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“The machinery of the ROB'T. E. LEE consists of feet stroke, the largest high pressure engines on the river. .. The doctor is considered a triumph of the medical art, it being a new style of [what?] with the parallel motion applied.”
In the Robert E. Lee (steamboat)#Description section, Is some text missing from the "feet stroke" line? And what does "The doctor is considered a triumph of the medical art" mean in a description of steamboat engineering and technology? — Athaenara ✉ 23:30, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
I have a question. Was the riverboat replica that is in downtown St. Louis the one that burned? That is a nice restaurant, on a big, beautiful boat. I hope this isn't the same one, because that was a great looking boat. —Preceding
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It wasn't a forum, it was to validate that the information is accurate, but I can't find anything on the replica fire. Where's the source for this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.206.21.58 ( talk) 03:16, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
The page at present lacks content on the song, "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" – its history, melody, lyrics, recorded renditions, etc. -- Deborahjay ( talk) 09:35, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
I put something in to that effect, but it was edited to claim that the song was written for the film The Jazz Singer - the 1912 Billboard charts include this song, so it's unlikely it was written for a sound film 15 years in the future. Kisch ( talk) 01:59, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
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There is controversy about whether the lyrics to "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" by Robbie Robertson of the Band, refer to Robert E. Lee, the general, or to the Robert E. Lee, the steamboat. Greil Marcus wrote that Robertson told him "There is no boat in the song." That statement must be taken with a grain of salt, however, because Robertson had a famously poor relationship with other members of the Band, including Levon Helm, who sang the song and helped to write it, according to his book, "This Wheel's On Fire". In the multiple recordings of the song, Helm sings it was "THE Robert E. Lee", which was spotted by Virgil's wife back in Tennessee.
It should be noted that Robertson took full songwriting credit for a number of the Band's songs which were in fact group efforts, including TNTDODD, which was a collaborationist songwriting endeavor between Robertson and Helm, who together went to a local library and researched Civil War history when writing the tune, according to "This Wheel's On Fire". Furthermore, Helm is the vocalist and if he sang the words as "THE Robert E. Lee" then as co-author and singer, those words deserve consideration as real lyrics, and should not be disregarded simply because Greil Marcus or Robertson said so. In any event, it would have been more likely that Virgil's wife back in Tennesseee would spot a steamboat that frequently went up and down the river (i.e., the Robert E. Lee), rather than spot General Robert E. Lee himself. Furthermore, I am not aware of any evidence that Lee visited Tennessee after the Civil War, having retreated to his home in Virginia after the surrender at Appomattox. Considering the foregoing, a Wikipedia entry on the famous steamboat should not be whitewashed of any reference whatsoever to the popular song. 174.56.173.38 ( talk) 12:29, 19 January 2024 (UTC)kolef 174.56.173.38 ( talk) 12:29, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
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“The machinery of the ROB'T. E. LEE consists of feet stroke, the largest high pressure engines on the river. .. The doctor is considered a triumph of the medical art, it being a new style of [what?] with the parallel motion applied.”
In the Robert E. Lee (steamboat)#Description section, Is some text missing from the "feet stroke" line? And what does "The doctor is considered a triumph of the medical art" mean in a description of steamboat engineering and technology? — Athaenara ✉ 23:30, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
I have a question. Was the riverboat replica that is in downtown St. Louis the one that burned? That is a nice restaurant, on a big, beautiful boat. I hope this isn't the same one, because that was a great looking boat. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
76.206.21.58 (
talk)
00:14, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
It wasn't a forum, it was to validate that the information is accurate, but I can't find anything on the replica fire. Where's the source for this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.206.21.58 ( talk) 03:16, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
The page at present lacks content on the song, "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" – its history, melody, lyrics, recorded renditions, etc. -- Deborahjay ( talk) 09:35, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
I put something in to that effect, but it was edited to claim that the song was written for the film The Jazz Singer - the 1912 Billboard charts include this song, so it's unlikely it was written for a sound film 15 years in the future. Kisch ( talk) 01:59, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
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There is controversy about whether the lyrics to "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" by Robbie Robertson of the Band, refer to Robert E. Lee, the general, or to the Robert E. Lee, the steamboat. Greil Marcus wrote that Robertson told him "There is no boat in the song." That statement must be taken with a grain of salt, however, because Robertson had a famously poor relationship with other members of the Band, including Levon Helm, who sang the song and helped to write it, according to his book, "This Wheel's On Fire". In the multiple recordings of the song, Helm sings it was "THE Robert E. Lee", which was spotted by Virgil's wife back in Tennessee.
It should be noted that Robertson took full songwriting credit for a number of the Band's songs which were in fact group efforts, including TNTDODD, which was a collaborationist songwriting endeavor between Robertson and Helm, who together went to a local library and researched Civil War history when writing the tune, according to "This Wheel's On Fire". Furthermore, Helm is the vocalist and if he sang the words as "THE Robert E. Lee" then as co-author and singer, those words deserve consideration as real lyrics, and should not be disregarded simply because Greil Marcus or Robertson said so. In any event, it would have been more likely that Virgil's wife back in Tennesseee would spot a steamboat that frequently went up and down the river (i.e., the Robert E. Lee), rather than spot General Robert E. Lee himself. Furthermore, I am not aware of any evidence that Lee visited Tennessee after the Civil War, having retreated to his home in Virginia after the surrender at Appomattox. Considering the foregoing, a Wikipedia entry on the famous steamboat should not be whitewashed of any reference whatsoever to the popular song. 174.56.173.38 ( talk) 12:29, 19 January 2024 (UTC)kolef 174.56.173.38 ( talk) 12:29, 19 January 2024 (UTC)