The Drunkard's child Oh mama dear, come here McCready, John A., performer Cowell, Sidney Robertson, 1903-1995 collector sound recording-musical performed music Field recordings. Songs. Music. cau 1939 monographic 19390802 1939. eng
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on 1 side of 1 sound disc : analog, 78 rpm ; 12 in. Inscribed on dust jacket by Sidney Robertson Cowell: "The occasional barks serve to immortalize a lady named Toots, a fine police dog who made the trip down the Yukon as a young dog--two thousand miles in an open boat. She is occasionally loaned to me as camp guardian on field trips. She became a familiar figure in Columbia, Groveland, and Big Oak Flat and was referred to once: 'That's the lady-about-the-old-songs' (songses) dog." The song is version of "The Drunkard's child" by J. W. Ferrell. John McCready, unaccompanied vocals. Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Groveland, California on August 2, 1939. Forms part of a group of field materials documenting John McCready performing Anglo-American songs on July 31, August 2, and August 5, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Groveland, Tuolumne County, California. Ballads, English Songs, English California Groveland Temperance Songs and music Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc1940001.afc1940001_a3349b1 The drunkard's child Ferrell, J. W. W.P.A. California Folk Music Project collection (DLC) 2005700333 2017655315 40E B1 Sidney Robertson Cowell hdl:loc.afc/afc1940001.afc1940001_a3349b1 aacr dacs DLC 170531 20250607075410.7 19671447 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208) eng