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| Size | .5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 150 items) |
| Abstract | The Tony Alderman Collection consists of audio recordings compiled by Tony Alderman, a white old-time fiddler of Galax Va., who was a member of the Hill Billies and Buckle Busters musical groups. The recordings, which were dubbed from materials held at the Smithsonian, primarily contain old-time string band and early country music from Virginia and North Carolina, including live recordings of the Galax Old Fiddler's Convention held in Galax, Va. Other recordings include oral history interviews with old-time musicians, personal field recordings, television appearances, and other live recordings. The collection also contains related documentation, including detailed tape logs with artist names and song titles. |
| Creator | Alderman, Tony, 1900-1978. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Processed by: Anne Wells, November 2018
Encoded by: Anne Wells, November 2018
Archival processing of the Tony Alderman Collection was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Biographical Information
Alonzo Elvis "Tony" Alderman, (1900-1983) was introduced to old-time music at an early age by his relatives in Galax. Alderman learned to play trumpet, French horn, and, inspired by Earnest "Pop" Stoneman, the country fiddle. He first performed publicly with the Galax Dixie Concert (brass) Band.
In the late spring of 1924, he formed a group with John Rector, Al Hopkins, and Joe Hopkins. Rector convinced the band to record a record. Unfortunately, due to technical problems the recording session was unsuccessful.
Undaunted, the quartet travelled to OKeh Studios in January of 1925 where they recorded six songs under the supervision of Ralph Peer. When Peer asked the band's name Al Hopkins replied, "We're nothing but a bunch of hill billies from North Carolina and Virginia. Call us anything." Reportedly Inspired by his reply, Peer named the group "The Hill Billies."
The Hill Billies released their first record in February 1925. In May of that year while performing at a fiddler's convention sponsored by the Ku Klux Klan in Montana, Tenn., they recruited Charlie Bowman from Gray Station, Tenn. to join them. Later that year The Hill Billies left OKeh Studios and joined the Combined Vocalion Brunswick Company to work with artist and repertoire man Jim O'Keefe. On the Vocalion label the band's name remained the same, but on the Brunswick label it changed to "Al Hopkins and His Buckle Busters."
For the next several years, the Pine Hill Billies performed across the country, made several more records, and broadcast on WRC radio in Washington, D.C. After the group disbanded in 1932, Tony Alderman moved to Washington, D.C. to work as an x-ray technician, as well as an investor, and he experimented with aerial photography.
In 1970, Alderman retired to Golden Beach in St. Mary's County, Md. He joined the Over the Hill Gang and played at local celebrations, including solos for the National Council for Traditional Arts festivals, the Smithsonian Institution's Festival of American Folklife, and various holiday celebrations held by the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History.
Biography courtesy of Smithsonian Institution, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
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The Tony Alderman Collection consists of audio recordings compiled by Tony Alderman, a white old-time fiddler of Galax Va., who was a member of the Hill Billies and Buckle Busters musical groups. The recordings, which were dubbed from materials held at the Smithsonian, primarily contain old-time string band and early country music from Virginia and North Carolina, including live recordings, 1950-1964, of the Galax Old Fiddler's Convention held in Galax, Va. Other recordings include oral history interviews with old-time musicians, personal field recordings, television appearances, and other live recordings. All recordings are on 1/4" open reel audio.
Oral history interviews include a 1961 interview conducted by Mike Seeger and John Cohen, white musicians and members of the New Lost City Ramblers, with Tony Alderman, as well as a 1963 interview conducted by white folklorists, Archie Green and Ed Kahn, with Walter "Sparkplug" Hughes, a white guitarist who performed with Alderman during the 1920s and 1930s. Other recordings include a personal field recording, 1950s, made by Charlie Bowman, a white fiddler and member of the Hill Billies and the Buckle Busters musical groups, that features Bowman speaking and playing with J. Laurel Johnson, a white fiddler of Atlanta, Ga.; a recording, 1950s, of Ernest V. Stoneman, a white country musician of Virginia, appearing on the television game show, The Big Surprise; and live recordings, 1950s-1970s, of Tony Alderman, including recordings of Alderman playing with The Happy Hicks and the Over the Hill Gang.
The collection also contains related documentation, including detailed tape logs created in the late 1980s by Andy Cahan, a white graduate student of folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who helped acquire the collection. Tape logs include technical information about the tape, as well as artist names and song titles.
