French Canadian
1. Leizime Brusoe – “Fisher's Hornpipe”
2. Leizime Brusoe – “Pigtown Fling”
3. Leizime Brusoe – “Lancer's in Five Parts”
Lumberjacks and Farmers
4. Robert Walker – “Lost Jimmie Whalen”
5. Warde Ford – “Little Brown Bulls”
6. Warde Ford – “Crandon”
7. Warde Ford and Art Ford – “I’d Rather Be a N–r than a Poor White Man”
8. Charles Spencer – “Mighty Adley–ca–budley–fatley–ca–ham–shaw”
9. Charles Spencer – “Locks and Bolts”
10. Clyde Spencer and Harry Fannin – “The Sinking of the Titanic”
Scots Gaelic
11. John H. Matheson – “A Mhàiri bhàn òg / O Fair Mary”
12. John H. Matheson – “Stocainnean daoimean / Diamond–Patterned Socks”
13. John H. Matheson – “Eilean Leòdhais / Isle of Lewis”
14. John H. Matheson – “Gabhaidh sinn a' rathad mòr / We Will Take the High Road”
Serbian
15. The Balkan Troubadours (Dan Radakovich, Nick Mitrovich, Lubo Mitrovich, Bob Rajacich, and George Rajacich) – “Alaj Gigi”
16. The Balkan Troubadours (Dan Radakovich, Nick Mitrovich, Lubo Mitrovich, Bob Rajacich, and George Rajacich) – “Angelina vodu lije / Angelina Is Pouring Water”
Finnish
17. Cecilia Kuitunen – “Charm for Hiccups”
18. Anna Leino – “Charm for Toothache”
19. Olga Simi and Sue Simi – “Pium, paum”
20. Matti Simi and Sue Simi – “Vilho ja Pertta / Vilho and Bertta”
21. Matti Perala – “Heramäen pukki / Old Man's Goat”
22. Josefiina Perala – “Kataja / The Juniper”
23. Otto Sarkipato – “Lähtetään pojat nyt soutelemaan / Boys, Let's Go Rowing”
24. Otto Sarkipato – “Keskellä lahtea / In the Middle of the Bay”
25. Maria Heino – “Laurilan Aleksin harmoonipeli / Laurila Aleksi's Accordion”
26. Maria Heino – “Ei kukaan puhu puolestani / No One Speaks on My Behalf”
27. Maria Heino – “Eikä ne haavan lehdet lakkaa / Never Cease the Aspen Leaves”
28. Maria Heino – “Istuta, tyttö / Plant, O Girl”
THE WISCONSIN LUMBERJACKS RECORDINGS
Performances of the acclaimed Wisconsin Lumberjacks band of Rice Lake, Wisconsin, recorded by both Sidney Robertson and Alan Lomax during National Folk Festivals in Chicago and Washington, D.C., in 1937 and 1938.
29. Earl Schwartztrauber and Ray Calkins – “Fred Sargent's Shanty Song”
30. Otto Rindlisbacher – “Hounds in the Woods”
31. Ray Calkins and unknown percussion player – “Shantyboy Tune (Kväsarvalsen)”
32. Iva Kundert Rindlisbacher – “The River in the Pines”
33. Sven “Shantyman” Svenson (Otto Rindlisbacher) – “Dinner Horn Solo”
34. Otto Rindlisbacher and Ray Calkins – “Soldier's Joy”
35. Frank Uchytil with Otto Rindlisbacher and Iva Kundert Rindlisbacher – “The River in the Pines”
36. Otto Rindlisbacher and John Giezendanner – “Woods Holler; Hoot Owl Holler”
37. Otto Rindlisbacher, Iva Kundert Rindlisbacher, Ray Calkins, Frank Uchytil, Earl Schwartztrauber, and John Giezendanner – “Medley: Die lustigen Holzhackerbuab'n / The Jolly Lumberjack; Fred Sargent's Shanty Song; Schuhplattler”
38. Sven “Shantyman” Svenson (Otto Rindlisbacher) – “Cow Horn Solo”
39. Sven “Shantyman” Svenson (Otto Rindlisbacher) – “Lumberjack Story; Swedish Dialect Story”
40. Sven “Shantyman” Svenson (Otto Rindlisbacher), Iva Kundert Rindlisbacher, Ray Calkins, and Frank Uchytil – “Kväsarvalsen / Swagger Waltz”
41. Otto Rindlisbacher – “Rippling Brook”
42. Iva Kundert Rindlisbacher, Otto Rindlisbacher, and unknown pianist – “Saeterjenten's sontag / Herdsgirl's Sunday”
43. Ray Calkins – “Styrmans vals / Pilot's Waltz”
44. Peter H. Plante – “Rolling the Logs; French Dialect Story”
45. Frank Uchytil – “Marie Patin”
46. Otto Rindlisbacher and Ray Calkins – “Turkey in the Hay”
47. Otto Rindlisbacher and Ray Calkins – “Woodchopper's Jig”
48. Otto Rindlisbacher – “Gamle reinlander / Old Reinlander”
49. Otto Rindlisbacher and John Giezendanner – “Yodeling”
50. Otto Rindlisbacher – “Sørland springar'n”
HARPS AND ACCORDIONS
THE ALAN LOMAX RECORDINGS
Alan Lomax’s 1938 Michigan field recordings of lumberjack, Finnish, French Canadian, German, Irish, Lithuanian, Ojibwe, Polish, and Swedish performers.
