Collection Items

  • Audio Recording
    Old Gray Mare sound recording | 1 cylinder | Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a lawyer, a folklorist, and a performer of traditional songs and music. (Biographical). October 19, 1925. Robert Winslow Gordon Cylinder Collection. (Source). Spoken by Lunsford at the end of this recording: "Bascom Lamar Lunsford, who just sung the foregoing, learned it from Curtis Miles at Alexander, Buncombe County, North Carolina, near the home of...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Gordon, Robert Winslow - Lunsford, Bascom Lamar
    • Date: 1978
  • Audio Recording
    Jesus is My Only Friend sound recording | 1 cylinder | Robert Winslow Gordon Cylinder Collection. (Source). April 10, 1926 (Date). Spoken at the end of this recording: sung by Bessie Shaw, Oakhill, Georgia, April the tenth, Nineteen twenty-six. (Content). Some verses on the original cylinder were not duplicated due to poor sound quality. (Content). This song was published on the Library of Congress long playing record, "Folk-Songs of...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Gordon, Robert Winslow - Shaw, Bessie
    • Date: 1978
  • Audio Recording
    Finger Ring sound recording | 1 cyl. | Robert Winslow Gordon Cylinder Collection. (Source). April 12, 1926. (Date). Spoken at the end of the recording by Mary C. Mann: This is Miss Roberta Paul's, Paul's "boat song" that I have sung just now—the "Finger Ring." She like that. Sung by Mary C. Mann, Darien, Georgia, Macintosh county, April the twelfth, Nineteen twenty-six. (Content). According to Robert...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Gordon, Robert Winsow - Mann, Mary C.
    • Date: 1978
  • Audio Recording
    Ol' Man Satan
    Drive Ol' Satan Away
    sound recording | 2 cylinder recordings | Robert Winslow Gordon Cylinder Collection. (Source). April 12, 1926. (Date). According to Gordon, "This song was a favorite with Amelia, a slave brought to this country prior to 1800 from the island of Madagascar. She taught it to her grand-daughter, Violet, and she in turn taught it to her granddaughter, Mary, from whom I obtained it. Amelia...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Mann, Mary C. - Gordon, Robert Winslow
    • Date: 1978
  • Audio Recording
    Hesitation Blues
    Hesitating Blues
    sound recording | 1 cylinder | Robert Winslow Gordon Cylinder Collection. (Source). October 19, 1925. (Date). Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a lawyer, a folklorist, and a performer of traditional songs and music. (Biographical). This song was published on the Library of Congress long playing record, "Folk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection," in 1978, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Archive...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Gordon, Robert Winslow - Lunsford, Bascom Lamar
    • Date: 1978
  • Audio Recording
    Roll the Old Chariot Along and Haul the Woodpile Down Sea shanties recorded by Robert W. Gordon in the San Francisco Bay Area of California in the early 1920s (singers unknown). Gordon Cylinder Collection (cyl.50, CAL 103, CAL 104) sound recording | 1 cylinder. | Gordon Cylinder Collection. (Source). Sea shanties recorded by Robert W. Gordon in the San Francisco Bay Area of California in the early 1920s. (Content). The recording of "Haul the...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Gordon, Robert Winslow
    • Date: 1978
  • Audio Recording
    The Old Ninety Seven
    The Wreck of the Old Ninety Seven
    sound recording | 1 cylinder recording. | Recorded by Robert Winslow Gordon in Concord, North Carolina, (Venue). Robert Winslow Gordon Cylinder Collection. Original Cylinder number: Gordon cyl. A6, ms. NC4. (Source Note). Recorded on October 15, 1925 (Date). This song is known under several similar titles in addition to the title listed: "The Wreck of the Old Ninety Seven," "The Wreck of the Old...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Gordon, Robert Winslow - Lewey, Fred J.
    • Date: 1978
  • Audio Recording
    Old Granny Hare
    Old Molly Hare"
    Sung by William Ernest Bird in Cullowhee, North Carolina, October 28, 1925. Gordon Cylinder Collection. sound recording | 1 cylinder. | Performed by Professor W. E. Bird of Cullowhee State Normal School at Cullowhee, Jackson County, North Carolina, in the mountains to the southwest of Asheville. (Content). Gordon Cylinder Collection. (Source). October 28, 1925. (Date). This song was published on the Library of Congress...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Bird, William Ernest - Gordon, Robert Winslow
    • Date: 1978
  • Audio Recording
    Glory to God, My Son's Come Home sound recording | 1 cylinder. | Sung by J. D. Purdy in Gullah dialect. Robert Winslow Gordon Cylinder Collection. (General). Recorded by Robert Winslow Gordon near Darien, Georgia (Venue). Recorded ca. 1926. (Date). This song was published on the Library of Congress long playing record, "Folk-Songs of America: The Robert Winslow Gordon Collection," in 1978, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Archive...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Purdy, J. D. - Gordon, Robert Winslow
    • Date: 1978
  • Audio Recording
    You've Been A Good Old Wagon, But You've Done Broke Down
    The Wagon
    Composer Ben Harney sings his song, "You've Been a Good Old Wagon, But You've Done Broke Down," without accompaniment. Recorded by Robert Winslow Gordon, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (probably in Harney's home), ca. 1925. sound recording | 1 cylinder. | This is thought to be the first published ragtime song, published in 1895. The original sheet music was written for piano and voice. (General). Not...