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Series 1. Audio Recordings, 1954-1960.
Arrangement: In order as received.
Processing information: Titles and descriptions compiled from SFC database and tape logs found in series 2.
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1841 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1950: tape 11/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; gospel songs by Whit Lowe (Galax, Va.), Horton Lowe (Galax, Va.), J. C. Pierce (Galax, Va.); folksong contest with L. F. Marshall (Hillsville, Va.), Doug |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1842 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1950: tape 21/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; Johnny Sumner (Freis, Va.); Ruby Vass (Hillsville, Va.); Penn Isom (Galax, Va.); Hubert Caldwell (Galax, Va.); Glenn Neaves (Freis, Va.); Arnold Spangler (Laurel Fork, Va.); Clyde Higgins (Wytheville, Va.); Pate Martin (Mt. Airy, N.C.); Osborne Poe (Delhart, Va.); Hurley Wilson (Galax, Va.); Ray Lundy (Independence, Va.); Charlie Higgins (Galax, Va.); Gene [?] (Hillsville, Va.); and other unidentified participants |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1843 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1950: tape 31/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; Arnold Spangler (Laurel Fox, Va.); Charlie Higgins (Galax, Va.); Eugene Crane (Laurel, Md.); Burt Reeves[?] (Winston Salem, N.C.); Esker Hutchins (Dobson, N.C.); William Marshall (Hillsville, Va.); Clyde Higgins (Wytheville, Va.); L. F. Marshall [?] (Va.); Wade Ward (Independence, Va.); George Stoneman (Galax, Va.); Eugene Lundy; Glenn Neaves and band (Freis, Va.); Esker Hutchins and the Surry County Ramblers (Dobson, N.C.); and other unidentified participants |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1844 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1950: tape 41/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; Tony Alderman on fiddle; J. C. Pierce (Galax, Va.) on vocals; and other unidentified participants |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1845 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1952: tape 11/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; Fred Pendleton and the Blue Mountain Boys (Princeton, W.Va.); Earnest East and the Roundpeak Band (Mt. Airy, N.C.); Future Farmers of America (Farmington, N.C.); Uncle Wade Ward and the Buck Mountain Band (Independence, Va.); Appalachian Ramblers with E. C. Ball (Rugby, Va.); Esker Hutchins and the Surry County Ramblers (Dobson, N.C.); John Rector Band (Galax, Va.); Curly Parks and His West Virginia Ramblers (Anawalt, W.Va.); Grayson County Boys with Glenn Neaves (Fries, Va.); Dixie Rhythm Boys; Toby Lowe and the Dixie Ramblers with Ramey fiddle (Mt. Airy, N.C.; Galax, Va.); Blue Ridge Buddies (Galax, Va.); Glen Smith and the Night Riders (Galax, Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1846 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1952: tape 21/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; Sons of the South (Galax, Va.); Dalhart Band with Osborne and Burley Smith (Dalhart, Va.); dance contest with musicians: Glenn Neaves Band (Va.), Esker Hutchins and Surry County Ramblers (Dobson, N.C.), and dancers: Bobby Bowman (Laurel Fork, Va.), Shirley Bowman Shepherd (Ennice, N.C.), Betty Lou Hutchins (N.C.), Otis Burris (Galax, Va.), Frank King (Woodlawn, Va.), Kate Mullin, Arnold Spangler (Laurel Fork, Va.), Glen Neaves and band (Va.), Blue Ridge Buddies (Galax, Va.); and other unidentified participants |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1847 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 19531/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; Blue Ridge Buddies (Galax, Va.); The Fleming Boys and Esker Hutchins (Winston Salem, N.C.; Dobson, N.C.); and other unidentified participants |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1848 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1954: tape 11/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; Bill Franklin (Newark, Del.); Blue Ridge Mountain Boys (Lowgap, N.C.); Curly Parks and the West Virginia Ramblers (Anawalt, W.Va.); Larry Richardson and the Blue Ridge Mountain Boys (Lowgap, N.C.; Galax, Va.); Happy Smith and His Mountain Dudes (Pfafftown, N.C.); Toby Lowe and the Dixie Ramblers with Wilson Ramey (Galax, Va.); Clarence