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Collection Number: 20328

Collection Title: Philip H. Kennedy Collection, 1953-1971

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Size 3 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 500 items)
Abstract The Philip H. Kennedy Collection consists of field recordings, field notes, and photographs that document the folk music traditions of North Carolina and surrounding states. Folklorist and French professor, Philip H. Kennedy, compiled most of the materials in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as part of his research on the ballad collecting and fieldwork of Cecil J. Sharp and Frank Clyde Brown, who previously travelled the region to compile and record traditional ballads, tunes, and music. The collection also includes other audio recordings created and compiled by Kennedy, including WUNC produced radio programs on folk music; interviews with folklorist, Dr. Amos Abrams; dubbed field recordings of women ballad singers from North Carolina; and a privately issued LP featuring folk songs and ballads by Philip H. Houston and classical piano by Laura Nancy Hasenpflug.
Creator Kennedy, Philip H. (Philip Houston)
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.
Language English
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Use of audio or moving image materials may require production of listening or viewing copies.
Access to streaming audio or moving image materials may be restricted to researchers who can authenticate with an ONYEN or who are physically present on campus. For further information about access to streaming audiovisual materials, contact Research and Instructional Services staff at Wilsonlibrary@unc.edu
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Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Philip H. Kennedy Collection #20328, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Franklin H. Kennedy of Augusta, Ga., in November 2000 (Acc. 98782). Acc. 103742 purchased in October 2019.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Processed by: Brad San Martin and Anne Wells, April 2018

Encoded by: Anne Wells, April 2018

Updated by: Anne Wells, October 2021

Archival processing of the Philip H. Kennedy Collection was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Philip Houston Kennedy was the son of Frank Hunter Kennedy and Margaret "Rita" Kennedy, of Charlotte, N.C. He studied folklore at Indiana University and received his Ph.D. in Romance Studies, with an emphasis on French, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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The Philip H. Kennedy Collection consists of field recordings, field notes, and photographs that document the folk music traditions of North Carolina and surrounding states.

As part of his research on traditional folk music and ballads, Philip H. Kennedy, a white folklorist and French professor, travelled the state of North Carolina to record old-time and traditional folk musicians that were previously recorded by folklorists and collectors, Cecil J. Sharp and Frank Clyde Brown. Kennedy was particularly interested in the musical and verbal memory of the previously recorded subjects, evaluating the processes and techniques of ethnomusicology and folklore work overtime, and the geographical distribution of folk songs and ballads throughout North Carolina. His research was published in the South Atlantic Bulletin ("Re-Eliciting Songs and Ballads from Living Informants of Early Collectors in the South", 1960) and North Carolina Folklore Journal ("Present Status of Ballad Collecting and Geographical Ballad Distributions in North Carolina", 1965). The collection contains Kennedy's original field recordings (Original Tape "OT"); dubs of Kennedy's original field recordings (New Copy "NC"); and other recordings, including commercial recordings, interviews, live recordings, radio programs, and unnumbered or unidentified recordings. Of particular note are the WUNC produced radio programs on folk music; interviews with folklorist, Dr. Amos Abrams; dubbed field recordings of women ballad singers from North Carolina; and a privately issued autographed LP by Philip H. Houston and Laura Nancy Hasenpflug. The split LP features Philip H. Houston singing folk music and ballads with guitar accompaniment, as well as classical piano by Laura Nancy Hasenpflug. Recordings are on 1/4" open reel audio, audiocassette, and LP.

The collection also includes Kennedy's extensive field notes, which consist of tape indexes, card files, tape logs, memos, writings, and printed materials, as well as photographs of the old-time and traditional folk musicians documented by Kennedy during his fieldwork across the state of North Carolina. Photographs consist mostly of black-and-white prints, but also include color prints, slides, and negatives.

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Contents list

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About 150 items.

Arrangement: Chronological by format.

Processing information: Dates compiled from original prints. Series 2 contains printed materials found with select photographs.

Snapshots of old-time and traditional musicians and their families documented by Philip H. Kennedy during his fieldwork across the state of North Carolina. Also includes images of instruments, including dulcimers and banjos. Photographs consist mostly of Black-and-White Photographic Prints, but also include Color Photographic Prints, Color 35mm Slides, and Black-and White negatives, or Roll Film.

Image Folder 1-9

Imagefolder 1

Imagefolder 2

Imagefolder 3

Imagefolder 4

Imagefolder 5

Imagefolder 6

Imagefolder 7

Imagefolder 8

Imagefolder 9

1959-1966 and undated

Black-and-White Photographic Prints

98 images

Negatives for select prints found in image folders 7-9 reside in image folders 15-17.

Image Folder 10-12

Imagefolder 10

Imagefolder 11

Imagefolder 12

Undated

Color Photographic Prints

9 images

Image Folder 13

1964-1965

Color 35mm Slides (Mounted)

4 images

Image Folder 14

1963

Black-and-White 35mm Roll Film

4 images

Image Folder 15-17

Imagefolder 15

Imagefolder 16

Imagefolder 17

1963-1965 and undated

Black-and-White 120 Roll Film

36 images

Includes negatives for select Black-and-White Photopgraphic Prints found in image folders 7-9.

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About 100 items.

Arrangement: Original order has been maintained.

Processing information: Titles and descriptions compiled from original containers. Tape indexes remain in original binders. For the most part, card indexes remain in their original boxes.

Supporting documentation that consists of tape indexes, card files, tape logs, memos, and printed materials, some of which were found with the audio recordings and photographs in the collection. Of particular note are the tape indexes and card files, some of which cross reference Kennedy's Original Tape ("OT") and New Copy ("NC") field recordings series.

Box 1

Field notes: tape logs and printed materials

Includes field notes found with select recordings in series 3, such as memos, tape logs, and photocopies of original containers; printed materials, memos, and sleeves found with select photographs in series 2; writings by Philip H. Kennedy related to his masters folklore thesis at Indiana University; and publications collected by Kennedy, including a 1968 copy of Mountain Life and Work: The Magazine of The Appalachian South

Box 2

Field notes: tape index and card file

Includes two tape index binders and one card file arranged by artist.

Box 3

Field notes: card files

Includes four card files of field work notes, "informants, songs, and locale", song sources, and songs.

Box 4

Field notes: card files

Includes two card files of subjects and "field work, search, and place".

Box 5

Field notes: card files

Includes two card files of field work notes and "collections/collector correspondence".

Box 6

Field notes: card files

Includes one card files of addresses collected by Kennedy.

