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Thread #12974 Message #1775034
Posted By: GUEST,Fred McCormick
03-Jul-06 - 05:08 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Little Birdie
Subject: RE: Origins: Little Birdie
It's worth adding the following to the list from the Ballad Index:
Fontana LP STL5432. Hedy West
Folkways LP FA 2363 Roscoe Holcomb
Rounder CD 1011 The Bray Brothers with Red Cravens
Yazoo CD 2200 PETE STEELE
Smithsonian Folkways SF CD 40077 Willie Chapman
Heritage LP 18 Roscoe Holcomb
County LP 717 Gaither Carlton
Rebel CD Reb-4000 Red Allen/Frank Wakefield
County LP 757 Glen Smith
The John Hammond track is available on The CD, Music of Kentucky: Early American Rural Classics 1927 - 37: Vol 2. Yazoo 2014.
The Coon Creek Girls' version was reissued on Trikont US-0310, Flowers in the Wildwood: Women in Early Country Music.
Finally, one of Stefan Grossman's videos of old time music at the Newport Folk Festival has some very impressive footage of the Coon Creek Girls performing Little Birdie.