[Ads-l] big apple

[Mark Mandel]

Ah my. That record label, Young People's Records, looked so familiar. And
the last song in the "video", the verses weren't familiar, but oh my Lord,
the chorus "Way down yonder in the paw-paw patch" to exactly that tune, has
never left my memory, popping up at odd moments all my life.

MAM

On Thu, Feb 6, 2020, 10:45 AM Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu> wrote:

> The song I learned was "Michi Banjo" and looking for it just now I found
> the whole record on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqWxkZZKvy8.
> [https://www.bing.com/th?id=OVP.rEytckDbKI2W5mJ7hvhZFwEsDh&pid=Api]<
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqWxkZZKvy8>
> Charity Bailey - Look At Michie Banjo (More Playtime Songs)<
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqWxkZZKvy8>
> From the YPR 78, released circa 1950. Includes the songs "Angelico",
> "Michie Banjo", "Sandy Land", "Paw Paw Patch".
> www.youtube.com
> "Gardez le petit homme là, Michie Banjo..."
>
> Fun to talk about this --
> Margaret
>
> ----------------------------
> MARGARET E WINTERS
> Former Provost
> Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
> Wayne State University
> Detroit, MI  48202
>
> mewinters at wayne.edu
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Mark
> Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 5, 2020 11:17 PM
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Subject: Re: big apple
>
> Oh my heavens! I had forgotten all about the Creole until you mentioned it,
> and now there're a few ragged fragments in my mind. Maybe some more will
> come back to me.
>
> ??: Is this one of the songs you meant?:
>
> *Dormi, mon enfant, *
> *Close your eyes, my sweet babý.*
> * If you do not sleep, my love, *
> * Crab will pinch your toes, babý. *
> * If you do not sleep, my love, *
> * Crab will pinch your toes.*
>
> Mark
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020, 4:54 PM Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu> wrote:
>
> > I found out several years ago when I googled her to find out who she was.
> > I still remember (and sing, though not always safely in tune) the four
> > songs I learned from that one record I mentioned.  It wasn't until I
> > studied French, though, that I understood the creole words - I'd
> basically
> > learned them as a string of sounds.
> >
> > ----------------------------
> > MARGARET E WINTERS
> > Former Provost
> > Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
> > Wayne State University
> > Detroit, MI  48202
> >
> > mewinters at wayne.edu
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of
> Mark
> > Mandel <markamandel at GMAIL.COM>
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:47 PM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Subject: Re: big apple
> >
> > OMG! When I was a kid in the fifties, my family played a lot of folk
> music
> > (on records), probably instilling in me the love of and fascination with
> > singing, especially folk songs, that I retained and reveled in to this
> day.
> > Among the singers were the Weavers, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Burl Ives,
> > and *Charity
> > Bailey*. And until five minutes ago I never knew she was Black. Thank
> you.
> >
> > Mark Mandel
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 4, 2020, 8:20 AM Margaret Winters <mewinters at wayne.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Some time in the 50s there was a New York City local children's program
> > on
> > > TV with Charity Bailey, a black singer and educator.  I think I still
> > have
> > > the 78rpm record of her singing 4 songs, three in English and one in
> > French
> > > creole.  See
> > >
> >
> https://folkways.si.edu/charity-bailey/music-time-with/african-american-music-childrens/album/smithsonian
> > > [https://folkways-media.si.edu/images/album_covers/SF1400/FW07307.jpg
> ]<
> > >
> >
> https://folkways.si.edu/charity-bailey/music-time-with/african-american-music-childrens/album/smithsonian
> > > >
> > > Music Time with Charity Bailey | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings<
> > >
> >
> https://folkways.si.edu/charity-bailey/music-time-with/african-american-music-childrens/album/smithsonian
> > > >
> > > Singer and educator Charity Bailey, who was director of music at the
> > > progressive Little Red School House in New York City, offers a
> collection
> > > of songs aimed at a very young audience. Children from Sarah Lawrence
> > > Nursery School in New York City participated in the recordings. The
> > > traditional song “...
> > > folkways.si.edu
> > >
> > > ----------------------------
> > > MARGARET E WINTERS
> > > Former Provost
> > > Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
> > > Wayne State University
> > > Detroit, MI  48202
> > >
> > > mewinters at wayne.edu
> > >
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