Fielder and the Virginia Ridge Boys (Fries, Va.); Cub McGee and the Blue Ridge Sweethearts; Slim Ball and the Blue Ridge Buddies (Rugby, Va.); Parley Parsons and the Dixie Ramblers (Galax, Va.); Dalhart Band with Poe and Smith (Dalhart, Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1849 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1954: tape 21/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: The Four Little Hillbillies (Mantea, Va.); The Friendly City Playboys (Kernersville, N.C.); and a "Novelty Contest" with Larry Richardson (Lowgap, N.C.), Lorene Vass (Hillsville, Va.), Wade Ward (Independence, Va.), Bill Franklin (Newark, Del.), Friendly City Trio (Kernersville, N.C.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1850 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1954: tape 31/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: dance contest with music by Glenn Neaves Band (Fries, Va.) and dancers: Shirley Bowman Shepherd, Jay Burris (Galax, Va.), Charlie Higgins (Galax, Va.), Jimmy Meadows[?] (Mantea, Va.), Otis Burris (Galax, Va.), Karen Thomas[?] (Stokesdale, N.C.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1851 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1956: tape 11/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: Blue Ridge Buddies (Galax, Va.); The Four Little Hillbillies (Mantea, Va.); Curly Parks and the West Virginia Ramblers (Anawalt, W.Va.); Dixie Rhythm Band (Jamestown, N.C.); Dalhart Band (Dalhart, Va.); and a dance contest with music by Esker Hutchins Band (Dobson, N.C.) and unidentified dancers |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1852 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1956: tape 21/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: Ruby Vass (Hillsville, Va.); Shirley Hunter (Mantea, Va.); Penn Isom (Galax, Va.); Shorty Joe George and the Hillbilly Buddies (Mt. Airy, N.C.); Virginia Mountain Boys (Independence, Va.); Roy Hall and His Bottom Down Ramblers (State Road, N.C.); Dixie Ramblers (Galax, Va.); Esker Hutchins and the Surry County Ramblers (Dobson, N.C.); The Buck Mountain Band (Independence, Va.) with Vera Edmonds (Woodlawn, Va.); Glenn Neaves and the Grayson County Boys (Fries, Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1853 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1956: tape 31/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; Kilby Snow (Belmont, N.C.); Larry Richardson and the Blue Ridge Boys (Lowgap, N.C.); Toby Lowe and the Dixie Ramblers with Wilson Ramey, Olen Gardner, and Wanda Lowe (Mt. Airy, N.C.); James Lindsey and the Mountain Ramblers (Galax, Va.); Penn Isom and the Dixie Jubilee Boys (Galax, Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1854 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1956: tape 41/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; Pop Stoneman and His Little Pebbles (Washington, D.C.; Galax, Va.); Cleve Isom and the Star Spangled Boys (Galax, Va.[?]); Friendly City Playboys (Kernersville, N.C.); Sunny Mountain Boys with Eugene Lundy (Galax, Va.); Bobby Bowman (Laurel Fox, Va.); Alexander Poe (Galax, Va.); Jay Burris (Galax, Va.); Otis Burris (Galax, Va.); L. S. Marshall (Hillsville, Va.); Pop Stoneman; and unidentified participants |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1855 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1959: tape 11/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; Glenn Neaves (Fries, Va.); Thurman Pugh (Galax, Va.); Ruby Vass (Hillsville, Va.); Dale Poe (Independence, Va.); Cullen Galyean (Lowgap, N.C.); Larry Campbell (Winston-Salem, N.C.); George Pegram (Union Grove, N.C.); and unidentified participants |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1856 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1959: tape 21/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; Dot Edwards (Galax, Va.); Arnold Spangler (Laurel Fox, Va.); Mazy Edwards and Company (Galax, Va.[?]); Bobby Carpenter (Galax, Va.); Tracy Schwarz (Washington, D.C.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1857 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1959: tape 31/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; Glenn Neaves (Fries, Va.); Cullen Galyean and Charles Hawks (Lowgap, N.C.; Galax, Va.); Bobby Carpenter (Galax, Va.); dance contest with Judy Smith, James Pugh (Galax, Va.