'Unprintable Songs' (Randolph/Legman)

Subject: RE: 'Unprintable Songs' (Randolph/Legman)
From: GUEST,RA
Date: 23 May 17 - 06:03 AM

Thanks, Lighter - I think you're right. Looking more closely it actually reads 'J McCulloh', not 'McCulloch'... and the folklorist Judith's surname is/was actually McCulloh. Still I wonder how it ended up in a Scottish charity shop rather than a US thrift store...

Subject: RE: 'Unprintable Songs' (Randolph/Legman)
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 23 May 17 - 06:03 AM

I can't remember her exact title but I believe Judith was head of the Southern Folk Life Centre in Memphis which is where I met her. I still have her card somewhere. I believe she then went on to work at the University of Illinois Press in the Music in American Life series.
I believe she passed away a few years back.

Subject: RE: 'Unprintable Songs' (Randolph/Legman)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 23 May 17 - 11:43 AM

This exchange over the last few days, makes my "Best of Mudcat" list. I have a few songbooks myself that have interesting names written inside.
I got to Moe's Books in Berkeley, California, right after minor legend Barry Olivier unloaded a large supply of folksong books.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: 'Unprintable Songs' (Randolph/Legman)
From: GUEST,RA
Date: 23 May 17 - 05:11 PM

Great! Also, I was told by the bookseller when I bought my copy of Scott's 'Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border' in the town of Callander, Perthshire, that it came from the library of the late Naomi Mitchison - although I have no proof of that.

Subject: RE: 'Unprintable Songs' (Randolph/Legman)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 May 17 - 01:20 AM

So, Gargoyle....

Back in 2003, you asked me to enter the song numbers for all the songs in the first volume of Randolph-Legman. But in the same message, you promised to post the index of the second volume - and you didn't complete the job.

So, in the interest of collaboration, isn't it time for you to get back to work?

Cheers!

-Joe-

Subject: RE: 'Unprintable Songs' (Randolph/Legman)
From: GUEST,Larry
Date: 13 Jan 19 - 06:47 PM

Looking for the words to "The Old Black Cat Shit in the Shavings" anybody have IDEAL where we can find them???

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Hi, Larry - I posted the lyrics from Randolph/Legman above (click) in 2002. That's the only version I can find.
-Joe Offer, Mudcat Music Editor-

Subject: RE: 'Unprintable Songs' (Randolph/Legman)
From: Lighter
Date: 13 Jan 19 - 07:00 PM

https://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=fiddle-l;31e2f9d7.9808A

Subject: RE: 'Unprintable Songs' (Randolph/Legman)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Nov 22 - 10:48 PM

Note these programs about the book.


https://folklife.uark.edu/webinar-eriksen/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp70DFWPVoI