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[Mark Mandel]

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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