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| :: Title :: |
The Merry Golden Tree |
| :: Genre :: |
ballad, Child ballad |
| :: Performers & Instruments :: |
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| :: Setting :: |
Alan Lomax's apartment, 3rd Street |
| :: Location :: |
Greenwich Village, New York City (New York), New York (United States) |
| :: Language :: |
English |
| :: Culture :: |
Southern U.S., Anglo-American, Appalachian, Kentucky |
| :: Session :: |
Jean Ritchie II 5/49
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| :: Date :: |
5/13/1949 |
| :: Reference Information :: |
T1018.0, Track 1 (00:04:31) |
| :: Original Format :: |
Reel to Reel
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| :: Session Notes :: |
| 1 - This session consists of more ballads, comic songs, game songs and children's nursery rhymes. Commentary is provided by Ritchie regarding the significance of many of these tunes. |
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| :: Recording Notes :: |
| 0 - This is a version of Child No. 286, "The Golden Vanity." Alternate titles: "The Lonesome Low,"
"The Sweet Kumadee," "The Weep-Willow Tree,"
"The Turkish Revoloo," and the "Cabin Boy." |
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| :: Collection :: |
Jean Ritchie 1949 and 1950 |
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