Lorena
Way down on the old plantation
McCready, John A.,
performer
Cowell, Sidney Robertson,
1903-1995
collector
sound recording-musical
performed music
Field recordings.
Songs.
Music.
cau
1939
monographic
19390802
1939.
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on 1 side of 1 sound disc : analog, 78 rpm ; 12 in.
This song, popular during the Civil War, is a version of "Lorena" with words by Henry De Lafayette Webster and music by Joseph Philbrick Webster.
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
Love songs
Popular music
United States
To 1901
United States
History
Civil War, 1861-1865
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_a3351a1
Lorena
Webster, Henry de Lafayette,
1824-1896
Lorena
Webster, Joseph Philbrick,
1819-1875
W.P.A. California Folk Music Project collection
(DLC) 2005700333
2017701513
42E A Sidney Robertson Cowell
hdl:loc.afc/afc1940001.afc1940001_a3351a1
aacr
dacs
DLC
920617
20250607075327.6
19661916
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