{"id":2314,"date":"2005-06-07T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-08T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/?p=2314"},"modified":"2020-04-06T11:11:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T15:11:50","slug":"geiger-our-favorite-folk-musician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/geiger-our-favorite-folk-musician\/","title":{"rendered":"Geiger: our favorite folk musician"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Geiger, being honored tonight with the News Division&#8217;s prestigious Kwapil Award, has submitted the lyrics of the songs he&#8217;s singing as his acceptance speech. He shares them with all of us&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>============================================<br \/>There&#8217;s a Large Hotel<br \/>(There&#8217;s a Small Hotel, 1935, apologies to Rodgers &#038; Hart)<br \/>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a large hotel<br \/>Where the News Division dwells<br \/>I love when we&#8217;re all here, together<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a Division suite<br \/>One room bright and neat<br \/>Complete for us to share together<\/p>\n<p>Entering in that wondrous room<br \/>You can see all kinds people<br \/>Really smart people, real fun people<\/p>\n<p>When the week is done<br \/>We&#8217;re through with work and fun<br \/>We&#8217;ll thank that large hotel together!<\/p>\n<p>===========================================<br \/>Night and Day<br \/>(Night and Day, 1932, apologies to Cole Porter)<br \/>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Night and day<br \/>Why is it so?<br \/>That I stay up every night<br \/>Until the dawn&#8217;s glow<\/p>\n<p>My conference friends I see<br \/>Only once a year, so I must be<br \/>Out on the town<br \/>Night and day<\/p>\n<p>Day and night<br \/>My headache tortures me<br \/>I try to stay awake through speeches<br \/>but my eyes simply cannot see<\/p>\n<p>But when at last I fly back home<br \/>My weariness straight into the bone<br \/>I sleep and sleep &#8212; 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He shares them with all of us&#8230;. ============================================There&#8217;s a Large Hotel(There&#8217;s a Small Hotel, 1935, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/geiger-our-favorite-folk-musician\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[20,140,63,62],"class_list":["post-2314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oldnewsliblog","tag-liz-donovan","tag-awards","tag-richard-geiger","tag-sla-conference-2005"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2314"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4789,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2314\/revisions\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/slanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}