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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Aug 27, 2020 11:28:43 GMT -5
I'm starting a thread especially for posting videos of Lydia Pinkham songs.
When I listen to the soothing, reassuring voice of George Noory of Coast to Coast AM doing the commercials for the CBD nostrum, and
all the diseases and aches and pains it can releive, in both sexes, I am reminded of American's First Great Businesswoman, and her
Miracle Drug, Vegetable Compound, which Saved the Human Race with the cure for all diseases of the human female body.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Aug 27, 2020 14:30:48 GMT -5
I'm starting a thread especially for posting videos of Lydia Pinkham songs. When I listen to the soothing, reassuring voice of George Noory of Coast to Coast AM doing the commercials for the CBD nostrum, and all the diseases and aches and pains it can releive, in both sexes, I am reminded of American's First Great Businesswoman, and her Miracle Drug, Vegetable Compound, which Saved the Human Race with the cure for all diseases of the human female body. Waitaminnit here, waitaminnit. Lydia Pinkham songs, PLURAL? Please tell me there's an album of these called the LP LP. I'm kind of staggering under the impact of the news that this stuff was ever marketed to men. It's just a bottle of booze after all, but for Pete's sake, is nothing sacred in this world? |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Aug 27, 2020 19:03:09 GMT -5
Goldie, I don't know the total number of Lydia Pinkham songs, but there are definitely more than one.
While her Vegetable Compound was undoubtedly a quack drug (eucalyptus, which is used as a cold and/or cough remedy is the only
ingredient that I know of to have any effect on the human body), Mrs. Pinkham was nice to answer mail from ladies asking for advice about their health problems, and she was offered $100.000 or more, by people who wanted to exploit those letters but she turned them down, considering the contents of the letters to be confidential.
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Post by Deeky on Aug 27, 2020 20:51:02 GMT -5
Mrs. Pinkham was nice to answer mail from ladies asking for advice about their health problems. She even continued to answer letters after her death. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Aug 28, 2020 8:43:35 GMT -5
Mrs. Pinkham was nice to answer mail from ladies asking for advice about their health problems. She even continued to answer letters after her death. Deeky, I have heard that tale, and this is where we get into the matter of Folklore, and just how did the folk tale get started. Folk tales can be true or false. The story, as I have heard it, is that one magazine continued to publishe Lydia's advice column after she expired, and a reporter? went to her grave, and took a photo of the marker, and, then what? Did he send it to the publishers and editors of the magazine? Did that magazine then stop publishing Lydia's advice column? Did the publishers and editors know Lydia was deceased in the first place? So, this is where the matter of asking more questions as to specific details of a story we have heard, or read, is a good an necessary thing to do. One thing I'm uncertain of is, had opium already become a "controlled substance?" if that is the correct term, when Lydia started sellng her nostrum to the public? Some of the ads I've seen stressed that Vegetable compound had no opium in it. Because the Food and Drug administration ordered Lydia to take it out? Or, was the FDA already regulating opium drugs when Lydia started selling her non prescription wonder drug? Every Fold tale has a long, detailed story behind it. There was a book titled, "Quack!" not sure about the ! in the title or not, but I did check that book out of the library and, as usual, dont' remember much about it. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Aug 28, 2020 8:47:32 GMT -5
This is off topic, but two more shower photos are on the way. These will be from photos taken with my cell phone camera, rather than on the scanning machine at the public library. Had misplaced the cord for connecting the cell phone to my computer, when straightening up things around the Dungeon, but easily and quickly found that cord (I have two others that look exactly, but neither one works for getting the photos from, or charging the cell phone. Suppose the molded in connections must have gotten loose.)
