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Recordings of the 1981 4th of July Celebrations

Source: S1576 , T83-126, T83-127, T83-128, T83-129, T83-130, T83-131, T83-132, T83-133

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July Fourth Celebration

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Florida Folklife Program

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Title

Recordings of the 1981 4th of July Celebrations

Subject

Festivals

Fourth of July

Holidays and festivals

Special events

Music performance

Singing

Shape note singing

Autoharp music

Choir singing

Stringband music

Guitar music

Folk singers

Choirs (music)

Oral narratives

Old time music

Gospel (Black)

Religious music

Storytelling

Supernatural legends

Musicians

Bands (Music)

Singers

Storytellers

Description

Eight reel to reel recordings. Boltin served as emcee for the festivities, as well as telling stories throughout. Tape T83-132 was recorded over and is untansferable.

Source

State Archives of Florida, Series S1576

Date

1981-07-04

Contributor

Florida Folklife Program

Stephen Foster Folk Culture Center State Park

Format

sound recordings

audiotape reels

Type

Sound

Identifier

a_s1576_t83-126

Series

S1576

Item ID

T83-126

T83-127

T83-128

T83-129

T83-130

T83-131

T83-132

T83-133

Event Name

July Fourth Celebration

Collector or Fieldworker

Florida Folklife Program

Tradition Bearer

Werndli, Phil (Phillip A.), 1951-2016

Boltin, "Cousin" Thelma Ann, 1904-1992

McGraw, Hugh

Martin, Lisa

Glassgow, Lt. Dick

Cowart, Valerie

Sundance and Sundance Kids

Strickland, Jim

Orange Blossom Special

Stover-Staats, Joyce

Thomas, Frank (Franklin James), 1943-2020

Thomas, Ann, 1946-2004

Rogers, James Gamble, 1937-1991

Stephen Foster Ensemble

White, Graham

Gauss, Doug

Schuman, Marty

Dixie Jubilee Singers

Personal Name

Boltin, "Cousin Thelma" (Thelma Ann), 1904-1992

Title of Work

Opening remarks and stories (Werndli/Boltin) (T83-126)

Amazing Grace (McGraw)

All Hail the Power

Wondrous Love

Idumea

Stories (Boltin)

Simple Gifts (Martin)

Pledge of Allegiance (Boltin)

Olustee Reenactment discusison (Glassgow)

Old Folks at home (Way Down Upon the Suwannee River) (Cowart)

Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair

Climb Every Mountain

Unidentified song

Clog dancing (Sundance Kids)

Steel Guitar Rag (Martin) (T83-127)

Emilia Earharts Last Flight (Strickland)

Yankee Doodle

Clogging (Orange Blossom Specials)

Ventriloquist (Staats)

Florida I Love You (Frank & Ann Thomas)

A Story of Billy Bowlegs

Dixies Land

Suwannee I Love You

Concrete Jungle

Endangered Wildlife

Its a Long Road to Nashville (Rogers)

Adam and Eve

When Are We Going to Get Married

Nobody Knows You When You Are Down and Out

Story

Orange Blossom Special

Just a Boy and His Dog

Nostalgia monologue

Oh Mother Country, I Love You

Four unidentified songs (Foster Ensemble) (T83-128)

Old Folks at Home (Way Down Upon the Suwannee River) (Cowart)

Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair

Beautiful Dreamer

Climb Every Mountain

Four unidentified songs (Foster Esemble)

Clogging (Orange Blossom Specials)

My Home Over Jordan (Graham White/Dixie Jubilees)

How Great Thou Art

This Is My Father's World

Blessed Assurance

Calvary

Seven unidentified songs

He Lives

Battle Hymn of the Republic

Star Spangled Banner (Gauss)

Sweet Georgia Brown

Eight More Miles to Louisville

Shine On Harvest Moon

My Marvelous Toy

Can't Help But Wonder Where I am Bound

Year of Jubilee (Schuman)

Begin the Begun

Foster medley

Teddy Bears Picnic

Bells of St. Marys

Ghost story (Boltin)

Sand in My Shoes (Frank & Ann Thomas)

Battle of Olustee

Battle of Natural Bridge

Dr. Mudd

Egg Sucking Monkey

The Last Tourists Letter Home

My Daddys Name Was Fid

As I Heard My Mother Sing Jesus Saves (T83-129)

He Will Set Your Fields On Fire

This Land Is Your Land

Shiek of Araby (Rogers)

Still Bill story

Terminal Tavern story

Careless Love

Come Back Baby Doll

Boogie Man story

Abraham Washington

Osceola's Last Words

Fisherman of Lake George

Good Night Irene

Ten Unidentified songs (Foster Ensemble) (T83-130)

Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair (Cowart)

Beautiful Dreamer

Watermelon Song (Boltin) (T83-131)

Legend of Spanish Moss

Tammy and the Indians (Peggy Bulger?)

Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby (Boltin)

Cotton Tail

Darling Rise and Lets Go Home

Old Hundred (McGraw) (T83-132)

Coronation

Northfield

Wondrous Love

Raymond

Idumea

Liverpool

New Britian

Davids Lamentation

Russia

The Promised Land

Chester (T83-133)

Raymond

Old Hundred

Wondrous Love

Raymond

Idumea

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Idumea. 1981-07-04. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/238747>, accessed 27 December 2024.

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Idumea. 1981-07-04. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 27 Dec. 2024.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/238747>

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