Schroeder, Adolf E. (1916- ) and Rebecca B. (1921- ), Folk Song and Folklore Collection, 1957-1987 (C3826)

.2 linear feet, 184 audio cassettes, 2 records, 23 audio tapes, 2 video cassettes

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SERIES LIST

Audio cassettes

a.c. 1MAX HUNTER at the School of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, MO. Recorded by A. E. Schroeder, c. 1975.
  • Side 1: Blank
  • Side 2: discussion, Ozarks songs and ballads, Springfield-Greene County Library.
  • Songs:
    • "All My Friends Fell Out With Me"
    • "The Letter Edged in Black"
    • "The Little Rosewood Casket"
    • "The Blind Child"
    • discussion, Vernon Dalhart's recording of the prison song
    • discussion, survival of ballads and old songs in the Ozarks
    • "The Butcher's Boy"
    • "The Jew's Garden"
    • "I Used to Dress Well"
    • "Deep Blue Sea"
    • discussion, ways to promote the Ozarks
a.c. 2MAX HUNTER featured in "Music of the Mountains" produced by KDOE-TV, Joplin, MO, 1975. Audio copy of video cassette made at Silver Dollar City. Video cassette available (v.c. 1-2). There are silences on the tape where commercials were inserted. Narrator is Bob Phillips of KDOE-TV.
  • Side 1:
    • Booger Red (aka Paralee Weddington) and Family, instrumental
    • Kris Parker, "Railroad Bill"
    • narration, Bob Phillips
    • interview, Max Hunter
    • Julie O'Reilly, "The Trees They Do Grow High"
    • Ralph and Minnie Spencer, banjo and mandolin
    • interview, Minnie Spencer, description of cigar box fiddle
    • Ralph Spencer, description banjolin
    • performance, Ralph and Minnie Spencer, cigar box fiddle and banjolin
    • Curry Family, "Way Down South in Georgia"
    • Don Koonce, "What Will the Birds Do, Mother, in the Spring?"
    • Almeda Riddle, "Poor Babes in the Woods"
    • Stephanie Isaacs, "3 Men Went Hunting & Something They Did Find"
  • Side 2:
    • David Hunt, harmonica tune
    • Barry Family (dancers), jig
    • New Bethel Singers, "Circuit Riding Preacher"
    • Ray Ricketts, "Home on the Range" on a saw
    • Gene Metcalf, Jew's Harp
    • E. E. Griggs, "I Have a Charming Young Beau"
    • Benton County Ramblers, instrumental
    • Sac River Jones and Family, "The Little Log Cabin"
    • Bob Phillips interviews Silver Dollar City staff member and Max Hunter
    • Booger Red and Family, instrumental (with Ike Fry, jig dancer)
    • Stephanie Isaacs, dulcimer tune
    • Sac River Jones and Family, fiddle tune
    • Kris Parker, "As I Walked Out Over London Bridge"
    • Max Hunter, "George Collins" (Child 85)
a.c. 3-7 MAX HUNTER, An Evening with Max Hunter, 9 October 1976, at the home of A. E. Schroeder, Columbia, MO. Cathy Barton, Ruth Barton, Chris German, Sterling Kelley, Heinrich Leonhard, Dave Para, Chris Patterson, Becky Schroeder, A. E. Schroeder, and Lynn Wolz present. Cathy Barton, German, Leonhard, Para, Patterson, and Wolz are young Columbia musicians who regularly perform at "The Chez."
Copy 1 (a.c. 3-4) recorded by Ruth Barton;
copy 2 (a.c. 5-7) recorded by A. E. Schroeder.
Some noise on tapes. Side 2 of a.c. 7 is Boone County Historical Society meeting.
a.c. 3
  • Side 1:
    • Max Hunter, "The Streets of Laredo"
    • "The Jew's Garden" (Child 155) with discussion of Aunt Ollie Gilbert
    • "Down By the Greenwood Side" (Child 20) learned from Pearl Brewer
    • "Shoot the Cat", learned from Almeda Riddle
    • discussion of version learned from Aunt Ollie Gilbert by Mike Seeger
    • discussion, Fred High of High, AR, and Hunter's collecting philosophy
    • Sterling Kelley on the leaf
      • "Turkey in the Straw"
      • "When Irish Eyes are Smiling"
    • Kelley playing beef bones
      • fiddle accompaniment, Chris German, "Mississippi Sawyer"
      • Discussion of bones
      • accompaniment, Cathy Barton, "Boatman"
    • discussion, Odis Bird
    • Cathy Barton, "Devilish Mary"
    • Dave Para, "Gentle Jennie Fair Rosemarie" (Child 277)
  • Side 2:
    • Cathy Barton:
      • "The Dewy Dens of Yarrow" (Hunter coll., Child 214 & 215)
      • "Braes of Yarrow"
      • "Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow"
      • "Some Have Fathers Gone to Glory"
    • discussion, camp meetings
    • Cathy Barton, "Warfare Ended"
    • discussion, Mountain View, AR, and singers learning songs
    • Hunter's "Maid of Dundee" story
    • Bookmiller Shannon
    • art of collecting
    • Fred High
    • stump whiskey maker
    • "Timbo Fight" (a local ballad)
    • discussion, Raymond Sanders
    • Max Hunter, "Sawmill Song"
    • discussion of Raymond Sanders
    • "All my Friends Fell Out With Me", with discussion
    • Sterling Kelley, "Ticklish Reuben"
    • Chris Patterson, "Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier"
a.c. 4
  • Side 1:
    • Max Hunter and Cathy Barton:
      • "Oh, Miss I Have a Very Fine Farm"
      • "I Used to Dress Well"
      • "Rosemary and Thyme" (Child 2)
      • "The Nightman" (Child 3)
      • hammer dulcimer tune
    • Hunter, "How to sell a spinning wheel in Arkansas"
    • Cathy Barton, hammer dulcimer:
      • "Cindy"
      • "Soldier's Joy"
      • "Mississippi Sawyer"
      • "Jaybird"
      • "Colored Aristocracy"
      • "Psaltery Piece"
      • "Lord Cornwallis' March"
      • "Wabash Cannonball"
    • discussion, Jimmy Driftwood and Mountain View Folk Center
  • Side 2:
    • Cathy Barton, banjo instrumental
    • "The Hangman," (vocal Child 95)
    • Max Hunter:
      • "My True Love Was a Nice Young Man"
      • "My Goodman" (Child 274)
      • "Sam Hall"
      • "The Butcher Boy"
      • "A Reckless Rambling Boy"
      • "Rose Conerly"
    • discussion, Odis Bird and helping with haying
    • story about Odis Bird's father
    • discussion, twins who sang "Edward"
    • discussion, "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight," (Odis called "Little Billy")
    • discussion, "One Morning in May" and other songs
    • discussion, Mrs. Coberley
    • discussion, collecting (Allie Long Parker and Aunt Ollie Gilbert)
a.c. 5sides 1 & 2:
Same as above, but side 1 ends with Kelley on bones in "Mississippi Sawyer" and side 2 continues with "Boatman", ends with "Warfare Ended."
a.c. 6sides 1 & 2:
Same as Barton recording, but side 1 begins with Hunter discussion of characteristics of singers, Fred High and wasp nest story, then ends with Chris Patterson, "Johnny has Gone for a Soldier." Side 2 begins with Max Hunter and Cathy Barton, "Oh, Miss I Have a Very Fine Farm", and ends with hammer dulcimer tunes as above and discussion of Mountain View Folk Center.
a.c. 7
  • Side 1:
    • discussion, problems of folk music at Ozark Folk Center
    • hammer dulcimer tune
    • Cathy Barton, "Hangman" (Child 95)
    • Max Hunter "The Good Old Man" (Child 274)
    • "Sam Hall"
    • "The Butcher's Boy"
    • "A Reckless, Rambling Boy."
    • James Shirky, Stephens College
    • "Rose Conerly"
    • discussion, Odis Bird and helping with haying
    • discussion of "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight" (Child 4)
  • Side 2:
    • Virginia Botts, Boone County Historical Society, father & place names
    • discussion, Taos, Haarsville, pronunciation of Missouri names, Poosy
    • Lew Stoerker on his family
a.c. 8-11MAX HUNTER on collecting Ozark folksongs. "Festival of Missouri Folk Music and Dance," University of Missouri-Columbia, 29 July 1977. A.c. 9 is more complete. (a.c. 8, side 2 is Loman Cansler.) The Festival program is also available on audio tape (a.t. 1-4).
a.c. 8
  • Side 1:
    • Afternoon session
    • Max Hunter Workshop: "Collecting Folk Songs." (Transcript, folder 2)
    • "The Rivers of Texas"
  • Side 2:
    • Loman Cansler:
      • "Josiah and his Sally"
      • "Jim Bludso", or the "Prairie Belle"
      • "Don't You Grieve After Me"
      • "The Housekeeper's Complaint"
    • discussion, why singers sang without accompaniment
    • "The Little Ship" (Child 286)
    • "Temperance Song"
    • "Kitty Wells"
    • Loman and Myra Cansler (daughter): "The Knot of Blue and Gray"
    • discussion, Loman Cansler collecting methods
    • "Two Poor Little Babes"
    • "Charlie Brooks"
a.c. 9
  • Side 1:
    • Afternoon session
    • Max Hunter: "Collecting Folk Songs"
    • "The Rivers of Texas"
    • "Streets of Laredo"
  • Side 2:
    • discussion, cowboys as Easterners going west with songs
    • "A Sailor Cut Down in His Prime"
    • "The Jew's Garden," two versions
    • "This little boy would not stop singing about Christianity"
    • Above song confused with version of "The Brown Girl" (Child 73)
    • collecting songs methodology
    • Question: Any bawdy songs [in collection]?
a.c. 10Evening program
  • Side 1:
    • Max Hunter:
      • discussion, collecting experiences:
        • importance of getting involved with contributors
        • delivering 'stump whiskey'
        • lending car to escaped prisoner
        • swapping tobacco with Leander Witt
      • Songs:
        • "I Used to Dress Well"
        • "Sam Hall"
        • fragment of "Roll Your Leg Over"
        • "Rome County"
        • "The Blind Boy"
        • "The Dewy Dens of Yarrow" (Child 214, 215)
    • Loman Cansler:
      • "Arthur Clyde"
      • Dallas County song about "Two Boys"
      • "Down in Missouri"
  • Side 2:
    • Loman Cansler, "Down in Missouri"
    • accompaniment, Myra Cansler, "The Storms Are on the Ocean"
    • Max Hunter:
      • Importance, local balladry
      • Importance, music during the Great Depression
      • "Max Hunter's Song"
    • R.P. Christeson (piano), Charlie Walden (fiddle):
      • "Old Melinda"
      • "Hooker's Hornpipe"
a.c. 11
  • Side 1:
    • Afternoon program
    • Fiddle tunes:
      • Taylor McBaine
      • Cathy Barton
      • Heinrich Leonhard
    • Sterling Kelley playing hickory leaf:
      • "Listen to the Mocking Bird"
      • "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling"
      • "Turkey in the Straw" (with turkey calls)
      • "Let the Rest of the World Go By"
      • explanation of leaf playing
    • "Wreck of the Old '97" with beef bones
    • "Arkansas Traveler"
    • Dr. A.J. Eichenseer, Dudelsack (bagpipe), "Muss i denn"
  • Side 2:
    • Evening program, copy 2.
    • Loman Cansler:
      • "Arthur Clyde"
      • Dallas County song about "Two Boys"
      • "Down in Missouri"
      • "The Storms Are on the Ocean," with Myra Cansler
    • Max Hunter: Importance of local ballads
    • "Max Hunter's Song"
    • R. P. Christeson (piano), Charlie Walden (fiddle):
      • "Old Melinda"
      • "Hooker's Hornpipe"
a.c. 12-13MAX HUNTER at the "Festival of Folk Arts and Music," a joint meeting of the Missouri Folklore Society and the Ozark States Folklore Society, University of Missouri-Columbia, 17 November 1978. Transcript available in folder 3. Copy 1. (a.c. 13 is copy 2 of "Festival. . .") This festival program is also available on audio tape (a.t. 5-21).
a.c. 12
  • Side 1:
    • difference between an "Ozarker" and an "Ozarkian"
    • "Rivers of Texas"
    • discussion, Herbert Philbrick of Crocker, MO
      • "Dewy Dens of Yarrow" (Child 214, 215)
      • "Our Goodman" (Child 274)
      • bawdy songs
      • Introduces Charlie Pashia
      • Fiddle tunes:
        • "Devil's Dream"
        • "Ralph Coleman's Waltz"
      • discussion, auditions for first Silver Dollar City Music Festival
      • introduces Spencer Family from Cole Hill, AR, "The Hungry Holler Folks"
      • Tunes:
        • "Chicken Reel"
        • the Kentucky version of "Liza Jane" and a "new-fangled version"
  • Side 2:
    • Spencer family continued:
    • Discussion of instruments;
    • "Golden Slippers";
    • "Sippin' Cider" (vocal);
    • "I wish I Was Single Again" (vocal);
    • comment about Howard, then "Howard's Tune";
    • songs: "Love, I've Only Been Down to the Club";
    • "Pat Malone" or "Finnegan's Wake";
    • "Sugar in the Gourd";
    • "Bury Me Beneath the Weeping Willow Tree."
    • "Four Night's Drunk" ("Our Goodman" Child 274);
    • discussion of cigar box fiddle and homemade mandolin.
    • "Bug on Me" (Heel and Toe);
    • "Turkey in the Straw."
    • Max asks for Minnie Spencer's version of "Young Charlotte" and she sings a verse.
a.c. 13
  • Side 1: Same as a.c. 12, but ends with introduction of Charlie Pashia.
  • Side 2:
    • End of Spencer Family Program.
    • Max Hunter's conclusion.
    • Jean Kittrell: "He Had to Walk it All By Himself."
    • Talk on the development of congregational singing; Talk not complete.
    • "Amazing Grace,";
    • singing schools;
    • shape notes, "On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand";
    • "Amazing Grace."
    • "A Mighty Fortress is Our God."
a.c. 14-15MAX HUNTER at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 6 November 80, for the series, "Folklore: The Universal Language." Recorded from the audience by A.E. Schroeder.
a.c. 14, Side 1:
  • Discussion of Hunter's collection (jokes, proverbial expressions)
  • collecting rules he established:
    • 1) Stay in the Ozarks--Ozarks defined by cultural patterns;
    • 2) All materials recorded in "the field";
  • Comments about singers and their feelings for the songs:
    • "Rome County";
    • "The Streets of Laredo" with comment about origin;
    • "A Sailor Cut Down in his Prime";
    • "Prisoner's Song" with comment about Vernon Dalhart version;
    • "George Collins" (Child 85, "Lady Alice");
    • "The Jew's Garden" (Child 155) and a discussion of the story of the ballad;
    • story about "Maid of Dundee"
a.c. 14, Side 2:
  • "The Jew's Garden";
  • comments on "The Brown Girl" (Child 73);
  • "I Used to Dress Well";
  • Cathy Barton and Dave Para:
    • "Valley Forge" (instrumental);
    • "The Rivers of Texas";
    • "He's Gone, Let Him Go, God Bless Him" (from Aunt Ollie Gilbert);
  • Max Hunter: Remembrance about mother darning socks and singing "Barbara Allen."
a.c. 15, Side 1:Begins with 3 minutes of unrecorded tape. Comments about "The Dewy Dens of Yarrow" (Child 214, 215); Changes he would make in collecting rules.
a.c. 15, Side 2:Blank
a.c. 16-17MAX HUNTER: "Pioneer Ozarker--Complex Man." Recorded by Max Hunter, 12 February 1974, in Springfield, MO. A talk by Hunter based on his research on the Ozarks and his experience as a collector. Transcript available in folder 2.
a.c. 18-19MAX HUNTER: Interview by Cathy Barton, 2 October 1981, at Hunter home in Springfield, MO. History of Hunter and Rose families. Hunter's early life, home remedies, music in family, job and collecting experiences. Transcript available in folders 3 and 4.
a.c. 20-21MAX HUNTER: Interview, 4 October 1981, at Hunter home in Springfield with Donald Lance, A.E. Schroeder, Becky Schroeder, Virginia Hunter. Hunter's meeting and experiences with the Randolphs. Transcript available in folders 4 and 5.
a.c. 22-23MAX HUNTER with Art Galbraith and Gordon McCann at the Springfield-Greene County Public Library, 4 December 1981. Recorded by Academic Support Center, UMC. Audio cassette copy of video cassette. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 8-11).
a.c. 22, Side 1:
  • "Barbara Allen" (Child 84);
  • discussion of ballad commonplace "grave long and narrow"
  • use of ballad text in dating songs.
  • "I Made My Way Up to the Door";
  • story about "Young Boys' Massacre"
  • "The Iron Mountain Baby."
  • Discussion of Civil War songs;
  • "Battle of Pea Ridge."
a.c. 22, Side 2:ART GALBRAITH AND GORDON McCANN:
  • Civil War stories;
  • "Leather Britches," Scottish fiddle tune;
  • "Seamus O'Brien."
