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[Margaret Winters]

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

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MARGARET E WINTERS
Former Provost
Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI  48202

mewinters at wayne.edu


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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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