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Thread #42524   Message #619217
Posted By: kytrad (Jean Ritchie)
31-Dec-01 - 06:43 PM
Thread Name: Help: Earlier tunes of songs, carols, hymns
Subject: RE: Help: Earlier tunes of songs, carols, hymns
Liland- Happy New Year- the hour is nearing! Sorry that my recordings have all been the "ordinary" tune, in deference to audiences' singing along, or my co-singer on the album (Doc Watson on "Jean and Doc at Folk City, for the latter category). If you'll send a PM and nag me, I'll get son Jon to set down the music somehow for you. You must already have a source for the tune we used for "O Little Town," as it was one of the common ones of yesteryear.

You might be interested in a longago photo-story my husband and I did with Daniel Boone VII. He claimed to be a direct descendant, and laughingly told us his younger cousin was mad at him because he(the cousin)had also been named the same...there was some sort of race being run to have sons so that the name could be appropriated first! Of course none of this got printed in the article- would you like a copy? We still have it, I think.