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Thread #103890   Message #2122263
Posted By: JohnInKansas
09-Aug-07 - 01:36 AM
Thread Name: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
Oak Publications published a fairly broad range of books, not all of which were of the kind apparently most wanted here.

Oak books that we have on our shelves are:

The Blues Fakebook, Woody Mann, Oak Publications, 1995, ISBN 0-8256-1417-1
Bluegrass Songbook, Peter Wernick, Oak Publications, 1976, ISBN 0-8256-0164-9 (All Tab)
Bluegrass Mandolin, Jack Tottle, Oak Publications, ISBN 0-8256-0154-1
Songs of the British Music Hall, Peter Davison, Oak Publications, 1971, ISBN 0-8256-0099-5
The Irish Songbook: 75 songs Collected, Adapted, Written, and Sung by The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, arr by Robert DeCormier; Joy Graeme, editor, Oak Publications, ISBN 0.8256.0237.8.
Dulcimer Songbook, N. Hellman, Oak Publ
Folksongs of Britain and Ireland, ed. Peter Kennedy, Oak Publications ISBN 0.7119.0283.6. Gives melody line and chords, full lyrics – frequently many verses, with extensive commentary and source citations on each song, approximately 360 songs.
The Fiddler's Fakebook, D. Brady/Oak. Melody Line w/ Chords Only, no words, some variations
Foksinger's Wordbook, Deluxe Edition, Comp & Ed by Fred & Irwin Silber, Oak Publications, 1973 ISBN 0-8256-0140-1
The Gow Collectio of Scottish Dance Music, Compiled & Edited by Richard Carlin, Oak Publications, New York, 1986, ISBN 0.8256.0307.0.
Hammered Dulcimer, Peter Pickow, Oak Publications, ISBN 0.8256.0174.6
O'Neill's Music Of Ireland, Miles Krassen, Oak Publications, ISBN0-8256-0173-8
Western Swing Fiddle, Stacy Phillips, Oak Publications, 1994, ISBN 0-8256-1122-9
Songs of England, Ireland & Scotland: A Bonnie Bunch of Roses, Dan Milner & Paul Kaplan, Oak Publications, 1983, ISBN 0-8256-0256-4.
Soodlum's Irish Ballad Book, Oak Publications, ISBN 0.8256.0284.X.

Several of the above have no words. A few have words and no tunes.

With our big annual Fest coming up, I won't have much time to reply to requests for indices/contents, but if there's a special interest in one of these you might PM me a reminder in about a month...

John