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Gordon, Robert Winslow - Harney, Benjamin Robertson
    • Date: 1978
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Letter from Alan Lomax to Pearl R. Nye, May 27, 1938
    • Contributor: Lomax, Alan
    • Date: 1938-05-27
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    Letter from Alan Lomax to Pearl R. Nye, June 5, 1938
    • Contributor: Lomax, Alan
    • Date: 1938-06-05
  • Audio Recording
    The Southern Soldier sound recording | 1 sound recording | First published on the Library of Congress LP AFS L28, "Songs of American History and the Assasination of Presidents," 1952. (Bibliographic History). Recorded in 1937. (Date). Forms part of the John A. Lomax Southern States Collection, 1937. (Source). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Morgan, Minta - Library of Congress - Lomax, John A. (John Avery)
    • Date: 1952
  • Audio Recording
    Michigan I-O
    Colley's Run I-O
    sound recording | 1 sound recording | This song is based on the popular lumberman's song "Colley's Run I-O" and uses the same tune. (Content). This song was published on the Library of Congress recording "Songs of the Michigan lumberjacks" AAFS L 56, 1960. (Bibliographic History). Recorded in Traverse City, Michigan. (Venue). Forms part of the Alan Lomax Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings Collection. (Source)....
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Lomax, Alan - Wells, Lester
    • Date: 1960
  • Audio Recording
    The Lumberjack's Alphabet sound recording | 1 sound recording | This song was published on the Library of Congress recording "Songs of the Michigan lumberjacks" AAFS L 56, 1960. (Bibliographic History). Forms part of the Alan Lomax Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings Collection. (Source). Recorded in Greenland, Michigan. (Venue). October, 1938. (Date). Sound Recording (Form).
    • Contributor: Library of Congress - Lomax, Alan - Schaffer, Gus
    • Date: 1960
  • Audio Recording
    Starving to Death on a Government Claim sound recording | 1 sound recording | First published in Library of Congress LP AFS L30 "Songs of the Mormons and Songs of the West," edited by Duncan Emrich. (Bibliographic History). Vance Randolph was a folklorist famous for his documentation of Ozark folklife. He was born in Pittsburg, Kansas. (Biographical). Recorded in 1941. (Date). The Lane County referred to in the song is in...
    • Contributor: Randolph, Vance - Library of Congress
    • Date: 1952
  • Audio Recording
    War Song
    • Contributor: James, Willis - Brown, Buster - Jones, Lewis Wade
    • Date: 1943-03-05
  • Audio Recording
    Roosevelt and Hitler, Part I
    Buster Ezell's War-time Song | Strange Things Are Happenin' in the Land
    • Contributor: Ezell, Buster - James, Willis - Jones, Lewis Wade
    • Date: 1943-03-05
  • Audio Recording
    Pearl Harbor
    What a time
    • Contributor: James, Willis - New York, Georgia, Singers
    • Date: 1943-06
  • Audio Recording
    Now What a Time
    What a time
    • Contributor: James, Willis - New York, Georgia, Singers
    • Date: 1943-06
  • Audio Recording
    Let's Go Fight!
    Title announced on recording: Soldier's blues, 1943
    • Contributor: Ezell, Buster - James, Willis
    • Date: 1943-06
  • Audio Recording
    What a Time
    • Contributor: James, Willis - Golden Jubilee Quartet
    • Date: 1943-06
  • Audio Recording
    What a Time
    • Contributor: James, Willis - Golden Jubilee Quartet
    • Date: 1943-06
  • Audio Recording
    Do Right by My Country
    Title announced on recording: Do right by my country and do right by me
    • Contributor: Ezell, Buster - James, Willis
    • Date: 1943-06
  • Audio Recording
    We Are Americans, Praise the Lord
    Title from refrain: We are Americans, praise God | Title from card catalog: We Are Americans, Praise de Lawd
    • Contributor: James, Willis - Houston, Bertha
    • Date: 1943-06