[?]); Treva Brown (Galax, Va.); Wanda Delp and Treva Brown (Galax, Va.); Harold Smith (Woodlawn, Va.); Mildred Crouse (Glade Valley, N.C.); Glenn Neaves Band (Fries, Va.); Parley Marshall (Hillsville, Va.); Jay Burris (Galax, Va.); Alexander Poe (Galax, Va.); Arnold Spangler (Laurel Fork, Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1858 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1959: tape 41/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; Dance contest with Glenn Neaves Band (Fries, Va.) and dancers: Fred Nester (Dugspur, Va.), Douglas Sutphin (Willis, Va.), Betty Jean Poe and Wanda Delp (Galax, Va.), Eldrudge Montgomery (Galax, Va.), S. T. Spangler (Laurel Fox, Va.), Jay Burris (Galax, Va.), J. C. Spangler (Laurel Fox, Va.); band contest with: Toby Lowe and the Dixie Ramblers with Wilson Ramey (Mt. Airy, N.C.), Norman Edmonds and the Old Timers (Hillsville, Va.), The Buck Mountain Band (Galax Va.), Glen Smith and Band |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1859 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1959: tape 51/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; novelty contest with Roy Edmonds (Woodlawn, Va.), Billy Carson (Independence, Va.), Jimmy Nedlog, Eldridge Montgomery (Galax, Va.), Arnold Spangler (Laurel Fork, Va.), Toby Lowe and the Dixie Ramblers (Galax, Va.), Bill Offenbecker and Tracy Schwarz (Washington, D.C.), George Pegram (Union Grove, N.C.), Cleve Isom (Galax, Va.?), Mountain Ramblers (Galax, Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1860 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1959: tape 61/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; band contest with Catus Hill Playboys (Mt. Airy, N.C.), The Roanoke Wrecks (Roanoke, Va.), Blue Mountain Boys (Wilkesboro, N.C.), Kenneth Edwards and the Sunny Mountain Boys (Galax, Va.), Larry Richardson and band (Galax, Va.), Roscoe Russell and the Blue Ridge Buddies (Galax, Va.), The Mountain Ramblers (Galax, Va.), Larry Cambell and the Country Playboys (Wilson-Salem, N.C.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1861 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1959: tape 71/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; band contest with Larry Campbell and the Country Playboys (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Toby Lowe and the Dixie Ramblers (Mt. Airy, N.C.), Norman Edmonds and the Old Timers (Hillsville, Va.), Buck Mountain Band with Charlie Higgins and Wade Ward (Galax, Va.), Glen Smith Band (Galax, Va.), Catus Hill Playboys (Mt. Airy, N.C) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1862 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1959: tape 81/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; dance contest with music by Glen Neaves Band (Fries, Va.), Cullen Galyean on fiddle, George Pegram on banjo; Dancers: Treva Brown (Woodlawn, Va.), Wanda Delp (Galax, Va.), Harold Smith, Parley Marshall, Jay Burris (Galax, Va.), Alexander Poe (Galax, Va.), Arnold Spangler (Laurel Fox, Va.), Fred Nester (Dugspur, Va.), Eldridge Montgomery (Galax, Va.), J. C. Spangler (Laurel Fox, Va.), George Pegram (Union Grove, N.C.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1863 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1960: tape 11/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; Overstreet Band; Carolina Pals (Newton, N.C.); Virginia-Carolina Playboys (Draper, N.C.); Greenbriar Boys (New York, N.Y.); Kenneth Edwards and the Sunny Mountain Boys (Galax, Va.); James Lindsey and the Mountain Ramblers (Galax, Va.); Shady Valley Boys (Wytheville, Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1864 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1960: tape 21/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; Mathews Band (Radford, Va.); Brushy Mountain Boys (Wilkesboro, N.C.) with George Pegram; Glenn Neaves and the Grayson County Boys (Fries, Va.); Buck Mountain Band (Galax, Va.); Brushy River Boys (Galax, Va.); Country Playboys (Winston-Salem, N.C.); Rawly Amburn and the Dixie Mountaineers (Concord, N.C.); dance contest with music by Neaves Band (Fries, Va.) and dancers George Crouse (Sparta, N.C.), Edgar Hawks (Ennice, N.C.