Subject: RE: Req/ADD: single girl, married girl (Carter Family) From: Q (Frank Staplin) Date: 13 May 05 - 06:14 PM "Mickey Miller Sings American Folk Songs" on a Folkways record, but I haven't heard him. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: single girl, married girl (Carter Fam From: Joe Offer Date: 13 May 05 - 05:51 PM This song certainly related to I Wish I Were a Single Girl Again, but it's very different from the traditional song. Is this version an A.P. Carter original, or does it come from an earlier source? I found two Carter Family recordings of this song. the first was on the second day of the famous recording session at Bristol, Tennessee (August 1 & 2, 1927), recorded by Ralph Peer for Victor. I think it's Sara's voice on the vocal on this cut. At the time, A.P. Carter was 35 years old, his wife Sara was 29, and Maybelle was 18. The tempo on this recording is rather quick. The second recording, recorded by Ralph Peer for ARC in New York City May 8, 1935, had a much slower tempo. I guess that's A.P. on the vocal, but I can't say that for sure. If not, then Sara's voice dropped a bit in the 8 years between recordings. Jim Dixon's post above is an accurate transcription - same lyrics and same three verses were used for both recordings. The version in the Digital Tradition (click) has two additional verses, written by Mickey Miller - who's he? -Joe Offer- Here's the Traditional Ballad Index entry for this song, which identifies no source earlier than the 1927 Carter recording: Single Girl, Married GirlDESCRIPTION: "Single girl, single girl, go and dress so fine... Married girl, married girl goes ragged all the time...." The lives of single and married women compared: The single girl can go out (and perhaps even spend); the married girl must care for the baby; etc.AUTHOR: unknown EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (recording, Carter Family) KEYWORDS: marriage wife FOUND IN: US(SE) REFERENCES (5 citations): Warner 128, "Single Girl, Married Girl" (1 text, 1 tune) Asch/Dunson/Raim, p. 87 "Single Girl, Married Girl" (1 text, 1 tune) Cohen/Seeger/Wood, p. 84, "Single Girl, Married Girl" (1 text, 1 tune) Silber-FSWB, p. 185, "Single Girl" (1 text) DT, SINGLGRL Roud #436 RECORDINGS: Carter Family, "Single Girl, Married Girl" (Victor 20937A, 1927; on AAFM3) (Conqueror 8733, 1936; Melotone 7-04-53, 1937) Ruby Vass, "Single Girl" (on LomaxCD1702) CROSS-REFERENCES: cf. "I Wish I Were a Single Girl Again" cf. "I Wish I Were Single Again (II - Female)" cf. "Single Girl, Married Girl" cf. "Sorry the Day I Was Married" cf. "When I Was Young (II)" (theme) cf. "For Seven Long Years I've Been Married" (theme) Notes: Roud lumps "I Wish I Were a Single Girl Again" and "Single Girl, Married Girl" (and perhaps others). Definitely a stretch, though the songs can easily cross-fertilize. - RBW File: Wa128 Go to the Ballad Search form The Ballad Index Copyright 2005 by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: single girl From: Sorcha Date: 25 Apr 02 - 09:14 PM I am not responding to this one again until Guest comes back and identifies itsself and the specific request. |
Subject: Lyr Add: SINGLE LIFE (sung by Roba Stanley) From: Stewie Date: 25 Apr 02 - 09:01 PM Roba Stanley recorded a song with a similar theme some 3 years before the Sara Carter's famous recording at the Bristol Sessions. It was titled 'Single Life'. It reflects a strongly feminine point of view that rejects the role that many southern girls of Roba's generation were forced into. Oddly, Roba broke the tone by inserting a seemingly inappropriate stanza from the well-known, nagging wife song 'Bald-Headed End of a Broom'.
SINGLE LIFE Recorded by Roba Stanley in Atlanta, Georgia, in July 1925 and issued as OK 40436. She was accompanied on harmonica and guitar by Henry Whitter. The recording was reissued on Various Artists 'Banjo Picking Girl: Women in Early County Music Vol 1' Rounder 1029. I don't kow whether it has made it to CD as yet. --Stewie.
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: single girl From: Pete Jennings Date: 25 Apr 02 - 09:56 AM I immediately thought of the Sandy Posey song as well. She had another one which went "The town that I come from is lonely and small, we played in the meadow where the grass grew so tall..." Nice songs, not in the league of the one above, don't know what happened to her. Pete
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Subject: Lyr Add: SINGLE GIRL, MARRIED GIRL (Carter Family) From: Jim Dixon Date: 25 Apr 02 - 09:44 AM Copied from http://www.icdc.com/~fmoore/carterfamily/single_girl.htm
SINGLE GIRL, MARRIED GIRL
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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: single girl From: GUEST,Bobby Bob, Ellan Vannin Date: 23 Apr 02 - 02:54 PM Just seeing the title, the first thing I thought of was a record from the late 60s or early 70s by Sandy Posey.
I'm a single girl We once had a small flat in a large house and the girl in the flat adjoining had a habit of playing the Sandy Posey record over and over again, seven or eight times on the trot. So you can understand why seeing the title would remind me of that! Shoh slaynt, Bobby Bob |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: single girl From: Sorcha Date: 22 Apr 02 - 10:37 PM Zo, ver is da gest? |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: single girl From: irishajo Date: 22 Apr 02 - 10:01 PM Thanks Brian! Maybe I can figure out the chords on my own. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: single girl From: Brían Date: 22 Apr 02 - 09:50 PM There's a great version of this song on THE BRISTOL SESSIONS Brían |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: single girl From: Brían Date: 22 Apr 02 - 09:47 PM No chords, but: SINGLE GIRL Brían |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: single girl From: irishajo Date: 22 Apr 02 - 05:56 PM I'm not guest above, but I have been looking for the lyrics and chords to the Carter Family version of this song if anyone has them. |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: single girl From: Dani Date: 22 Apr 02 - 05:45 PM I didn't see the one I know in the DT, though they have similarities. A piece: "Single girl, single girl, goin' anywhere she please Married girl, married girl got a baby on her knee, and I wish I was a single girl again. Yes, I wish I was a single girl again." Need the rest? Dani |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: single girl From: masato sakurai Date: 22 Apr 02 - 04:16 PM There're several songs with this title. Some are in the DT. Click on "S" section in the box above. ~Masato |
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: single girl From: Sorcha Date: 22 Apr 02 - 12:37 PM Which one???? |
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