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Thread #163413   Message #3907692
Posted By: Richie
24-Feb-18 - 03:49 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Seventeen Come Sunday/Waukrife Mammy
Subject: RE: Origins: Seventeen Come Sunday/Waukrife Mammy
Hi,

TY Steve.

These are the versions of "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss," they may be accessed here: http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/us--canada-versions-9b-fly-around.aspx

The main headnotes are complete (rough, not final edit): http://www.bluegrassmessengers.com/9b-fly-around-my-pretty-little-miss.aspx

A. "Daisy," a two stanza fragment from The Journal of American Folk-lore, 1892 as taken from Lila W. Edmands' article, "Songs From the Mountains of North Carolina."
B. "That Blue-Eyed Girl." Sung by Fletch Rymer, a banjo-picker, in "The Beats" near the mouth of Newfound Creek in Buncombe county. Collected by Lunsford in 1898 and published in Brown Collection of NC Folklore, Volume 3, 1952.
C. [Shady Grove, B]. No title given, listed as Shady Grove B; from Kentucky; mountain whites; MS. of Mr. House; 1905. From E.C. Perrow, Songs and Rhymes from the South; The Journal of American Folklore, 1916.
D. "Way Down Yonder (Wheevily Wheat B)" collected by Miss Mary S. Brown of Gatesville, Texas, from Wallace Fogle, a famous play-party singer of Coryell County; from "Round the Levee" edited by Stith Thompson, 1916.
E. "Betty Anne" sung by Mrs. Ellie Johnson, NC, dated 1916, collected Cecil Sharp and published in his English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, 1917.
F. "Fly around, my blue-eyed miss." Reported by I. G. Greer from the singing of Mrs. N. J. Herring of Tomahawk, Sampson county. Highly composite. My date, title, from Brown Collection of NC Folklore, Volume 3, 1952.
G. "Daisy." Communicated by Mildred Peterson of Bladen county, probably in 1923, from the Brown Collection on NC Folklore, volume 3, version A of Coffee Grows. Cf. 1893 version in JOAFL.
H. "Western Country"- Sung and played by Henry Whitter, of Virginia (harmonica, guitar and vocal). From the Okeh recording No. 40077 made April, 1924.
I. "Blue-Eyed Girl," by fiddler Charlie Bowman and The Hillbillies of Virginia, January 1926, NYC. From Vocallion recording No. 5017.
J. "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss." From the Columbia recording 15210-D made by Frank Blevins and His Tar Heel Rattlers on November 8, 1927.
K. "Your Blue Eyes Drive Me Crazy." From Victor recording 21645 dated August 5, 1927 by West Virginia Coon Hunters for Ralph Peer at Victor Records "Bristol Sessions."
L. "Susanna Gal." From Victor recording 21130 recorded at Bristol session August 3, 1927 by Dad Blackard's Moonshiners. The Blackard and Shelor families were well known singing families in the early 1900s.
M. "Fly Around my Pretty Little Miss," From the Columbia recording 15709-D made October, 1928 in Atlanta, Georgia. This was a duo fiddle version with six stanzas and a floating chorus was made by the Atlanta, Georgia string band, The Skillet Lickers with Riley Puckett on guitar and vocals along with a Clayton McMichen and Gid Tanner on fiddle.
N. "I'm Going To Georgia." From the Victor recording 21645 B by Tenneva Ramblers in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, February 18, 1928. The Tenneva (from Tenn and Va) were Jack Pierce,f; Jack Grant, bj-md; Claude Slagle, bj; Claude Grant, g/v. They backed Jimmie Rodgers briefly and also recorded as Grant Brothers.
O. "Pretty Little Pink." From the Supertone recording 9666 by Bradley Kincaid at Richmond, Indiana, October 1929. Adapted from Sharp's "Betty Anne" published in 1917 (EFSSA), Kincaid created this "Pretty Little Pink" composite. He published another similar version with the "Wheevily Wheat" stanzas in his "Favorite Old-Time Songs and Mountain Ballads," book 2, 1929, p. 16-17.
P. "My Pretty Little Miss" no informant named From William Owens' 1936 book "Swing and Turn: Texas Play-Party Songs."