  • Gordon McCann on play party fiddler;
  • "The Irish Washerwoman" (6/8 time);
  • account of collecting from Herbert Philbrick;
  • "The Dewy Dens of Yarrow" (Child 214, 215);
  • oral tradition;
  • "The Jew's Daughter" (Child 155).
  • Comment about Canterbury Tales.
a.c. 23, Side 1: ART GALBRAITH AND GORDON McCANN:
  • Cotillion in 6/8 time;
  • "Down Home Waltz."
  • Max Hunter: Discussion of music parties;
  • "The Storms are on the Ocean" ("Lass of Roch Royal" Child 76);
  • "I Used to Dress Well";
  • "Deep Blue Sea";
  • discussion of song language and folk memory;
  • "Battle of Pea Ridge";
  • discussion of change in song text;
  • change in Ozark environment
a.c. 23, Side 2:
  • JUDY DOMENY:
    • "Don't Step on Mother's Roses";
  • CATHY BARTON AND DAVE PARA:
    • "The Rivers of Texas";
    • discussion of Bald Knobbers' songs, bawdy songs
a.c. 24, Side 1:MAX HUNTER at Wilson's Creek, 17 May 1982. Audio cassette copy of video cassette recorded by Academic Support Center, UMC. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 12).
  • "I Made My Way Up to the Door";
  • "The Iron Mountain Baby";
  • Edward" (Child 13);
  • "Pea Ridge";
  • "I Made My Way Up to the Door" (repeated);
  • "Barbara Allen" (incomplete). Video cassette made at Wilson's Creek from which this selection was taken contains songs from the Hunter collection by Judy Domeny.
a.c. 24, Side 2:Blank
a.c. 25MAX HUNTER interview, 17 May 1982, Springfield, MO, Kentwood Arms Motel. Recorded by Academic Support Center, UMC. Max and Virginia Hunter, Cathy Barton, Ruth Barton, Judy Domeny, Betsy Olson, Lois Gandt, Adolf and Becky Schroeder are present. Audio cassette copy of video cassette. Transcript available in folder 5. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 18-21).
Side 1: Discussion of Hunter collection and characteristics of singers.
Side 2: Long silence, then discussion continues.
a.c. 26MAX HUNTER at Arrow Rock, 17 November 1982. With Cathy Barton and Loman Cansler. Recorded by Academic Support Center, UMC. Audio cassette copy of video cassette. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 1,5-7,85).
Side 1:
  • "Barbara Allen";
  • "The Prisoner's Song";
  • "The Nightman" (Child 3) with Cathy Barton;
  • "Rosemary and Thyme" (Child 2) with Cathy Barton.
  • "The Little Ship" (Child 286);
  • "Lady Margaret" (Child 74);
  • "Two Sisters" (Child 10)
Side 2: LOMAN CANSLER:
  • "Molly Vaughn";
  • "Jim Bludso or the Prairie Belle"
  • "The Little Mohee."
  • "As my Granddad used to say, 'Give Me a Ballad.'"
  • "Temperance Song";
  • "Kitty Wells,"
  • "Babes in the Woods."
a.c. 27-28MAX HUNTER following preview of videotape "Max Hunter: Ozark Song Collector" at Springfield-Greene County Public Library, 18 April 1983. With Judy Domeny, taped by A.E. Schroeder.
a.c. 27, Side 1:Discussion of videotape;
  • Max Hunter "The Haunted Hunter";
  • Judy Domeny: "Mary of the Wild Moor";
  • Judy Domeny: "Devilish Mary";
  • Max: "Catching tunes";
  • "Rivers of Texas";
  • "The Streets of Laredo" and origin in "A Sailor Cut Down in His Prime."
a.c. 27, Side 2: At the home of Jewell Smith, Librarian, Springfield-Greene County Public Library. Gordon McCann, Judy Domeny.
  • Judy Domeny: "The Brown Girl" (Child 73);
  • Max Hunter: "The Prisoner's Song" (2 versions);
  • Judy Domeny: "Four Marys" (Child 173);
  • Max Hunter: "Deep Blue Sea";
  • about "The Jew's Daughter";
  • about Mormon "hand cart,"
  • "The Massacre at Mountain Meadow."
  • True stories, "West Plains Explosion," etc.
  • Songs about Bald Knobbers--story about Charlie Ingenthron.
  • Discussion of "Derby Ram."
  • Max Hunter: "The Butcher Boy."
a.c. 28, Side 1:
  • "The Butcher Boy" continued.
  • Judy Domeny: "Babes in the Woods";
  • Gordon McCann: discussion of "Two Sisters" or "The Miller's Daughters" (Child 10);
  • Max Hunter: "I Used to Dress Well";
  • Hunter: "Rivers of Texas";
  • discussion of Mary Celestia Parler's death;
  • Herbert Halpert;
  • Vance Randolph "giving speech to white horse";
  • Gordon McCann on Hunter's records;
  • Hunter: "Dewy Dens of Yarrow" (Child 214, 215);
  • Judy Domeny: "Pat Malone."
a.c. 28, Side 2:
  • Judy Domeny: "Pat Malone" continued;
  • "The Baggage Car";
  • "Don't Step on Mother's Roses";
  • "The Letter Edged in Black";
  • Max Hunter: "All My Friends Fell out With Me" or "I Loved My Love With a Free Good Will";
  • Judy Domeny, "Wait Till the Clouds Roll By."
a.c. 29-32Max Hunter Sings Songs from His Collection. 4 audio cassettes from a reel to reel tape recorded by Max Hunter in a Joplin motel, date unknown. Hunter prepared this recording for those interested in learning songs from his collection. It consists of songs he liked enough to learn. He accompanies himself on the guitar. Some commentary.
a.c. 29, Side 1:
  • "Down By the Seashore";
  • "The Streets of Laredo" and discussion of origin of song;
  • "A Sailor Cut Down in His Prime" or "St. James Infirmary";
  • "Down by the Greenwood Side" ("The Cruel Mother," Child 20)
  • "Hanging Day," composed by Max Hunter;
  • "Pretty Susie" or "The Owl in the Desert";
  • introduction to "Open the Door" or "Who is That at my Bower Door?"
a.c. 29, Side 2:
  • "Open the Door";
  • "The Haunted Hunter";
  • "The Butcher Boy";
  • "The Jew's Garden" (Child 155);
  • "Prisoner's Song" ("Adieu to All Judges and Juries").
  • "Edward" (Child 13);
  • "One Morning in May" introduction (Ollie Gilbert's version)
a.c. 30, Side 1:
  • "One Morning in May" ("The Nightingale");
  • "Battle of Pea Ridge" (from Allie Long Parker);
  • "Barbara Allen" (Child 84)
  • "Our Goodman" ("The Drunken Fool," Child 274);
  • "Oh, Miss I Have a Very Fine Farm";
  • "Young Johnny" from Ollie Gilbert;
  • "A Drunkard's Wife" ("I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again")
a.c. 30, Side 2:
  • "A Drunkard's Wife";
  • "Sweet Lovely Jane" (on Folk Legacy Record, "Max Hunter"). Contributed by Virgil Lance;
  • "Young Charlotte";
  • "The Wild Moor";
  • "The Wildwood Flower" contributed by Ed Stilley;
  • "The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band";
  • "The Bowen Spring,"
a.c. 31, Side 1:
  • "The Bowen Spring" continued.
  • "I Loved My Love" or "All My Friends Fell out With Me";
  • "The Sawmill Boy";
  • "Rose Conerly";
  • "A Fair Maiden" (story about a cowgirl);
  • "The Blind Child's Prayer";
  • "A Trundle Bed" contributed by Mrs. Tressie Rose, Gainesville, MO;
  • "The Lady Leroy,"
a.c. 31, Side 2:
  • "The Lady Leroy" continued.
  • "The Blind Boy";
  • "Mountain Meadow Massacre" with commentary about song.
  • "Driftwood on the River" contributed by Fred Smith.
  • "The Prisoner at the Bar";
  • "George Collins" or "Giles Collins" (Child 85);
  • "The Storms Are on the Ocean" or "Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?" (Child 76);
  • "The Blue Ridge Mountains" contributed by Fran Majors.
a.c. 32, Side 1:
  • "The Blue Ridge Mountains" continued.
  • "The Brazos River" contributed by Irene Carlisle;
  • "Must I Go Bound?";
  • "The White Pilgrim."
a.c. 32, Side 2:Blank
a.c. 33MAX HUNTER AND JOAN O'BRYANT, "Songs of the Ozarks." A cassette copy made by Max Hunter of a recording produced in 1962 by the Three Dials, Max Hunter, Joan O'Bryant and Mary Celestia Parler. The notes, written by Mary C. Parler, are read by Max Hunter on this cassette. An obituary of Joan O'Bryant is read at the beginning of the tape.
Side 1:
  • "The Nightman" (Child 3);
  • "Rosemary and Thyme" or "The Cambric Shirt" (Child 2)
  • "A Charming Beauty Bright";
  • "The Dewy Dens of Yarrow" (derived from Child 214 and Child 215);
  • "Sporting Molly" (version of "Whiskey in the Jar.")
  • "Go Away From Window" (learned from May Kennedy McCord)
Side 2:
  • "How Come That Blood" or "Edward" (Child 13);
  • "The Battle of Pea Ridge";
  • "Geordie" (Child 209);
  • "Rose Conerly";
  • "Fair as the Fairest" or "Down By the Seashore";
  • "I'm a Reckless, Rambling Boy" contributed by Mrs. Pearl Brewer;
  • "One Morning in May" or "The Nightingale"
a.c. 34MAX HUNTER audio letter to Joan O'Bryant, c. 1961, regarding the recording he and O'Bryant were planning. Copied from original tape on deposit with Joan O'Bryant collection in Wichita Public Library.
a.c. 35"MAX HUNTER: Ozark Song Collector." Audio cassette copy of video cassette, July 27, 1982. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 4).
Side 1:
  • "I Made My Way Up to the Door."
  • Comments about discovery of "The Dewy Dens of Yarrow";
  • "Down in the Valley" by Max with brother, Harold.
  • fragment of "Father Grumble";
  • Virginia Hunter about transcribing songs;
  • C.W. Ingenthron singing "Derby Ram" in background during comments about his 'visits';
  • Hunter collection and "The Battle of Pea Ridge";
  • Judy Domeny "Two Little Boys" and comment on learning Hunter songs;
  • "Edward" (Child 13)
Side 2:Blank
a.c. 36-37MAX HUNTER visit to Columbia, MO, 13 November 1986 at Schroeder's house. Recorded by A. E. Schroeder. Volume low.
a.c. 36, Side 1:General conversation with Max and Virginia Hunter, Becky and Dolf Schroeder about family, recording, transcribing, Eureka Folk Festival, and Joanie O'Bryant record. Funerals. Aunt Ollie Gilbert.
a.c. 36, Side 2:Blank
a.c. 37, Side 1:
  • Max Hunter talks about Jaeger family;
  • comments about Goldie Schott;
  • Virgil Lance;
  • collections at University of Arkansas.
  • Remembrances of Vance Randolph;
  • Ozark States Folklore Society;
  • Ozark Folk Center.
a.c. 37, Side 2:
  • Eureka Springs Folk Festival;
  • Fiddle contest, Eureka Springs;
  • Missouri Folk Festival possibilities;
a.c. 38MAX HUNTER at his home in Springfield, April 28, 1987. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder; Virginia Hunter, Becky Schroeder. Noise in tape.
Side 1:
  • Story about "Oto" Indians, invented by Max.
  • Joanie O'Bryant Collection and Mary Celestia Parler's class at University of Arkansas.
  • "The Unburnished Mirror, An Interpretative Study of Folklore and Content Description of the Joan O'Bryant Collection," published by the Wichita Public Library (1984).
  • Discussion of Herbert Halpert at University of Arkansas;
  • discussion of Barre Toelken;
  • search for Emma Dusenbury;
  • story of Allie Long Parker;
  • Goldie Schott;
Side 2:
  • Continued discussion of collection of Joanie O'Bryant
  • Irene Carlisle;
  • May Kennedy McCord;
  • Bob Cochran's book about Vance;
  • Ernie Deane;
  • making record with Joanie O'Bryant at Wichita;
  • Mary Jo Davis;
  • Joanie O'Bryant's association with Indian tribes.
    • a.c. 39-54OZARK FOLKSONGS. Selections from the Max Hunter Collection.
    a.c. 39-41:Recorded c.1973 in Springfield, MO, by A.E. Schroeder.
    a.c. 39, Side 1:
    • Joanie O'Bryant "Loving Henry" (Child 68)
    • Iva Haslett, "Little Moses";
    • Ethel Hunter, "The Gypsy's Warning";
    • Olive Coberley, "Father Grumble"
    a.c. 39, Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 40, Side 1:
    • Eureka Springs Festival.
    • Max Hunter
      • "The Battle of Pea Ridge"
      • "The Dewy Dens of Yarrow" (Child 214-215)
    • Joan O'Bryant, "Loving Henry" (Child 68);
    • Iva Haslett, "Little Moses";
    • Odis Byrd:
      • "Rose Conerly,"
      • "John Henry" ["John Hardy"];
    • Max Hunter's Mother, "The Gypsy's Warning";
    • Olive Coberley, "Father Grumble."
    a.c. 40, Side 2:
    • At home of Allie Long Parker
    • "Loving Polly" ("Lady Isabel and the Elfin Knight" Child 4)
    • fragment of "The Golden Vanity" (Child 286);
    • "Battle of Pea Ridge."
    a.c. 41, Side 1:Duplicate of first part of a.c. 40, side 2 above
    • Goldie Schott, "Fair Charlotte";
    • "Bonnie Wee Window."
    • "Micky Branigan's Pup";
    • Walter Vaughn "On Blue Ridge Mountain";
    • "Joe Bowers."
    • Bessie Owens sings "Johnny Lee Ballad"
    • Allie Long Parker: "Sing Lo, Laurie-O."
    a.c. 41, Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 42-43:Recorded 5 December 1981 in Springfield, MO, by A.E. Schroeder. Some noise on a.c. 42.
    a.c. 42, Side 1:
    • "Cole County Jail," Fred High;
    • "The Wild Cherry" (I Gave My Love a Cherry, Child 46), Clyde Wilson, 3 March 1958;
    • "The Battle of Pea Ridge," Allie Long Parker;
    • "On Blue Ridge Mountain", "Joe Bowers," Walter Vaughn;
    • "Sing Lo Laurie-O" (fragment) Allie Long Parker, 14 April 1958;
    • "The Battle of Pea Ridge," and "Dewy Dens of Yarrow" (Child 214-215), Max Hunter;
    • "Joe Stiner" or "Battle of Wilson's Creek," Doney Hammontree;
    • "Edward" (Child 13), and "Clinch Mountain," May Kennedy McCord;
    • "Amazing Grace," Rev. Harold Hunter. (Beginning only, see a.c. 45, side 1 for complete version).
    a.c. 42, Side 2:
    • "Derby Ram," C.W. Ingenthron;
    • "Rose Conerly," (fragment), Walter Vaughn;
    • "False Lamkin" (Child 93), Jane Robinson;
    • "Father Grumble," Olive Coberley, 7 October 1958;
    • "The World and Its Ways," Olive Coberley.
    • Harrison Burnett:
      • "One Morning in May";
      • "Sweet Sailor Boy";
      • "Jack Branger."
    • Walter Vaughn:
      • "I Love a Sailor";
      • "The Twelve Apostles";
    a.c. 43:Copy 2 of tape above.
    a.c. 44-47:Recorded 20 May 1982, in Springfield, MO, by A.E. Schroeder.
    a.c. 44, Side 1:
    • Introduction to his collection recorded 19 February 1969 by Max Hunter.
    • (Speed should be adjusted to get normal tone.)
    • Collecting Rules:
      • 1) Collect only in the Ozarks
      • 2) keep the song as he found it
      • 3) keep out songs from commercial recordings
      • 4) refuse to give song to any person who might change it
      • 5) keep his collecting fun.
    • attendance at "shivaree"
    • visit with Vance Randolph to C.W. Ingenthron at Walnut Shade, MO;
    • remembrances of Mrs. Coberley in Wheatland, MO;
    • collecting with Mary Parler;
    • Pleasant Valley community and Allie Long Parker;
    • Mr. Herbert Philbrick in Crocker, MO,
    • "Dewy Dens of Yarrow."
    a.c. 44, Side 2:
    • Collecting with Joan O'Bryant from Fred Smith in Bentonville, AR.
    • Fred High
    • Expedition to Hogscald Holler
    • accounts of visits in Missouri and Arkansas.
    • given copies of his tapes to the University of Arkansas
    • Loman Cansler recorded by Max at Eureka Springs, AR 18 October 1957.
    • "Poor Boy." (Loman has said that this is not a song from his grandfather but from Charles Finger's collection);
    • "Kicking Maude."
    • Wise Jones at Fayetteville, AR, 25 March 1958.
    • "The Drowsy Sleeper,"
    • "James Bird,"
    • "Peter Gray,"
    • "John Henry."
    • [These appear to be from commercial recordings].
    • Goldie Schott at Mondale, AR, 3 April 1958 "The Concert Garden."
