Description
Title: Negro Alabama 6: Ring / Various
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Folkways Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 093070447424
Genre: Children”s, African
Release Date: 2012-05-30
Number of Discs: 1
American folklorist Harold Courlander compiled this series (Negro Folk Music of Alabama) from recordings he made in rural Alabama in 1950. The album is an attempt to counter the stereotypes of Black music that were popular in America during the middle of the 20th century. This sixth volume begins with ring and line games which were recorded at various rural Alabama schools. Ring games are played with children standing in a circle, often holding hands; the leader stands outside the circle performing some action. To get the idea, imagine “”Duck, Duck, Goose.”” (The identical ring game recordings are found on FW07004.) They are followed by miscellaneous children”s songs, work songs, Blues, Hymns, and relatively modern Gospel songs. Liner notes written by Harold Courlander include directions on how to play various ring games.
Tracks:
1.1 Mary Mack
1.2 Bob a Needle
1.3 Watch That Lady
1.4 Old Lady Sally Wants to Jump
1.5 Loop de Loop
1.6 Green Green Rocky Road
1.7 Rosie Darling Rosie
1.8 I Must See
1.9 Bluebird Bluebird
1.10 May Go ”Round the Needle
1.11 Stooping on the Window
1.12 Charlie Over the Ocean
1.13 Session with Celina Lewis, (A)Catch That Squirrel, (B)Sangar Ee, (C) Whoa Mule, Can”t Get the Saddle on,
1.14 Water on the Wheel
1.15 Go Pray Ye
1.16 Captain Holler Hurry
1.17 John Henry
1.18 Going to Have a Talk with the Chief of Police
1.19 Meet Me in the Bottoms
1.20 When the Role Is Called in Heaven
1.21 I Moaned and I Moaned
1.22 I”m Standing in a Safety Zone
