Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for June 30, 2019

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    gammaguy  over 5 years ago

    The WPA? Wasn’t that one of those “socialist” projects founded by FDR?

    And if he’s planning on using Woody’s song as a theme about a new deodorant, I expect the consumer public would find “Your power is turning our darkness to dawn,” to be among the least puzzling of the lyrics.

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    Andrew Sleeth  over 5 years ago

    Of course, I don’t like dictators none myself,

    but then I think the whole country ♪

    it outta be run by e-lec-tricity

    — Woody Guthrie

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    jeffchrz Premium Member over 5 years ago

    I had that Columbia deodorant jingle idea in fourth grade. I think most of us did when we first heard that song.

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    IshkaBibel1  over 5 years ago

    No need to look it up. WPA materials are public domain.

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    AlexanderMitchell  over 5 years ago

    Big error:Via Wikipedia:""Roll On, Columbia, Roll On" was part of the Columbia River Ballads, a set of twenty-six songs written by Guthrie as part of a commission by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the federal agency created to sell and distribute power from the river’s federal hydroelectric facilities."NOT the WPA. The BPA may be a Federal agency (and still exists under the aegis of the Department of Energy), but was not a WPA formation.

    Yeah, so call it an “artificial folk song.”

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