Frank Slide (or Frankie Slide??)

Subject: Frankie Slide (or Frankie Slide??)
From: yard dog
Date: 11 Mar 97 - 01:12 PM

The Ballad of ... Learnt it in grade school. Can't remember the words. Does anybody have it?

Subject: RE: Frankie Slide (or Frankie Slide??)
From:
Date: 16 Mar 97 - 04:20 AM

I used to have a recording of Canadian folksinger Omar Blondahl singing that song. It was an obscure 50'srecord called "Folk Songs From Here and There and Everywhere". Wish I still had it. The song is about the Frank Slide, a landslide that wiped out a town in I think SW Alberta and the child that lived was adopted and named after the event. I'd like to know it too, and the history in more detail. Denis