Musical selections as streaming realaudio files and MP3 - click on the title (you need real player for these).
I'se Gwine Back to Dixie, Haydn Quartet, Victor 16104, April 1906
Other Information:
Sheet music - Library of Congress Web Pages
1902 Version - National Library of Canada Audio Files
Henry Attempts Suicide, Golden and Marlowe, Victor 35504, January 1916
Allen Sisson, Edison Diamond Disk Recordings 1925
John Baltzell, Edison Diamond Disk Recordings 1923
Fred Van Eps, Edison Diamond Disk Recordings 50195-R, Mx. 3308, late 1914
Moran and Mack, Columbia 935-D, March 14, 1927; Les Copeland, Piano
Lonnie Austin and Janet Kerr, Leader LP LEE 4045, June 15, 1972, Charleston, West Virginia
Phillips Louisville Jug Band, 1930
Lona Bedard, Piano, Norway, Maine October 2004
Piano recording of a waltz written by Prudent Bedard, grandfather of Lona's husband Emile "Bill" Bedard - Recording by David Sanderson
Musical selections as mp3 files
Tom Paley, from Folk Banjo Styles, Elektra EKL-217, 196?
Rabbit Where's Your Mammy, Eighth of January, Marching Through Georgia, Handsome Molly, Pretty Polly, Wild Bill Jones
Robert Mandel, Hurdy-Gurdy, from Hurdy-Gurdy Collection, Hungaroton HCS 31428
Que Vous Dirage Maman - Michel Corrette - Variations
New Lost City Ramblers, from Remembrance of Things to Come, Verve/Folkways FT/FTS-3018. Album notes:
Learned from a recording of an 80-year old woman in Mena, Ark., recorded by Sidney Robertson, 1936. (AAFS 3236 Al)
This singer had a very wide repertoire of songs, and I understand that she would sing this one only for female company. It struck me that the song, textually and melodically, would fit well into the Kelly Harrell-Charlie Poole mountain chamber music style. It was also recorded in a less direct non-narrative form by theSouthern Melody Boys for Bluebird in the 1930's.
Little Ball of Yarn - Mike Seeger, Vocal and guitar; Tracy Schwartz, fiddle; John Cohen, 5-string banjo.
Bandera Waltz - mp3 files
Slim Whitman - Bandera Waltz - 1950
Bill and Lona Bedard, January 2001 - Home recordings by David Sanderson
Cry - Lona, Vocal; Bill, Guitar
There Must Be A Way - Lona, Vocal; Bill, Guitar
The Lonely Soldier - Bill, Vocal, Guitar and Story
Byron G. Harlan, Proto-Rap
Wal I Swan, Byron G. Harlan and Chorus, February 1913