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248 items.

Arrangement: For the most part, original order has been maintained.

Processing information: Titles and descriptions compiled from original containers. Titles supplied by SFC are in brackets. Cross references among field recordings are listed if known. Series 2 contains supporting documentation and field notes found with select audio recordings.

Field recordings and other audio recordings compiled by Philip H. Kennedy. Recordings are on 1/4" open reel audio and audiocassette. Field recordings consist of Kennedy's original field recordings (Original Tape "OT") and dubs of Kennedy's original field recordings (New Copy "NC"). Please note that "NC" recordings may contain segments of multiple "OT" tapes. Other audio recordings include commercial recordings, interviews, live recordings, radio programs, and unnumbered or unidentified recordings.

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104 items.

Arrangement: Original order has been maintained.

Processing information: Please note that recordings may have more than one "OT" number. Original numbers listed beneath title may include cross references with the "NC" recordings found in series 3.2. Select recordings (FT-20328/36 and FT-20328/41) contain additional notes provided by folklorist, Daniel W. Patterson.

Original field recordings by Philip H. Kennedy. Please note that some recordings may also contain segments of commercial recordings.

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/1

OT 1, OT 15: Vass family, Hale, and Yoki, 1958, 1959

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 1, OT 15, NC 33, NC 34

From log: "Aunt May, January 1958; J .D. W. Vass, Ralph, Ruby, Pop, fiddler, June 1959; Hale, Yoki, Spring 1958"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/2

OT 2A: Harmony, Gaither, Jackson, Queen, Hayes, and Caudill Family, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 2 side A

From log: "Harmony, Gaither, Jackson, Queen, Hayes, January 1958, Trap Hill, N.C.; Caudill, son Jack, son Bill, January 1958, spring 1958"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/3

OT 2B: Anthology of Folk and Primitive Music 2039, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 2 side B, NC 4

From log: "Harmony, Gaither, Jackson, Queen, Hayes, January 1958, Trap Hill, N.C.; Caudill, son Jack, son Bill, January 1958, Spring 1958"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/4

OT 2: Mrs. Barnhart, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 2, NC 7

From log: "Harmony, Gaither, Jackson, Queen, Hayes, January 1958, Trap Hill, N.C.; Caudill, son Jack, son Bill, January 1958, Spring 1958"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/5

OT 2: Anthology of Folk and Primitive Music 2041, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 2, NC 6, NC 7

From log: "Harmony, Gaither, Jackson, Queen, Hayes, January 1958, Trap Hill, N.C.; Caudill, son Jack, son Bill, January 1958, Spring 1958"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/6

OT 3: Mrs. Reavis, Caudill Family, Crows, Rivers, and others, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 3

From log: "Mrs. Reavis, January 1958; Caudill, son Jack, son Bill, January 1958, Spring 1958"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/7

OT 4A: Ramsey, Caudill, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 4A

From log: "Caudill, Dickson, Allmann, Obray Ramsey, Spring 1958"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/8

OT 5: H. Dennis, W. Morris, Caudill family, J. Stuart, and others, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 5

From log: "H. Dennis, 8 January 1958; W. Morris, January 1958; Caudill, son Jack, son Bill, January 1958, Spring 1958; J. Stuart, Spring 1958; Young, O'Connor, Spring 1958.

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/9

OT 5, OT 6: Mrs. Young, Morris, Caudill family, and others, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 5, OT 6

From log: "H. Dennis, 8 January 1958; W. Morris, January 1958; Caudill, son Jack, son Bill, January 1958, Spring 1958; J. Stuart, Spring 1958; Young, O'Connor, Spring 1958.

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/10

OT 7: Houde and friends, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 7

From log: "Houde, Houde's friend, Spring 1958"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/11

OT 7A, OT 7B: Houde and friends, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 7A, OT 7B

From log: "Houde, Houde's friend, Spring 1958"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/12

OT 8: Hale, Yoki

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 8

From log: "Hale, Yoki, Spring 1958, See index card with OT 36 [FT-20328/53]"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/13

OT 9: Marty Hale, Phillip Kennedy, Bray Ramsay, and others

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 9, NC 3

From log: "Hale, Yoki, Spring 1958"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/14

OT 10: Pressnell, Aukenn, Chee, and others, 1953

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 10, NC 1, NC 2

From log: "M. Presnell, late summer, 1953"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/15

OT 11B: Mrs. Pond, Dr. Wallman, and others, 14 July 1959

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 11B, NC 42

From log: "Caudill, son Jack, son Bill, January 1958, Spring 1958; Dr. F. Wellmann, 14 July 1959"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/16

OT 12: Mrs. Tart, Mrs. Peacock and family, and others, 1958-1959

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 12

From log: "Z. Hughes, September 1958; Mrs. J. Coldiron, Mrs. S. Harmon, September 1958; Mrs. Tart, Mrs. Peacock, Carlie (son), sister (Tart), May 1959; Mrs. Ladon, 23 August 1959; Mrs. Hensley, Mrs. J. Boone (daughter), 24 August 1959; Mrs. A. Godfrey, Mrs. Hunneycutt, 24 July 1959"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/17

OT 12: Coldiron, Ward, and others, 25 June 1960

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 12, NC 21

From log: "Z. Hughes, September 1958; Mrs. J. Coldiron, Mrs. S. Harmon, September 1958; Mrs. Tart, Mrs. Peacock, Carlie (son), sister (Tart), May 1959; Mrs. Ladon, 23 August 1959; Mrs. Hensley, Mrs. J. Boone (daughter), 24 August 1959; Mrs. A. Godfrey, Mrs. Hunneycutt, 24 July 1959"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/18

OT 13: Sally Austin, Mrs. Tillet, Mrs. Tony Hughes, and others, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 13

From log: "F. Berryhill, June 1958; S. Anderson, daughter, June 1958; Glen, Lunsford, D, June 1958; S. Austin, daughter, July 1958; Mrs. S. Hundley, October 1958; B. Galager, December 1958"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/19

OT 14: Asheville Folk Festival, Ollie Ward, Don Langsford, and others, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 14

From log: "Asheville Folk Festival, August 1958; O. Ward, D. Lunsford, September 1958"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/20

OT 15: Old Time Fiddle Convention, O Ward, D. Lunsford, and L. Sturgill, 6 October 1961

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 15, NC 19 [?]