Ojibwe
51. Alan Lomax Introduction to Joe Cloud
52. Joe Cloud – “Red River Jig”
53. Joe Cloud – “Squaw Dance”
54. Joe Cloud and Clarence Cloud – “White River Two–Step”
French Canadian
55. Edward King – “Le Jour de l'an / New Year's Day”
56. Edward King – “Ida Goyette, no. 1”
57. John Cadeau with Ed Cadeau, Adelore Vizina, and probably Joe Miron, Mose Bellaire, and Edward King – “Non que j'aime donc que la boisson / No, So I Don't Love Anything but the Drink”
58. Fred Carrière – “La fille du roi/ The King’s Daughter; Le mariage anglaise / The English Marriage”
59. Exilia Bellaire – “I Went to Marquette”
60. Fred Carrière – “Pretty Polly; Those Western Shores”
Lumberjacks
61. Bill McBride – “No Sir”
62. Bert Graham – “Joe Williams”
63. Unidentified man – “Torch Lake”
64. Lester Wells – “Traverse City”
65. Nils Larsen – “Yulia and Olaf”
66. Lester Wells – “Long Barney”
67. Adolphus Delmas – “Hayfoot, Strawfoot”
68. Ed Thrasher – “Shoot the Cat”
Lithuanian
69. Charles Ketvirtis – “Russian Gigue”
70. Charles Ketvirtis – “Buffalo Gals”
71. Charles Ketvirtis – “Mother Song”
German
72. Herman Meyers – “Was war an diesem Baum? / What's on This Tree?”
Polish
73. Edwina Lewandowski and Stephanie Lewandowski – “Chodźcie gąski moje / Come My Little Geese”
74. Felix Kania – “Wedding March”
75. Tony Strzelecki and possibly Tony Wasylk – “Irish Washerwoman”
76. Tony Strzelecki – “Polish Polka”
77. Adolph Romel and Sylvester Romel – “W żelaznej fabryce / In the Steel Mill”
78. Tony Strzelecki and possibly Tony Wasylk – “Turkey in the Straw”
79. Felix Kania – “Czerwono posiadło, a zielono zniszło / Red When It Was Planted, Green When It Bloomed”
80. Edwina Lewandowski and Stephanie Lewandowski – “Goldmine in the Sky”
Finnish
81. Yalmer Forster – “Kulkurin valssi / Vagabond Waltz”
82. Amanda Härkönen – “Kaurapellon pientareella kasvoi kaunis kukka / On the Side of an Oat Field Grew a Beautiful Flower”
83. Aapo Juhani – “Juliana”
84. Henry Mahoski – “Kauhavan Polka”
85. Selma Elona Halinen – “Pikkulintu erämaassa lauleleepi suruissana / A Little Bird in the Desert Sings Sadly”
86. Frank Maki – “Meripojan laulu / Sailor's Song”
87. Amanda Härkönen – “Oli mulla ennen punaset posket I Used to Have Red Cheeks”
88. Kalle Kallio – “Kuule sinä Hiltu kun laulelen / Listen Hiltu When I Am Singing”
89. Wäinö Hirvelä – “Kylläpä kai / I Guess So”
90. Kusti Similä – “Yli kymmenen vuotta Korpiinissa oli jo asuttu / Ten Years We've Lived in Corbin”
91. Lillian Aho – “Oi Herra, jos mä matkamies maan / Oh Lord, if I, a Wanderer of the Earth”
92. Pekka Aho and Lillian Aho – “Mun kanteleeni kauniimmin / My Kantele Will Sound More Beautiful”
93. Emil Maki – “Suun kloorin kloorin halleluuja! / Oh Glory, Glory Hallelujah!”
WHEN THE DANCE IS OVER
THE HELENE STRATMAN–THOMAS RECORDINGS, PART ONE
Recordings made throughout Wisconsin in 1940, 1941, and 1946, encompassing not only Finns, French Canadians, Germans, Irish, Lithuanians, Ojibwe, Poles, Scots, Serbs, and Swedes, but also African American, Austrian, Belgian, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Ho–Chunk, Icelandic, Italian, Luxemburger, Norwegian, Oneida, Swiss, and Welsh performers.