    • January 1958 David Prickett "The Waxweed Girl."
    a.c. 45, Side 1:
    • May Kennedy McCord: "Black Was the Color of My True Love's Hair";
    • "Edward" (Child 13);
    • "Clinch Mountain."
    • Reverend H.E. Hunter (Max Hunter's brother) "Come Ye Sinners";
    • "Amazing Grace";
    • "I Was Born 10,000 Years Ago";
    • "I Wish I Was Single Again";
    • "Down in the Valley" (with Max).
    a.c. 45, Side 2:
    • Fred Starr, Fayetteville, AR, 15 September 1958.
      • "Willie Moore"
      • "So You've Come Back";
    • Roxie Phillips, "Devilish Mary," "Waxwell Girl";
    • "The House Carpenter" (Child 243);
    • Allie Long Parker 15 November 1958 "The Lady From the North Country" (Child 79);
    • "The Derby Ram";
    • "Lost Henry." (Child 68);
    • George Lay, Fayetteville, AR, 5 November 1958 "Andrew Barton" (Child 250);
    • Irish Song.
    a.c. 46, Side 1:
    • Pearl Brewer "On the Sea Shore";
    • "The Cruel Hearted Woman";
    • "Down By the Greenwood Side" (Child 20);
    • "Lord Thomas" (Child 73).
    • Olive Coberley "The Bailiff's Daughter" (Child 105).
    • Claire Farrell "Springfield Mountain."
    • 24 August 1959--Vance Randolph:
      • "The Earl of Murray" (Child 181)
      • "The Scopes Trial."
    • 28 October 1959--Herbert Philbrick, Crocker, MO.
    a.c. 46, Side 2:
    • 23 May 1959, at Mary Celestia Parler's home with students;
    • George Lay "Two Brothers" (Child 49);
    • Fran Majors "The Jew's Garden" (Child 155).
    a.c. 47, Side 1:
    • Jimmy Driftwood "The Brown Girl" (Child 73);
    • "Battle of Pea Ridge" or "My Name Is Dan Martin";
    • Ollie Gilbert "Lord Lovell" (Child 75);
    • "Two Sisters" (Child 10).
    • Almeda Riddle: "Four Marys" (Child 173);
    • "Rare Willie's Drowned in Yarrow" (Child 214-215);
    • "Lady Gay" ("The Wife of Usher's Well," Child 79);
    • Lula Davis: Story about new minister (a Dutchman) who can't read hymn.
    • Almeda Riddle: "Lady Margaret" (Child 74).
    a.c. 47, Side 2:
    • "Lady Margaret," continued (noise from acorns falling on house);
    • Ollie Gilbert: "Two Brothers" (Child 49);
    • "The Rich Lady" ("Pretty Sally," Child 295);
    • "The Jew's Daughter" (Child 155);
    • "Lady Gay" ("The Wife of Usher's Well," Child 79);
    • "Lady Margaret" (Child 74);
    • "The House Carpenter" (Child 243).
    a.c. 48:Recorded 21 May 1982, in Springfield, MO, by A.E. Schroeder. Some singers are not identified on this tape.
    Side 1:
    • "Black Jack Davy" (Child 200);
    • "Battle of Pea Ridge," Max Hunter;
    • "Who Will Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot?" (Child 76), Joanie O'Bryant;
    • "Joe Stiner" ("Battle of Wilson's Creek")
    • "Willie Came over the Wide Ocean," Fred High;
    • "The Nightman" (Child 3), Maxine Hyde;
    • "The Gypsy Davy" (Child 200);
    • "Joe Bowers";
    • "Iron Mountain Baby."
    Side 2:
    • "The Devil's Nine Questions" (Child 1--Burl Ives version);
    • "Old Bangum," Donna Everett;
    • "Wreck of NO. 9";
    • "Lady Margaret and Lord Bateman;
    • "The Brown Girl" (Child 73);
    • "Lord Randall" (Child 12);
    • "Lady Margaret" (Child 74);
    • "The Drunken Fool" (Child 274).
    a.c. 49-54:Recorded in Springfield, MO by A.E. Schroeder, date unknown. Some noise on a.c. 50 & 51.
    a.c. 49, Side 1:
    • Max Hunter on his collecting experiences. Duplicates last part of a.c. 44, side 2.
    • Loman Cansler
    • "Poor Boy";
    • "Kicking Maude."
    • Wise Jones
    • "The Drowsy Sleeper,"
    • "James Bird,"
    • "Peter Gray,"
    • "John Henry."
    • Goldie Schott, "The Concert Garden."
    • David Prickett, "The Waxweed Girl."
    a.c. 49, Side 2:
    • "One Morning in the Courtroom";
    • Allie Long Parker:
      • "Johnny German,"
      • "The Sons of Columbia" ("Warren and Fuller")
      • "The Battle of Pea Ridge."
    • Frank Pool:
      • "The Old Maid" ("I Never Will Marry") recorded by Mary Celestia Parler.
      • "When I Was Single";
    • "Kitty Wells";
    • "The Broken Vows";
    • "At the Matinee";
    • "I'll Remember You, Love, in My Prayers";
    • "It's in Old Missouri" (but relates to London);
    • "The Dying Child."
    a.c. 50, Side 1:
    • Frank Pool: Discussion;
    • "After the Ball";
    • "Adieu to Cold Weather";
    • Harmonica selections;
    • Fred High: "In a Hog Pen";
    • "Be a Good Boy and Do So No More";
    • "Shoot the Cat";
    • "Will the Weaver";
    • "Prairie Grove";
    • "The Lady Who Lived in the West Countree" (Child 79);
    • "Sadie Ray";
    • "The Poor Boy and the Rich Lady";
    • "The Battleship Maine";
    • "I Wish That Girl was Mine" (made up by Fred);
    • "Cole County Jail";
    • Max Hunter "The Blackberry Girl" (fragment).
    a.c. 50, Side 2:
    • Virgil Lance: "Sweet Lady Jane";
    • "Erin's Green Shore";
    • "Cue Ball";
    • "Texas Rangers";
    • Clyde Wilson, 3 March 1958 "The Wild Cherry" [Child 46];
    • "So Long, It's Been Good to Know You" (Woody Guthrie song);
    • "The Ship That Never Returned";
    • Aunt Fannie Prickett: "The Model Church";
    • Ed Stilley "My Mother's Bible";
    • "When the Morning Comes" ("By and By");
    • Max Hunter discusses recording "Loving Polly"
    a.c. 51, Side 1:
    • "The Great Courthouse";
    • "Two Little Lads";
    • "Oh, Dear What Can the Matter Be?"
    • "What's That Blood?" (Child 13);
    • "The Derby Ram";
    • "The White River Shore"
    • "The Little Mohee";
    • "One Morning in Spring";
    • "The Lily of the West"
    • "Caroline of Edinburgh Town."
    a.c. 51, Side 2:
    • "Caroline of Edinburgh Town," continued;
    • "There'll Be a Mansion,"
    • "Rose Conerly" (Walter Vaughn)
    • "False Lamkin," Child 93 (Jane Robinson)
    • "Jealous Love" (Nancy Phillip)
    • "Cowboy's Home, Sweet Home"
    • "The Boys in Blue";
    • "The Derry Dens of Taroe," (Child 214);
    • (Mrs. Lola Stanley) "The Slave Song";
    • "Blood Curdle" (Train Song).
    a.c. 52, Side 1:
    • "The House Carpenter" (Child 243);
    • Mary Parler, Joan O'Bryant, Mrs. Laura McDonald and Reba Glaise "A Charming Beauty Bright";
    • "The Dying Nun";
    • "My Horses Aren't Hungry"
    • "The Brown Girl" (Child 73)
    • Reba Glaise:
      • "Utah Carl"
      • "Johnny German"
    • "Casey Jones" (McDonald and Glaise)
    • "Young People Who Delight in Sin";
    • "The Boys Won't Do To Trust";
    • "Pretty Boy Floyd";
    • "I Courted a Fair Maid";
    • "The Hangman" (Child 95).
    a.c. 52, Side 2:
    • "The Hangman" continued;
    • "With His Old Grey Beard a Shining" ("Oh, But I Won't Have Him");
    • "My Good Old Man" (Child 274);
    • "Dumpty Moore";
    • "Lila Lee";
    • 23 July 1958 Commentary by Max Hunter.
    • Leander Witt on Banjo.
    • "Had a Little Fight"
    • "Call My Wife a Nigger"
    • "I Wish I Was a Little Bird" (vocal);
    • 2 September 1958 Lucy Quigley "The Dodger Song.";
    • "Red River Shore."
    • Mrs. Rubibow, Seligman, MO
      • "The Boy That Burned in the Perryville Jail,"
      • "Darling Little Joe;"
    • "The Baggage Coach Ahead";
    • "Casey Jones";
    • "My Tender Parents Brought Me Up" ("My Parents Raised Me Tenderly"--Murdered Girl ballad).
    a.c. 53, Side 1:
    • Group of Students:
      • "Blue Ridge Mountains" ("I've Been All Around This World");
      • "Bonnie Black Bess";
      • "Murder Song" (composed by singer);
      • "Texas Rangers";
      • "Lord Lochinvar" (George Lay);
      • "One Monday Morning";
      • "Shackle Chains";
      • ("Berryville Jail");
    • 27 May 1959--Pearl Brewer "Letter Edged in Black."
    a.c. 53, Side 2:
    • "The Taylor Boys";
    • "I Had But Fifty Cents";
    • "Two Men";
    • "Young Emily" (Murder of Sailor);
    • "Down By the Greenwood Side" (Child 20);
    • "Johnny's Gone to Sea";
    • "The Rambling Boy";
    • "The Black Sheep";
    • 3 June 1959--Allie Long Parker "Reckless Rambling Boy";
    • "Christine Leroy";
    • 23 June 1959--Lizzie McGuire "The Unfortunate Man."
    a.c. 54, Side 1:
    • "Sweet Jane";
    • "Little Black Mustache"
    • "The Rich Merchant" ("Jackie Frazer");
    • "Oh, Miss, I Have a Very Fine Farm";
    • "Two Sisters" (Child 10);
    • 15 June 1959--Harrison Burnett "One Morning in May";
    • "A Sailor's Life";
    • "Jack Branger";
    • "Harrison Town";
    • "Sweet Sixteen";
    • 8 July 1959--Walter Vaughn "I Love a Sailor";
    a.c. 54, Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 55JUDY DOMENY: Songs from the Hunter and other collections. Recorded 11 December 1982. (Selection for Domeny Record)
    Side 1:
    • "Two Little Boys";
    • "Don't Step on Mother's Roses";
    • (Johnny Cash song);
    • "Letter Edged in Black";
    • "Bonnie Wee Lassie";
    • "May I Sleep in your Barn Tonight, Mister?"
    • "Unfortunate Man";
    • "Black Sheep";
    • "The Boys in Blue";
    • "Pretty Fair Maid."
    Side 2:
    • "The Drunkard's Child";
    • "Pat Malone";
    • "The Bluebird Song."
    a.c. 56JUDY DOMENY: Songs from the Max Hunter Collection. Recorded at UMC, 4 December 1981 by the Academic Support Center, Lois Gandt. Audio copy of video cassette. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 73 and 75).
    Side 1:
    • "Fair as the Fairest";
    • "Charlie Brooks";
    • "The Bonnie Wee Window."
    • Songs repeated.
    Side 2:
    • Art Galbraith and Gordon McCann, fiddle tunes:
      • "Seamus O'Brien";
      • "I Don't Love Nobody."
      • Followed by tunes that are largely inaudible.
    a.c. 57CATHY BARTON: Songs from the Max Hunter Collection recorded at Arrow Rock, MO, 11 March 1983 by the Academic Support Center, Lois Gandt. Audio copy of video cassette. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 56-58).
    Side 1:
    • "Down By the Greenwood Side" (Child 20);
    • "The Dewy Dens of Yarrow" [Child 214-215]
    • "Devilish Mary" (not the Hunter version);
    • "False Lamkin" [Child 93];
    Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 58-59MAX HUNTER: 29th ORIGINAL OZARK FOLK FESTIVAL at Eureka Springs, AR, October 1976 Saturday night. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder. Program available in folder 9.
    a.c. 58, Side 1:
    • Robert Mack, Eureka Springs, AR. "We'll Talk it over";
    • "Supper Time";
    • "He Stepped Away";
    • The Spencer Family, "The Humpy Holler Folks";
    • discussion of banjolin;
    • "Pat Malone";
    • "Golden Slippers";
    • discussion of cigar box fiddle and apple box mandolin;
    • "Jig" Millard McDaniel from Carthage, MO, playing guitar and fiddle at the same time
    • "Fiddler's Dream." Stephanie Isaac.
    a.c. 58, Side 2:
    • Stephanie Isaac "The Palace Grand";
    • "The Cuckoo";
    • Hammer dulcimer "Play Party Game";
    • The Burdett Family from Branson, MO, "Jigging";
    • Ferguson Family from Warsaw, MO, instrumental;
    • banjo "Blackberry Blossom";
    • "Fair and Tender Ladies";
    • Jigging;
    • "Canaan's Land";
    • Kris Parker and Mike Howell "Lightening Express."
    a.c. 59, Side 1:
    • Kris Parker:
      • "Geordie" (Child 209)
      • "The Nightman" (Child 3);
      • "The Storms are on the Ocean" ("Lass of Roch Royal," Child 76);
    • Dave Purcell:
      • "Balladeer of the Ozarks";
      • "The Farmer's Courtship";
      • "Sioux Indians";
      • Whistling and story about farmer and bull frog and the song the farmer made.
    a.c. 59, Side 2:
    • David Hunt of Springfield, "Over the Waves," a fiddle tune on harmonica;
    • "The Letter Edged in Black" on harmonica;
    • "The Old Rugged Cross" the sound of pump organ on sextet;
    • The Country Folks from Fayetteville, AR on fiddle "Bull Durham";
    • "Red Wing";
    • "Bully's Town";
    • "Tennessee Waggoner";
    • "Wednesday Night Waltz";
    a.c. 60-62MAX HUNTER: 30th ANNUAL ORIGINAL OZARK FOLK FESTIVAL, 29 October 1977 Eureka Springs, AR. Saturday Program recorded by A.E. Schroeder. Sound distorted.
    a.c. 60, Side 1:
    • Stage band in instrumental.
    • Introduction of Festival Queen;
    • stage band, "Razorback Waltz";
    • The Spencer Family, "The Humpy Holler Folks";
    • instrumental version of "Little Liza Jane";
    • "Pat Malone";
    • "Wait For the Wagon";
    • fiddle tunes;
    • Curly and Lucille Haworth of Springfield.
    a.c. 60, Side 2:
    • Curly and Lucille Haworth: "Bury Me Beneath the Weeping Willow Tree";
    • "Coming around the Mountain";
    • "8th of January";
    • "The Old Country Church";
    • "When I Prayed Last Night";
    • Square Dance group from Springfield;
    • Simmons Family, Mountain View, AR "Jumping Jim";
    • dulcimer tune;
    • "The Faded Coat of Blue."
    a.c. 61, Side 1:
    • "Faded Coat of Blue" continued;
    • "Bright Morning Stars are Rising";
    • "Down By the Banks of the Ohio";
    • Bob Evans of Springfield, Round Dance of American Indians;
    • Family group "The Streets of Laredo";
    • "In the Pines";
    • "Amazing Grace";
    • "Greensleeves";
    • Kris Parker and Friends: "Rivers of Texas."
    a.c. 61, Side 2:Unidentified person talking about German church and customs.
    a.c. 62, Side 1:
    • Kris Parker and Friends: end of "Rivers of Texas";
    • Irish fiddle tune;
    • "The Dewy Dens of Yarrow" (Child 214 and 215);
    • Marvin Cockrell Family "Jesse James";
    • Dog calling song;
    • "Love Song";
    • "Angel Land";
    • "Mr. Posey" (Shad Heller of Silver Dollar City) instrumental;
    • "My Country 'Tis of Thee" with audience
    • "The Lord's Prayer"
    a.c. 62, Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 63MAX HUNTER: 34th ORIGINAL OZARK FOLK FESTIVAL, Eureka Springs, AR, 6 November 1981. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder (part of program).
    a.c. 63, Side 1:
    • Bruce Warren, Eureka "Riddle Song" (Derived from "Captain Wedderburn's Courtship, Child 46)
    • Judy Domeny:
      • "May I Sleep in Your Barn Tonight, Mister?"
      • "A Very Unfortunate Man";
      • "The Black Sheep";
      • "Two Little Boys";
    • Max Hunter introduction of Dave Hunt, harmonica player:
      • "Silver Bells";
      • "Wreck of Old '97";
      • "Over the Waves";
      • "Coming around the Mountain";
    • Max Hunter: "Deep Blue Sea" with audience;
    • "The Streets of Laredo"
    • "Butcher Boy."
    a.c. 63, Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 64-67MAX HUNTER: 40th ANNUAL ORIGINAL OZARK FOLK FESTIVAL. 5-7 November 1987. Recorded by Ralph Colson. Program available in folder 9.
    a.c. 64, Side 1:
    • The Mountain Sunshine Band (Curly Haworth);
    • Max Hunter, Master of Ceremonies
    • Mountain Sunshine Band--Music and stories;
    • hymn "I Saw Jesus and I Prayed Last Night";
    • "Missouri Waltz";
    • Paralee Weddington of Eureka Springs, "Put Me in Your Pocket";
    • "The Boys in Blue";
    • "Hobo Bill";
    • Fiddle Tune;
    • "Foggy Mountain Top."