From log: "O T FIDD C [Old Time Fiddle Convention], Easter Saturday night 1958; O Ward, D. Lunsford, September 1958; L. Sturgill, September 1958"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/21

OT 15B: Vass family, Don Langford, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 15B

From log: "O T FIDD C [Old Time Fiddle Convention], Easter Saturday night 1958; O Ward, D. Lunsford, September 1958; L. Sturgill, September 1958; Vass, J. D. W., Ralph, Ruby, Pop, fiddler, June 1959"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/22

OT 16: Margie Stiles, Vass Family, Leadbelly, and others, 1959

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 16, NC 34

From log: "Vass, J. D. W., Ralph, Ruby, Pop, fiddler, June 1959"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/23

OT 17: Early Hayes, John Paterson, M.T. Williams, and others, 1959

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 17

From log: "Mrs. Williams, daughter (B), March 1959; Florida Folk Festival (Boltin), M. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Moon, S. Jourard, E. Fleming, R. Pavitt, J. Smith, M. L. Wainright, J. de Vane, F. Beaver, D. Weldon, 1-3 May 1959; Carolina Folk Festival, 10 May 1959; J. Hilton, May 1959; Mrs. F. Fitzsimmons, May 1959; See also index cards included with 18B [FT-20328/24] and OT-55 [FT-20328/69]"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/24

OT 18: M. Hunter and others

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 18, NC 6

From log: "Florida Folk Festival (Boltin), M. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Moon, S. Jourard, E. Fleming, R. Pavitt, J. Smith, M. L. Wainright, J. de Vane, F. Beaver, D. Weldon, 1-3 May 1959"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/25

OT 19: Florida Folk Festival, Mrs. Fitzsimmons, Diane Waldon, and others

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 19, NC 1

From log: "Florida Folk Festival (Boltin), M. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Moon, S. Jourard, E. Fleming, R. Pavitt, J. Smith, M. L. Wainright, J. de Vane, F. Beaver, D. Weldon, 1-3 May 1959"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/26

OT 20: Bluegrass and Anthology

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 20

Likely dub of commercial recordings.

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/27

OT 21: Mrs. Barnhat, S. South, and others, 7 May 1962

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 21

From log: "Mrs. Barnhart, 30 August 1959; S. South, 2 August 1959"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/28

OT 21: Marshall Beaufort and others, 7 May 1962

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 21

From log: "Mrs. Barnhart, 30 August 1959; S. South, 2 August 1959"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/29

OT 21B: Taylor and others

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 21B

From log: "Mrs. Barnhart, 30 August 1959; S. South, 2 August 1959"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/30

OT 22, OT 66: Mr. Taylor, Charles Juanita Tillet, and others

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 22, OT 66

From card log: "side A: Alan Taylor, Mrs. Amelia Mason, Mrs. Algia Morris, Kelley Robinson, Levey, Mrs. Mamie Nelson, Mrs. Sannie Mason, Guy Morris, Mrs. Anna Richie; side B: Mrs. Amelia Mason, Mrs. Angia Morris, Kelley Robinson, Harker's Island (Goldsboro), Cleetus Rose, Cove"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/31

OT 22: C. Rose

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 22, NC 77

From card log: "side A: Alan Taylor, Mrs. Amelia Mason, Mrs. Algia Morris, Kelley Robinson, Levey, Mrs. Mamie Nelson, Mrs. Sannie Mason, Guy Morris, Mrs. Anna Richie; side B: Mrs. Amelia Mason, Mrs. Angia Morris, Kelley Robinson, Harker's Island (Goldsboro), Cleetus Rose, Cove"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/32

OT 22A: 7 May 1962

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 22A, NC 1[?]

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/33

OT 22A: Mrs. Hughes

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 22A, NC 22

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/34

OT 22: NC extension, Cove City, Cove City, N.C.

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 22

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/35

OT 22: [Duplicate?]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 22

From card log: "side A: Alan Taylor, Mrs. Amelia Mason, Mrs. Algia Morris, Kelley Robinson, Levey, Mrs. Mamie Nelson, Mrs. Sannie Mason, Guy Morris, Mrs. Anna Richie; side B: Mrs. Amelia Mason, Mrs. Angia Morris, Kelley Robinson, Harker's Island (Goldsboro), Cleetus Rose, Cove"

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20328/3

OT-22A: Side A

Audiocassette

Original number: OT-22A

From card log: " side A: Alan Taylor, Mrs. Amelia Mason, Mrs. Algia Morris, Kelley Robinson, Levey, Mrs. Mamie Nelson, Mrs. Sannie Mason, Guy Morris, Mrs. Anna Richie"

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20328/4

OT-22B: Side B

Audiocassette

Original number: OT-22B

From card log: "Side B: Mrs. Amelia Mason, Mrs. Angia Morris, Kelley Robinson, Harker's Island (Goldsboro), Cleetus Rose, Cove"

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20328/5

OT 22, 66A, 66B, 21B

Audiocassette

Original number: OT-22, 66A, 66B, 21B

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/36

OT 23: G. Robinson, Mrs. Pond and family, Alan Taylor, and others

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 23

From card log: "Side A: Mrs. Catherine Bailey, Miss Lattye Eunice Arnold. B: Mrs. Tom Bradshaw, Miss Lucy Cobb"

Additional notes on the recording by folklorist, Daniel W. Patterson:

"Miss Lattye Eunice Arnold appeared a number of times in UNC stadium--at the invitation of Professor A. P. Hudson, head of the UNC Curriculum in Folklore--during his annual Carolina Folk Festival. Miss Arnold sang ballads like "Barbara Allen," wearing an old-fashioned poke bonnet and floor-length dress. Her home was in Wake County, north of Raleigh in the Barton’s Creek Township. According to the 1940 Federal Census, she was born about 1897.

Mrs. Tom Bradshaw (Laura Petty Bradshaw, 1908-1993) lived west of Chapel Hill on the south side of Hwy 54 in the White Cross Community. I went with Phil Kennedy when he recorded a session with her in her home. As I recall, among other songs she sang the Child ballad "Fair Ellender and the Brown Girl." She had written down the words of songs she knew in a notebook. I recall that she suffered from a heart ailment. I was not aware at the time that her home was about a mile from where my Grandmother Patterson (née Nellie Atwater) was born and raised.

Miss Lucy Maria Cobb (1877-1969)—a folklorist, author of "folk plays," and journalist. She was a daughter of Professor Collier Cobb of the UNC Geology Department. She wrote an M.A. thesis at UNC-CH in 1927 on folksongs she collected in this state. The Southern Historical Collection has her papers. I wrote an entry about her for the NCPedia."

