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!decvax!mcnc!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!ut-sally!riddle From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) Newsgroups: net.music.folk Subject: More on "Little Boxes" Message-ID: <545@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 15:31:51 EST Article-I.D.: ut-sally.545 Posted: Fri Dec 28 15:31:51 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 29-Dec-84 09:02:13 EST Distribution: net Organization: U. of Tx. at Houston-in-the-Hills Lines: 12 Funny coincidence: after the recent exchange of postings about "Little Boxes" and its author, Malvina Reynolds, I ran across a Pete Seeger album which included in the liner notes the story of how the song came to be written. It seems that Malvina was driving with her husband one day to an afternoon performance somewhere in the suburbs around San Francisco when the idea came to her. Malvina stopped the car with the words, "Take the wheel, Bud, I feel a song coming on." By the time they reached their destination, "Little Boxes" was ready to be sung. --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle