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Audio Recording Love Somebody

Love Somebody

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Title

  • Love Somebody

Names

  • Jabbour, Alan (Transcriber)
  • Jabbour, Alan (Collector)
  • Jabbour, Karen Singer (Collector)
  • Reed, Henry, 1884-1968 (Performer)

Created / Published

  • Reed family home, Glen Lyn, Giles County, Virginia, June 18, 1966

Headings

  • -  Instrumental music
  • -  Fiddle tunes
  • -  Folk music--Appalachian Region
  • -  Breakdowns
  • -  Reels
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Music
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  United States -- Virginia -- Giles County -- Glen Lyn

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Music
  • Field recordings

Notes

  • -  Key: D
  • -  Meter: 4/4
  • -  Strains: 2 (high-low, 4-4)
  • -  Rendition: 1r-2r-1r-2
  • -  Phrase Structure: ABA'C QRST (aba'c ab'de qeqr q'stb)
  • -  Compass: 15 (11 plus low A)
  • -  Stylistic features: Slurs in bowing.
  • -  This is a widely distributed song and dance tune, often occurring with this title in the Upper South and points west. Scottish sets are often called "My Love She's But a Lassie Yet," which appeared in the well-distributed eighteenth-century publication Scots Musical Museum (1853 edition), vol. 2, 234 (#225). Sharp recorded it from Mrs. Stella Reynolds along the Blue Ridge in Meadows of Dan, Virginia, as "I'm Seventeen Come Sunday" (English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, vol. 2, 158, #127-D), and other instrumental sets have titles echoing the same song, such as "Sweet Sixteen." Various manuscript sets show that the instrumental tune was in America by the late eighteenth century, and Knauff has a version called "Richmond Blues" in Virginia Reels (1839).Henry Reed's performance is cut short by a problem he was having with the fiddle he had been lent; its bridge was rounded too much for him, causing his bow to hit the fiddle when he played on the G-string (which he called "the bass").
  • -  Performed by Henry Reed, fiddle.
  • -  Spoken: HENRY REED: That bass right there bothers me./ALAN JABBOUR: Yeah, that's alright./HENRY REED: I can't hardly get over on it./ALAN JABBOUR: Yeah, I know. That's alright./HENRY REED: I can't hardly get over on it. Feels too round./ALAN JABBOUR: Yeah. What d
  • -  Recording chronology: 003
  • -  Duration: 1 minute, 20 seconds

Medium

  • Audio tape

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1967/007: AFS 13034B31

Source Collection

  • Alan Jabbour duplication project, part 1

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line

Please cite the source collection title, collection number, and repository, for example:

Alan Jabbour duplication project, part 1 (AFC 1967/007), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Alan Jabbour duplication project, part 2 (AFC 1969/008), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

Fiddle tunes of the old frontier: the Henry Reed collection online presentation (AFC 1999/016), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Jabbour, Alan, Alan Jabbour, Karen Singer Jabbour, and Henry Reed. Love Somebody. Reed family home, Glen Lyn, Giles County, Virginia, 1966. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000073/.

APA citation style:

Jabbour, A., Jabbour, A., Jabbour, K. S. & Reed, H. (1966) Love Somebody. Reed family home, Glen Lyn, Giles County, Virginia. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000073/.

MLA citation style:

Jabbour, Alan, et al. Love Somebody. Reed family home, Glen Lyn, Giles County, Virginia, 1966. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afcreed000073/>.