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/37

OT 25: Mrs. Sheil, Mrs. Mahn, Mrs. Riggs, and others

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 25

From OT 25 card log: "Side A: Mrs. Rosalie Shell, Mrs. Mary Mann, Dick Joyner, Mrs. Frank Riggs, Mrs. Carter Dickson (and Lerna), Sophia Williams, Dr. Cratis Williams, Frank Proffitt; Side B: Frank Proffitt, Mrs. Frank Lookabill, Mrs. Mandy Miller, Elizabeth Miller, Lawton Grogan, Mrs. Buna Hicks, Mrs. Carl (Rose) Presnell, Mr. Carl Presnell, Mrs. Vance (Anna) Presnell"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/38

OT 25: Mrs. Rosalie Shell

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 25

From OT 25 card log: "Side A: Mrs. Rosalie Shell, Mrs. Mary Mann, Dick Joyner, Mrs. Frank Riggs, Mrs. Carter Dickson (and Lerna), Sophia Williams, Dr. Cratis Williams, Frank Proffitt; Side B: Frank Proffitt, Mrs. Frank Lookabill, Mrs. Mandy Miller, Elizabeth Miller, Lawton Grogan, Mrs. Buna Hicks, Mrs. Carl (Rose) Presnell, Mr. Carl Presnell, Mrs. Vance (Anna) Presnell"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/39

OT 26: Maude Long, Phillip Kennedy

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 26

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/40

OT 26, OT 48 [?]: Mrs. Maude Long

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 26, OT 48[?]

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/41

OT 27: Phillip Kennedy, F. Collins, and others

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 27

Additional notes on the recording by folklorist, Daniel W. Patterson:

"F. Collins is doubtless Fletcher Collins, Jr., who taught at Elon College and elsewhere later. In 1940 he published a mimeographed collection children's songs from Alamance County, N.C. Also later a collection of American folksongs on Rounder Records for the Library of Congress Archive of American Folksongs. He later taught elsewhere. His folksong collection is in the American Folklife Center in Washington, D.C. and its catalogue gives more information. I recall reading that he had made wire recordings while in this area and contacted him to ask about them. He said that he had discarded both them and his machine because the spools of wire got so badly entangled."

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/42

OT 28

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 28

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/43

OT 29: Mrs. Bostic, Billy Goimes, Mrs. Barnhart, and others, 1959

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 29

From log: "Bostic, Daughter Etta, January 1959; Mrs. Barnhart, 30 August 1959; South, S, 2 August 1959"; From card log: 'Side A: Mrs. Sally Bostic, Miss Etta Bostic; Side B: Mrs. Sally Bostic, Mrs. Barnhart, Stanley South"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/44

OT 29 [?]: Mrs. Bostic, re-edit demo tape, 1959

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 29[?]

From log: "Bostic, Daughter Etta, January 1959; Mrs. Barnhart, 30 August 1959; South, S, 2 August 1959"; From card log: 'Side A: Mrs. Sally Bostic, Miss Etta Bostic; Side B: Mrs. Sally Bostic, Mrs. Barnhart, Stanley South"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/45

OT 30: Williams Family, Clef Garver, and others

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 30, NC 25

From log: "Mrs. Williams, daughter, B, daughter, March 1959; G. Hamrick, 1 March 1959; C. Garner, March 1959"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/46

OT 30 [?]: Gord Hamrick, Hayes, and others

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 30[?]

From log: "Mrs. Williams, daughter, B, daughter, March 1959; G. Hamrick:, 1 March 1959; C. Garner, March 1959"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/47

OT 32: [Phillip Kennedy]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 32

From original container: "Possibly PHK singing w/ guitar?"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/48

OT 32A, OT 34B: Pete Seeger, Weavers, Terriers

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 32A, OT 34B

Likely dub of commercial recordings.

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/49

OT 33: Phillip Kennedy, Shields Flynn, Mrs. Reynolds, and others, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 33

From log: "C. Morris, January 1958; B. Galager, December 1958" ; From card log: "Side A: Claude Morris, Mrs. Reynolds, Mr. Jimmy Colson, Neb Galager, PHK; Side B: Shields Flynn (guitar?), PHK?"; See index cards with OT-36A (FT-20328/53) and OT-55 (FT-20328/69)

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/50

OT 34A, OT 34B: Paul Clayton, Bud Junes, Pete Seeger, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 34A, OT 34B

Likely dub of commercial recordings.

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/51

OT 35: Art Harrick, Phillip Kennedy, and others, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 35

From log: "Houde, Houde's friend, Spring 1958"; from card log: "Side A: Arthur Houde, PHK reading Spanish, Sandy, Li Man Tri; Side B: Arthur Haude, Li Man Tri, Sandy, French"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/52

OT 35: Chee, Houde, and others, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 35

From log: "Houde, Houde's friend, Spring 1958"; From card log: "Side A: Arthur Houde, PHK reading Spanish, Sandy, Li Man Tri; Side B: Arthur Haude, Li Man Tri, Sandy, French"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/53

OT 36: Celie Turner and others, Cheraw, S.C., 1959

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 36

From log: "Cheraw, June 1959; possibly Cheraw, S.C."

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/54

OT 36B: Cheraw, Cheraw, S.C., 1959

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 36B

From log: "Cheraw, June 1959; possibly Cheraw, S.C."

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/55

OT 38: Mrs. McMurray and Helmut Naumer, 13 September 1959

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 38

From index card file: "Mrs. Carl McMurray, Helmut Naumer"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/56

OT 38A: Mrs. McMurray and Helmut Naumer, 1959

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 38A

From index card file: "Mrs. Carl McMurray, Helmut Naumer"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/57

OT 39: Hattie B. Presnell and family, Hicks family, and others

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 39

From index card file: "Cratis Williams, Ernest Belick, Captain and Mrs. Hicks, PHK, Nettie Presnell (Mrs.), Hattie Presnell, Rosa Presnell (Mrs. Carl)"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/58

OT 40: Dr. I.G. Greer, Mrs. Millie Watson, Phillip Kennedy

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 40, NC 37

From index card file: "Dr. I.G. Greer, Mrs. Millie Watson, PHK"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/59

OT 41: Ramsay Group, Ray Bard, Metcalf family, Obray Ramsey, and others

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 41, NC 41

From index card file: "Ramsay Group, Ray Bard, Metcalf, Obray Ransey, Metcalf (father), Group, Ray Bard, Bard's friend (fiddler)"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/60

OT 43: Toni Grauer, 1959

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 43

From log: "T. Grauer, May 1959"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/61

OT 44: Hubert Tant

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 44

From index card file: "Hubert Tant"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/62

OT 45: Miss Lattye Eunice Arnold

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 45

From index card file: "Miss Lattye Eunice Arnold"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/63

OT 48: Mrs. Maud Long, Phillip Kennedy

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 48

From index card file: "Mrs. Maud Long, PHK"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/64

OT 50: Bradshaw family

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 50

From index card file: "Mrs. Tom Bradshaw, Beth Bradshaw (granddaughter)"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/65

OT 51, OT 19 [?]: 36th Annual Fiddlers Convention and more, 16 April 1960

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 51, OT 19[?]

