Re: [ARSCLIST] John Lomax Library of Congress recordings

["Richard L. Hess" <arclists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

see http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lohtml/lohome.html

This library has been re-released in many forms over time. I just received a CD
of excerpts from it for Christmas.

Cheers,

Richard
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Richard L. Hess
http://www.richardhess.com/tape/


Quoting steven austin <stevena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Greetings again.
>
> Here is the second of two inquiries.
>
> >From some thrift store in the distant past, I acquired two discs from
> "the Library of Congress Recording Library." These were 10-inch discs
> with paper labels. The information on the label notes included (for
> example):
>
> Library of Congress Recording Laboratory
> Division of Music
> "Shack Bully Waking-Up Song"
> Sung by Richard Amersch at Livingston, Alabama
> Part A of 2
> 78RPM
> Order No 1322 A1
> Recorded by John A. Lomax 1937
> AAFS
>
> Could someone recommend a resource for learning more about Mr. Lomax's
> recordings?
>
> Also, can anyone tell me what material may have been used to make the
> discs? This is the sad part of the post. Stacked tightly between other
> records in a temperature stable environment, the discs nonetheless
> deteriorated to the extent that they crumbled upon touch. Hopefully,
> these recordings were duplicated sometime before they found their way to
> the open market.
>
> Steven Austin
>