Re: Ran Tan Waltz?

[young@binah.cc.brandeis.edu]

In article <63303@apple.Apple.COM>, daemon@Apple.COM (Wizard's Assistant) writes:
>
>I just remembered a song I heard about five years ago that had something about 
>holding a baby in it--"She's holding the baby" or something like that.  I 
>thought it was called the Ran Tan Waltz.
>
>Does anyone know anything about this song, when it was recorded, where it's 
>available, etc.?
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Laurie  [brown.11@osu.edu]

I'm not sure about the "holding the baby" lyric, since I only have this song on
a poor-quality bootleg.  But I do know that "Ran Tan Waltz" was recorded back 
in 1980 as the B-side of "December Will Be Magic Again", between the releases 
of Never For Ever and The Dreaming.  It pops up repeatedly on bootlegs of the 
Tour of Life, so apparently Kate wrote this much earlier.  Occasionally you'll 
see such a recording with a song entitled "Open Wide".  It's the "Ran Tan 
Waltz" recorded by some dork who didn't care enough to get the titles right
and probably just checked the chorus (which repeats the lyric "open wide") in a
cursory fashion.  

-Bruce Young [young@brandeis.edu]     

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