From index card file: "OT 51: Hubert Caldwell, Caldwell's nephew, Couple from Madison, Tennessee, J. E. Mainer (and his Mountaineers), Mt. Airy Group; OT 19: negro spirituals, Sylvia Paulk, Diane Weldon, Miss Weldon (Diane's aunt) (End of Florida Folk Festival), (Seeger, Mike), Jane Hilton, (Bluegrass -Commercial)"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/66

OT 52: Will Allman

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 52

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/67

OT 53: Mrs. Joe Washburn

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 53

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/68

OT 54: Mrs. W.E. (Ada) Godfrey, Phillip Kennedy

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 54

From index card file: "Mrs. W. E. (Ada) Godfrey, PHK"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/69

OT 55: "Uncle" Mike Hoffman, Phillip Kennedy

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 55

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/70

OT 56: Group, Ray Bard, Obray Ramsey, 19 April 1960

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 56

From index card file: "Group, Ray Bard, Obray Ramsey"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/71

OT 57: Phillip Kennedy, Obray Ramsey

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 57

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/72

OT 58: Kit Collins, Lois Collins, Bloomington, Ind.

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 58

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/73

OT 59: Luther and Shane, Guthrie Meade, Bruce Buckley (Creighton), Joe Hickerson (Sandburg), and Mike Smith

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 59

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/74

OT 60: Hoyt Camp, Cowboy Copas

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 60

From note: "Hoyt Camp, Cowboy Copas (commercial)"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/75

OT 61: Herbert Pace, Saluda, N.C.

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 61

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/76

OT 62: John Ward, Hoyt Camp, Phillip Kennedy, 18 June 1960

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 62

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/77

OT 63: Margaret Ollis, Obadiah Johnson, Bucker interview

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 63

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/78

OT 65: Congo folk tales, Rev. T. K. Morrison, 8 April 1961

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 65

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/79

OT 66: Alan Taylor, Capt'n Frank Fluchar and family

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 66

From index card file: "Alan Taylor, Frank Fluchar (Capt'n), Mrs. Fluchar"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/80

OT 67: Mrs. Donald MacDonald, 9 June 1961

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 67

From index card file: "Mrs. Donald MacDonald (Mairi)"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/81

OT 69: Morrison, Indonesia, 26 August 1960

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 69

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/82

OT 70: Elsie Cunningham's Jamaica

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 70

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/83

OT 71, OT 66B: Capt'n Frank Fulcher and family

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 71, OT 66B

From index card file: "OT 71: Frank Fulcher (Capt'n), Mrs. Fulcher; OT 66B: Crank Clucher (Capt'n), Mrs. Fulcher"

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20328/8

OT 71, OT 66: "I Ate the Baloney"; small tape

Audiocassette

Original number: OT 71, OT 66

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/84

OT 72: Penny Royal, John Putnam, Sam Eskin, Steve Lee, John Holt, F. and M. Collins, Staunton, Va., 23 June 1960

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 72

From index card file: "Penny Royal (Staunton, Va.), John Putnam, Sam Eskin, Steve Lee, John Holt, F. and M. Collins"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/85

OT 74: Harmon, 26 August 1960

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 74

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/86

OT 75: J. L. Winniham

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 75

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/87

OT 76: H. J. (John) Coffey, Blowing Rock, N.C., 14 August 1962

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 76

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/88

OT 76 [?]: John Coffey

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 76[?]

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/89

OT 77: Early Hayes, Harv Gaither, Houstonville, N.C., 21 July 1962

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 77

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/90

OT 77A: Early Hayes, Harv Gaither, 21 July 1962

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 77A

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/91

OT 77B [?]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 77B[?]

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/92

OT 81: May Davis, 7 September 1963

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 81

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/93

OT 85, OT 54: Godfrey

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 85, OT 54

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/94

OT 86: Oscar Coffey, 12 December 1967

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 86

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/95

OT 86: O. L. (Oscar) Coffey, Mrs. Owen, 18 July 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 86

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/96

OT 88: Dan Tate, 31 January 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 88

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/97

OT 89: Dan Tate, 31 July 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 89

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/98

OT 90: Dan Tate

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 90

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/99

OT 92: Raborn, 29 January 1965

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 92

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/100

OT 95 [?]: DeHonia, Early Hayes, Harv Gaither, 6 March 1966

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: OT 95[?]

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 3.2 Field Recordings: New Copy Series, 1956-1964 and undated.

48 items.

Arrangement: Original order has been maintained.

Processing information: Original numbers listed beneath title include cross references with the "OT" recordings found in series 3.1. Please note that "NC" recordings may contain segments from multiple "OT" recordings.

Dubs of original field recordings by Philip H. Kennedy. Please note that some recordings may also contain segments of commercial recordings.

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/101

NC 1: Mrs. Butler, Aunt May, Vass Family, HHale, Yoki, Mrs. Revis, Caudill Family

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 1, OT 1, OT 3

From log: "OT 1: Aunt May, Vass, J.D.W. Ralph Ruby Pop fiddler, HHale, Yoki; OT 3: Mrs. Revis, Caudill, son Jack, son Bill"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/102

NC 1: Leadbelly

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 1, OT 3, OT 16

From log: "OT 3: Mrs. Revis, Cudill, son Jack, son Bill; OT 16: Vass, J.D.W. Ralph Ruby Pop fiddler"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/103

NC 1: Fiddling, B.L. Lunceford, HHale, Yoki

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 1, OT 9

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/104

NC 1: M. Presnell, Anthology of Folk and Primitive Music 2036

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 1, OT 10

From log: "OT 10: M. Presnell (session)"; "Anthology of Folk and Primitive Music 2036 1-10"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/105

NC 1: Penny Royal, Bob Yallin, Penny Harrison, Sweetbrier, Elsie Pritchard, P. Clayton, Brad Perry, Mike Seeger, and others