    • Kim Morrell "Tall Tales from the Ozarks";
    • "Making Sauerkraut."
    a.c. 64, Side 2:
    • Tall Tales continued;
    • Max Hunter, "The Storms are on the Ocean" ("Lass of Roch Royal," Child 76);
    • "All My Friends Fell out With Me";
    • "The Newgate Prison"--"The Prisoner's Song";
    • Mountain Sunshine Band;
    • James McQuiston on carpenter's saw;
    • cloggers;
    • Mountain Sunshine Band--stories;
    • Cathy Barton and Dave Para, "Sundown."
    a.c. 65, Side 1:
    • Cathy Barton and Dave Para: "Clarinet Polka" on hammer dulcimer;
    • "Two Sisters" (Child 10)
    • "Highway Home";
    • hammer dulcimer tune;
    • plucking dulcimer--"Annie Laurie."
    • Mountain Sunshine Band;
    • Esther Kreek, hammer dulcimer, and Charlie Pinzino:
      • "Cherokee Shawl"
      • "Colored Aristocracy" (a cakewalk);
    • West ? Waltz;
    • "The Water is Wide";
    • instrumental;
    • "Johnny Sands";
    • instrumentals.
    a.c. 65, Side 2:
    • Toe Heel Tappers (Juniors) from Mountain View, AR;
    • Larry Sledge from Reed Springs, MO: stories, songs and instrumentals;
    • "Pictures from Life's other Side";
    • Bob and Malissa Atchison: fiddle tunes
      • "Tunes from Home";
      • "Cabin in the Valley of the Pines."
    a.c. 66, Side 1:
    • Bob and Malissa Atchison: "Calling the Cows."
    • With Cathy Barton and Dave Para
      • "Daniel in the Den";
      • "Jericho Road";
      • "One Little Story the Crow Told Me."
    • Hammer dulcimer
      • "Granny, Will Your Dog Bite?"
      • "A Lady's Pickin' Chickens."
    • Mountain Sunshine Band, stories and music;
    • cloggers;
    • banjo tune;
    • "I'll Go to Church Again With Mama";
    • "The Old Country Church";
    • cloggers
    • Mountain Sunshine Band, "Fort Smith."
    a.c. 66, Side 2:
    • Mountain Sunshine Band, continued:
      • "Red Wing" fragment;
      • "The Rebel Soldier";
      • "Red Apple Rag."
    • Paralee Weddington, "Meet Me Tonight in the Moonlight" ("Prisoner's Song");
    • "The Old Hobo";
    • "The Man of Many Names";
    • fiddle tunes;
    • "Foggy Mountain Top";
    • Toe Heel Tappers (Senior Group) with Mountain Sunshine Band;
    • The Peterson Family, Greenbrier, AR:
      • instrumental;
      • "In the Garden."
    a.c. 67, Side 1:
    • The Peterson Family, continued: "I'll Give You a Paper of Pins";
    • instrumental: "Rubber Dolly";
    • Mountain Sunshine Band;
    • Max Hunter, "The Rivers of Texas";
    • harmonica tune, "Arkansas Traveler";
    • Dulcimer Band, introduced by Cathy Barton:
      • "Soldier's Joy";
      • "Going to Little Creek;"
      • "Over the Water";
    • Phono-fiddle, "My Old Home Waltz."
    a.c. 67, Side 2:
    • "National Bohemian Polka" (learned from Adolf J. Eichenseer);
    • "Jenny Lind Polka";
    • Esther Kreek, "The Frozen Logger";
    • Dave Para on Hickory Leaf "Listen to the Mocking Bird";
    • instrumentals;
    • Cathy Barton, Malissa and Bob Atchison "Lady Mary" or "The Palace Grand";
    • dulcimer, "Bile Them Cabbage Down";
    • "When the Wagon Was New;"
    a.c. 68BALLADS, BONES, AND FIDDLE TUNES. Audio copy of video cassette produced by the Academic Support Center, UMC. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 2).
    Side 1:
    • Cathy Barton, "Barbara Allen";
    • Taylor McBaine, fiddle;
    • Sterling Kelley on beef bones;
    • narrator, Peter Hasselriis;
    • Cathy Barton, "Devilish Mary";
    • Max Hunter, "The Iron Mountain Baby";
    • Loman Cansler, "The Little Ship" (Child 286);
    • Taylor McBaine on fiddle music;
    • Art Galbraith and Gordon McCann on fiddle;
    • Sterling Kelley on the leaf and bones;
    • Cathy Barton "Down By the Greenwood Side" (Child 20).
    Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 69AUNT OLLIE GILBERT sings old folk songs to her friends. Cassette copy of a recording. Mrs. Gilbert contributed a large number of songs to the Max Hunter Collection.
    Side 1:
    • "Lord Bateman" (Child 53);
    • "Little Kitty";
    • "My Father's Crossed Over the River" ("Go Wash in the Beautiful Pool");
    • "Home, Hallie, Home" ("The Old Goose");
    • "The Jew's Garden" (Child 155);
    • "When I Was a Bachelor";
    • "The Wife of Usher's Well" (Child 79);
    • banjo tune;
    • "Once I Courted a Lady Beauty Bright";
    • "Utah Carl";
    • "Barbara Allen" (Child 84)
    • "Edward" (Child 13);
    • banjo tune;
    • "He's Gone, Let Him Go God Bless Him";
    • "Lord Randall" (Child 12);
    Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 70-71JIMMY DRIFTWOOD at Southwest Missouri State University, 28 April 1977. Mr. Driftwood contributed several songs to the Max Hunter Collection. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder. Noise.
    a.c. 70, Side 1:
    • Instrumental;
    • introduction by Dr. Lloyd Young of Southwest Missouri State;
    • "Lord Thomas" ("The Brown Girl," Child 73);
    • discussion of orphan or unwanted children;
    • "Little Orphan Girl";
    • why did people sing such songs?
    • "Put My Little Shoes Away";
    • "Nellie Gray";
    • "Kitty Wells";
    • "My Philippina Baby";
    • "At the Foot of Yonder Mountain";
    • "I'll Be all Smiles Tonight";
    • "Wildwood Flower";
    • Dr. Brinkley established radio station in Mexico and broadcast into U.S.
    a.c. 70, Side 2:
    • Comment about May Kennedy McCord;
    • "Jessie James";
    • discussion of James gang;
    • story about buried pot of gold;
    • "You Gotta Quit Kicking My Dog," discussion of song and association with Champ Clark election.
    a.c. 71, Side 1:
    • Jimmy Driftwood continues: Discussion of Buffalo River;
    • Civil War story about hidden money;
    • conversation about use of German.
    • Ozark Folk Center
    a.c. 71, Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 72CATHY BARTON. Recorded at UMC Extension Division, 10 May 1977; various instrumentals and songs.
    Side 1:
    • "The Water Is Wide";
    • "Warfare Ended";
    • "Kitty Alone";
    • "Hangman" ("Maid Freed From the Gallows," Child 95);
    • "Willie Drowned in the Ero" (a version of "Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow," Child 215);
    • "Devilish Mary";
    • "The Little Beggarman (banjo);
    • "Poor Johnny's Gone to War"
    • "Jack Gilley" (banjo).
    Side 2:
    • Banjo tune continued;
    • "A Fond Kiss";
    • "Some Has Fathers Gone to Glory";
    • "Lord Randall" (Child 12);
    • "At the Foot of Yonder's Mountain";
    • "Bright Morning Stars Are Shining";
    • "I am Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes";
    • "Sweet Marie" (autoharp);
    • "Saint Ann's Reel" (hammer dulcimer);
    • Irish tunes (hammer dulcimer).
    • "Aurora Lee."
    a.c. 73RAMONA JONES at the University of Missouri c. 1977-1978. With Lisa Jones, Cathy Barton, Jay Round, Charles Walden. Recorded in Peace Park by A. E. Schroeder. Noise.
    Side 1:
    • "Foggy Mountain Top";
    • "Crying Holy Unto the Lord";
    • "Over the Waterfall";
    • "Soldier's Joy";
    • "Working on the New Railroad" (Cathy);
    • "Liberty" (Cathy on dulcimer);
    • Unidentified tune;
    • "Cricket on the Hearth" (with dancing dolls);
    • "Row, Row, Row Your Boat";
    • "The Columbus Stockade Blues" (Jay Round).
    Side 2:
    • Dulcimer duet (Cathy Barton and Jay Round);
    • "Do, Lord, Do Remember Me";
    • "Rolling Home Across the Sea";
    • fiddle tune;
    • "I'll Fly Away";
    • "Going Huntin' for the Buffalo";
    • "Sally in the Garden";
    • (Cathy on banjo) "Bile Them Cabbage Down";
    • "Down in the Arkansas";
    • "Ozark Chimes" or "Bells of St. Mary's" (on auto harp), learned from the Simmons family;
    • "Come and Dine".
    a.c. 74-80FESTIVAL OF MISSOURI FOLK MUSIC AND DANCE, 29 July 1977, at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Recorded by Sam Griffin. See a.c. 80. The festival program is also available on audio tape (a.t. 1-4).
    a.c. 74, Side 1:Introduction by John Roberts of Cathy Barton, mention of other participants. R.P. Christeson, Max Hunter, Loman Cansler.
    • Cathy Barton on history of hammer dulcimer;
    • tunes on mountain dulcimer;
    • hammer dulcimer
    • "Silver Bells," accompanied by Heinrich Leonhard;
    • "Golden Slippers";
    • demonstration of plucked hammer dulcimer;
    • various styles (West Virginia, New York)
    • "Flowers of Edinburgh";
    • unidentified tune;
    • "Cherokee Shuffle" (with Leonhard on fiddle) "Irish Washerwoman";
    • "Red Wing";
    • "Jenny Lind Polka."
    a.c. 74, Side 2:
    • Continued discussion of hammer dulcimer:
      • "The Black Nag";
      • "Sailor's Hornpipe,"
      • "Fisher's Hornpipe,"
      • "Ricketts Hornpipe";
      • "Nonesuch."
    • Later program:
      • Cathy Barton on banjo "Beware, Oh Take Care";
      • Taylor McBaine and Heinrich Leonhard.
        • "Marmaduke's Hornpipe";
        • unidentified tune;
        • "Pacific Slope";
        • "Waltz";
      • "Marmaduke's Hornpipe" called "Dan Jones Hornpipe" because Dan Jones played it.
      • "Grey Eagle" called "McBaine's Eagle";
      • unidentified tune;
      • "New Broom";
      • "Rickett's Hornpipe";
      • Sterling Kelley "Listen to the Mocking Bird";
      • "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling";
      • "Turkey in the Straw."
    a.c. 75, Side 1: Loman Cansler (Copy 2 of a.c. 8, side 2):
    • Introduction by A.E. Schroeder. "Josiah and his Sally";
    • "Jim Bludso--The Prairie Belle";
    • "Don't You Grieve after Me" (Clay County);
    • "The Housekeeper's Complaint";
    • "The Little Ship" (Child 286);
    • "The Temperance Song";
    • "Kitty Wells";
    • "A Knot of Blue and Gray" (with daughter Myra);
    • "Poor Babes in Woods" (with Myra);
    • "Charlie Brooks" (with Myra);
    • "In a Cool Shady Nook" (with Myra).
    a.c. 75, Side 2:
    • Sterling Kelley: Introduction by Cathy Barton.
    • Leaf:
      • "Listen to the Mocking Bird";
      • "When Irish Eyes are Smiling";
      • "Turkey in the Straw";
    • Duet with himself, using recorder: "Let the Rest of the World Go By";
    • explanation of leaf playing, "The Wreck of the '97".
    • Bones: "Arkansas Traveler."
    • A.J. Eichenseer-- Dudelsack.
    a.c. 76, Side 1:
    • Max Hunter, importance of fiddle tunes;
    • "The Gypsy Girl" ("My father came from Ireland");
    • R.P. Christeson
    a.c. 76, Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 77-78: Evening program of FESTIVAL. . . arranged by Cathy Barton.
    a.c. 77, Side 1:UMC students and other Columbia musicians.
    • Dave Para: "Frankie and Albert" (learned from Lee Ruth);
    • Cathy Barton introduces Bill Weaver: "Blue Spring Rain" with Cathy (Vietnam War era);
    • "Goodnight--Loving Trail" with Dave Para;
    • Cathy Barton introduces Debbie Jacobs: "Over the Water to Charlie " with Cathy;
    • "Gold Watch and Chain" (recorded by Carter Family);
    • Lyn Wolz, "Johnny Be Fine" (Buffy Ste. Marie version);
    • "The Great Silkie" (Judy Collins version).
    a.c. 77, Side 2:
    • Dr. A.J. Eichenseer on Dudelsack with German songs:
      • "The Hen and Cock"
      • "We are the Hammersmiths"
    • demonstration of pan flute: "Don't Stay Here";
    • song with puppets;
    • "Muss i denn;"
    • "Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot."
    • Max Hunter: music in Ozarks;
    • Loman Cansler:
      • Has no songs in modal;
      • none in minor key;
    • R.P. Christeson: few tunes in minor key in Missouri;
    • Charlie Walden;
    • Missouri style;
    • Max Hunter, dulcimer in Ozarks;
    • gourd banjo.
    a.c. 78, Side 1:Copy 2 of a.c. 77, side 1, above, but more complete:
    • Introduction by Cathy Barton.
    • Cathy Barton: "Lord Randall" (Child 12) in Scottish version called "Wee Cooing Dove";
    • "The Devil and the Farmer's Wife";
    • Dave Para with Cathy, "Warfare Ended";
    • "Drive Dull Care Away";
    • "Frankie and Albert;"
    • "Goodnight-Loving Trail."
    a.c. 78, Side 2:
    • "Debbie Jacobs with Cathy "Over the Water to Charlie";
    • "Gold Watch Chain";
    • Lyn Wolz, "Johnny Be Fine";
    • "The Great Silkie."
    a.c. 79-80R.P. Christeson "workshop" on Missouri fiddle music. Recorded by Sam Griffin.
    a.c. 79:Includes talk and questions and answers.
    a.c. 80, Side 1:(Copy 2 of a.c. 74, side 1.)
  • Introductions by John W. Roberts;
  • Cathy Barton, Heinrich Leonhard accompanying
    • discussion of dulcimer and its history;
    • demonstration of playing techniques--hammer and plucking, hammer dulcimer:
      • "Silver Bells";
      • "Golden Slippers";
      • plucking instrument;
      • "Go Tell Aunt Rhody";
      • West Virginia, Michigan, and New York playing styles;
      • "Flowers of Edinburgh";
      • tune without mike;
      • "Cherokee Shuffle";
      • fiddle and hammer dulcimer;
      • discussion and demonstration of jigs and hornpipe.
    • a.c. 80, Side 2: A.E. Schroeder introduces R.P. Christeson for fiddle "workshop." (Incomplete copy of presentation on a.c.79.)
    a.c. 81-93FESTIVAL OF THE FOLK ARTS AND MUSIC, University of Missouri-Columbia, 17 & 18 November 1978. The festival program is also available on audio tape (a.t. 5-21).
    a.c. 81-82:Friday afternoon sessions--Traditional Music of Boone County, introduction by Ruth Barton.
    a.c. 81, Side 1:
    • Taylor McBaine, Heinrich Leonhard, and Dale Parmer "Getting Up the Stairs";
    • "Cotton Blossom," or "Darkies' Curly Hair";
    • "Kansas City Rag";
    • "Peach Tree Limb";
    • "Mom and Dad's Waltz";
    • "Wake Up, Susie";
    • "Dance Around Mommie";
    • "Pacific Slope";
    • "Red Fox Waltz."
    • Dale Parmer, "The Wreck of Old '97";
    • "Red River Valley."
    a.c. 81, Side 2:
    • Dale Parmer, "The Red River Valley";
    • "Old Time Country Farmer";
    • Mouth Bow: "Ground Hog";
    • "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?"
    • Sterling Kelley accompanied by Chris German, Leaf:
      • "Turkey Calls"
      • "Turkey in the Straw";
    • "Listen to the Mocking Bird";
    • Medley: "Irish Eyes are Smiling," "Wild Irish Rose";
    • Tune on Bones;
    • "Ticklish Reuben" (vocal).
    a.c. 82, Side 1:
    • Pete McMahan, "Grey Eagle";
    • "Over the Waves";
    • "Leather Britches";
    • "Sweet Bunch of Daisies";
    • "Tom and Jerry";
    • "Rag Time Annie";
    • George Marris Tune: "Ned Negro";
    • Ron Wall on auto harp and Chris Patterson, "Battle Hymn of the Republic";
    • "Dixie";
    • "Hornpipe";
    • song, "Shiloh Hill."
    a.c. 82, Side 2:
    • "Southwind";
    • "Going Down the Valley";
    • "Swedish Fiddle Tune";
    • song, "Valley Forge."