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1865 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1960: tape 31/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; dance contest with music by Lost John Ray on fiddle, George Pegram on banjo, Glenn Neaves and Band, and other unidentified participants; Dancers: Rocky Johnson (Wilkesboro, N.C.), Judy Smith (Galax, Va.), Treva Brown, Joyce Burcham (Woodlawn, Va.), Eldridge Montgomery (Galax, Va.), Edna Smith (Woodlawn, Va.), Lilly May Johnson and Roella Perry (Independence, Va.), Wayne Trent (Fries, Va.), Roy Trent (Fries, Va.), Bobby Bowman (Laurel Fox, Va.), Mildred Crouse (Sparta, N.C.), Kyle [?], Jay Burris (Galax, Va.), Alexander Poe (Galax, Va.), Parley Marshall (Hillsville, Va.), Earl Burris (Galax, Va.), Delano Smith (Galax, Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1866 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1960: tape 41/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; dance contest with music by Glenn Neaves Band (Fries, Va.); dancers: Harold Smith (Galax, Va.), Talmadge Smith (Galax, Va.), Robert Shepard (Laurel Fox, Va.), Edna Smith |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1867 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1961: tape 11/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Joe Johnson; banjo contest with George Pegram (Union County, N.C.), Happy Smith (Dublin, Va.), George Stoneman (Galax, Va.), Larry Penington (Warrensville, N.C.), Dot Edwards with Sunny Mountain Boys (Galax, Va.), Lucille Edmonds (Hillsville, Va.), Ronny Lundy with Beverly Davis (Galax, Va.); band contest with Highway Ramblers (Elkin, N.C.), Carolina Playboys (Wilkesboro, N.C.), Southern Mountain Boys (Wilmington, Del.), Kenneth Edwards and the Sunny Mountain Boys with Eugene Lundy (Galax, Va.), Bent Creek Boys with Jim Rooney and Bill Keith (Boston, Mass.), Country Playboys (Walkertown, N.C.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1868 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1961: tape 21/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; Deep Valley Boys (Lenoir, N.C.); Country Music Boys with Charlie Knight (Lenoir, N.C.); Helen Genevieve; John Edmonds (Hillsville, Va.); George Snyder (Lexington, N.C.); Deep Valley Boys (High Point, N.C.); Highway Ramblers (Elkin, N.C.); Carolina Playboys (Wilkesboro, N.C.); Southern Mountain Boys (Wilmington, Del.); Sunny Mountain Boys (Galax, Va.); Country Playboys (Walkertown, N.C.); Charlie Knight and the Country Music Boys (Lenoir, N.C.); Bent Creek Boys with Bill Keith and Jim Rooney (Boston, Mass.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1869 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1961: tape 31/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; Mathews Band (Radford, Va.); Carolina Buddies (East Bend, N.C.); Grayson County Boys with Glenn Neaves (Fries, Va.); Brushy River Boys (Galax, Va.); Blue Ridge Boys with Larry Richardson (Galax, Va.); Lincoln County Pardners (Catawba, N.C.); Rocky River Girls with Hazel Dicks and Alice Gerrard (Washington, D.C.); Norman Edmonds and the Old Timers (Hillsville, Va.); G. G. Mathews Band (Radford, Va.); Cook Gospel Band (Hickory, N.C.); Carolina Buddies (East Bend, N.C.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1870 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1961: tape 41/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; Grayson County Boys (Fries, Va.); Brushy River Boys (Galax, Va.); North Iredell Entertainers (Iredell County, N.C.); Blue Ridge Boys (Galax, Va.); Lincoln County Pardners (Catawba, N.C.); Rocky River Girls with Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (Washington, D.C.); Wilkes County Ramblers (Moravian Falls, N.C.); County Playboys (Jefferson, N.C.); Norman Edmonds and The Old Timers (Hillsville, Va.); Blue Mountain Boys; Carolina Home Boys (Kannapolis, N.C.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1871 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1961: tape 51/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; A. L. Hall's Band (Trinity, N.C.); Hudson River Gang (New York, N.Y.); Mountain Ramblers (Galax, Va.); Stoney Mountain Pardners (Wilkesboro, N.C.); Green Mountain Boys (Hickory, N.C.); Wilkes County Ramblers (Moravian Falls, N.C.); dance contest with music by Mountain Ramblers (Galax, Va.), Grayson County Boys (Fries, Va.); dancers: Eldridge Montgomery (Galax, Va.); Mildred Crouse (Glade Valley, N.C.); Harold Smith (Woodlawn, Va.); Jay Burris (Galax, Va.); Vivian Spangler (Laurel Fox, Va.); Carleen Reeves (Galax, Va.); Earl Burris (Galax, Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1872 