OT - Ann's question on the hair style and the epoch

[Igor Roshchin]

William Robb wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Igor Roshchin"
> Subject: OT - Ann's question on the hair style and the epoch
>
>> Ann,
>>
>> Here is a followup on your quesion about the hair style and the
>> epoch:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3svvCj4yhYc#t=3m24s
>> (it's much earlier - but looks as funny)
>>
> I'm pretty sure my granny was in there somewhere.
> Apparently she was rather a wild child.
>
> William Robb 

Now, it all became clear about you, Bill! ;-) 
They say that often inherited features skip a generation.
:-P~


Tue Jul 13 10:59:00 CDT 2010
Ann Sanfedele wrote:

> Well now having watched that I had to go searching on Google for the 
> name of the singer of that
> famous song "That's my weakness now"  -  Helen Kane is the answer...   
> the song wasnt written
> until 1928  close to the end of the flapper era.  
> 
> My mother had a problem in the flapper era though -- she was , to say 
> the least, quite zaftig  and that
> did not um fit in well  with the style of the day...  
> 
> ann

While the original lyrics as performed by Helen Kane can be found easily
on the web (e.g. here:
http://www.lyricsmania.com/thats_my_weakness_now_lyrics_helen_kane.html
)
you may enjoy this scanned booklet (it has also some extra lyrics):
http://www.inkvision.com/pdfs/thatsmyweakness.pdf

Enjoy!

Igor