The Bahamas : islands of song.

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Alexander Street Press.

Series:

Smithsonian global sound for libraries

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk music--Bahamas.

Folk music.

Folk songs, English--Bahamas.

Folk songs, English.

Music--Bahamas.

Music.

Popular music--Bahamas.

Popular music.

Bahamas.

Genre:

Folk songs, English.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (58 min., 55 sec.)

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Folkways, [1997]

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Contents:

Round and round the bar room (3:27)

Roll of pin (4 :26)

Dry bones (2:57)

Bid you goodnight (2:57)

The timestable (2:12)

God sent Jonah (2:47)

Liar (2:10).

You ain't hurryin' me (2:28)

Girl, if I write you (2:31)

Watermelon is spoilin' on the vine (2:41)

Rain children (2:08)

When I get inside (1:29)

I'm going home on the morning train (2:44)

Big belly man polka (2:18)

All in the woods (3:16)

Let the church roll on (2:05)

Lynn (2:43)

Went to the bight (1:34)

Nobody's darling but mine (2:35)

Christian automobile (2:12)

Let me call you sweetheart (2:24)

Sloop John B (2:08)

Jimmy bend a tree while it's young (2:43).

Participant:

Dicey Doh Singers (1st, 9th, 15th, 20th and 23rd works) ; Nat Saunders (2nd, 10th and 17th works) ; Thomas Cartwright and the Boys (3rd, 12th and 16th works) ; Sons of Andros (4th, 13th and 19th works) ; Cat Island Mites and Friends (5th, 11th and 20th works) ; Israel Forbes (6th, 14th and 22nd works) ; Ed Moxey's Rake n' Scrape (7th and 21st works) ; Avis Armbrister and Almeda Campbell (8th and 18th works) ; Patricia Bazard (20th work).

Notes:

Previously issued as compact disc.

Recorded in Nassau, New Providence on February 2 and 3, 1995.

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2009. (Smithsonian global sound for libraries). Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

SF CD 40405

OCLC:

689540636

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.