things in Sam's Club in Fort Myers, but they don't have anything I need in the stores here in Maine.
So I am going to have to start buying these things for my business through the mail.
How nice it would be if I could buy those little cd stickers in Rockland. But nobody carries them.
When local stores start carrying the things people want, people will start shopping locally.
Thanks for writing. And thanks for listening. And thanks for giving me a rant for next week. Humble
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Dear Humble, I love your program and listen to you each week. As regards the "bone song" issue...In my "humble" opinion, you couldn't play it often enough. I enjoy it every time you play it...and I turn up the radio "wicked" loud each time. Audrey O Bangor
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Hey- It's a great song. And it's only about a minute and a half. So if it bugs someone, that's about a trip to the toilet, I say.... Let us all take off our skin, it's probably too thin, anyway. Cheers Again.Rebe
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Hello. You met us, Susan Bloomfield and Kenny DeCoster, at the Common Ground Fair. You thought I was "witty." It was a pleasure to meet you. We enjoyed your broadcast this evening and vote (that's 2) in favor of "dance around in your bones." It sure was hot enough this summer to do that if you were so inclined. Poo on those people who don't like it. That's why there's a volume control on the radio. I have been meaning to send you a copy of my favorite Far Side cartoon; it perhaps sums up my sense of humor. I hope to get that to you sometime next week. Have a good week and thank you very much for your work. - Susan Bloomfield - Kenny DeCoster
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Dear Humble I first heard the Bones Song in the summer of 1963 at the piano bar of the Morton House, a rooming house/hotel, in Niantic Connecticut. It was played and sung by a superannuated lady who was known as "Lovable Bea". She had a repertiore of fascinating old tunes such that I believed I was witnessing a unique live historical experience from a bygone era never again to be seen or heard.
Her lyrics to the Bone Song went "When it gets too hot for comfort, and you can't get ice cream cones, hey, hey take off your skin and dance around in your bones. All the girls in dreamland, they got the right idea, hey, hey, take off your skin and dance around in your bones."
Another part of her lyric contained the phrase "If the Camels don't get you the Fatimas will". (a cigarette warning!)
Needless to say when I first heard this old tune on your program I was astounded and delighted as it dredged up fond memories of one of my own bygone eras.
Play on!! Its just great and I for one love to hear the Bones Song. Art from Arrowsic
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T'ain't No Sin
(Walter Donaldson/Edgar Leslie)
When you hear sweet syncopation
And the music softly moans
T'ain't no sin to take off your skin
And dance around in your bones
When it gets too hot for comfot
And you can't get an ice cream cone
T'ain't no sin to take off your skin
And dance around your bones
Just like those bamboo babies
Down in the South Sea tropic zone
T'ain't no sin to take off your skin
And dance around your bones
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My mother, a unique and wonderful woman, with little musical talent, often sang the chorus of the Bones Song. I was surprised to hear how many different notes there actually are in that part of the song. I've been contra dancing for the past year and now that I know the rest of the words, it's my favorite song too. She's been gone for 27 years now and you could never play that song too often for me. Each time I hear it I'm back with my proper but quietly wacky mother. I just wish the song wasn't so short. Barbara Cox
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Dear Humble,
Please keep "Bones" tune. Please keep "Bones" tune. Please keep "Bones" tune.
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Sincerely,
Walt P
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