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| Folkways Records, album cover, 1962 |
After handling the media the way I did during class last week (I do like real-time explorations, but my presentation wasn't at all smooth) I went through the American Song and Smithsonian Global Sound Archives again and selected a few good examples for you. Many of the archive audio examples also come up on you tube. The two resources work together.
Down in the Valley
From Lonesome Valley, a Moe Asch collection, Folkways 1951
http://search.alexanderstreet.com/glmu/view/work/226939
female singer, chorus mixed, nice banjo tremolo
Bess Lomax, Pete Seeger and Tom Glazer
Gene Autry
http://search.alexanderstreet.com/amso/view/work/1406690
Hollywood Cowboy original
Bob Ross:
http://search.alexanderstreet.com/amso/view/work/227685
a version for servicemen during WWII
Frank Proffitt:
http://search.alexanderstreet.com/amso/view/work/227854
banjo version here, true Southern Mountain tradition
Kingston Trio borrowed Tom Doolah from Frank Proffitt...
and on the DRAM Archive:
Birmingham Jail, from 1931 ( Cal Carson [pseudonym of Frank Luther],
http://www.dramonline.org/tracks/birmingham-jail/player
Quite interesting because it takes a traditional song into new Jazz-Age arrangement
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