Thanks for your memory re: my class's little film. I've been doing more documentation with ironworkers this summer, some of whom have worked on bridges across the Mississippi River joining IA and WI. Drinking hard but getting the job done right is still common enough, although on-the-job drinking is pretty much gone.--Jim Leary
Credits for both songs are at the end of the film. The song at the beginning is Bud Parker's "Iron Worker's Lament." It came out in the mid-1960s as 45 rpm recording on the VANCO label out of Vancouver, WA, just across the Columbia River from Portland. I've been in touch with the Portland Ironworkers Local, but they don't know who the performer was. I'm still running down leads. You can get it on a CD in the Twisted Tales from the Vinyl Wasteland series.-Jim Leary
Cool video man! we love what we do! well,, when theres work, lately a lotta guys got the Ironworker blues on their couch! much respect Local 7 IW,, boston ma
Hey thanks, Iron Sean! One of the guys in this little film, Dave Nelson, boomed out to work with Local 7 in the early 1960s; he was part of the raising gang for the Prudential Insurance building. He especially enjoyed working with some Caughnawaga Mohawks on a crew, and also after hours at the Chantilly Bar. Anyway the guys here in Wisconsin's Local 383 are glad you like the film. And I like what you have on-line!
right on brothers!
433LV
Last1onearth666 4 months ago
@CharmedQuarkZ99
Thanks for your memory re: my class's little film. I've been doing more documentation with ironworkers this summer, some of whom have worked on bridges across the Mississippi River joining IA and WI. Drinking hard but getting the job done right is still common enough, although on-the-job drinking is pretty much gone.--Jim Leary
RLhs1968 5 months ago
Great video! May I ask what the song is that plays at the beginning of the video?
kittensandlipstick 5 months ago
@kittensandlipstick
Credits for both songs are at the end of the film. The song at the beginning is Bud Parker's "Iron Worker's Lament." It came out in the mid-1960s as 45 rpm recording on the VANCO label out of Vancouver, WA, just across the Columbia River from Portland. I've been in touch with the Portland Ironworkers Local, but they don't know who the performer was. I'm still running down leads. You can get it on a CD in the Twisted Tales from the Vinyl Wasteland series.-Jim Leary
RLhs1968 5 months ago
Cool video man! we love what we do! well,, when theres work, lately a lotta guys got the Ironworker blues on their couch! much respect Local 7 IW,, boston ma
IRONSEAN7 6 months ago
@IRONSEAN7
Hey thanks, Iron Sean! One of the guys in this little film, Dave Nelson, boomed out to work with Local 7 in the early 1960s; he was part of the raising gang for the Prudential Insurance building. He especially enjoyed working with some Caughnawaga Mohawks on a crew, and also after hours at the Chantilly Bar. Anyway the guys here in Wisconsin's Local 383 are glad you like the film. And I like what you have on-line!
Jim Leary
RLhs1968 5 months ago