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Series 2: Event recordings and related materials (continued)
Event ID: AFC 2011/011: SR28 KPFA demo audition, Berkeley, California - Redwood Canyon Ramblers, September 1959
Sound recording (cut-level)
Filenames: rcr1959-09-00t01.aif - rcr1959-09-00t18.aif
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-09-00/
Extent: 18 sound files : high-resolution files, digital (.aif)
Content Elapsed time
"Randy Lynn Rag" 00:02:04
"How Mountain Girls Can Love" 00:02:10
"Blue Ridge Mountain Home" 00:02:14
"Million Years In Glory" [with Tom Bebring on vocals] 00:02:21
"Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms" [with Tom Bebring on vocals] 00:02:27
"Little Maggie" 00:02:33
"Pretty Polly" 00:02:25
"White House Blues" 00:02:06
"Hard, Ain't It Hard" 00:01:58
"Home Sweet Home" 00:01:17
Mountain Fling Medley: "Wildwood Flower"/"Rosewood Casket"/"Cindy"/"Woody's Rag" 00:03:57
"Salty Dog" [with Tom Bebring on vocals] 00:02:08
"Amelia Earhart" 00:03:19
"Jimmie Brown" 00:02:17
"Red Apple Juice (Sugar Baby)" 00:01:42
"Pike County Breakdown" 00:02:08
"Your Love Is Like A Flower" 00:02:28
"How Mountain Girls Can Love" 00:02:15
Song list and production notes for SR28, April 19, 2011
Filename: rcr1959-09-00.txt
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-09-00/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.txt)
Handwritten song list, with counter numbers from the tape deck, undated
Filename: rcr1959_1960StudioSessions.pdf
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-09-00/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.pdf)
Details about SR28 and SR29 are listed on the same document.
Event ID: AFC 2011/011: SR29 Royal Recording Studio session, Berkeley, California - Redwood Canyon Ramblers, December 26, 1959
Sound recording (cut-level)
Filenames: rcr1959-12-26t01.aif - rcr1959-12-26t10.aif
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-12-26/
Extent: 10 sound files : high-resolution files, digital (.aif)
Content Elapsed time
"Cripple Creek" 00:02:02
"Darling Corey" #1 00:02:57
"Darling Corey" #2 00:03:00
"Pike County Breakdown" #1 00:02:05
"Pike County Breakdown" #2 00:02:07
"Winchester 94" 00:02:00
"Mocking Banjo" #1 [breakdown] 00:01:51
"Mocking Banjo" #2 00:02:38
"Rocky Run" #1 [breakdown] 00:01:09
"Rocky Run" #2 00:02:13
Song list and production notes for SR29, January 7, 2011
Filename: rcr1959-12-26.txt
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-12-26/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.txt)
Handwritten song list, with counter numbers from the tape deck, undated
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1959-12-26/
Filename: rcr1959_1960StudioSessions.pdf
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.pdf)
Details about SR28 and SR29 are in the same document.
Event ID: AFC 2011/011: SR23 Home demo love songs, Berkeley, California - Janet Smith, 1959
Sound recording (cut-level)
Filenames: js1959t01.aif - js1959t13.aif
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/Janet_Smith/js1959demo/
Extent: 13 sound files : high-resolution files, digital (.aif)
Content Elapsed time
"The Next Market Day" 00:02:27
"The Coo Coo Bird" 00:02:00
"Come A Tinker Or A Tailor" 00:02:40
"Where Does It Lead" 00:00:51
"Three Ravens" 00:02:31
"Blow The Candles Out" 00:02:04
"Young Heart" 00:01:48
"My Only Joy And Dearie O" 00:02:39
"The Waters Of Tyne" 00:01:41
"Bonny George Campbell" 00:01:08
"Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies" 00:01:55
"Come To The Garden" 00:05:22
"I Gave My Love A Cherry" 00:01:19
Song list and production notes for SR23, November 5, 2011
Filename: js1959demo.txt
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/Janet_Smith/js1959demo/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.txt)
Photographs of tape box interior, with song lists, 1959
Filename: Barton Reel Number 55 tape box-1.jpg, Barton Reel Number 55 tape box-2.jpg
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/Janet_Smith/js1959demo/
Extent: 2 photographs : black and white, digital (.txt)
Event ID: AFC 2011/011: SR02 Redwood Canyon Ramblers, September 1959, December 26, 1959, February 1960
Sound recording (full)
Item ID: AFC 2011/011: SR02
Rack number: RXJ 0531
Extent: 1 sound tape reel (acetate; Side 1: 00:42:24, Side 2: 00:31:59) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono ; 7 in.
Original Rosenberg inventory number: tape 13.
Sound recording (cut-level)
Filenames: rcr1959kpfa01.aif - rcr1959kpfa18.aif, rcr1959kre01.aif - rcr1959kre10.aif, rcr1960kre01.aif - rcr1960kre04.aif
Filepath: preservation files from dvds/DVD1_1959_1960 Studio Sessions_reel13/
Extent: 32 sound files : high-resolution files, digital (.aif)
KPFA Studios (September 1959)
Demo/audition tape; produced by Gert Charito.