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1961: tape 61/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; George Pegram (Union Grove, N.C.); Lucille Edmonds (Hillsville, Va.); Ronny Lundy with Beverly Davis (Galax, Va.); Sunny Mountain Boys with Eugene Lundy (Galax, Va.); Blue Mountain Boys (Lexington, N.C.); Carolina Homeboys (Kannapolis, N.C.); A. L. Hall Band (Trinity, N.C.); Stone Mountain Pardners (Wilkesboro, N.C.); Wilkes County Ramblers (Moravian Falls, N.C.); Green Mountain Boys |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1873 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1961-1962: tape 71/4" Open Reel Audio 1961 recording includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; Mountain Ramblers (Galax, Va.); Hudson River Gang (New York, N.Y.); dance contest with music by Mountain Ramblers and dancers Eldridge Montgomery (Galax, Va.), Mildred Crouse (Glade Valley, N.C.), Harold Smith (Woodlawn, Va.), Carleen Reeves (Galax, Va.), Earl Burris (Galax, Va.), Vivian Spangler (Laurel Fox, Va.), Jay Burris (Galax Va.); 1962 recording includes: talk by J. C. Pierce (Galax, Va.), Dale Gallimore; guitar contest with Bill Deaton (Salisbury, N.C.), Virginia Playboys (Wytheville, Va.), Carolina Homeboys (Kannapolis, N.C.), Bluefield Mountaineers with Frank George and Roger Sprung (Bluefield, W.Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1874 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1962: tape 11/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; Lincoln County Boys (Catawba, N.C.); Brushy River Boys (Galax, Va.); Southern Mountain Boys (Wilmington, Del.); Bluegrass Mountain Boys (York, Pa.); J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers (Concord, N.C.); Dean Brothers with Otis Burris (Salt Lake City, Utah); Carolina Playboys (Winston-Salem, N.C.); Blue Sky Boys (Yadkinville, N.C.); Norman Edmonds and the Old Timers (Hillsville, Va.); Corn Huskers (Roaring River, N.C.); Glen Neaves and the Grayson County Boys (Fries, Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1875 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1962: tape 21/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; Mathews Band (Radford, Va.); Larry Richardson; Yadkinville Playboys (Yadkinville, N.C.); James Lindsey and the Mountain Ramblers (Galax, Va.); dance contest with music by Grayson County Boys (Fries, Va.), Mountain Ramblers, and others and dancers: Billy Edwards (Wytheville, Va.), Emmett Smith (Galax, Va.), J. C. Tally (Basset, Va.), Harold Smith (Woodlawn, Va.), Roy Trent (Fries, Va.), Nelson Spence (Dugspur, Va.), Otis Burris (Galax, Va.), Eldridge Montgomery (Galax, Va.), Jay Burris (Galax, Va.), Carleen Reeves (Galax, Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1876 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1962-1963: tape 31/4" Open Reel Audio 1962 recording includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; Southern Mountain Boys; awards presentation; 1963 recording includes: band contest with Blue River Boys (Wilkesboro, N.C.), Carolina Ridgerunners (Warrensville, N.C.); James Lindsey and the Mountain Ramblers (Galax, Va.); Snowy Mountain Boys (Stuart, Va.); Brushy Mountain Boys (Wilkesboro, N.C.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1877 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1963: tape 11/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; band contest with Brushy Mountain Boys (Wilkesboro, N.C.), Mountain Fiddlers with Glen Smith (Eaton, Ohio), Carolina Playboys (Winston-Salem, N.C.), Grayson County Boys (Fries, Va.), George Pegram and others (Union Grove, N.C.), New Lost City Ramblers (New York, N.Y.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1878 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1963: tape 21/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; The Old Time Stringband with Tom Ashley and Fred Price (Shouns, Tenn.); Snowy Mountain Boys (Stuart, Va.); Yadkinville, Playboys (Yadkinville, N.C.); Mountain Ramblers (Galax, Va.); dance contest with music by Mountain Ramblers and dancers: Harold Smith (Woodlawn, Va.), Enoch Smith (Woodlawn, Va.), Roy Trent (Fries, Va.), Jay Burris (Galax, Va.), Carly Reeves (Galax, Va.), Otis Burris (Galax, Va.), Nelson Spence (Willis, Va.), David Spence (Dugspur, Va.), Eldridge Montgomery (Galax, Va.), Billy Edwards (Wytheville, Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1879 