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    Rare old "folk" recordings

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    Here is a rare recording of “MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA”, written in 1865 and recorded 39 years later in 1904 on an Edison cylinder:

     

    http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/4000/4314/cusb-cyl4314d.mp3

     

     

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    Now, this next one shows how old 19th Century tunes lasted for many decades and were later turned into newer songs with newer lyrics, that lasted into the early 20th Century recording era.

     

    “JUST BEFORE THE BATTLE, MOTHER”, from 1863, recorded in 1911:

     

    http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/mp3s/4000/4069/cusb-cyl4069d.mp3

     

    Note that this is the same tune that was used in Charlie Poole’s “Write a Letter to my Mother”.

    Can You Alter What Someone Else Posted?

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    That's okay, Fred. It's the thought that counts. Besides, I just figured you were about as skilled at doing this stuff as me. :lol:

    Plus I'm 71 years old. LOL. :)

     

    I've noticed that sometimes the cursor will remain inside the quote box and I can't get it down a space and out of the quote box. But other times the quote opens up at the bottom and that allows the cursor to move down a space, so I can type a response, and that avoids confusion between the words that are quoted and the response to them.

    Can You Alter What Someone Else Posted?

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    sewhite2000, I'm afraid that I'm culprit, but be assured that it was not intentional. I did indeed put my thoughts in the wrong place. and while I corrected that, I accidently left part of a sentence behind and never noticed. Thanks for pointing it out and I just deleted it from my post. Sorry about that.

     

    sewhite2000, you are a wonderful and honorable person for confessing to your error. :)

     

    I hate to admit my errors. :)

    Can You Alter What Someone Else Posted?

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    I'm always flattered when someone quotes something I posted, but I was disturbed to see a sentence or so that I didn't write had been added to the end of a post of mine that had been quoted in a subsequent post. This is the GODFATHER I & II thread on this forum, which I won't bump up, since it's slipped on down there a bit, but if anyone's curious, open up that thread and see what I originally wrote compared to how I'm quoted. It's been altered. What the heck? Can anyone do this to anyone? I find that a bit disturbing ...

     

    This happens by accident sometimes, when a poster accidentally includes his new message in the quoted message box.

     

    But some people do manipulate quotes to make it seem like the original poster said something different. This can be done by removing certain sentences from the quote, by bolding certain words, and by cutting a few words out of quoted sentences.

     

    You should contact a moderator if this happens again.

    Rare old "folk" recordings

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    I don't know if these are folk songs or more modern ones, but I assume the term "folk" is used lightly, as it often is.

     

    Kay,

     

    I put the word “FOLK” in quotes because most recordings that are available on YouTube are songs written in the early 20th Century, but they were written in the old folk music style of America and Europe of the 19th Century and earlier.

     

    The Carter Family, for example, wrote new “folk” songs, but in the old Appalachian and bluegrass styles. The Carolina Tar Heels most likely heard very old folk music during their childhood, and that type was copied in the 19th Century from old European styles.

     

    I was surprised to learn that Cajun music is not just old French, but a mix of 18th and 19th Century English, Irish, Scottish, and French from Canada and the US.

     

    Here are some rare old recordings from THE HONKING DUCK:

     

    http://honkingduck.com/pub/listen-to-78s

    Programing Idea: "Mistaken Identity"

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    Kid, that's amazing! :)

     

    Every now and then I see on TCM a film that has two or three guys in it, and a couple of blonde girls, and they all look alike to me, and I have trouble following the plot of the film, since the two or three girls seem to be one, and they seem to be kissing the same-looking guys, yet they all have different names.

    Rare old "folk" recordings

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    For those who like old commercial folk song recordings, here are two very rare ones about the murder of 13 year old Mary Phagan in the deep South in 1913.

     

    This is an extremely controversial story, and you can learn more about it by doing a search of Mary’s name.  The tie-in with movies is that this is the incident on which the 1937 film “They Won’t Forget” is based. Note that the Vernon Dalhart version does not mention the name of the man convicted of the crime. He was lynched after his trial in 1915. In the movie, the convicted white man has a different name, and is referred to only as “a New Yorker”.

     

     

    Moonshine Kate:

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXL-q-k_P5s

     

     

    Vernon Dalhart, different version, he removed Leo Frank’s name:

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRPY6mnJ3Kw

     

     

    The text, Ballad of Mary Phagan, by Franklyn Bliss Snyder

     

    http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/frank/frankballad.html

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