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Audio Recording Country music performances and interview with C.M. Copeland and Wimpy Fowler, Fitzgerald, Georgia, part 3 (open reel version)

C.M. Copeland and Wimpy Fowler interview, Fitzgerald, Georgia, side A

About this Item

Title

  • Country music performances and interview with C.M. Copeland and Wimpy Fowler, Fitzgerald, Georgia, part 3 (open reel version)

Names

  • Stanley, David, 1942- (Collector)
  • Copeland, C.M.
  • Fowler, Wimpy

Created / Published

  • Fitzgerald, Georgia, August 12, 1977

Headings

  • -  Folklore--Georgia
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Sound recording
  • -  United States -- Georgia -- Ben Hill County -- Fitzgerald

Genre

  • Field recordings
  • Interviews
  • Sound recording

Notes

  • -  The most complete logs for the recordings were made in 1977 from the fieldworker's secondary audiocassette copies of the original open-reel recordings, at call numbers AFC 1982/010: AFS 21198, AFS 21199, and AFS 21200, and segments of those logs have been summarized in this item's metadata.
  • -  Part 3 of a 5-part recording of music performances and conversation with Winford G. "Wimpy" Fowler and C.M. Copeland (Cleo Morgan Copeland Jr) in Fitzgerald GA: performance of Too Many Rivers to Cross; comments on where they learned Seven Beers, on the radio 25-30 years ago but not by Tex Williams, the Woodpecker Song popular in the 1930's, Tex Williams did Smoke, Smoke, Smoke; perform Gentle On My Mind; comments from W.G. Fowler, 502 E. Ohoopee St., Fitzgerald GA, "our fair city," age 60, real name is Winford, called "Wimpy," Copeland was called "Jigs" and their radio show in Fitzgerald, beginning in 1956, was called "Wimpy and Jigs," their Texas radio show was in 1941, they have also played in Moultrie, Albany, and Waycross GA on local radio stations; perform Cool Water, comments on the Sons of the Pioneers, Call of the Canyon, Playmates, Isle of Capri (instrumental); about square dance calls, "every caller had his own way of doing it," lyric fragment, "Oh Molly Hair, Oh Molly Hair, runnin' cross the cotton patch as hot as she could tear," spoonerisms and spoken routines, "sparkle, starkle little twink, the polar bear sleeps in his little bear skin, Little Miss Tuffet sat on her Muffet, Maby (?) had a lambo lit; perform The Name Song, much requested in the old days, The Empty Beer Bottle (with the note in it saying the beer is all gone); recite poem about child pushing buttons up its nose.

Medium

  • audiotape reel, 7 in.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1982/010: AFS 21148
  • MBRS shelflist: RXA 1688
  • Field project identifier: GA7-DS-R9

Source Collection

  • South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: South-Central Georgia Folklife Project collection (AFC 1982/010), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Stanley, David, C.M Copeland, and Wimpy Fowler. Country music performances and interview with C.M. Copeland and Wimpy Fowler, Fitzgerald, Georgia, part 3 open reel version. Fitzgerald, Georgia, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs21148/.

APA citation style:

Stanley, D., Copeland, C. M. & Fowler, W. (1977) Country music performances and interview with C.M. Copeland and Wimpy Fowler, Fitzgerald, Georgia, part 3 open reel version. Fitzgerald, Georgia. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs21148/.

MLA citation style:

Stanley, David, C.M Copeland, and Wimpy Fowler. Country music performances and interview with C.M. Copeland and Wimpy Fowler, Fitzgerald, Georgia, part 3 open reel version. Fitzgerald, Georgia, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1982010_afs21148/>.