I found the items regarding music and songs about Big Jim Folsom
The items were donated by Ralph Hammond and are located in the William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library at the University of Alabama.
There was an online photo of some of the items which included a 78 rpm record called 'Big Jim' on Republic record label.

the article:
Hammond Donates Folsom
Memorabilia
Among the William Stanley Hoole Special Col-
lections Library's recent donations is an addition
to the Ralph Hammond Papers. Ralph Ham-
mond earned a degree in political science from
The University of Alabama where he also stud-
ied literature and poetry. He later attended
Oxford University. Hammond served in the
United States Army as a war correspondent in
Europe during World War II. After the war,Ham-
mond was Alabama Governor James "Big Jim"
Folsom's press secretary, 1946-1950, and Fol-
som's executive secretary, 1955-1959.
Continuing his political career, Hammond
served as mayor of Arab, Alabama from 1963 to
1969.
His most recent donation to Hoole Library
includes materials he created and gathered dur-
ing his service to Governor Folsom. Folsom's
campaigns were known for their lively, down-
home atmosphere complete with country
bands,and Hammond's donation includes sheet
music and recordings of the song "Big Jim Fol-
som." The collection contains a variety of
campaign items such as postcards, pamphlets,
and photographs. Along with campaign materi-
al,the donation includes correspondence,short
story manuscripts, published works, speeches
delivered by Folsom, newspaper clippings,
magazine articles, photographs, and state
memorabilia.
Throughout his adult life Hammond has pur-
sued his interest in writing, producing over
5,000 poems and publishing numerous works,
including My GI Aching Back, Antebellum
Mansions of Alabama, and Crossing Many
Rivers. In 1992 he received double honors
when Livingston University,nowThe University
of West Alabama,awarded him an honorary doc-
tor of letters degree and Governor Guy Hunt
appointed him poet laureate of the state of
Alabama,a position he held until 1995.
Through the years Hammond has donated
numerous items to University Libraries. In 1995
he donated to Hoole Library manuscripts of his
poems, research materials, and photographs
used in his 1951 work Antebellum Mansions of
Alabama, working files of a book he edited,
Alabama Poets: A Contemporary Anthology,
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Items from the Ralph Hammond Collection

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and portrait studies of Governor James Folsom.
Donnelly Lancaster, archival access
coordinator,William Stanley Hoole Special
Collections Library