    • Recitation, "Mountain Whippoorwill";
    • Finale: all musicians "Soldier's Joy," fiddle (Taylor McBaine) bones (Mr. Kelley).
    a.c. 83-84:Friday afternoon sessions: Roger Abrahams, "The Folklorist--Protector of Authenticity." Recorded by Sam Griffin.
    a.c. 83:
    • the folklorist in modern society
    • Authenticity has become the charge of all.
    • involvement in Folk Festivals.
    • Foxfire;
    • Folk Festivals.
    a.c. 84, Side 1:Repeats end of a.c. 83, side 2 and continues discussion of County Fairs and Rodeos, where cowboy songs are sung.
    a.c. 84, Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 85-86:Friday evening program. Recorded by Sam Griffin.
    a.c. 85, Side 1:(See also a.c. 12, side 1)
    • Charlie Pashia, "The Devil's Dream";
    • "Ralph Coleman's Waltz";
    • Max Hunter, Silver Dollar City
    • Spencer Family, "The Humpy Holler Folks" (program as on a.c. 12, side 1 & 2, a.c. 13).
    • "Four Night Drunk."
    a.c. 85, Side 2:
    • Spencer Family continued with "Four Night Drunk";
    • Discussion of homemade instruments
    • "Bug on Me" ("Heel and Toe");
    • "Turkey in the Straw."
    • Jean Kittrell
    • "I am Bound For the Promised Land";
    • congregational singing;
    • "Flee as a Bird";
    • "Nothing But the Blood of Jesus";
    • "Alas and Did My Savior Bleed";
    • "On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand";
    • "Put My Little Shoes Away";
    • "I Used to Smoke a Dirty Pipe" ("We've Not Spent a Cent For Drink");
    • Black Gospel and syncopation--"Swing Low, Sweet Chariot";
    • Swedish Hymn "How Great Thy Art." (See a.c. 13, side 2.)
    a.c. 86, Side 1:
    • Max Hunter comments about Spencers.
    • Remarks by A.E. Schroeder.
    • Introductions and recognition of contributions to the conference.
    • 18 November 1978, Saturday Morning: Introduction of Ellen Stekert.
    • Stekert, "Approaches to Preserving the Past" (talk incomplete.)
    a.c. 86, Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 87, Side 1:
    • Ellen Stekert, continued.
    • discussion of how to present the past;
    • who selects the aspects to be preserved?
    • importance of avoiding joining philosophical "camps";
    • preserving and presenting entire context of past;
    • what do we do about that part of the past we don't like?
    • Ethnic slurs, legends about prominent families;
    • why preserve the past?
    • romanticization of past;
    • stereotyping of past;
    • ethnic clubs and their function;
    • singing groups which present "folk songs" as light opera.
    • A.E. Schroeder--Introduction of Robert Cochran: "Vance Randolph: An Appreciation."
    • Introduction of Rosemary Thomas
    a.c. 87, Side 2:
    • Introduction of Charles van Ravenswaay.
    • "Missouri Artisans in Wood and Stone" (a slide program).
    • Buildings
      • building in Kohokia--Norman French;
      • Bolduc house;
      • Anglo-American: Log Tavern in St. Charles County;
      • Price Building in Ste. Genevieve, oldest brick building in the state;
      • house in Rocheport;
      • houses in Monticello and St. Charles County;
      • entrance to Christ's Church in Boonville
    • Furniture, Decor, and Furnishings:
      • "sugar chests" for liquors;
      • splint boxes;
      • tin lighting fixtures;
      • textiles;
      • painting;
    • Buildings:
      • Germanic: Friedrich Muench house;
      • Hermann house in Kimmswick;
      • stone farmhouse near Mr. Sterling;
      • weaver's house in Altenburg;
      • Schroeder house in Hermann;
      • Elim in Bethel;
      • Porth house "one of the finest Germanic houses in the state";
      • St. Gertrude's Church in Krakow;
      • church in Franklin County;
      • barns and furniture;
    • Black chairmaker, William Koontz;
    • pottery business in Missouri;
    a.c. 88, Side 1:
    • R.P. Christeson.
    • John R. David on "Stacker Lee."
    • Plays and sings version by "The Three White Kuhns";
    • discussion of Judge Nathan Young and Ed McKenny;
    • describes research to verify that Lee Shelton was "Stacker Lee."
    • R.P. Christeson: "On Old Time Fiddling with Emily Goodson and Julie Olin."
    a.c. 88, Side 2: R.P. Christeson continued.
    a.c. 89, Side 1:
    • Introduction of Mr. Townsend by Barry Bergey
    • Background of musical life and recordings of St. Louis bluesmen.
    • Missouri Friends of the Folk Arts is recording Townsend repertoire.
    • Introduces Vernell Townsend.
    • 1930s and depression
    • song by Roosevelt Sykes. "All My Money's Gone";
    • Walter Davis song, "M and O" with explanation of song;
    • house rent parties
    • "Where Can I Go When Everybody's Down on Me?"
    • "Scramble Number" ("I'm Broke and Hungry");
    • Norman Merritt from Columbia;
    • "Tears Came Rolling" (one of his numbers in '52).
    a.c. 89, Side 2:
    • "You'll Never Find Another Like Me";
    • "Cairo";
    • "Everywhere I Go";
    • "Little Boogie Beat";
    • piano number.
    NOTE: Henry Townsend materials should not be copied.
    a.c. 90, Side 1:
    • Introduction of the Bill and Janet Boyer Family of St. Louis.
    • Janet Boyer about family history;
    • "Marmaduke's Hornpipe"
    • "Whiskey Before Breakfast";
    • introduces "The Hound Dog Song" (mentions Champ Clark);
    • discusses psaltery, related to hammer dulcimer;
    • dulcimer factory in Neosho;
    • "Black, Black" (learned from May Kennedy McCord);
    • "Green Gravel" (learned from her Dad);
    • John Boyer on guitar: "Bill Cheatum."
    • Henry Townsend;
    • "Love Me or Leave Me" (piano and vocal);
    • "Roll on";
    • Introduces Mrs. Townsend and Norman Merritt from Columbia
    a.c. 90, Side 2:
    • Mrs. Townsend, "Tears Come Rolling Down";
    • recording on the Adelphi label, "Why in the World Do We Love Each Other So?"
    • The Townsends sing "Why We Love Each Other So";
    • Train Song ("Frisco Cannonball");
    • "Forty Four";
    • Janet Boyer "Allister McAllister"
    • rattlesnake rattle in fiddle to "keep the devil out";
    • "Woodchopper Hornpipe";
    • "I Drew My Ship" with baritone concertina and other instruments (from Folk Legacy record);
    • "The Great High Wind That Blew the Low Post Down"
    • "Seamus O'Brien" (vocal with instruments).
    NOTE: Henry Townsend material is restricted.
    a.c. 91, Side 1: Copy 2 of first set of Boyer Family.
    a.c. 91, Side 2: Copy 2 of Henry Townsend set. Not quite complete.
    a.c. 92, Side 1:
    • Continuation of Boyer program.
    • Janet Boyer, song learned from Cherokee Indian in Montana "The Steels of the White Man" (different from Hickerson and Toelken versions);
    • "Devilish Mary" (with Jew's Harp);
    • Jew's Harp number;
    • "The Palace Grand" from May Kennedy McCord;
    • Becky Boyer on psaltery;
    • fiddle tune, "Cherokee Shuffle" announced;
    • history of the concertina;
    • Anglo-German fingering system;
    • "South Wind."
    a.c. 92, Side 2: Continuation of "South Wind" by Boyer Family. Invitation to audience to look at the instruments.
    a.c. 93, Side 1: Copy 2 of set 2 of Boyer Family Program, starting with "Allister McAllister." Ends with "The Palace Grand" and comment about psaltery.
    a.c. 93, Side 2: Long silence: Then end of program with "South Winds."
    a.c. 94ELLEN STEKERT, CHARLES VAN RAVENSWAAY at home of A.E. Schroeder 19 November 1978. Noise at beginning.
    Side 1:
    • Stekert singing "All My Friends Fell out With Me" (Sharp Collection)
    • Cecil Sharp
    • Lumberjack song
    Blank
    a.c. 95-96LOMAN CANSLER: Audio tape of video taping at home of A.E. Schroeder, 17 October 1981. Recorded by Academic Support Center. Lois Gandt, Cathy Barton and others. Partial typescript available in folder 1. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 29-32).
    a.c. 95, Side 1:
    • characteristics of folksong;
    • oral transmission
    • "When I came to Missouri at Thirty Years Old";
    • "The House Carpenter" (Child 243);
    • "The Little Ship" (Grandfather Broyles version of Child 243, "The Golden Vanity");
    • "Jesse James" (from Nora Cunningham Butler of Ray County, who learned it in Kentucky);
    • "Kicking Maude" (from Florence Browning of Hickory County, who learned from father from Tennessee).
    a.c. 95, Side 2:
    • Jesse James legend in Clay and Platte counties;
    • "The Housekeeper's Complaint";
    • "Arthur Clyde";
    • "The Storms are on the Ocean" ("Lass of Roch Royal," Child 76);
    a.c. 96, Side 1:
    • "When the Roses Bloom Again" (Chris Patterson);
    • "The Little Family," learned from Betty Wilcox;
    • Walter Dibben's "The Widower's Competition at Long Lane";
    • discussion of Scott family songs and other composers;
    • "The Battle of Cud" (William Henry Scott);
    • "The Knot of Blue and Gray," collected from Charlie Scott.
    a.c. 96, Side 2:
    • "The Knot of Blue and Gray";
    • "The Whippoorwill Song";
    a.c. 97LOMAN CANSLER. Missouri Folklore Society Meeting, University of Missouri-Columbia, 17 October 1981. Recorded by Academic Support Center. Audio cassette copy of video cassette. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 46).
    Side 1:
    • Cathy Barton introducing Sterling Kelley;
    • Mr. Kelley, Cathy Barton and Dave Para:
      • "Turkey Calls"
      • "Turkey in the Straw";
    • "Coming Round the Mountain";
    • Dave Para on leaf;
    • Taylor McBaine on fiddle, Cathy on the banjo:
      • "On the Right Cheek;"
      • "Climb the Stairs the Monkey" or "Hoghead"
    • "Tom and Jerry";
    • "Bill Cheatum."
    Side 2:
    • Loman Cansler: "Wait For the Turn of the Tide";
    • "Somebody's Waiting for You" (from Loman's dad);
    • "Widower's Competition in Long Lane" (Walter Dibben);
    • "Oh, Fathers Let's Go Down" (from Grandfather Broyles);
    • "Amazing Grace."
    a.c. 98-99LOMAN CANSLER. Audio cassette copy of video cassete taped at Missouri Town 12 November, 1981. Recorded by UMC Academic Support Center. Rooster crowing in background. Video cassette available in C 3851 Missouri Origins (v.c. 33-35).
    a.c. 98, Side 1:Comment that folksong and folklore survived without support of church or school. The only institution involved was the family
    • "When I Came to Missouri at Thirty Years Old";
    • family story;
    • "The House Carpenter" (Child 243 from Belle Pollard, Stoddard County);
    • "Lady Margaret and Sweet William (Child 74)
    • "The Lover's Quarrel" ("Madam, I Have a Very Fine Farm");
    • "Sally" (Child 295)
    • "Arthur Clyde".
    a.c. 98, Side 2:
    • "Jessie James";
    • "The Little Family";
    • "Old King Quine" (learned from William Hurd);
    • "I Bought Me a Cat";
    • "Missouri for Jesus" (Mrs. Trumbo);
    • "No Time to Tarry Here" (Grandfather Broyles);
    • "Lay Down the Bible and Go Home";
    • "Arise, oh Fathers, Rise";
    • "Come Along Fathers, Your Sins is Forgiven." (Frank Dibben)
    a.c. 99, Side 1:
    • "I Have a Father in the Kingdom" (Betty White);
    • "Kicking Maude" (Hickory County);
    • "When I Went For To Take My Leave" (Civil War song);
    • "The Whipperwill" (Mrs. Trumbo);
    • "Battle of Cud" (William Henry Scott);
    • "The Widower's Competition in Long Lane" (Walter Dibben);
    • "Down in Missouri" (William Henry Scott).
    a.c. 99, Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 100LOMAN CANSLER. Audio cassete copy of video cassette taped in his home (songs only) 15 March 1982. Recorded by UMC Academic Support Center, UMC. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 36-41).
    Side 1:
    • "Down in Missouri" (William Henry Scott);
    • "The Little Mohee" (learned from Ruth Scurlock);
    • "The House Carpenter" (Child 243 from Mrs. Pollard);
    • "Old King Quine" (William Hurd);
    • "When Adam was Created";
    • "Come and Dine";
    • "Oh, the Days are So Long";
    • "We Will Lay Down the Bible and Go Home."
    Side 2:Blank.
    a.c. 101-102LOMAN CANSLER. Interview in his home 15 March 1982. Audio cassette copy of video cassette recorded by Academic Center. Lois Gandt, Cathy Barton. Transcript available in folder 1. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 36-41).
    a.c. 103LOMAN CANSLER. Interview in his home 15 March 1982. Copy 2. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder. More complete than tapes 101-102.
    a.c. 104LOMAN CANSLER. Interview in his home 15 March 1982. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder. End of interview with selection of songs.
    Side 1:
    • Discussion of his contributors and collection;
    • use of folksong in teaching;
    • Laura Cansler about her family history.
    • A.E. Schroeder reading from "Missouri Origins," a slide-tape program on immigrants to Missouri.
    Side 2:Loman Cansler:
    • "Down in Missouri";
    • "The Little Mohee";
    • "The House Carpenter" (Child 243);
    • "Old King Quine";
    • "When Adam Was Created" ("Wedlock");
    • "Jesus Has the Table Spread" ("Come and Dine");
    • "Oh the Days Are So Long";
    • "We Will Lay Down the Bible and Go Home."
    a.c. 105LOMAN CANSLER. North Kansas City High School. 16 March 1982. Audio cassette copy of video cassette made by UMC Academic Support Center. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 25-28).
    Side 1:
    • "I Came to Missouri at Thirty Years Old";
    • "Lady Margaret and Sweet William" (Child 74);
    • "The Housekeeper's Complaint" (from Dallas County);
    • "A Knot of Blue and Gray."
    Side 2:
    • "The Days of Forty-Nine";
    • "Go Tell Aunt Rhody" (Livingston County);
    • "Poor Babes in the Woods";
    • "Old Bill Jones" (Ford car song);
    • "The Little Family";
    • "In a Cool Shady Nook";
    • "Whipperwill."
    a.c. 106LOMAN CANSLER. "Down In Missouri With Loman Cansler." Audio cassette copy of video cassette, 27 July 1982. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 3).
    Side 1:
    • "Down in Missouri";
    • "Kicking Maude";
    • "The Knot of Blue and Gray" ;
    • "We Will Lay Down the Bible and Go Home";
    • collecting "Jesse James" from Nora Cunningham Butler;
    • "Jesse James";
    • Characteristics of songs in Missouri which may have been learned in other states;
    • collecting "The Drunkard's Song";
    • "Wait For the Turn of the Tide";
    • Walter Dibben;
    • Charlie Scott.
    • Oliver Jackrow Owens
    • William Henry Scott's "When I Came to Missouri at Thirty Years Old."
    • "Somebody's Waiting For You."
    Side 2:Blank.
    a.c. 107LOMAN CANSLER. At home of A.E. Schroeder 5 August 1985.
    Side 1:
    • "The Housekeeper's Complaint";
    • "Arthur Clyde";
    • "The Knot of Blue and Gray";
    • "When the Work's all Done this Fall";
    • "I Bought Me a Cat";
    • instrumental;
    • "The Dying Hobo";
    • "The Babes in the Woods."
    Side 2:
    • "The Babes in the Woods" continued;
    • "Old Mother Hubbard";
    • "Derby Ram" instrumental;
    • "Twilight is Stealing Quiet over the Sea";
    • "Wait For the Turn of the Tide."
    a.c. 108LOMAN CANSLER at UMC 15 October 1986. Recorded by Extension Editor's office.
    Side 1:
    • "Sally" (Child 295 from Grandpa Broyles);
    • "The Little Family";
    • "I Came to Missouri at Thirty Years Old";
    • "Arthur Clyde";
    • "A Knot of Blue and Gray";
    • "Wait for the Turn of the Tide";
    • "Jesse James";
    • "Down in the Valley to Pray" (from Grandfather Broyles).
    Side 2:Blank.
    a.c. 109R.P. CHRISTESON at the St. Louis Arch. The Frontier Folklife Festival, 1978. Accompanied by Emily Goodson and Julie Olin. Recorded by Joan Christeson.
    Side 1:
    • Christeson comments on fiddle music:
    • "I Don't Love Nobody" (key of C), a two-step;
    • "Sally Goodin" (key of G);
    • "Untitled in C," learned about 1924;
    • "Scott No. 2" in G;
    • Scott No. 1;
    • Dallas Stamper tune played instead of "Wagoner";
    • "Lardner's Reel", version in Key of A.
    Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 110-111R.P. CHRISTESON on Missouri fiddlers and fiddling. Recorded by Ruth Barton. Date not known, but probably in 1981. Background noise.
    a.c. 110, Side 1:
    • Christeson discusses fiddling.