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Aug 28, 2020 20:55:02 GMT -5
Goldie, I don't know the total number of Lydia Pinkham songs, but there are definitely more than one. While her Vegetable Compound was undoubtedly a quack drug (eucalyptus, which is used as a cold and/or cough remedy is the only ingredient that I know of to have any effect on the human body), Mrs. Pinkham was nice to answer mail from ladies asking for advice about their health problems, and she was offered $100.000 or more, by people who wanted to exploit those letters but she turned them down, considering the contents of the letters to be confidential. The Black Cohosh in LPVC is in fact an effective remedy for hot flashes. For what that's worth. Unicorn Root could be effective, for all I know, and that may even be why it has become virtually extinct. Fenugreek is known to lower blood sugar, increase milk production and is a bit of an appetite suppressant. Life root eases labor pains, but probably not as much as the 19% alcohol in the recipe. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Aug 29, 2020 2:55:52 GMT -5
Goldie, I don't know the total number of Lydia Pinkham songs, but there are definitely more than one. While her Vegetable Compound was undoubtedly a quack drug (eucalyptus, which is used as a cold and/or cough remedy is the only ingredient that I know of to have any effect on the human body), Mrs. Pinkham was nice to answer mail from ladies asking for advice about their health problems, and she was offered $100.000 or more, by people who wanted to exploit those letters but she turned them down, considering the contents of the letters to be confidential. The Black Cohosh in LPVC is in fact an effective remedy for hot flashes. For what that's worth. Unicorn Root could be effective, for all I know, and that may even be why it has become virtually extinct. Fenugreek is known to lower blood sugar, increase milk production and is a bit of an appetite suppressant. Life root eases labor pains, but probably not as much as the 19% alcohol in the recipe. Goldie, thanks for enlightening this Student of Life, who is always open to Learning More. Part of the Legend and Lore of LPVC is that at one time the alcohol content(added as a preservative) of the nostrum was so high that it would be an alcoholic beverage, so the Powers that Be, forced Lydia to reduce the alcohol content. And, another part of the folklore is that Lydia, who was a member of the Womens' Christian Temperance Union, which opens another can of worms, because Lydia was either a Universalist, or a Unitarian, I forget which, and those two groups, which later merged into the Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship, and those 2 groups were not Christian, so how would Lydia qualify for membership in the Womens' Christian Temperance Union? Well, anyway, the folklore was that Lydia was selling an alcoholic beverage to women who otherwise would not drink alcohol, and these women were becoming addicted to alcohol from using Vegetable Compound. However, one student of these things, who had tasted Vegetable Compound, said that the taste was similar to that of a highly concentrated liqueur, and anyone drinking enough of the nostrum to "get high" would probably become very sick. I don't rule out the possibility that some women could have become alcoholics when Vegetable Compound was an alcoholic beverage, but having tasted highly concentrated liqueurs like Kummel and Kirschwausser, to name a few, I know that I certainly could not have gotten high off of those concoctions, without very sick. All of the legend and Lore of Lydia E Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound deserve a lot of critical thinking and searching of records to see just what documentation there is to back up the various claims. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Aug 30, 2020 21:11:50 GMT -5
link to the lyrics of another Lydia Pinkham song: www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/bawdy-songs/006387.HTMNo copyright problems with posting the lyrics here. Shel Silverstein is credited with a Lydia Pinkham song, haven't pursued it far enough to find whether he wrote new lyrics, or only recorded the older versions, which are varied. Here's the "traditionalmusic.co.uk/bawdy-songs" lyrics from the link above. This song was probably the basis for a number called "Lilly the Pink" which was a hit in the UK in the early 70's. RS Let us sing (let us sing) of Lydia Pinkham The benefactress of the human race. She invented a vegetable compound, And now all papers print her face, O, Mrs. Brown could do no housework, O, Mrs. Brown could do no housework, She took three bottles of Lydia's conpound, And now there's nothing she will shirk, she will shirk, Mrs. Jones she had no children, And she loved them very dear. So she took three bottles of Pinkham's Now she has twins every year. Lottie Smyth ne'er had a lover, Blotchy pimples caused her plight; But she took nine bottles of Pinkham's-- Sweethearts swarm about her each night. Oh Mrs. Murphy (Oh Mrs. Murphy) Was perturbed because she couldn't seem to pee Till she took some of Lydia's compound And now they run a pipeline to the sea! And Peter Whelan (Peter Whelan) He was sad because he only had one nut Till he took some of Lydia's compound And now they grow in clusters 'round his butt. This royalty free score was generated by the Traditional Music Library On Line Tunebook (Shareware Version). As-is copies of this score may be freely distributed. Further info from WWW.TRADITIONALMUSIC.CO.UK |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Aug 30, 2020 21:28:08 GMT -5
Another link. Scroll down the rather long introduction, and you'll get more more more, as Andrea True porno star sung on the radio. I found the Lydia Pinkham songs quite amusing, but had to stop because after I'd read one set of lyrics another one would follow. Will check the Shel Silverstein versions, also. mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=1642 |
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Sept 4, 2020 21:43:57 GMT -5
Another link. Scroll down the rather long introduction, and you'll get more more more, as Andrea True porno star sung on the radio. I found the Lydia Pinkham songs quite amusing, but had to stop because after I'd read one set of lyrics another one would follow. Will check the Shel Silverstein versions, also. mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=1642"Shel Silverstein versions"? (swoons) |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Sept 4, 2020 22:52:03 GMT -5
Yes, Goldie, there are Shel Silverstein versions of Lilly the Pink. Been busy this week with work, so no time to check them out, tho.
Your LP LPs was a Good Un!
Who of today's generation would even know what an LP was, much less who Lydia Pinkham was?
But, the fact that the Lydia Pinkham songs have continued as folk songs, thru the man decades since Lydia was still with us, shows, that for those of us who are really interested in the Aracne Reaches of American Folklore, there is much to discover, and learn, from which we can find much joy.
But, there is the present day counterpart of Lydia Pinkham Vegetable Compound in CBD, and possibly one day the Miricle Cure For Whatever Ails you will one day have folk songs written about it.
No matter how soothing, and comforting George Noory's voice may be, when he is telling of all the different aches and pains that CBD can relieve, I just remember the Boxing Gloves Fiasco, a story that is a Defining Moment of My Life, which I did post to the old ZAQB but don't think I have posted to the new board yet.
Goldie, do you remember the Boxing Gloves Fiasco Story?
And, to anyone else reading this, do you remember that story that I've told a number of times on different message boards?
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