Originally Posted by
hiumus
I was just a kid listening to am radio in the Pacific NW around 1960...I heard this song a few times but never got the title or artist...It was kind of a folky, poppy ballad, mid-tempo, male singer...I've Googled this to death...I must solve this before I die...It's been 52 years of this lyric and melody...Please help the old guy...
Is this from Johnny Ashcroft's "Twilight Bar In Frisco (Frank Gardiner Song)"?
"Down on the barbary coast of San Francisco,
there lived.....................a girl named Mingo...."
(circa early '60's)