Sidney Robertson Cowell Recordings: Warde H. Ford UC-6
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FW-ASCH-7RR-0943
label: General
content: CDR copy From 1938 - 1940, Sydney Robertson Cowell, under the auspices of both the WPA (of President Roosevelt's New Deal) and the University of California - Berkeley, headed a project called the WPA Northern California Folk Music Project of which these recordings are a part. Thirty-five hours of music, in twelve languages, were recorded. For in-depth information about the Project as a whole and the songs on this and the related tapes (FW-ASCH-7RR-0938 through -0947, among others, go to the Library of Congress website: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/cowhome.html. Tape -0942 and -0943 feature Warde and Pat Ford of Shasta Valley, CA, who had come to California from Wisconsin, to work on the Shasta Dam; FW-ASCH-0943 also includes one song sung by Leon Ponce. FW-ASCH-7RR-0942 was recorded on 12/26/1938; recording dates of -0943 and -0944 not provided, but based on Library of Congress information (see below), they were recorded between 1938 & 1940. Tape -0944 includes Warde & Pat Ford, Anita Dormody, Ben Pitts, Flora Earnson, John McCready, John Stone, George Vinton Graham, William Day and Charlotte MacInnes. Tape boxes are consecutively labelled UC5, UC6 and UC7. -0944 also is labelled Reel No. 3413 and has a date of 4/15/54 (presumably the dubbing date - see below). These three tapes, and the other related tapes, consist of dubs of 78's, many or all of which are in the possession of the CFCH Archives in the form of aluminum discs. In addition, the same recordings are at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, where they've been incorporated into the Library's American Memory Project, available to the public on the Center's website, under the title of "California Gold". Also on the website (see below) is a lot of additional information about these recordings, the performers, recording dates, as well as transcriptions of the lyrics of many of the songs. See other sheets for listing of songs and their durations.
name: label: Recorder
content: Cowell, Sidney Robertson.
label: Artist
content: Ford, Warde H., 1906-1979
label: Artist
content: Ford, Pat
label: Collection Creator
content: Asch, Moses
label: Collection Creator
content: Distler, Marian, 1919-1964
label: Collection Creator
content: Folkways Records
creator: label: Recorder
content: Cowell, Sidney Robertson.
label: Artist
content: Ford, Warde H., 1906-1979
label: Artist
content: Ford, Pat
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content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection
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content: Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 9: Audio Recordings / CD / CDR copy
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound recording (sound-tape reel, analog, 7 in.)
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.ASCH, Item FW-ASCH-7RR-0943
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Contents
content: The Fords--Texas canyon--Lady Leroy--Tailor boy--Soldier's sweetheart (John Riley)--Jack Donohue (Wild colonial boy)--Dark eyed sailor-; Leon Ponce--Tune the old cow died on; The Fords- Finnegan's wake--Jimmy Lanigan--Sterling's hotel--Foreman Monroe (Jam on Jerry's Rock)--The farmer's boy