    • Introduces Charlie Walden who plays:
      • "Woodchopper's Breakdown";
      • "Marmaduke's Hornpipe";
      • "Rose Waltz";
      • "Granny, Will Your Dog Bite?"
      • discussion of "Granny will Your Dog Bite?"
      • "Schottische";
      • "Leather Britches";
    a.c. 110, Side 2:
    • fiddle tune;
    • "Old Parnell Reel";
    • "Hooker's Hornpipe";
    • "Pacific Slope";
    • "Landed in the Ditch";
    • "By Old Joe";
    • "Tennessee Wagoner";
    • fiddle tune to which a song, "Old Joe," has been made up;
    • Charlie Walden introduces Heinrich Leonhard;
    • fiddling continues (a rag);
    • "Stars and Stripes Waltz."
    a.c. 111, Side 1:
    • R.P. Christeson talking about WOS fiddle contest;
    • Taylor McBaine comments and plays fiddle tune ("Dance around the ox"?)
    • "Liverpool Hornpipe";
    • concluding number, R.P. Christeson;
    • Heinrich Leonhard
    • Taylor McBaine;
    • Charlie Walden;
    a.c. 111, Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 112R.P. CHRISTESON at home, 1980. Practice session for the Arch. Accompanied by Emily Goodson and Dennis Buckhannon, recorded by Joan Christeson. Some information provided by Mr. Christeson.
    Side 1:
    • "Old Parnell Reel";
    • "E. Rag";
    • "Mistletoe I";
    • "Mistletoe II";
    • "Whoa, Mule";
    • "George Washington Tune"
    • "----- in the Woodpile";
    • "Sally Lost Her Slipper"
    • "Goodnight Waltz";
    • "Kelly Schottische";
    • "Eli Green's Cakewalk";
    • Unnamed Tune;
    • Oyster River Quadrille;
    • "Jim Crack";
    • "Rainbow";
    • "6/8" tune (Vol. 1, p. 185, Old Time Fiddler's Repertory);
    • "Stone's Rag";
    • "Tunes From Home" (Schottische);
    • Bill Caton Tune.
    Side 2:
    • "Gessinger (?) Waltz";
    • "Findy Sickle"
    • "Bohemian Piece";
    • Comments about fiddlers of Miller County;
    • "Two Step."
    a.c. 113R.P. CHRISTESON at the Frontier Folklife Festival at the Arch in St. Louis, 1980. Accompanied by Emily Goodson and Dennis Buckhannon. Recorded from the audience by Joan Christeson.
    Side 1:
    • Unidentified fiddling;
    • Introduction of Mr. Christeson by Barry Bergey;
    • "Old Parnell Reel";
    • "Rainbow" (two step);
    • 6/8 tempo quadrille
    • "Stone's Rag" (called "Whiskers" in Dixon);
    • "Tunes From Home" (Schottische)
    • "Hoedown" played by noted black fiddler from Fulton over WOS;
    • Waltz from West Virginia;
    • "Findy Sickle" (March and Two-Step);
    • Square Dance Tune learned in Miller county "years ago" from Dallas Stamper;
    • "Jim Crack";
    • "Charley Town Two-Step" (one of the few traditional Missouri tunes in 6/8 tempo.)
    Side 2:
    • "Charley Town Two Step" continued.
    • "Old Time Missouri Hoedown," learned from Bill Driver;
    • Barry Bergey comments;
    • "Coming Down From Denver";
    • "Little ?";
    • Art Galbraith.
    • Mr. Christeson identifies some of the tunes.
    • "Snowshoes";
    • "Whiteman's Quick Step";
    • "Sunday Night Reel";
    • "Blue Mule";
    • "Dill Pickle Rag"
    a.c. 114R.P. CHRISTESON at his home, May 1981. Emily Goodson and Dennis Buckhannon, accompanists. Recorded by Joan Christeson.
    Side 1:
    • "Casey's Old Time Waltz";
    • "Joe Johnson's Waltz";
    • "Wagoner's Hornpipe";
    • "The Old Hen Cackled";
    • "Rocky Mountain Goat."
    Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 115-116R.P. CHRISTESON at his home, 18 June, 1987. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder and Rebecca B. Schroeder.
    a.c. 115, Side 1:
    • Discussion of his collection and how it should be handled;
    • discussion of Bill Driver;
    • Joan Christeson plays tape she made at the arch;
    • discussion of pictures and news stories;
    • "best" tunes on "Old Time Fiddler's Repertory" recording for radio program.
    a.c. 115, Side 2:
    • Description of "Iberia Encampment" started to honor Civil War Veterans;
    • Jig Dancing;
    • Bob Cross--Jig Dancer;
    • Tunes "he would recommend for program:
      • B-12, Bill Driver, "Scott No. 2";
      • C-9 "Kelly Schottische";
      • D-3 "Wait Till You Hear This One, Boy;" Tony Gilmore;
      • D-8 (Waltz);
      • B-11
    • discussion of Western Historical Collection;
    • discussion of Max Kade Grant;
    • discussion of Ozark Bibliography;
    • Samuel Bayard book.
    a.c. 116, Side 1:
    • Discussion of Western Historical Manuscript Collection and Christeson collection;
    • discussion of fiddle books;
    • Henry Ford's efforts to preserve old time dancing;
    • discussion of dancing in New Mexico and Nebraska, "Put Your Little Foot";
    • discussion of bawdy songs
    • In Missouri, caller was one of the dancers
    • dances at Versailles--each square doing individual dances--July 4 dances in Dixon;
    a.c. 116, Side 2:
    • Discussion of recording studio
    • Old Webster wire recorder--disentangling wire;
    • recordings stolen from old house in Auxvasse
    a.c. 117Fiddling session at Missouri Folklore Society Meeting, 30 October, 1982, Warrensburg, MO.
    Side 1:
    • Introduction by Cathy Barton;
    • Charlie Walden, accompanied by Jane Bergey:
      • " Shoot Two Bits";
      • "Schottische";
      • "G" tune that doesn't have title;
      • tune in 6/8 time. "Silver Lake Quadrille";
      • "Clyde Durst's Tune";
    • Taylor McBaine, accompanied by Cathy Barton and Dave Para:
      • "Dance Around Molly";
      • "Tom and Jerry";
      • "Festival Waltz";
      • "Pacific Slope";
      • "Grey Eagle";
      • "Waltz"
    • Art Galbraith and Gordon McCann
    Side 2:
    • "Fisher's Hornpipe";
    • "Whiskey Before Breakfast";
    • "Down Home Waltz";
    • "The Rabbit Foot Blues";
    • "Seamus O'Brien";
    • "Flowers of Edinburgh."
    • "Billy in the Low Ground."
    • Cathy on hammer dulcimer, accompanied by Dave Para, Taylor McBaine "Marmaduke's Hornpipe."
    a.c. 118 CHARLIE WALDEN on Old Time Fiddlers at UMC, 3 April 1984. The Missouri Cultural Heritage Center Colloquium. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder.
    Side 1:
    • Introduction by Howard Marshall;
    • Charlie Walden comments on cultural conservation;
    • fiddle tune "Marmaduke's Hornpipe," accompanied by John Stewart;
    • discussion of arrangement and characteristics of old time fiddling;
    • square dance tune, "Soldier's Joy";
    • Waltz;
    • Tune in 6/8 time (Jig or Quadrille);
    • Schottische;
    • techniques of fiddlers;
    • performance settings--home, jam sessions;
    • fiddle contests;
    • dances;
    • fiddling;
    • sanctioned contests;
    • Howard Marshall comment on Smithsonian contests;
    • Charlie Walden--characteristics of Missouri fiddling--French, German fiddlers;
    • Black fiddlers.
    Side 2:
    • Continued discussion of Black fiddlers;
    • publications of tune collections;
    • recordings: "Old Time Fiddlers Repertory";
    • Art Galbraith;
    • fiddlers' associations;
    • field recordings:
      • Alan Lomax;
      • Max Hunter
    • archive at Western Historical Manuscript Collection;
    • Missouri Cultural Heritage Center.
    a.c. 119Country Missouri Fiddling: TAYLOR McBAINE, audio cassette copy of video cassette produced by Extension Division, UMC, in cooperation with the Academic Support Center, 6 March 1981.
    Side 1:
    • Fiddling;
    • Cathy Barton
    • "John Brown's Dream" played by Appalachian fiddlers and square dance music;
    • "Climbing the Stairs Monkey";
    • Pete McMahan on Taylor as teacher
    • John Murdoch
    • Heinrich Leonhard;
    Side 2:Blank.
    a.c. 120-121ART GALBRAITH and GORDON McCANN. In Mr. Galbraith's home in Springfield 4 December 1981. Recorded by Academic Support Center. Cathy Barton accompanies Mr. Galbraith at beginning. Audio cassette copy of video cassette. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 42-44).
    a.c. 120, Side 1:
    • "Red Apple Rag";
    • "Seamus O'Brien";
    • "Leather Britches";
    • a repeat of "Seamus O'Brien," with Mr. Galbraith giving keys;
    • "Down Home Waltz";
    • "I Don't Love Nobody";
    • music parties;
    • tune in F, "Fisher's Hornpipe";
    • "Waverley."
    a.c. 120, Side 2:
    • "Durang's Hornpipe";
    • play-party, a "singing dance"
    • social attitudes towards playing music in different settings
    • similarity of tunes known by Irish musicians and American fiddlers;
    • discussion of Vance Randolph visits;
    • influence of Bluegrass;
    • festival at Tallaquah;
    • "Missouri Fiddling"--different styles;
    • "Seamus O'Brien" not known to Irish fiddlers;
    a.c. 121, Side 1:
    • "Seamus O'Brien";
    • violin vs. fiddle;
    • "Kiss Me Waltz";
    • back up instruments;
    • playing knitting needles;
    • spoons;
    • "Whiskey Before Breakfast."
    a.c. 121, Side 2: Judy Domeny at UMC, 17 May 1982. Audio cassette copy of video cassette recorded by UMC Academic Support Center. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 45).
    • "Two Brothers";
    • "Two Little Boys";
    • "Don't Step on Mother's Roses."
    a.c. 122-123ART GALBRAITH and GORDON McCANN at University of Missouri, 17 May 1982. Recorded by UMC Academic Support Center. Audio cassette copy of video cassette. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 75-78).
    a.c. 122, Side 1:
    • "Seamus O'Brien";
    • "I Don't Love Nobody";
    • "Lonesome Moonlight Waltz";
    • "Flowers of Edinburgh";
    • "Waverley";
    • "Lay Your Good Money Down"
    • "I want to Go To Memphis So Bad";
    • "Down Home Waltz";
    • "Art's Rag" (Composed by Mr. Galbraith).
    a.c. 122, Side 2: Request from Cathy Barton for comments on fiddling in his family. Mr. Galbraith reminisces about his family and the musical atmosphere in which he grew up. Four generations in his family played "The Flowers of Edinburgh";
    • Gordon McCann
    • "Little Drummer Boy"
    • "Flowers of Edinburgh";
    • traditional Ozark music and traditional musicians;
    • playing for dances.
    • visits to Vance Randolph;
    • contest between dancers and fiddlers;
    • music parties
    a.c. 123, Side 1: Story about baby and reaction to rhythm of fiddle music. Mr. Galbraith introduces Judy Domeny.
    a.c. 123, Side 2:Blank.
    a.c. 124-125THELMA CONWAY at her home in Arrow Rock 18 July 1981 with daughter Theresa and grand daughter Tiffany. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder. Cathy Barton and Dave Para present for part of the session.
    a.c. 124, Side 1:
    • "In the Sweet Bye and Bye";
    • "Almost Persuaded";
    • "Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed?" ("At the Cross")
    • "In the Sweet Bye and Bye";
    • "I Go to the Rock";
    • "He Touched Me";
    • "Blind Barnabas";
    • "Been to the Water";
    • "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"
    • "Shall We Gather at the River?"
    • "Amazing Grace";
    • "When the Roll is called up Yonder."
    a.c. 124, Side 2:
    • "The Old Rugged Cross";
    • "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms";
    • "Farther away";
    • "Put your Hand In the Hand";
    • "All the World to Me";
    • "The White Cliffs of Dover";
    • "Darktown Strutter's Ball";
    • "Tennessee Waltz";
    • "Chattanooga Choo-Choo";
    • "Silent Night";
    • "Softly and Tenderly";
    • "How Great Thou Art";
    • two unidentified songs;
    • "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."
    a.c. 125, Side 1:"God Bless You." Short interview about background, songs and games.
    a.c. 125, Side 2:Blank.
    a.c. 126 THELMA CONWAY at the University of Missouri-Columbia 17 October, 1981. Missouri Folklore Society annual meeting. Audio cassette copy of video cassette recorded by Academic Support Center. Video cassette available in C 3852 Missouri Origins (v.c. 46).
    Side 1:Introduction by Cathy Barton of Thelma Conway, Theresa, and Tiffany.
    • "Oh, How I Love Jesus";
    • "Sign Me Up";
    • "Blind Barnabas";
    • "Shall We Gather at the River?"
    • "When the Roll is Called up Yonder";
    • "I go to the Rock".
    Side 2:William M. Litchman (New Mexico) teaching folk dance.
    a.c. 127THELMA CONWAY at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 17 October 1981. Copy 2. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder.
    Side 1:
    • "Sign Me Up";
    • "Blind Barnabas";
    • "Shall We Gather at the River?"
    • "When the Roll is called Up Yonder";
    • "I go to the Rock."
    Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 128THELMA CONWAY, directing a "sing" at Brown Chapel, Arrow Rock, in which choirs from black congregations in surrounding communities offer songs and contributions for the support of the church, 13 April 1986. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder.
    Side 1:
    • Thelma Conway with introductions.
    • "What a Fellowship" ("The Everlasting Arms");
    • Psalms;
    • "Sweet Hour of Prayer" (lined out)
    • "Amazing Grace";
    • "Everlasting Life";
    • "On the Battlefield";
    • "I've Got Heaven on my Mind".
    Side 2: Continuation of "I've Got Heaven on My Mind"; each visiting choir then presents songs and an offering for Brown Chapel.
    a.c. 129CATHY BARTON at Stephens College, College 27 April 1983 (not 1943 as announced). Religious Music of the Ozarks. Accompanied by Dave Para. Recorded by A. E. Schroeder.
    Side 1:
    • "Amazing Grace" from recording from Jeff, Kentucky;
    • "Go March Along," Glen Branscomb recording;
    • "No Time to Tarry Here." Loman Cansler song;
    • "Satan's Mad, and I am Glad," learned from Glen Branscomb;
    • "Warfare Ended";
    • shape note singing;
    • Mountain Dulcimer tune;
    • "Utopia," Sacred Harp recording;
    • "I'm on my Journey Home," recording;
    • "Children of the Heavenly King," recording;
    • "I Believe in Being Ready";
    • "Walking with the Heavenly Host," recording;
    • "He Died to Save Us All";
    • "Life is Like a Mountain Railroad."
    Side 2:
    • "Bright Morning Stars are Rising;"
    • "I'm Anchored in Love Divine;" Carter Family song.
    • ROGER WELSCH at UMC, November, 1983"
      • "Sweet Betsy from Pike"
      • Nebraska Plains and hardships encountered by immigrants.
      • "Little old Sod Shanty;"
      • "Arkansas Traveler."
    a.c. 130-139Ballad and folk song selections from records and tapes prepared for programs for various organizations c. 1973-l987.
    a.c. 130 Selections 1
    Side 1:
    • "The Willow Tree" ("Lady Isabel and the Elfin Knight," Child 4), Richard Dyer-Bennett;
    • "The Two Brothers" (Child 49), Peggy McCall and P. Seeger;
    • "The Dewy Dens of Yarrow" (Child 214-215), Max Hunter;
    • "Hoe Down," performer unknown;
    • "John Henry," Huddie Ledbetter, (Leadbelly);
    • "Goodnight Irene." Huddie Ledbetter;
    • "I'm Sad and I'm Lonely," John Jacob Niles;
    • "Hard Traveling," Woody Guthrie;
    • "Ten Thousand Miles Away from Home" ("Danville Girl"), Peter Seeger.
    Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 131Selections 2
    Side 1:
    • "Goodnight, Irene," Huddie Ledbetter;
    • "John Henry," Huddie Ledbetter;
    • "Yankee Dixie," Tennessee Ernie Ford.
    Side 2:
    • "The Willow Tree" ("Lady Isabel and the Elfin Knight," Child 4), Richard Dyer-Bennett;
    • "The Dewy Dens of Yarrow" (Child 214-215), Max Hunter;
    • "Oh, Miss I Have a Very Fine Farm," Max Hunter;
    • "The Housekeeper's Complaint," Loman Cansler;
    • "Don't you Grieve after me," Loman Cansler.
    a.c. 132 AMERICAN HERITAGE OF FOLKSONG, 6 August, 1974, Selections 3
    Side 1:
    • "Old Mr. Tenor," Tony Kraber;
    • "Forty Gun Frigate," Frank Warner,
    • "To Boston We did Come," Frank Warner;
    • "On Springfield Mountain," Burl Ives;
    • "The Jam on Gerry's Rock," Peter Seeger;
    • "John Henry," Huddie Ledbetter;
    • "Starving to Death on a Government Claim," Sam Hinton;
    • "The Steels of the White Man," Joe Hickerson;
    • "Ten Thousand Miles away from Home," Peter Seeger;
    • "Talking Dust Bowl," Woody Guthrie;
    • "Amazing Grace," The Weavers;
    • "The Willow Tree," ("Lady Isabel and the Elfin Knight," Child 4), Richard Dyer-Bennett.
