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Thread #2479   Message #762553
Posted By: masato sakurai
09-Aug-02 - 09:31 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Subject: RE: Will the Circle Be Unbroken
The Carter Family version of "Can The Circle Be Unbroken" (1935) can be heard at the Honkingduck site. This is the only one on The Bear Family collection. In addition to the two recordings in 1933, they recorded two takes in 1935; ARC 17472-1 was unissued (Kip Lornell, Virginia's Blues, Country, & Gospel Records 1902-1943, p. 51)

The Monroe Brothers recorded "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" (Habershon/Gabriel version) in 1936 ("For some reason, the session sheets credit the tune to Zeke Morris, the duet pardner of wade Mainer"--Chales Wolfe), which is on The Monroe Brothers, Volume 2: Just a Song of Old Kentucky (Rounder 82161-1074-2) [with sound clip]. "Will the Circle Be Unbroken is heard here in its earlier incarnation, as it was first published in church songbooks in 1912 and as popularized by the radio singers from South Carolina, The McCravy Brothers." (Wolfe)

~Masato