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1963: tape 31/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; dance contest with music by Mountain Ramblers (Galax, Va.) and others with dancers: Debbie Atwood and Terry Lee Montgomery, Charlie Higgins and Jim Pinion (Galax, Va.), J. C. Mayberry and Geneva Goad (Laurel Fork, Va.), Jay Burris (Galax, Va.), Eldridge Montgomery and Otis Burris (Galax, Va.), Pansy Lewis (Deep Gap, N.C.), Willard Watson (Deep Gap, N.C.); band contest with Roger Sprung Band with Frank George (New York, N.Y.), Southern Mountain Boys (Wilmington, Del.), Jimmy King and the Country Cousins (Cana, Va.), Grayson County Boys (Fries, Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1880 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1963: tape 41/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; Norman Edmonds and the Old Timers (Hillsville, Va.); Blue Ridge Buddies (Galax, Va.); Buck Mountain Band with Charlie Higgins, Wade Ward, Dale Poe (Independence, Va.); Merry River Boys (Winston-Salem, N.C.); The Tennessee Playmates (Briston, Tenn.); Merry River Boys (Winston-Salem, N.C.); Tennessee Playmates; Blue River Boys (Wilkesboro, N.C.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1881 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1963: tape 51/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; Carolina Ridgerunners (Warensville, N.C.); James Lindsey and the Mountain Ramblers (Galax, Va.); Brushy Mountain Boys with Lost John Ray (Union Grove, N.C.); Snowy Mountain Boys (Salem, Va.); Carolina Playboys (Winston-Salem, N.C.); Oscar Wright Band (Princeton, W.Va.); Lewis Brothers Band (West Jefferson, N.C.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1882 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1963-1964: tape 11/4" Open Reel Audio 1963 recording includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; Southern Mountain Boys (Galax, Va.) with dancers Freddy [?], Bruce Jones (Galax, Va.); 1964 recording includes: Mountain Ramblers (Galax, Va.), Snowy Mountain Boys (Salem, Va.), Grayson County Boys with Glenn Neaves (Fries, Va.), dance contest with music by Mountain Ramblers and Otis Burris and dancers: Otis Burris (Galax, Va.), Eldridge Montgomery (Galax, Va.), Jay Burris (Galax, Va.), Carleen Reeves (Galax, Va.), Geraldine Trent (Fries, Va.), Brenda Smith (Galax, Va.), Arnold Spangler (Dugspur, Va.), John Perry (Independence, Va.), Chick Martin (Siler City, N.C.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1883 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1964: tape 21/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; dance contest with music by Mountain Ramblers (Galax, Va.), Southern Mountain Boys (Wilmington, Del.) and dancers: Eldridge Montgomery (Galax, Va.), Debby Edwards (Galax, Va.), Otis Burris (Galax, Va.), Parley Marshall (Hillsville, Va.); band contest with Norman Edmonds and the Old Timers (Hillsville, Va.), Feed Room Five (Hillsville, Va.), The Rebels with Buddy Pendleton (Stuart, Va.), Southern Mountain Boys with Ted Lundy (Wilmington, Del.), Poplin Family with China Poplin, Edna Poplin (Sumter, S.C.), Blue Ridge Buddies (Galax, Va.), Mountain Ramblers with Otis Burris (Galax, Va.), Alice Gerrard and Hazel Dickens and the Country Rounders (Baltimore, Md.), Ward Stringband with Fields Ward, Wade Ward (Forest Hills, Md.: Galax, Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1884 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1964: tape 31/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; band contest with Tennessee Playmates (Bristol, Tenn.), Cornbelt Cavaliers (Urbana, Ill.), Jack Tate and the Shady Valley Boys (Saltville, Va.), Progressive Bluegrass Boys with Frank George and Roger Sprung (New York, N.Y.), Skyline Boys (Floyd, Va.), Can't-Help-Its (Hickory, N.C.); dance contest with music by Mountain Ramblers (Galax Va.) and dancers Mildred Cockram, Roy Lee Trent (Fries, Va.); band contest with Southern Mountain Boys (Wilmington, Del.), Blue Sky Boys (Yadkinville, N.C.), Dean Brothers with Otis Burris (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1885 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1964: tape 41/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; Sunny Mountain Boys with Sonny Miller (Galax, Va.); Grayson County Boys with Glenn Neaves (Fries, Va.); The Old Time Stringband with Fred Pierce, Tom Ashley, Clint Howard (Shouns, Tenn.); Snowy Mountain Boys (Stuart, Va.); Southern Mountain Boys (Wilmington, Del.); Grayson County Boys; Blue Ridge Buddies with Talmadge Smith (Galax, Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1886 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1962: tape 11/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; Grayson County Boys with Glenn Neaves (Fries, Va.); Bluefield Mountaineers with Frank George, Roger Sprung, Hubert Caldwell; Carolina Homeboys (Salisbury, N.C.); Virginia Playboys (Wytheville, Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1887 |
