Suggestion: Album Contents List?

Subject: Suggestion: Album Contents List?
From: Nonie Rider
Date: 07 Oct 97 - 06:46 PM

You know, we all keep asking about songs in various obvious collections (RISE UP SINGING) or on albums by the same 20 people...

What would y'all think about creating a list or mini-database of sources, with song titles, performer, and album/book?

FREX, something like one of these formats:

"(We Be) Soldiers Three"
Performed on:
John Doe, SONGS ABOUT DRINKING II, (infogarble)
Richard Roe and Tom Dickenharrry, BEST OF THE REST, (infogarble)
Lyrics also printed in:
Curley Moe, SONGS MY FATHER TAUGHT ME, (publishgarbo)

And/or:

John Doe, SONGS ABOUT DRINKING II, (infogarble)
"Soldiers Three"
"The Parting Glass"
"The Jug of Punch"
"Have Some Madeira, M'Dear"
etc.

If kept up, this could be useful both to us beginners who don't even have RISE UP SINGING and to people looking for something they heard once in the Forties.

This'd be titles only, not full text, to avoid copyright problems (at least, I HOPE it would) and to avoid duplication with the DT DB, but it would give some idea where to look for the stuff, or what to ask about.

Maybe we could use a thread tag "TITLE LIST: XYZ" or something, like the LYRIC ADD one, to make it easier to collect?

It'd obviously have to end up in searchable format-- anything from a long document to a DB of links, whatever. My guess is that it'd need an owner/updater, and unfortunately, I ain't got the time or HTML skills to be the best person for it. Any opinions?

Subject: RE: Suggestion: Album Contents List?
From: Dale Rose
Date: 07 Oct 97 - 08:40 PM

What you are asking about already exists, "Folk Music On Recordings". It is no where near complete, and is mostly LPs, rather than CDs, but this project is such a monumental task, that I am sure that in time it will cover just about anything you want to know. It is noticably better than when I first found it. Just go there and start exploring!

http://milton.mse.jhu.edu:8001/research/folkindex/maindex.htm