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Folk music U.S.A. Vol. 1 / compiled by Harold Courlander.
Vol. 1 Streaming audio Available online
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- Sound recording
- Series:
- Ethnic Folkways library
- Smithsonian global sound for libraries
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Blues (Music).
- Folk music--United States.
- Folk music.
- United States.
- Folk songs, English--United States.
- Folk songs, English.
- Genre:
- Sound recordings.
- Folk music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Folkways Records, [1959]
- System Details:
- Mode of Access: World Wide Web.
- Contents:
- John Henry (Virgil Perkins, vocal, kazoo and washboard ; Jack Sims, 12-string guitar)
- Grizzly bear : Negro prison camp worksong
- Blowing the train (Percy Randolph, harmonica)
- Six thousand miles from nowhere (Snooks Eaglin, vocal, guitar)
- Dark was the night (Blind Willie Johnson, vocal, guitar)
- Amasee : children's ring game song
- Spooky drums (Warren "Baby" Dodds, drums
- Black Jack Davy) (Mary Jo Davis, vocal)
- Drunken sailor : dulcimer medley
- Ellen Smith (Pete Steele, vocal, 5- string banjo)
- Run, run (Elizabeth Cotton, guitar)
- Mole in the ground (Bascom Lamar Lunsford, vocal, 5-string banjo)
- Rolling river : country dance : fiddle, banjo, guitar
- Allons danser Colinda (Cajun dance) (Ray Brule, vocal, accordion)
- Sourwood Mountain (Square dance tune) (Hobart Smith, piano)
- Diamond Joe (Cowboy song) (Cisco Houston, vocal, guitar)
- Siete Leguas (Corrido) (Peter Hurd, vocal, guitar)
- Matachines dance
- Moonlight song : Taos Indian serenade
- War dance song (Flathead Indians)
- Esta Navidad : Puerto Rican Christmas song (Vocal and instrumental)
- Aguinaldo cagueno : Puerto Rican song (Vocal and instrumental)
- Rocky road (Alabama Sacred Harp Singers : shape-note singing)
- If we never meet again (Virgin Island children)
- Inviting-in dance song (Alaskan Eskimos).
- Notes:
- Accompanying notes by Charles Edward Smith laid in original container.
- Recorded between 1928 and 1958.
- Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2009. (Smithsonian global sound for libraries). Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- FE 4530
- OCLC:
- 698168258
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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