Song Origins
Slurf Song (The Wishbone Song)
This is the real name of "The Wishbone Song." Written by Michael Hurley of the Holy Modal Rounders.
From his liner notes to the Holy Modal Rounder's Heritage Series collection I Make A Wish For A Potato, John Swenson writes, "Slurf Song is [Michael] Hurley's anthem celebrating communal meals and their inevitable aftermath." That about sums it up... except to add that it's a great example of the irreverent, wacky and weird approach to old-time tradition-infused music that was the controversial hallmark of the Rounders' work.
Source: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1197/is_1_46/ai_84841093
It is also worth mentioning that the band may have inspired the name of Rounder Records.
And so, the motive of Rounder Records was set. And the name? "I still remember one very early morning," Leighton-Levy explains, "Bill knocked on the apartment door where Ken and I were living at the time and said that he thought 'Rounder' would be a good name for this and asked how did we feel about that. We all became pretty happy -- this was the right name, for all that 'rounder' represented folklorically (hobos, travelers) and the [folk music iconoclasts] Holy Modal Rounders, and record shapes... on and on... round and round."
Source: http://www.rounder.com/index.php?id=about.php
From his liner notes to the Holy Modal Rounder's Heritage Series collection I Make A Wish For A Potato, John Swenson writes, "Slurf Song is [Michael] Hurley's anthem celebrating communal meals and their inevitable aftermath." That about sums it up... except to add that it's a great example of the irreverent, wacky and weird approach to old-time tradition-infused music that was the controversial hallmark of the Rounders' work.
Source: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1197/is_1_46/ai_84841093
It is also worth mentioning that the band may have inspired the name of Rounder Records.
And so, the motive of Rounder Records was set. And the name? "I still remember one very early morning," Leighton-Levy explains, "Bill knocked on the apartment door where Ken and I were living at the time and said that he thought 'Rounder' would be a good name for this and asked how did we feel about that. We all became pretty happy -- this was the right name, for all that 'rounder' represented folklorically (hobos, travelers) and the [folk music iconoclasts] Holy Modal Rounders, and record shapes... on and on... round and round."
Source: http://www.rounder.com/index.php?id=about.php
