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sea lion woman
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SEA LION WOMAN
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Help: ship sisters?sealion woman? (53)
Seela Woman she drink coffee (12)
Lyr Req/Add: See-Lye/Sea-Lion/She Lye Woman (14)
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sea lion woman DigiTrad: SEA LION WOMAN Related threads: Help: ship sisters?sealion woman? (53) Seela Woman she drink coffee (12) Lyr Req/Add: See-Lye/Sea-Lion/She Lye Woman (14) |
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Subject: sea lion woman From: eeklug Date: 26 Jul 99 - 12:08 AM I am searching for information on the black Mississippians Christine and Katherine Shipp, who performed a children's game song "Sea Lion Woman." |
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Subject: RE: sea lion woman From: Charlie Baum Date: 26 Jul 99 - 12:37 AM I discussed this song a bit on this thread. The CD "A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings" selected and annotated by Stephen Wade, Rounder CD 1500 has further notes on the song. --Charlie Baum |
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Subject: RE: sea lion woman From: Charlie Baum Date: 26 Jul 99 - 12:45 AM From the liner notes to "A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings" selected and annotated by Stephen Wade: Katherine (1921-1978) and Christine (1919-1966) Shipp were the only girls of fourteen children, born to a sharecropping-minister father and a choir-director mother. Their mother, Mary (1892-1966), stressed the role of music in their lives,and the family sang at many affairs "from Byhalia to Oxford"--towns located throughout Mississippi's hill country. Following Walter Shipp's sermons, the family, under Mary's direction, would sing. With such a choir, said his granddaughter, "he didn;t have to worry about an empty chair." At bedtime, Mary regularly led her children in song, making up tunes, pitching the tones, and teaching them parts. As a result, she told the fieldworkers, "My home's happy all the time." --Charlie Baum |
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Subject: RE: sea lion woman From: eeklug Date: 26 Jul 99 - 09:36 AM Thank you SO MUCH! I really appreciate your help. This song sparks my curriosity for some reason, and my search for information about it continues. I will let you know if I find anything else! |
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Subject: RE: sea lion woman From: Wally Macnow Date: 26 Jul 99 - 11:53 AM As well as being on Stephen Wade's collection, the song is on the re-release (Rounder 1513) of the original Library of Congress Recording of "Afro-American Blues and Game Songs"
Here's a complete track listing: I Don't Mind the Weather (Jim Henry) ~ Diamond Joe (Charlie Butler) ~ Joe the Grinder (Irwin Lowry) ~ Another Man Done Gone (Vera Hall) ~ Boll Weevil Blues (Vera Hall) ~ Two White Horses (Smith Casey) ~ Country Rag (Smith Casey) ~ Shorty George (Smith Casey) ~ Blues (Up and Down Buildin' the KC Line) ("Little Brother") ~ Country Blues (McKinley Morganfield) ~ I Be's Troubled (McKinley Morganfield) ~ Lost John (Sanders Terry) ~ Fox Chase (Sanders Terry) ~ All Hid? (Hettie Godfrey) ~ Little Girl, Little Girl (Ora Dell Graham) ~ Pullin' the Skiff (Ora Dell Graham) ~ Old Uncle Rabbit (Katherine & Christine Shipp) ~ Sea Lion Woman (Katherine & Christine Shipp) ~ Ain't Gonna Ring No More (Group at Kirby Industrial School) ~ Shorten' Bread (Ora Dell Graham) ~ Poor Little Johnny (Harriet McClintlock) ~ Go to Sleep (Harriet McClintlock) ~ Rosey (Mr. & Mrs. Joe McDonald) ~ Gon' Knock John Booker to the Low Ground (Molly McDonald) ~ Run, Nigger, Run (Moses Platt) |
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Subject: RE: sea lion woman From: Date: 26 Jul 99 - 01:08 PM I would be interested to hear the other song that is on this album by the Shipp sisters. Thanks! |
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Subject: RE: sea lion woman From: Date: 27 Jul 99 - 03:04 PM What does this song mean? |
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Subject: RE: sea lion woman From: GUEST,grippster Date: 16 Jul 00 - 06:26 PM I heard this song in the movie The General's Daughter. I am very interested in the music I didn't realize it was made in the 1930's. |
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