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 1, OT 15, OT 4, OT 13, OT 20, OT 19

From log: "OT 15: [Old Time Fiddle Convention], O. Ward, D. Lundsford, L. Sturgill; OT 4: Caudill, Dickson, Allman, Ramsey; OT 13: F. Berryhill, S. Anderson daughter, Glen, D. Lunsford, S. Austin daughter, B. Galager; OT 19: [Florida Folk Festival], (Boltin) M Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Moon, S. Jourard, E. Fleming, R. Pavitt, J. Smith, M. L. Wainwright, J. de Vane, F Beaver, D. Weldon"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/106

NC 2: Collins, Peasall, Lamont, Sharp, Norello, and others, 1963

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 2

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/107

NC 2: M. Stiles, Jim Butler, Mrs. Revis, M. Hale, and others

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 2, OT 16, OT 3, OT 7, OT 10

From original container: "Duke University, M. Stiles, Jim Butler, Mrs. Revis, M. Hale and friends, Jay Gaynor, Art Honde and friends"; From log: "OT 16: J. D. W. Vass, Ralph, Ruby, Pop, Fiddler; OT 3: Mrs. Reavis, Caudill son Jack son Bill; OT 7: Houde, Houde's friend; OT 10: M. Presnell"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/108

NC 2: Leadbelly, Caudill, Dickson, Allmann, Obray Ramsey

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 2, OT 66, OT 4

From original container: "Leadbelly; Country Recordings L.C.; words to G. Alley and Galveston Flood with tune"; From log: "OT 4: Caudill, Dickson, Allmann, Obray Ramsey"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/109

NC 3: Anthology of Folk and Primitive Music 2038

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 3

From original container: ""Anthology of Folk and Primitive Music 2038 1-14"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/165

[NC 3: O. L. Coffey; Anthology of Folk and Primitive Music 2038]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/110

NC 3: Dulcimer, Sturgill, Houde, and others, 1963

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 3, OT 7B

From log: "OT 7: Houde, Houde's friend"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/111

NC 3: North Carolina Folk Society Scottish Recordings, Donald MacDonald, Pete Seeger, and others, 5 April 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 3, OT 9, OT 7, OT 33, OT 13

From log: "OT 9: HHale, Yoki; OT 7: Houde, Houde's friend; OT 13: F. Berryhill, S. Anderson daughter, Glen, D. Lunsford, S. Austin daughter, Mrs. S. Hundley, B. Galager"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/112

NC 3: A. Taylor, F. Fuleber

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 3, OT 66A

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/113

NC 4: J. Moser, L. Sturgill, Al Mitchell, Phillip Kennedy, L. Dickson, H. Shellans, and others, 1963

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 4, OT 11B, OT 17

From original container: "J. Moser [Joan Moser], L. Sturgill, Cheer, Al Mitchell, PK and friends, PK and L. Dickson, H. Shellans"; From log: "OT 11: Caudill son Jack son Bill, Dr. F. Wellmann; OT 17: Mrs. Williams daughter B., [Carolina Folk Festival], J. Hilton, Mrs. F. Fitzsimmons"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/114

NC 4: Phillip Kennedy Church Recital, Florida Folk Festival, Williams family, and others, Charlotte, N.C., 6 June 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 4, OT 17, OT 33, OT 55

From log: "OT 17: Mrs. Williams, daughter B., [Carolina Folk Festival], J. Hilton, Mrs. F. Fitzsimmons; OT 33: Reynolds, Colson, B Galager"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/115

NC 5: Anthology of Folk and Primitive Music 2040

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 5, OT 2

From original container: "Anthology of Folk and Primitive Music, 2040 1-10"; From log: "OT 2: Harmony, Gaither, Jackson, Queen, Hayes, Caudill, Jack, Bill, Trap Hill, N.C."

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/116

NC 5: Phillip Kennedy, Florida Folk Festival, Church Mountain Boys, and others, 4 June 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 5, OT 17, OT 18

From original container: "PK and friends, Florida Folk Festival, Church Mountain Boys, Shellams, J. Moser [Joan Moser], Miss Bernice Williams, M. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Moon"; From log: "OT 17: Mrs. Williams, daughter B., [Carolina Folk Festival], J. Hilton, Mrs. F. Fitzsimmons; OT 18: [Florida Folk Festival], Boltin, M. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Moon, S. Jourard, E. Fleming, R. Pavitt, J. Smith, M. L. Wainwright, J. de Vane, F. Beaver, D. Weldon"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/117

NC 5: Mike Seeger, Bob Black, Commercial Hillbilly Recordings, and others, 1 June 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 5, OT 19B

From log: "OT 19: [Florida Folk Festival], Boltin, M. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Moon, S. Jourard, E. Fleming, R. Pavitt, J. Smith, M. L. Wainwright, J. de Vane, F. Beaver, D. Weldon"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/118

NC 5: Phillip Kennedy Recital, Reading Texts, Study Notes, and more, Charlotte, N.C.

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 5, OT 55, OT 33, OT 39, OT 13

From log: "OT 33: C. Morris, Reynolds, Colson, B. Galager; OT 13: F. Berryhill, S. Anderson daughter, Glen, D. Lunsford, S. Austin daughter, Mrs. S. Hundley, B. Galager"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/119

NC 6: Church Mountain Boys, J. Smith, R. Neal, Bob Pairett, and others, 4 June 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 6, OT 18, OT 34

From log: "OT 18: [Florida Folk Festival], Boltin, M. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Moon, Charlie Brooks, Sid Jourard, E. Fleming, R. Pavitt, J. Smith, M. L. Wainwright, J. de Vane, F. Beaver, D. Weldon; OT 34: HHale, Yoki"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/120

NC 6: Charlotte, Lomax

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 6, OT 32

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/121

NC 7: R. Neal, O. Weldon, Mrs. Moon, Mr. and Mrs. J. Smith, M. Hunter, and others, 6 June 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 7, OT 18, OT 21, OT 22, OT 23, OT 24, OT 25, OT 26

From log: "OT 18: Florida Folk Festival, Boltin, M. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Moon, Charlie Brooks, Sid Jourard, E. Fleming, R. Pavitt, J. Smith, M. L. Wainwright, June de Vane, F. Beaver, D. Weldon; OT 21: Mrs. Barnhart, S. South"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/122

NC 8: Anthology of Folk and Primitive Music 2043

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 8

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/123

NC 8: Tony Beaver, Thelma Boltin, Foster, Shields Flyner, and others, Chapel Hill, N.C., 4 June 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 8, OT 8, OT 27, OT 36

From original container: "UNC Songs out of the South TV Series, dub"; From log: "OT 8: HHale, Yoki"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/124

NC 8: Anthology of Folk and Primitive Music 2042

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 8

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/125

NC 9 [?]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 9

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/126

NC 10: Phillip Kennedy; Anthology of Folk and Primitive Music 2045

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 10

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/127

NC 11: Anthology of Folk and Primitive Music 2046

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 11

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/128

NC 12 [?], NC 7A [?]: Work Song, Anthology of Folk and Primitive Music 2044, 23 June 1960

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 12, NC 7A

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/129

NC 13: Dickson, Caulilt, Rolly Trudum, and others, 23 June 1960

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 13, NC 7B

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/130

NC 15: Obray Ramsey, 26 June 1960

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 15

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/131

NC 16: Obray Ramsey, Dickson and Johnson, Tom Dula, 23 June 1960

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 16

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/132

NC 18 [?]: Austin, Cross, Tillet, 23 June 1960

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 18

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/133

NC 24 [?]: Williams family, Carolina Folk Festival, J. Hilton, Mrs. F. Fitzsimmons, and others, 23 June 1956

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 24 [?], OT 30, OT 17

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/134

NC 29: Pete Seeger, J. Hilton, Katie Groat, and others, 4 June 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 29, OT 10, OT 7, OT 19

From original container: "Pete Seeger et al at Stockbridge, Mass.; J. Hilton; Graver, Chapel Hill; Katie Groat, Sweetbrier.; P. Royal"; From log: "OT 10: M. Presnell; OT 7: Houde, Houde's friend; OT 19: [Florida Folk Festival], Boltin, M. Wilcox, Mr. and Mrs. Moon, S. Jourard, E. Fleming, R. Pavitt, J. Smith, M. L. Wainwright, J. de Vane, F. Beaver, D. Weldon" Rehoused, but found with original tape box.

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/135

NC 31: Vass family

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 31, OT 15

From log: "OT 15: J. D. W. Vass, Ruby, Pop, fiddler, [Old Time Fiddle Convention], L. Sturgill"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/136

NC 32: Vass family, Hillsville, Va., 3 June 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 32, OT 15

From log: "OT 15: J. D. W. Vass, Ruby, Pop, fiddler, [Old Time Fiddle Convention], L. Sturgill"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/137

NC 33: Vass Family, Old Time Fiddlers Convention, Hillsville, Va., 3 June 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 33, OT 15

From original container: "Ruby Vass, poor quality, is dubbed from the collector's Herb Shallows"; From log: "OT 15: J. D. W. Vass, Ruby, Pop, fiddler, [Old Time Fiddle Convention], L. Sturgill"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/138

NC 34: Vass family, Russ Columbo, Hillsville, Va., 3 June 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 34, OT 1, OT 15, OT 16

From log: "OT 1: Aunt May, Vass, J. D. W. Ralph Ruby Pop fiddler, HHale, Yoki; OT 15 - J.D.W. Vass, Ruby, Pop, fiddler, O T FIDD C [Old Time Fiddle Convention], L Sturgill. Rehoused, but found with original tape box.

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/139

NC 35: Jagaer, Riggs, Dickson, Williams, Proffitt, Lookabell, Grogan, and others, 29 November 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 35, OT 25

From card log: "OT 25 Side A: Mrs. Rosalie Shell, Mrs. Mary Mann, Dick Joyner, Mrs. Frank Riggs, Mrs. Carter Dickson (and Lerna), Sophia Williams, Dr. Cratis Williams, Frank Proffitt; OT 25 Side B: Frank Proffitt, Mrs. Frank Lookabill, Mrs. Mandy Miller, Elizabeth Miller, Lawton Grogan, Mrs. Buna Hicks, Mrs. Carl (Rose) Presnell, Mr. Carl Presnell, Mrs. Vance (Anna) Presnell"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/140

NC 36: Hattie Presnell and family, Mrs. Lookabell, and others, 29 November 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 36, OT 39A

From original container: "H. Presnell, Mrs. Lookabell; Recorded from Mr. Hannon; NC 5: PHK, Mrs. Lookabill; Hattie Presnell; Beaver Hecks and M. Presnell; Scofield; Mary Presnell with others; Hicks"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/141

NC 37: Hattie Presnell and family, Ike Greer, Orville Campbell, Rose Presnell, and others, 29 November 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 37, OT 40A, OT 39B

See index card included with OT-40 (FT-20328/58)

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/142

NC 38: Millie Watson, Mrs. Timmons, and others, 29 November 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 38, OT 40, OT 2B

From log: "OT 2: Harmony, Gaither, Jackson, Queen, Hayes, Caudill, Jack, Bill, Trap Hill, N.C."

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/143

NC 39: Wake up Drowsy SD

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 39, OT 39B

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/144

NC 42: G. Ward, Mrs White, Ida Hand, Phillip Kennedy, and others, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 42

From original container: "G. Ward; Starts Joys of Mary September 1958; Mrs. White; Ms. Chase; Mrs. Ida Hand; H. Thomas; PK reading Chase manuscripts"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/145

NC 42: Black Church Singing, Mrs. Head and family, and others

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 42, OT 36B

From log: "OT 36: Cheraw [Cheraw, S.C.]"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/146

NC 79: Frank Rebern

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 79

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/147

NC 79, NC 80: Frank Raborn, Landsale, Carlysle, Goodin, and others

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Original number: NC 79, NC 80

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 3.3 Other Recordings, 1958-1971 and undated.

96 items.

Arrangement: Alphabetical by artist or title.

Acquisitions information: FC-20328/1 received as Addition of October 2019 (Acc. 103742).

Commercial recordings, interviews, live recordings, radio programs, and unnumbered or unidentified recordings. Of particular note are the WUNC produced radio programs on folk music (FT-20328/203-210); interviews with folklorist, Dr. Amos Abrams (FT-20328/197-199); dubbed field recordings of women ballad singers from North Carolina (FT-20328/232-235); and a privately issued autographed LP (FC-20328/1) by Philip H. Houston and Laura Nancy Hasenpflug. The split LP features Philip H. Houston singing folk music and ballads with guitar accompaniment, as well as classical piano by Laura Nancy Hasenpflug. Recordings are on 1/4" open reel audio, audiocassette, and LP.

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/214

74 spring 73

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/215

78 Dubs

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/197

Dr. Amos Abrams, tape 24

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/198

Dr. Amos Abrams interview, tape 24 dub, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/199

Dr. Amos Abrams, tape 24

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/148

Lattimore Arnold

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/232

Ballads 1: Mrs. C.K. Tillet, Roanoke Island, N.C.; Mrs. Arizona Hughes, Plumtree, N.C.; Mrs. Sally Bostic, [Mooresboro, N.C.], 1959

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/233

Ballads 2: Mrs. Sally Bostic and her daughter, Ella, [Mooresboro, N.C.], 1959

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/234

Ballads 3: Mrs. Ladon, Plumtree, N.C.; Mrs. Hensley, Micaville, N.C.; Mrs. Boone and daughter, Mrs. Byrd, Micaville, N.C.; Mrs. Godfrey, Spindale, N.C. and Mrs. Honeycut, Spindale, N.C., 1959

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/235

Ballads 4: Mrs. J.E. "Rosalee" Shell, Winston Salem, N.C.; Mr. Lawton Grogan, Silverstone, N.C., Silverstone, N.C., 1959

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/149

BBC Ballad Hunter: Program 1, Folksinger, Alan Lomax

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/150

BBC Ballad Hunter

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/151

BBC Ballad Hunter: Program 1, 2

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/152

BBC Ballad Hunter: Program 2, 3

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/153

BBC Ballad Hunter: Program 3, 4

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/154

BBC Ballad Hunter: Program 5, 6

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/155

BBC Ballad Hunter: Program 6, 1

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/156

BBC Ballad Hunter: Program 7, 8

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20328/9

Bean Blossom '71 dub: Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, Sullivans, Don Reno and Bill Harrell, Bean Blossom, Ind., 1971

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/157

Thomas Beversdorf, Variations for Piano on "A Pretty Maid"

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/158

Bluegrass banjo, 25 August 1960

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Likely dubs of commercial recordings.

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/159

Caprices de Marianne, 4 April 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/160

Chor. 13, E. Virginia Blues; Hardy, Cripple Creek etc., 16 January 1971

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/161

Christian Harmony, Harmony, N.C., 2 June 1963

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/162

Christian Harmony, Blowing Rock, N.C., 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/163

Classical

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/164

O. L. Coffey, Boone, N.C.

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/166

John Collier, Meade, fiddle playing, Indiana

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/167

George Collins

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/168

COM 7 JH CF6

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/169

Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20328/10

Conversation

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20328/11

Conversation in French, 7229 finals, tape 4

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/213

Crawdad Song, Floerella, FFV

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20328/12

Demonstration tape: Poor Little Sailor Boy, Zonie Hughes, Plum Tree

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/170

[Dubs of commercial 78s]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/171

[Dubs of commercial 78s]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/172

[Dubs of commercial 78s]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/173

Documentary Recordings of George Edwards

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/174

Festival, I Saw the Light

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/175

From Mrs. Cles Garner, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, dub

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/176

Final Oral, Taped Exam at Indiana University, Indiana, 21 May 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/177

[Folk Festival]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/178

[Folksinger Record], 3 Nights Drunk, Highland and Meade, J. H. Billbilly, dub

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/179

Fox Hollow Concert, 1958

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/180

Fragments of Fiddlers Convention

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/181

Geog. Fulcher; Allen Taylor, 31 August 1964

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/182

Greensboro; Anthology of Folk and Primitive Music 2037, Greensboro, N.C.

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/183

I Ate the Baloney, Fulcher songs

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/184

The Jealous Lover, Locks and Bolts, Lord Randall

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/185

Jeanne d'Arc soundtrack

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/186

Johnny Come Home, A Loretta Childs

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Audiodisc FC-20328/1

Philip H. Houston, "Folk Songs and Ballads with Guitar Accompaniment"; Laura Nancy Hasenpflug, piano, circa 1960

12" LP record

Received as Addition of October 2019 (Acc. 103742).

Autographed by Philip H. Kennedy. Includes folk songs and ballads "She Moves Through the Fair", "The Three Ravens", "Sweet Jane", "Santy Anno", "I Love My Love", "Look Out of the Window (How It's Raining)", and "Pavane"

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/212

Frank Kulkler, 10 September 1963

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/187

Mrs. Ladon, Plumtree, demo tape, Lass of Loch Royal, 7 April 1960

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/188

Yves Laulen, French songs recorded by Dr. Schinlian, Bordeaux, France

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/189

Music Makers of the Blue Ridge

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Likely dubs of commercial recordings.

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/190

New, 23 June 1960

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/191

Newfoundland: Tom Brandon, Mrs. Fraser, Newfoundland, Canada

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/192

Piano, Vocal

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/193

Railroad Bill, commercial; Willow Garden

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/194

Railsback Sisters 67, 2 July 1967

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20328/13

Selections from Phillip Kennedy Tapes

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/195

The Sheffield Apprentice and Six Other Songs

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/196

E. Steckert

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20328/1

Tape 21A: Newton, South, Stanley, Blues Piano

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20328/2

Tape 21B: Rorna Salter, Grayden Paul, Barnes

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20328/6

Tape 66A

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20328/7

Tape 66A: Alan Taylor; Fulcher, 16 December 1961; Captain Fulcure 11 September 1964

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/200

Edna Thomas, Violet Thomas, Bean Blossom, Ind., 26 April 1960

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/201

Tillet

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/202

Mrs. Charles Tillet; Mrs. Arizona Hughes; Mrs. Sally Bostic, 9 April 1960

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/203

WUNC 1: "Traditional Songs and Ballads" (of the Tar Heel Troubadour), Chapel Hill, N.C., 1959

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Don Ambrose, announcer; Howard Bercom, engineer

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/204

WUNC 2

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/205

WUNC 7

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/206

WUNC

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/207

WUNC

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/208

WUNC

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/209

WUNC

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/210

WUNC

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/211

Yodeling with Accordion

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/216

[unidentified sound recording]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/217

[unidentified sound recording]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/218

[unidentified sound recording]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/219

[blank tape]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/220

[unidentified sound recording]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/221

[unidentified sound recording]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/222

[unidentified sound recording]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/223

[unidentified sound recording]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/224

[unidentified sound recording]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/225

[unidentified sound recording]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/226

[blank tape]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/227

[unidentified sound recording]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/228

[unidentified sound recording]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/229

[unidentified sound recording]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/230

[unidentified sound recording]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20328/231

[unidentified sound recording]

1/4" Open Reel Audio

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