    Side 2:Blank.
    a.c. 133 BALLADS AND SONGS, Selections 4
    Side 1:
    • "The Riddle Song" (Child 46), Josh White;
    • "The Willow Tree" ("Lady Isabel and the Elfin Knight," Child 4), Richard Dyer-Bennett;
    • "Two Brothers" (Child 49), Peggy McCall & P. Seeger;
    • "Edward" (Child 13) Max Hunter;
    • "Gypsy Davy" (Child 200), Cisco Houston;
    • "On Springfield Mountain," Burl Ives;
    • "The Unreconstructed Rebel," Frank Warner;
    • "John Henry," Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly);
    • "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night," Joe Glazer;
    • "Talking Dust Bowl," Woody Guthrie;
    • "Ten Thousand Miles away from Home" ("Danville Girl"),Peter Seeger;
    • "Goodnight, Irene," Huddie Ledbetter;
    • "Dewy Dens of Yarrow" (Child 214-215), Max Hunter;
    • "Loving Henry" ("Young Hunting," Child 68), Joan O'Bryant;
    • "Little Moses," Ida Haslett.
    Side 2:
    • "The Gypsy's Warning", Ethel Hunter (Max Hunter's mother);
    • "Father Grumble," Olive Coberley.
    a.c. 134: THE SOUTHERN EXPERIENCE IN AMERICAN FOLKSONG, Selections 5, 1977.
    Side 1:
    • "Marion's Men," Ira Powell;
    • "The Hunters of Kentucky," Bob Atcher;
    • "The Southern Cause," Minta Morgan;
    • "Song of the First Arkansas (Negro) Regiment," Tennessee Ernie Ford;
    • "The Unreconstructed Rebel," Frank Warner;
    • "No More Auction Block for me," Odetta;
    • "The Boll-Weevil," Carl Sandburg;
    • "Cotton Mill Girls," Hedy West;
    • "On Top of Old Smoky," I.G. Greer;
    • "The Cheat," Adelaide Von Wey;
    • "Chain Gang Special," Sonny Terry;
    • "On Christmas Day," Huddie Ledbetter;
    • "I Ain't Scared of Your Jail, 'cause I Want My Freedom Now," Peter Seeger;
    • "Methodist Pie," Bob Atcher
    Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 135: BALLADS AND FOLKSONGS, Selections 6.
    Side 1:
    • "If You Ain't Got the Do-Re-Mi," Woody Guthrie;
    • "We Shall not be Moved," Joe Glazer;
    • "Amazing Grace," fragment, The Weavers;
    • "The Robot," Joe Glazer;
    Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 136: SONGS OF THE MIDWEST: Recorded for presentation at the Centenary Program of the (English) Folklore Society in Cambridge, 13 June, 1978. Selections 7. Some noise.
    Side 1:
    • "The Dewy Dens of Yarrow" (Child 214-215), Max Hunter;
    • "Fair as the Fairest," Joan O"Bryant;
    • "La Guignolee," Rosie Pratt;
    • "Ich Stand auf hohem Berge," Lawrence Weigel;
    • "Zu Lauterbach hab'ich Mein Strumpf Verloren," Betts Theissen;
    • "Wurstjaeger Song," Betts Theissen;
    • "La Rose d'en Bois," Rosemary Thomas.
    Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 137: MISSOURI FOLKSONGS. 11 April 1980. Selections 8.
    Side 1:
    • "The Willow Tree" ("Lady Isabel and the Elfin Knight," Child 4), Richard Dyer-Bennett;
    • "The Dewy Dens of Yarrow," (Child 214-215), Max Hunter;
    • "Rosemary and Thyme," (Child 2), Max Hunter and Joan O'Bryant;
    • "O Miss I have a very fine Farm," Max Hunter;
    • "Devilish Mary," Cathy Barton;
    • "The Bonnie Blue Flag," Frank Warner;
    • "Charles Guiteau," Loman Cansler;
    • "La Guignolee," Rosie Pratt;
    • "Zu Lauterbach hab'ich Mein Strumpf Verloren," Betts Theissen;
    • "Wurstjaeger Song," Betts Theissen."
    • "I'm Moving on Down the River," Cathy Barton.
    a.c. 138: BALLADS AND SONG OF THE MIDWEST. 2 August 83. Recorded for the meeting of the International Council for Traditional Music at Columbia University, August 1983, Selections 9.
    Side 1:
    • "La Guignolee," Rosie Pratt;
    • "The Dewy Dens of Yarrow" (Child 214-215), Max Hunter;
    • "The Little Ship" (Child 286) Loman Cansler;
    • "Shall We Gather at the River," Thelma Conway and Family;
    • The Wurstjaeger Song," Betts Theissen;
    • "Ich Stand Auf Hohem Berge," Lawrence Weigel;
    • "Polish Shepherd's Song," Holina Andrezjewski.
    a.c. 139: ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH TRADITIONAL SONGS IN MISSOURI. 6 May 1987. Selections 10.
    Side 1:
    • "Barbara Allen" (Child 84), Max Hunter;
    • "The Little Ship" (Child 286), Loman Cansler;
    • "Down By the Seashore," Mrs. Pearl Brewer;
    • "The Derby Ram," Charlie Ingenthron;
    • "The Braes of Yarrow," (Child 214-215), Max Hunter;
    • "Two Poor Little Babes," Myra and Loman Cansler;
    • "Rosemary and Thyme," (Child 2) Max Hunter and Cathy Barton;
    • "Edward" (Child 13), May Kennedy McCord;
    • "The Nightman" (Child 3), Max Hunter and Cathy Barton.
    a.c. 140-142FRONTIER FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL. St. Louis, The Arch, 2 September 1978. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder. Crowd noises. Program available in folder 9.
    a.c. 140, Side 1:Workshop on Skills of the West. Glenn Ohrlin, Bob Bovee; Bob Patrick; Art Galbraith and Gordon McCann, introduced by Bill McNeil
    • "Dixie Blossoms";
    • Unusual instruments:
      • Charlie Pashia of Old Mines on the saw.
      • Sterling Kelley on the hickory leaf
    • "Listen to the Mocking Bird";
    • "The Wreck of Old '97";
    • "Turkey in the Straw";
    • Berry Horton.
    a.c. 140, Side 2:
    • Glen Ohrlin: "Swede from North Dakota";
    • Cas Wallin, "Rose Conerly";
    • Almeda Riddle: "China Doll";
    • "Four Marys";
    • Cass Wallin: "Homesick for Heaven";
    • Percy Clerc: "Mademoiselle of Pierre Rocher";
    • Almeda Riddle "The Gypsy Davy";
    • Songs of Work and Workers.
    • Glen Ohrlin "Punching Dough."
    a.c. 141, Side 1:
    • John Jackson: "Work Song";
    • Harmonica Frank: "It ain't Gonna Rain No More";
    • Unidentified singer with autoharp. "Union song";
    • Glen Ohrlin "The Big Combine" (tune is "Casey Jones")
    • unidentified singer "Railroad Song";
    • "Lonesome all the Time";
    • Lyn Marble on water witching interviewed by Barry Bergey;
    • Anna Pashia, French song.
    a.c. 141, Side 2:
    • Anna Pashia con'd;
    • Dennis McGee and Sady Courville, traditional French fiddling;
    • D.L. Menard. Louisiana Cajun song;
    • fiddling;
    • Glen Ohrlin. "Jake and Ronie";
    • "Tying a Knot in the Devil's Tale";
    • "Snag Tooth Sal";
    • "The Wild Buckeroo";
    a.c. 142, Side 1:
    • Glen Ohrlin continues: "Belle Gunnis" (murder song--a true story);
    • "I Wish I was Single Again";
    • stories about Water Hole Bar in North Dakota;
    • "Oh, How He Lied."
    a.c. 142, Side 2:Blank.
    a.c. 143-144BARRE TOELKEN at the University of Missouri-Columbia, 25 April 1983. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder. Noise on tape.
    a.c. 143, Side 1:
    • Introduction by Gilbert Porter.
    • Toelken on folksong as a reflection of American history and life;
    • jokes, pronunciations, parts of the vernacular;
    • discussions of music in his family "On Springfield Mountain";
    • discussion of snake and wolf as symbols;
    • Americans as hymn singers;
    • "Beulah Land"
    • "South Dakota Land."
    a.c. 143, Side 2:
    • "Kansas Girls";
    • "New Mexico";
    • "Oregon Land";
    • Protest song--"You Will Eat By and By";
    • Parodies:
      • "Dean Frobes Loves Me-My Handbook Tells Me So."
      • "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Burning of the School";
    • "Starving to Death on my Government Claim";
    • "Don't You Marry No Mormon Boys";
    • "Don't You Marry the Oregon Boys";
    • "Danville Girls";
    • distillation of songs in American traditions
    • "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot" (Child 76);
    • discussion of "Unfortunate Rake."
    a.c. 144, Side 1:
    • "The Dying Sailor";
    • "The Dying Cowboy";
    • "St. James Infirmary" a version;
    • "The Mormon Cowboy";
    • discussion of collecting songs from Amish
    • "Strawberry Roan" in German dialect;
    • discussion of logger's songs;
    • "The Frozen Logger" (composed in 1930's by James Stephens, H.L. Davis, Stewart Halbrook)
    • "John Martin Duffy was Judge of the Court"
    • ('We've got two Chinese Laundrymen--why not hang one of those?');
    • Navaho song--A Riding Song;
    • "A Forty-Nine Song".
    a.c. 144, Side 2:
    • Stories about Navaho, continued;
    • "The Steels of the White Man."
    a.c. 145-146JOSEPH C. HICKERSON, Head of Archive of Folksong at the Library of Congress. UMC. 5 October 1973. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder.
    a.c. 145, Side 1:
    • "We Will Drive Dull Care Away";
    • "Away Idaho" (in Belden and Randolph as "Away Arkansas");
    • American morality;
    • "Save Your Money When You Are Young, My Boys, You'll Need It When You're Old" (Shanty song);
    • "Shingling the Rum Sellers Roof;"
    • "We are Anchored by the Roadside, Jim" (a song about temperance movement);
    • "Hard Times" (Protest song)
    • "Steels of the White Man" (song known among American Indians);
    • "Bury Me not on the Lone Prairie,"
    • "I am an old Cowpuncher," continued on side 2.
    a.c. 145, Side 2:
    • "I Lost Her in Glouchester";
    • "The Captain's Shanty";
    • R.P. Christeson;
    • "Wild Horse at Stoney Point";
    • "The Great High Wind That Blew the Low Past Down";
    • "Train on the Island";
    • "Sweet William and Fair Eleanor";
    • "The Irish Brigade" (Civil War song);
    • "Battle of Antietam Creek";
    • "Hiram Hubbard" (song only record of a historical event).
    a.c. 146, Side 1:
    • "Casey Jones" (composed by a black railroad foreman)
    • "Bright Morning Stars are Rising."
    a.c. 146, Side 2:Blank.
    a.c. 147JOSEPH C. HICKERSON, Head of the Archive of Folk Song, Library Congress. 16 June 1976, at UMC in group sing. Bill Weaver, Dave Para, Ruth Barton, etc. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder. Noise on recording and some comments not comprehensible. Singers could not always be identified.
    Side 1:
    • Joe Hickerson, "Long Gone";
    • Bill Weaver, "I Believe if I Lived My Life Again,"
    • "Did You Feed My Cow?"
    • "Bile Them Cabbage Down," with bones and leaf;
    • "Knoxville Girl,";
    • "What'll I Do With the Baby O";
    • "It's a Gift To Be Simple";
    • "Beaver Tune";
    • "Amazing Grace";
    • "Will the Waters Be Chilly?"
    • "Down in the Arkansas";
    • "I Gave My Love a Cherry";
    • Parody of "I Gave My Love a Cherry."
    Side 2:
    • "Jimmy Crack Corn";
    • "Daisy";
    • Mr. Kelley: "Ticklish Reuben";
    • "Turkey in the Straw";
    • "Du, Du Liegst Mir im Herzen";
    • "The Willow Garden";
    • "Rosin the Bow";
    • "The Steels of the White Man."
    • "Billy in the Alley";
    • banjo tune, "Sally Ann";
    • "Liza Jane";
    • "Catalina, Battalina.";
    • "Down to the Well";
    • "Amazing Grace";
    • "Gypsy Davy";
    • "The Unquiet Grave";
    • "Blow the Candles Out";
    • "Cigarettes and Whiskey";
    • "The Cleans".
    a.c. 148-149JOSEPH C. HICKERSON, Head of the Archive of Folk Song, Library of Congress. Concert at UMR, 25 October 1978. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder. (Sound low)
    a.c. 148, Side 1:
    • "Drive Dull Care Away";
    • "I Woke Up One Morning in 1845";
    • "Working on the New Railroad";
    • "Dummy Line";
    • "Casey Jones."
    a.c. 148, Side 2:
    • "The State of Arkansas";
    • "With his Lather and Shave";
    • "When McGinnis Gets a Job";
    • "The Hod-carrier's Song";
    • ("Why Paddy's Not at Work Today");
    • "Doney Gal";
    a.c. 149, Side 1:
    • "Steels of the White Man";
    • "They Didn't Listen";
    • discussion of songs of Blacks;
    • "I'm on My Way";
    • "Joe Hill's Last Will and Testament";
    • "Pretty Polly" ("Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight," Child 4);
    • "When First I Came to Liverpool"
    a.c. 149, Side 2:
    • "When first I came to Liverpool" con't
    • "I am a Celebrated Working Man" (mining song);
    • fiddle tune "The Great High Wind that Blew the Low Post Down";
    • "The Last Boats Are Leaving,"
    a.c. 150-151JOSEPH C. HICKERSON, Head of the Archive of Folksong at the Library of Congress, UMC, 8 November 1983. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder.
    a.c. 150, Side 1:
    • "Drive Dull Care Away";
    • discussion of parody;
    • "The Thinnest Man I Ever Saw";
    • "Doney Gal";
    • "Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie";
    • "The Old Cowpuncher";
    • "Lullaby" ("Diaper Song");
    • "The State of Arkansas";
    • (Immigrant song);
    a.c. 150, Side 2:
    • "Turning Song";
    • "Casey Jones";
    • "The Dummy Line";
    • "I'm On My Way";
    • "The False Knight" (Child 4).
    a.c. 151, Side 1:
    • "Hiram Hubbard";
    • "The Irish Brigade";
    • "Parody of Civil War Song";
    • Parodies: "Drink to Me";
    • "The Organ Played";
    • "Annie Laurie";
    • "Death, oh, Death";
    • "Goldfish Song, no. 2";
    • "I Lost Her in Glouchester" learned from Barre Toelken;
    • "High Barbaree";
    • "Gentle Annie" (Stephen Foster song collected in Australia);
    • "Bright Morning Stars are Rising."
    a.c. 151, Side 2:Blank.
    a.c. 152-153ARKANSAS MUSICIANS: Stephens College, 27 March, 1981. Cathy Barton's class and informal meeting at home of Schroeders.
    a.c. 152, Side 1:Violet Hensley from Yellville, AR, a fiddle maker
    a.c. 152, Side 2:
    • Violet Hensley on fiddle;
    • Sherrill Irving discusses music in her family;
    • "Silver Dagger" with autoharp;
    • "The Highlander";
    • "The Pirate's song,"
    a.c. 153, Side 1:
    • "Little Brown Jug";
    • Fragments of "Danville Girl" ("Ten Thousand Miles from Home");
    • "Beautiful Brown Eyes";
    • "That Aggravating Beauty, Lula Wall";
    • story about mules;
    • "The Wings of a Dove";
    • "The Old Rocking Chair";
    • instrumental.
    a.c. 153, Side 2:Blank.
    a.c. 154-157ROGER WELSCH, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, at the University of Missouri-Columbia. 21 July 1976. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder. a.c. 154-155 re-recorded by Harlan Lynn, 28 June 1989.
    a.c. 154, Side 1:
    • Discusses growing up as a German-Russian;
    • Lawrence Welk pieces, "Good-Night Irene."
    • description of work in the beet fields;
    • persecution of immigrants in 1914-1916;
    • deliberate effort to extinguish German-Russian heritage during World War II;
    • folklore often eradicated by Bruderschaft.
    a.c. 154, Side 2:
    • Musical selections and discussion of slides;
    • discussion of wedding songs;
    • hammer dulcimer or "board makers."
    a.c. 155, Side 1:
    • Continuation of slides and discussion of pictures;
    • discussion of fieldwork for the Smithsonian Institution;
    • "Old Ways in the New World" Project;
    • Festival fieldwork
    • discussion of "Applied Folklore."
    a.c. 155, Side 2:
    • Continuation of discussion;
    • "German Days" celebrations often evoke stereotypes.
