Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/10/46/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Daten.d. [1957 - 1958]
Description'Lonesome Valley', a documentary about religion and religious music in America after the Revolution presented by Alan Lomax:

Track 1: Narrator talks about the battle for religious freedom during and after the American Revolution, 0.43 mins
Track 2: Group including banjo sings a hymn beginning 'My Lord Keeps a Record', 0.40 mins
Track 3: Narration, 0.36 mins
Track 4: Man sings 'I am a poor wayfaring pilgrim', with guitar, 2.00 mins
Track 5: Narrator talks about the moral code of early Baptist settlers, 0.51 mins
Track 6: Man sings song with chorus 'That Good Old Country Baptizing', 0.48 mins
Track 7: Narrator talks about shape notes, 0.49 mins
Track 8: Choir sings a hymn, 1.07 mins
Track 9: Narrator describes the scene at a shape notes singing school, 1.13 mins
Track 10: Choir sings 'Wyndham', 1.52 mins
Track 11: Narrator talks about fuguing tunes, 0.25 mins
Track 12: Choir sings a fuguing hymn, 1.11 mins
Track 13: Narrator talks about the religious revival in the South of America at the beginning of the nineteenth century and the 'primitive country Baptists', 1.17 mins
Track 14: Recording of a Baptist preacher, 1.47 mins
Track 15: Recording of a Baptist congregation singing a hymn, 1.25 mins
Track 16: Narrator talks about religious ballads composed by the primitive Baptists, 0.26 mins
Track 17: A man from the Ozark hills sings a Baptist ballad, 'Little Moses', 1.27 mins
Track 18: Narrator talks about the emergence of family songs; a man sings a family song, with guitar, 1.27 mins
Track 19: Narrator talks about 'negro' and 'white' spirituals, 0.36 mins
Track 20: Man sings a spiritual, 0.20 mins
Track 21: Narrator talks about influence of spirituals on white spirituals, 0.22 mins
Track 22: E.C Ball, from the Smokey Mountains sings a white spiritual, with guitar, 0.57 mins
Track 23: Narrator talks about E.C. Ball, 0.34 mins
Track 24: A man and a woman sing a hymn that begins 'Trials, Troubles, Tribulations', 1.41 mins
Track 25: Narrator talks about 0.32 mins
Track 26: A man sings a song about 'The Old Country Church', with guitar and banjo, 0.56 mins
Track 27: Narrator talks about the mountain folk's love of old things and of the mountains, 0.27 mins
Track 28: Man and woman sing 'If My Time Should Come Tomorrow', with guitar, 1.10 mins

Various folk songs:

Track 29: Willie Walker and his band play 'The Morpeth Rant', 0.36 mins
Track 30: Narrator introduces the next song, 0.16 mins
Track 31 Band plays 'Hull's Victory', 2.14 mins

Tracks 32-45 Hootenanny 2:

Track 32: Ewan MacColl opens the show, 0.59 mins
Track 33: Ewan MacColl and audience sing 'The Day We Went to Rothesay, Oh', 1.59 mins
Track 34: Peggy Seeger talks about Dink's Song', 1.00 mins
Track 35: Peggy Seeger sings 'Dink's Song', 1.58 mins
Track 36: Dean Gitter sings 'The Roving Gambler', 1.59 mins
Track 37: Bert Lloyd sings 'The Devil and the Farmer's Wife', 2.23 mins
Track 38: Ralph Rinzler sings a ballad called 'Naomi Wise', 2.47 mins
Track 39: Isla Cameron sings 'The Sandgate Nursing Song', 1.56 mins
Track 40: Robin Hall sings 'Johnny Lad', 2.48 mins
Track 41: Ewan MacColl sings 'Awa Ye Wee Daft Article', 0.21 mins
Track 42: Dean Gitter sings 'All My Trials, Lord, Will Soon Be Over', 3.26 mins
Track 43: Ewan MacColl sings 'The Four Loom Weaver; 2.37 mins
Track 44: Bert Lloyd sings 'The Derby Ram', 3.26 mins
Track 45: Dean Gitter sings 'Poor Young Girl', 2.13 mins
Track 46: a man speaking Italian, 0.39 mins

Total: 1.01.39

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF549C0341280
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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