Q. "Oh, Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss." Sung with banjo by O. L. Coffey of Shulls Mills, N. C. Recorded at Blowing Rock, N. C., 1936, by John A. Lomax; "Play and Dance Songs and Tunes" AFS L9 - Library of Congress.
R. "Fly Around My Blue-Eyed Girl," sung by Theophilus G. Hoskins of Leslie (Hyden, KY) on 10-14, 1937. From Kentucky Alan Lomax Recordings, 1937-1942.
S. "Fare You Well, My Blue-Eyed Girl," sung by Justus Begley of Perry (Hazard County), Kentucky on 10-17, 1937. From Kentucky Alan Lomax Recordings, 1937-1942.
T. "Shady Grove," no informant named, collected Edna Lucille Miller in Watauga County, North Carolina; from Miller, A Study of Folklore in Watauga County, North Carolina (1938).
U. "Fly Around my Blue Eyed Girl" No title. Collected from James York, Olin, Iredell county, in August 1939. From Brown Collection of NC Folklore, Volume 3, 1952, version B.
V. "Fly Around my Pretty Little Miss." Contributed in 1939 by Otis Kuykendall of Asheville. From Brown Collection of NC Folklore, Volume 3, 1952, version C.
W. "Blue-Eyed Girl," sung by Rufus Crisp of Allen KY, with banjo. From a 1946 recording titled Rufus Crisp on Folkways Records FA 2342 released in 1972.
X. "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss," sung banjoist George Pegram of Oak Ridge, and harp player Red Parham of Leicester, NC, recorded in Swannanoa NC, 1946; Digital Appalachia recording.
Y. "Fly Around, My Pretty Little Miss," banjo and vocal by Lee Sexton, c. 1948. From the Smithsonian Folkways album. Mountain Music of Kentucky. Lee Sexton was born in 1928 in Letcher County, Kentucky.
Z. "My Blue-Eyed Girl," sung by Lawrence Eller of Upper Hightower, Georgia as recorded by Art Rosenbaum, December, 1977.My date, from the Art Of Field Recording Volume 1.
AA. "Blue-eyed Girl," sung by Jim Couch of Harlan, Kentucky collected by Leonard Roberts, 1954. From Roberts, "Sang Branch Settlers," p.168.
BB. "Fly Around my Blue-Eyed Girl," played on piano and sung by Hobart Smith of Saltville, VA in August, 1959. From Virginia Traditions: Blue Ridge Piano Styles, 1981.
CC. "Fly Around My Pretty Little Pink," sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford.. From the album "Gather ground," 1959.
DD. "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss," sung by Frank Proffitt, c. 1959; from Warner Collection, Vol. 2: Nothing Seems Better to Me - The Music of Frank Proffitt and North Carolina.
EE. "Pretty Little Pink,"- sung by Clint Howard of Mountain City, Tennessee, from "Old timey concert" dated 1967, recorded in Seattle, WA, with Doc Watson and Clint Howard, lead vocal guitar, Fred Price, fiddle; also Original Folkways Recordings of Doc Watson and Clarence Ashley, 1960-1962.
FF. "Fly Around My Pretty Little Pink," sung by Manuel Dewey (known as Old Joe Clark) about 1961. From "Ark" Records of Cincinnati, Ohio, 45-EP229 CP 8570.
GG. "Fly Around," sung w/banjo by Sheila Kay Adams of Madison, NC on September 6, 1976 at Swannanoa, NC. From Digital Appalachia; http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/Warren/id/1663/rec/22
HH. "Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss," sung by Peter Gott of Sodom Laurel, North Carolina, Feb. 19, 1977. From Digital Appalachia: http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/Warren/id/1240/rec/1
II. "Fly Around my Little Betty Ann," sung by Cas Wallin of Sodom Laurel, NC in 1979. From Digital Appalachia: http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/Warren/id/2061/rec/3
JJ. "Little Betty Ann." Sung by Dellie Norton at her home in Sodom Laurel, Madison County, NC, 29.8.80. From Yates: Musical Traditions MTCD 324 ('Far in the Mountains 4').
KK. "Little Betty Ann." Sung by Inez Chandler at her home in Marshall, Madison County, NC, 28.8.80. From Yates: Musical Traditions MTCD 324 ('Far in the Mountains 4').
LL. "Fly Around My Blue Eyed Girl," played and sung by Ballard “Pappy” Taylor from Kentucky with Tommy Taylor guitar, 1989. Digital Appalachia: http://dla.acaweb.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/berea/id/4984/rec/17
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Richie