    • Comments about benefits of fieldwork to informants
    • danger of exposure of traditional artists to Festival atmosphere.
    a.c. 156, side 1: Continuation of discussion on a.c. 154, side 1
    a.c. 156, Side 2:Informal conversation at Schroeders' home. Bob Brady and others present.
    a.c. 157, side 1:
    • Continuation of conversation at Schroeders;
    • Robert Wildhaber and Swiss Folk Museum at Basel;
    • Bob Brady, collecting oral histories;
    • discussion of Bittersweet;
    • Roger sings song about Wagon train going west on "The Oregon Trail"
    a.c. 157, Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 158-159JOHN R. DAVID, Ellisville, MO, "The Legend of Stack Lee," at UMC 6 March 1981 "Folklore: The Universal Language" Series.
    a.c. 158, side 1:Presentation includes reading of versions of "Stacker Lee," songs, selections from audiotape interviews. and documentary evidence identifying Stacker Lee as Lee Shelton.
    a.c. 158, Side 2: Continuation of presentation relating to research on shooting of Billy Lyons, Lee Shelton's trial and prison record.
    a.c. 159, Side 1: Continuation of presentation of documents, letters and other evidence
    a.c. 159, Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 160"Negro Dialect." Reading by WINONA SMITH of Trenton, MO. Recorded 9 May 1980 by Mrs. Evelyn Sheets.
    Side 1: Mrs. Smith gives brief history of her family and information on Paul Lawrence Dunbar, reading of Dunbar poems.
    Side 2: Evelyn Sheets introduces Mrs. Smith again.
    a.c. 161JAMES SHIRKY on the "Dunkards." Interview by Cathy Barton. 3 December 1980.
    Side 1:
    • Differences and similarities between Dunkards and Amish.
    • Church of the Brethren.
    • discussion of McPherson College;
    • practice of foot-washing
    • ritual of "Love Feast" and "Holy Kiss."
    • Music in Church--hymns less sophisticated than in mainstream churches;
    • Shape Note Singing;
    a.c. 162SUSAN ISAACS, University of Pennsylvania, at University of Missouri-Columbia, 1981. Jewish Folklore Program in "Folklore: The Universal Language" series. "That's the Way It Will Be Until the Day I Die." Tape provided by Isaacs.
    Side 1:
    • Discussion of Jewish foodways in Cincinnati.
    • Interview with Rabbi relating to restaurant.
    Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 163ALAN JABBOUR, Director of American Folklife Center at UMC 28 October, 1982. "Ethnicity in American Life." Recorded by A.E. Schroeder.
    Side 1:
    • Pluralism
    • Discussion of "Melting Pot" Theory and retention of cultural differences theory
    • Discussion of re-combinant development in post World War II music.
    • Wars as watersheds in American life;
    • Discussion of Pow-Wow.
    Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 164-167GERMAN LIFE IN MISSOURI: Annual Symposium of the Society for German American Studies April 18-19, 1980 at UMC. Program available in folder 9. Also available on audio tape (a.t. 22-31)
    a.c. 164, Side 1:
    • James C. Olson, German settlement in Missouri and history of University of Missouri.
    • Charles van Ravenswaay. Immigrantion, preservation of old ways, 18th century designs and farms recreated in Missouri
    a.c. 164, Side 2: Discussion of objects continues. Introduction of Yvonne Lange "Have 19th century Germanic Prints Influenced New Mexico Santos?"
    a.c. 165, side 1:
    • Dr. Lange concludes her presentation;
    • Introduces Grafin Von Lippe, Horst Ueber Horst, and Walter Kamphaefner.
    • Walter Kamphaefner speaks on collecting family history
    a.c. 165, Side 2: Kamphaefner discussion continues. Resources in Germany.
    a.c. 166, Side 1:
    • German Life in Missouri, con'd.
    • Kamphaefner discussion of resources for tracing family history cont.
    • Panel of local historians introduced by A.E. Schroeder.
    • Anna Hesse of Hermann discusses history of Hermann and Maifest
    • Pat Hilkemeyer, history of Westphalia and establishment of Westphalia Historical Society.
    • "Century Farms."
    • Jeanette Boeme of Perry County discusses the "Cradle" of the Missouri Synod-Lutheran church
    • Discrimination in Cape Girardeau-Jackson area;
    • Perry County.
    • Kathleen Wilhelm discusses history of settlement of Bethel.
    • Ralph Gregory on history of settlement of Warren County.
    • history of educated settlers, "Latin Farmers."
    • Society for German American Studies;
    • Gerhard Friesen and Don Talzmann.
    a.c. 166, Side 2:
    • Don Talzmann
    • A.E. Schroeder
    • Toto Saunders, Executive Director of Missouri Heritage Trust.
    • Pelster House Barn
    • Anna Hesse: Buildings of Hermann
    • Settled by "Freidenker"--not atheists but wanted freedom of religion.
    a.c. 167, Side 1:
    • Anna Hesse, con'd.:
    • Introduction of Sister Audrey Olson.
    • Germans in St. Louis
    • German Societies
    • Steven Benjamin, discussion on German American Studies.
    a.c. 167, Side 2: Discussion continues. Sound poor. Largely unintelligible.
    a.c. 168JOEL HARTMAN, "The Amish and the Mennonites." January 5, 1983 at UMC.
    Side 1:
    • Amish and Mennonite as a Separatist Society.
    • Religious origins of Pietist groups
    • Anabaptists persecuted in urban areas, so pietism became a rural movement.
    • Characteristics developed because of persecution
    • Discussion of phases of immigration and different branches of movement.
    • Origins of Amish and Mennonites.
    • social and geographic isolation
    • laxity of enforcement of truancy laws.
    Side 2:
    • Discussion of schools.
    • First settlement of Amish in Missouri in 1850.;
    • In 1898 community established in Audrain County;
    • Most settlements prior to World War II failed.
    • Discussion of "Oral Culture."
    • Differences between Eastern and Midwestern Amish.
    • Future of Amish and Mennonite groups.
    • Schools;
    • challenge to excommunication ban;
    • cost of agricultural enterprises;
    • health care.
    a.c. 169-170Benefit concert for The Chez, Columbia, April 11, 1986. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder.
    a.c. 169, Side 1:
    • Paul and Win Grace "My Name Is Morgan, But it Ain't J.P.";
    • "The Milwaukee Blues";
    • "Only a Memory Away";
    • "Fifty Miles of Elbow Room";
    • "An Irish Love Song";
    • "I Want To Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart."
    a.c. 169, Side 2:
    • "My Sweet Wyoming Home";
    • "Breaking Up Christmas;
    • "River";
    • "The Preacher and the Bear";
    • "Whoa, Mule, Whoa";
    • "Diamond Joe" and "Cotton-Eyed Joe," with Cathy Barton and Dave Para.
    a.c. 170, side 1:
    • Cathy Barton and Dave Para
      • "Sundown";
    • Fiddle tunes on hammer dulcimer;
    • "Lily of Arkansas";
    • "Sing and Turn Jubilee."
    • "I Drew My Ship";
    • Introduction to tunes learned from Dr. Adolf Eichenseer, Regensburg, West Germany.
    a.c. 170, Side 2:
    • Sterling Kelley, "Turkey in the Straw" on leaf;
    • duet on leaf, "Let the Rest of the World Go By."
    • Taylor McBaine
      • "Wake Up Susie";
      • "Kiss Me Again Waltz";
      • fiddle tune
    • Bob Dyer, "The Ballad of the Boonslick."
    • Missouri Folklore Society;
    • "Mike Fink."
    a.c. 171ROGER ABRAHAMS with ALMEDA RIDDLE at the Arkansas Folklore Society meeting, 8 April, 1978. The quality of this tape is poor with some sections incomprehensible. However the songs are clear, and the tape as a whole demonstrates the rapport between Abrahams and "Granny" Riddle.
    Side 1:
    • "Four Marys" (Mary Hamilton, Child 173);
    • "Lady Margaret" (Child 74);
    • "A Trooper Cut Down in His Prime" ("The Streets of Laredo" developed from)
    • "The Blind Child's Prayer."
    • Roger Abrahams "The Brown Girl" (Child 73);
    • Almeda "The Little Black Mustache."
    Side 2:
    • "The Little Black Mustache," con'd.
    • "La, La, Tika La-de-O";
    • "Froggie Went a' Courtin'";
    • "A Poor Wayfaring Stranger";
    • "O, Come, Come to the Old Church Yard."
    • dilemma of folklorists in face of widespread public interest in folklore;
    • Folklife Division in the Smithsonian
    • The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress;
    • Folk Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts
    a.c. 172TATE "PINEY" PAGE on collecting oral history at the Arkansas Folklore Society Meeting, Russellville, 8 April 1978.
    Side 1:Discussion of background; defines oral history and recounts experiences; discusses legends and collecting objectives. Reality of hardships in Ozarks. Almeda Riddle in audience comments from time to time.
    Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 173-176LEADBELLY'S LAST SESSION. Huddie Ledbetter collection taken from Folkways Recordings loaned by Professor Don Rhynsburger, 1970.
    a.c. 173, Side 1:
    • "I Was Standing in the Bottom";
    • "Yes, I'm Going Down in Louisiana";
    • "I Ain't Goin' Down to the Well No More";
    • "Dick Ligger's Holler";
    • "Miss Liza Jane";
    • "Dog-Latin Song";
    • "Leaving Blues";
    • "Go Down, ol' Hannah";
    • "Blue Trail Fly";
    • "Nobody in this World Is Better Than Us";
    • "We're in the Same Boat, Brother";
    • "Look-y, Look-y Yonder";
    • "Jolly O The Ransom";
    • "Skip to Zion";
    • "Bring Me a Little Water, Silvy";
    • "Mistreatin' Mama";
    • "Black Betty";
    • "Ain't Goin' Down To the Well No More."
    a.c. 173, Side 2:
    • "I'm Goin' Back Down in Louisiana";
    • "I Don't Know You, What I Done";
    • "Rock Island Line";
    • "Old Man, Will Your Dog Catch a Rabbit?"
    • "Shorty George";
    • "Stewball";
    • "Saddle Up and Go";
    • "You Know I Got To Do It";
    • "Ain't It a Shame To Go Fishing on Sunday?"
    • "I Ain't Going To Drink No More";
    • "My Lindy Lou";
    • "I'm Thinking of a Friend";
    • "He Never Said a Mumbling Work";
    • "I Don't Want No More Army Life";
    • "In the World";
    • "I Want to Go Home."
    a.c. 174, side 1:
    • "New Iberia";
    • "Dancing With Tears In My Eyes";
    • "John Henry";
    • "Salty Dog";
    • "National Defense Blues";
    • "Easy Mr. Tom";
    • "Relax Your Mind";
    • "Battle Up and Go";
    • "Polly Wolly Woo."
    a.c. 174, Side 2:
    • "Pig Latin Song";
    • "Hawaiian Song";
    • "Drinkin' Lum";
    • "The Gray Goose";
    • "Silver City Bound";
    • "The Titanic";
    • "Death Letter Blues";
    • "Mary, Don't You Weep";
    • "He Never Said a Mumbling Word."
    a.c. 175, Side 1:
    • "Midnight Special";
    • "Boll Weevil Blues";
    • "Careless Love";
    • "Easy Rider";
    • "Call it, Cry For Me";
    • "Ain't Goin' to Drink No More";
    • "Birmingham Jail";
    • "Ol'Riley";
    • "Goodbye Julie Ann Johnson";
    • "It's Tight Like That";
    • "Four, Five, and Nine";
    • "Good Morning, Babe";
    • "Jail House Blues";
    • "Well, You Know I had To Do It";
    • "Irene."
    a.c. 175, Side 2:
    • "Story of the Five-cent Dude";
    • "How Come You Do Me Like You Do?"
    • "Hello, Central, Give Me Long Distance";
    • "The Hesitation Blues";
    • "I'll Be Down on the Last Bread Wagon";
    • "Springtime In the Rockies";
    • "Chinatown";
    • "Rock Island Line";
    • "Backwater Blues";
    • 'Sweet Mary";
    • "Irene, Good Night";
    • "Easy, Mr. Tom" (instrumental);
    • "In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down";
    • "I'm Alone Because I Love You";
    • "House of the Rising Sun";
    • "Mary, Don't Your Weep."
    a.c. 176, Side 1:
    • "Talk About Fannin' Street";
    • "Fannin Street" (called "Cry For Me" in California")
    • "Sugar'd Beer";
    • "Didn't Old John Cross the Water?"
    • "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out";
    • "Bully of the Town";
    • "Sweet Jenny Lee";
    • "Yellow Gal";
    • "He Is the Man";
    • "We're in the Same Boat, Brother";
    • "Leaving Blues."
    a.c. 176, Side 2:Blank
    a.c. 177-178SMITHSONIAN FOLK FESTIVAL, Washington, D.C., Summers 1973 and 1976, various singers, some unidentified. Recorded by A.E. Schroeder. Noise of airplanes.
    a.c. 177, Side 1:
    • Scottish ballad singer;
    • Almeda Riddle: "Four Marys." (Child 173)
    • Kentucky singer (a Ritchie?) "The House Carpenter";
    • Hazel Dickens: "Coal Miner's Blues";
    • The Boys of the Loch: Instrumental pieces;
    • Canadian singer "We'll Rant and We'll Roar Like True Newfoundlanders";
    • Woman singer "Slatterly's Light Dragoons."
    • Jean Ritchie
      • "What'll I do With This Baby-o ?"
      • "Courting Song,"
    • Dave Richardson, Local Dialect Song
    a.c. 177, Side 2:
    • Story about "elderly lady" with eleven children;
    • "The Unfortunate Man,"
    • Irish song for dancing, Boys of the Loch;
    • instrumentals
    a.c. 178, side 1:
    • Union Song: "I Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad";
    • Utah Phillips--Jokes;
    • stories about Grand Junction, Colorado;
    • "Queen of the Rails";
    • "Riding the Train";
    • story about Joe Hill House in Salt Lake City
    • "Rich Man and Poor Man" (inspired by the burning of Hobo Jungle);
    • "Skid Row most human part of the city."
    • Song about Larimer Street in Denver.
    a.c. 178, Side 2:
    • "Princess Lady" ("Eggs and Marrowbone");
    • Irish singer, "Edward" (Child 13);
    • "Greenwood Side O" (Child 20),
    • Almeda Riddle, "Edward" (Child 13);
    • "Greenwood Siding" (Child 20);
    • two versions of Child 4: "Cambric Shirt";
    • "Rosemary and Thyme";
    • Irish singer, "Three Sisters".
    a.c. 179FRANK PROFITT. From a Folk Legacy Recording.
    Side 1:
    • "Working";
    • "Clucking Hen";
    • "I Thought I Heard My True Love Say";
    • "Bonnie James Campbell";
    • "Lord Randall" (Child 12), "Handsome Molly";
    • Railroad Song ("Old Rueben");
    • "Tom Dooley";
    • "I'm a Goin' Back to North Carolina";
    • "The booze They Make Around Here";
    • "Rye Whiskey";
    • "I'll Never Get Drunk no More";
    Side 2:
    • "Wild Bill Jones";
    • "Gypsy Davy" (Child 200);
    • "Love Henry" (Child 68);
    • "Sourwood Mountain";
    • "Goin Across the Mountain."
    a.c. 180-182American Folklore Series, Tapes 1-3
    a.c. 180: Tape 1, Legends in Folklore
    Side 1:
    • Migratory Legend, such as "death car";
    • ghost stories;
    • couple;
    • parking;
    • definition of legend--about real people;
    • "beehive hairdo" story: Jesse James legends;
    • Robin Hood;
    • Lewis, the robber, etc.;
    • girl and Indians, encounters with the supernatural
    Side 2:
    • Continuation of ghost stories," legend is always told as a true event. "Vanishing hitchhiker";
    • witch tales;
    • milk from towel or rolling pin;
    • functions legends;
    • validates beliefs in proper behavior
    a.c. 181: Tape 2, Proverbs in Folklore--William McNeil
    Side 1:
    • Definition of proverbs;
    • some epigrams not proverbial;
    • categories;
    • true proverbs;
    • weather proverbs;
    • Wellerism;
    • proverbial phrase.
    Side 2:
    • Continuation of discussion of proverbial phrase;
    • proverbial comparison;
    • miscellaneous--sarcastic or traditional insults;
    • swifties;
    • function of proverbs, need to study proverbs collected from oral tradition.
    a.c. 182:Tape 3, The Military as Isolated Community. Review of research relating to:
    • military folklore
    • folksong
    • parodies
    • rumors--consolatory, and non-consolatory
    • superstitions
    • customs
    • folk heroes
    • Good Soldier Schwerick
    • Sad Sack
    • Kilroy
    • SNAFU
    • Resources for collectors and researchers
    a.c. 183Conversations about life and traditions in Old Mines Area of Missouri, Erika Brady, Rosemary Thomas, Natalie Villmer and others.
    a.c. 184A sampling of French songs collected in Old Mines, selected by Erika Brad. Includes selections collected by Josep M. Carriere in the 1930s.

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