Galax Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, Galax, Va., 1962: tape 21/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: M.C. Dale Gallimore; Bluegrass Mountain Boys (Waynesville, N.C.); Lincoln County Pardners (Catawba, N.C.); Brushy River Boys (Galax, Va.) |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1888 |
Charlie Bowman and J. Laurel Johnson, Union City, Ga., 1950's1/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: Charlie Bowman on fiddle; J. Laurel Johnson on fiddle accompanied by Hanes on guitar and Norman on banjo |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1889 |
Tony Alderman interview, recorded by Mike Seeger and John Cohen, Washington, D.C., 16 April 1961: tape 11/4" Open Reel Audio |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1890 |
Tony Alderman interview, recorded by Mike Seeger and John Cohen, Washington, D.C., 16 April 1961: tape 21/4" Open Reel Audio |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1891 |
Tony Alderman interview, recorded by Mike Seeger and John Cohen, Washington, D.C., 16 April 1961: tape 31/4" Open Reel Audio |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1892 |
Pop Stoneman on "The Big Surprise", television dub1/4" Open Reel Audio Includes three consecutive shows, recorded straight from television. |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1893 |
Walter "Spark Plug" Hughes interview, recorded by Archie Green and Ed Kahn, Cranberry, N.C., 14 August 1963: tape 11/4" Open Reel Audio |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1894 |
Walter "Spark Plug" Hughes interview, recorded by Archie Green and Ed Kahn, Cranberry, N.C., 14 August 1963: tape 21/4" Open Reel Audio |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1895 |
Walter "Spark Plug" Hughes interview, recorded by Archie Green and Ed Kahn, Cranberry, N.C., 14 August 1963: tape 31/4" Open Reel Audio |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1896 |
Walter "Spark Plug" Hughes interview, recorded by Archie Green and Ed Kahn, Cranberry, N.C., 14 August 1963: tape 41/4" Open Reel Audio |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1897 |
USO show recorded at Fort Churchill, Manitoba, Canada, with Beverly Hoffmaster, Ernie Salk, Happy Hicks, Helen Keely, 1950's1/4" Open Reel Audio |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1898 |
The Happy Hicks Show, music and comedy1/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: Happy Hicks with Tony Alderman, Donald Curry, Alan Curry, Joe Cralin |
| SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20011/1899 |
The Over the Hill Gang with Tony Alderman, performance at the Smithsonian, late 1970's1/4" Open Reel Audio Includes: Tony Alderman on fiddle and musical saw, Speedy Tolliver on banjo and fiddle, Miles Tempko on washtub bass |
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Series 2. Documentation, circa 1987.
Arrangement: By corresponding call number.
Processing information: Folders were formerly in Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025), folders 667, 668, 669. Folder titles include call number of corresponding audio recording.
Detailed tape logs created in the late 1980s by Andy Cahan, a white graduate student of folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who helped acquire the collection. Tape logs include technical information about the tape, as well as artist names and song titles.
| Folder 1 |
Documentation: FT-20011/1841-1862Formerly folder 667 within Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025) |
| Folder 2 |
Documentation: FT-20011/1863-1881Formerly folder 668 within Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025) |
| Folder 3 |
Documentation: FT-20011/1882-1899Formerly folder 669 within Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025) |
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