Kawliga

[Robert Norton]

 Never heard the Charlie Pride version. I think I would have lost it right
there. It's about as unseemly a concept as Buffy Ste. Marie singing a song
about a romance between two lawn jockies.


 Doug Millison wrote:
>Glad that you and others were able to augment my faulty memory. Given the
>huge hit Charley Pride had with the song, it's possible that more people
>have heard his recording  than the original Hank Williams version. A black
>man singing a sentimentalized story about caricatured American Indians,
>cigar store Indians at that -- not a bad symbol of the expropriation of a
>subjugated, colonized, and nearly exterminated people by the winners for
>crass commercial purposes.  Like TRP's use of "Cherokee" for the dancing
>delight of upper-class white youth in GR, another example of sugar coating
>otherwise unpleasant cultural truths in the context of a mass media
>manipulated for God knows what ungodly ends.