Ho–Chunk
94. Stella Stacy and Henry Thunder – “Flute Song”
95. Winslow White Eagle – “War Dance”
Oneida
96. Wallace Smith and Albert Webster – “Tsyatkatho”
Pan–Indian
97. Margaret “Laughing Eyes” Edaakie (Eagle) and Phyllis Lewis – “49 Song”
French Canadian
98. Leizime Brusoe, Robert McClain, Walter Wyss, and Emery Olsen – “Good for the Tongue”
99. Ernest Joseph Belisle – “Je ne veux pas d'un avocat / I Do Not Want a Lawyer”
100. Charles Cardinal – “How They Sang the Marseillaise in Chippytown Falls”
101. Mary Agnes Starr – “Michaud”
102. Marie Donalda Lagrandeur – “Bonsoir, mes amis / Good Night, My Friends”
Belgian (Walloon)
103. Alfred Vandertie – “I Went to Market”
104. Alfred Vandertie – “C’est l'café / It's the Coffee [the Kermiss Song]”
105. Emile Boulanger – “Dance Tune”
Cornish
106. John Persons – “Cornish Story”
Welsh
107. William Reese and Selina Phillips – “Cawn esgyn o'r / Paradise”
108. Dr. Daniel W. Wickham – “My Welsh Relation”
109. Hugh P. Jones – “Y mochyn du / The Black Pig”
110. John Williams and chorus – “Siani bach / Dearest Sian”
African American
111. Lillie Greene Richmond – “Hide Thou Me”
112. Lillie Greene Richmond – “Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane”
113. Lillie Greene Richmond – “One More River”
Anglo–American
114. Preston Willis – “Chase the Buffalo”
115. Hamilton Lobdell – “Barker's Call”
116. Pearl Jacobs Borusky – “My Old Hen's a Good Old Hen”
117. Pearl Jacobs Borusky – “Last Saturday Night I Entered a House”
118. Charles Dietz – “Did You Ever See the Devil?”
119. Charles Dietz – “Three Dishes and Six Questions”
Lumberjack and Irish American
120. Emery DeNoyer – “Snow Deer”
121. Emery DeNoyer – “Shantyman's Life”
122. Emery DeNoyer – “Irish Jubilee”
123. John Muench with Ralph Weide – “Irish Washerwoman”
124. Noble Brown – “Oh, It's Nine Years Ago I Was Diggin' in the Land”
125. Robert Walker – “McNamar' from County Clare”
126. Charles Robinson – “Fond du Lac Jail”
127. Lewis Winfield – “Moody Alphabet Song”
128. Bill Neupert – “Red Light Saloon”
129. John Christian – “Red Light Saloon”
130. Bessie Gordon – “Gambler's Blues”
MY FATHER WAS A DUTCHMAN
THE HELENE STRATMAN–THOMAS RECORDINGS, PART TWO
German and Austrian
131. Noble Brown – “My Father Was a Dutchman”
132. Richard Taschek with Laura Zenz and Louis Taschek – “Die Deutschmeister / The German Master [Regiment]”
133. Hans Huber – “Wiener Fiakerlied / Viennese Coachman's Song”
134. Ella Mittelstadt Fischer – “Wir sitzen so fröhlich beisamen / We Sit So Merrily Together”
135. Charles Robinson – “Sockery's Cat”
136. Martha Steinbach – “An einem Fluss daraus an Schuss / By a Rapidly Flowing River”
Swiss
137. Albert Mueller – “Landjäger / Gamekeeper”
138. John Giezendanner with Albert Giezendanner – “Echo Yodel”
139. Otto Rindlisbacher – “Ländler”
Luxemburger
140. Jacob C. Becker – “Onse gescht fu Chicago / Our Guests from Chicago”
Dutch
141. Rika Tuinstra Enhoff – “Schaarensliep! / Knife Grinder!”
142. Marvin Fennema – “Bokkie / Billy Goat”
143. Anna C. Gysbers Scholten – “Moeder, moeder de beer ist los / Mother, Mother, the Bear Is Loose”
144. Mary Tillema Smedema – “Epitaph”
145. Dick Kok – “Wiene Wederslweh bloed volksrang / Blood of Netherland Flows; Vlaggelied / Flag Song”
146. Henry Kempers – “Daisy, Daisy”
Italian
