Catalogue description Lead Belly and Victoria Spivey [T17]
This record is held by Oxford Brookes University: Special Collections
Reference: | POAAAM/3/1/4/17 |
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Title: | Lead Belly and Victoria Spivey [T17] |
Description: |
Duration: 2:43:51 Tape containing dubs of Lead Belly’s last sessions (continuing from tape T16) and other Lead Belly records, a segment from a BBC radio programme presented by Paul Oliver (apparently taped over the Lead Belly material), and two records on Victoria Spivey’s label. Side 1: [0:00:03] Leadbelly's Last Sessions, vol. 2 (Folkways, 1953), side C [continued from tape T16]: 01. Sweet Mary (3:10) [0:18:31] Leadbelly's Last Sessions, vol. 2, side D: 08. Talk about Fannin Street (3:41) [0:45:24] 19. Lead Belly - Cotton Fields [cuts out] [0:47:19] 20. Excerpt from a BBC radio programme broadcast in November 1963 (presumably The Jazz Scene on the Light Programme, 17 Nov) in which Paul Oliver discusses the recent sixtieth birthday of Big Joe Williams and the American Folk Blues Festival tour dates in Croydon, with clips of live recordings of Williams, Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon (with Matt “Guitar” Murphy), Sonny Boy Williamson II, Lonnie Johnson, and Muddy Waters. Oliver complains that Williams is the only performer on the bill to whom the label ‘folk’ could accurately apply. Lead Belly - Rock Island Line (Folkways, 1953), side B: [1:00:27] 21. Lead Belly - On a Monday [second half only] Lead Belly - A Lead Belly Memorial, vol. 3 (Stintson, 1952) [released in the UK as The Saga of Leadbelly; two tracks are omitted from this dub]: [1:09:59] 27. Red Cross Store Blues Side 2: Victoria Spivey - Victoria Spivey & Her Blues (Spivey Records, rec. 1962): [1:29:24] 01. Grant Spivey [song about her father] Buddy Tate, Victoria Spivey, Lucille Hegamin, and Hannah Sylvester – A Basket of Blues (Spivey Records, 1962) [sides A/B dubbed in reverse order]: [2:09:55] 13. Victoria Spivey - Got the Best of Me Original file name: POAAAM - T17 - Leadbelly - Victoria Spivey |
Date: | c1963 |
Held by: | Oxford Brookes University: Special Collections, not available at The National Archives |
Physical description: | 1 item |
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