147. Thomas St. Angelo, Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose DeGidio, and Michael Ranallo – “L’America è tanto bella / America Is Most Beautiful”
148. Irene Ruffolo – “Sona la mezzanotte / It Is Midnight”
149. Joseph Accardi – “Tiki–ti, Tiki–ta!”
Croatian
150. Charles Elias Jr. – “Introduction to Tamburitza Instruments”
151. The Elias Tamburitzans (Charles Elias Jr., Ann Elias, Martha Elias, and Mary Filipovich) – “Medley: Da nije ljubavi nebi svjeta bilo / If Not for Lovers There Would Be No World; Vinca ca / Wine, Wine”
Czech
152. Charles Pelnar, John Pelnar, Bill Slatky, and Louis Kasal – “Švestková alej / Prune Song”
153. The Yuba Bohemian Band (Otto Stanek, Wencil Stanek, George McGilvery, William Tydrich, Anton Stanek, Nick Rott, Martin Rott, and Alfred Stanek) – “Popelka polka / Cinderella Polka”
154. Emily Bauer McClure and Mayme Bauer Doser – “Pod našima okny / Underneath Our Windows”
155. Emily Bauer McClure and Mayme Bauer Doser – “Když jsem šel cestičkou úzkou / As I Walked That Narrow Path”
156. Albert Wachuta – “Voják od Prairie du Chien / Soldier from Prairie du Chien”
Polish
157. John Ciezczak – “Zbojniki / Bandits' Dance”
158. John Ciezczak – “In the Style of Sabała”
159. Bernice Bartosz – “Matuś moja, matuś / Mommy, My Mommy”
160. Bernice Bartosz – “Miałeś czapkę / Hat with Peacock Feathers”
161. Adam Bartosz – “Zajumiały bory / The Forests Roared”
162. Stasia Pokora – “A witajże / Oh Hello”
Lithuanian
163. The Lithuanian Group from the Church of the Immaculate Conception (John Abromaitis, John Aldakauskas, Lucia Aldakauskas, Mary Aldakauskas, Ruth Baranoucky, Ann Belekevich, Edward Girdaukas, Alexander F. Skeris, Stella Skeris, Agnes Zupancich) – “Subatos vakarėli / Saturday Night I Saddled My Black Horse”
Finnish
164. Jalmar Nukala and Mamie Wirtanen Nukala – “Tula tullallaa, posket pullalla / Cheeks Full of Pulla”
Swedish
165. Abel Jotblad – “Flickan på Bellmansro / The Girl at Bellmansro”
166. Charles O. Lindberg – “Luffarevisa / Hobo Song”
167. Ruth Johnson Olson and Alice Johnson Carlson – “Julen är inne / Christmas Is Here”
Danish
168. Kamma Grumstrup – “Fra fjerne lande kom hun dronning Dagmar / From Far Lands Came Queen Dagmar”
Norwegian
169. Otto Rindlisbacher – “Fannitullen / Devil on the Wine Keg”
170. Alice Everson – “Kom kjyra / Come Cows”
171. Britha Lothe and Hannah Haug – “Her er det land / This Is the Land”
172. Hans Waag – “Gamle mor / Old Mother”
173. The Psalmodikon Quartet (Elsie Thompson, Emily Thompson Flugstad, Nora Thompson Brickson, and Bertha Larson) – “Yderst mod norden / Far in the North”
Icelandic
174. Sigurline Bjarnarson and Christine Gudmundsen – “Ólafur reið með björgum fram / Olafur Rode Beneath the Cliffs”
DVD
ALAN LOMAX GOES NORTH
“THE MOST FERTILE SOURCE”
The new documentary film combines digitally restored silent color film footage, related field recordings, voice–over readings from Lomax’s correspondence and field notes, and onscreen text to create an audiovisual narrative featuring the performers and scenes that captivated Alan Lomax during his 1938 Upper Midwestern foray.
The Wisconsin Lumberjacks: From Rice Lake and Ladysmith
In August and September 1938, Folklorist Alan Lomax Traveled Michigan Recording “a Thousand Songs” for the Library of Congress
Serbs: Detroit Area
Croatians: Copper Country (The Floriani Tamburitza Group)
French Canadians: Baraga
Finns: Upper Peninsula
“Enough Material for Years of Work”