Content Elapsed time
"Randy Lynn Rag" 00:02:04
"How Mountain Girls Can Love" 00:02:10
"Blue Ridge Mountain Home" 00:02:14
"Million Years In Glory" [with Tom Bebring on vocals] 00:02:21
"Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms" [with Tom Bebring on vocals] 00:02:27
"Little Maggie" 00:02:33
"Pretty Polly" 00:02:25
"White House Blues" 00:02:06
"Hard, Ain't It Hard" 00:01:58
"Home Sweet Home" 00:01:17
"Mountain Fling" medley: "Wildwood Flower"/"Rosewood Casket"/"Cindy"/"Woody's Rag" 00:03:57
"Salty Dog" 00:02:08
"Amelia Earhart" 00:03:19
"Jimmie Brown" 00:02:17
"Red Apple Juice (Sugar Baby)" 00:01:42
"Pike County Breakdown" 00:02:08
"Your Love Is Like A Flower" 00:02:28
"How Mountain Girls Can Love" 00:02:15
KRE Studios (December 26, 1959)
Content Elapsed time
"Cripple Creek" 00:02:02
"Darling Corey" #1 00:02:57
"Darling Corey" #2 00:03:00
"Pike County Breakdown" #1 00:02:05
"Pike County Breakdown" #2 00:02:07
"Winchester 94" 00:02:00
"Mocking Banjo" #1 [breakdown] 00:01:51
"Mocking Banjo" #2 00:02:38
"Rocky Run" #1 [breakdown] 00:01:09
"Rocky Run" #2 00:02:13
KRE Studios (February 1960)
Content Elapsed time
"Home Sweet Home" [the song cuts off abruptly] 00:01:24
"Auld Lang Syne" 00:03:14
"Where The Soul Never Dies" 1 [breakdown; with Audrey Smith on vocals; the performance stops abruptly] 00:01:01
"Where The Soul Never Dies" 2 [breakdown; with Audrey Smith on vocals; the performance stops abruptly again] 00:00:52
Song list and production notes for SR02, January 7, 2011
Filename: 1959_1960StudioSessions (Reel 13).txt
Filepath: preservation files from dvds/DVD1_1959_1960 Studio Sessions_reel13/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.txt)
Handwritten song list, with counter numbers from the tape deck, undated
Filename: rcr1959_1960StudioSessions.pdf
Filepath: preservation files from dvds/DVD1_1959_1960 Studio Sessions_reel13/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.pdf)
Event ID: AFC 2011/011: SR30 Royal Recording Studio session, Berkeley, California - Scott Hambly and Mayne Smith, February 1960
Sound recording (cut-level)
Filenames: shms1960-02-00t01.aif - shms1960-02-00t04.aif
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/Scott_Hambly_And_Mayne_Smith/shms1960-02-00/
Extent: 4 sound files : high-resolution files, digital (.aif)
Content Elapsed time
"Home Sweet Home" 00:01:24
"Old Lang Syne" 00:03:14
"Where The Soul Never Dies" #1 (breakdown) - Audrey Smith on vocals 00:01:01
"Where The Soul Never Dies" #2 - Audrey Smith on vocals [recording abruptly ends] 00:00:52
Song list and production notes for SR30, January 7, 2011
Filename: shms1960-02-00.txt
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/Scott_Hambly_And_Mayne_Smith/shms1960-02-00/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.txt)
Event ID: AFC 2011/011: SR31 Jam session with Frank Miller and John Schuler, Gambier, Ohio - Neil Rosenberg, April 1960
Sound recording (cut-level)
Filenames: nvr1960-04-00t01.aif - nvr1960-04-00t13.aif
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/Neil_Rosenberg/nvr1960-04-00/
Extent: 13 sound files : high-resolution files, digital (.aif)
SR31 includes tracks 13-31 from Rosenberg inventory tape 16.
Neil Rosenberg (banjo); Frank Miller (banjo, guitar)
Content Elapsed time
"Foggy Mountain Breakdown" 00:02:00
"Dear Old Dixie" [glitch on source tape towards end] 00:02:24
"Little Rosewood Casket" 00:01:20
"Earl's Breakdown" 00:01:35
"Farewell Blues" 00:01:17
Neil Rosenberg (banjo, guitar, vocals); Franklin Miller (guitar, fiddle, vocals); John Schuler (banjo, vocals)
Content Elapsed time
"Bowling Green" 00:02:01
"Old Mountain Dew" [fragment] 00:00:25
"Old Mountain Dew" 00:04:05
"Orange Blossom Special" 00:03:04
"Smith" 00:01:38
"Pike County Breakdown" 00:02:35
"Uncle Pen" 00:02:02
"Rabbit In A Log" 00:03:27
Song list and production notes for SR31, January 2, 2013
Filename: nvr1960-04-00.txt
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/Neil_Rosenberg/nvr1960-04-00/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.txt)
Song list and production notes for Rosenberg inventory tape 16, undated
Filename: NVR ReelNumber16 Notes.pdf
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/Neil_Rosenberg/nvr1960-04-00/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.pdf)
Notes for Rosenberg inventory tape 16, undated
Filename: rcrNVRNumber16A.pdf
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/Neil_Rosenberg/nvr1960-04-00/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.pdf)
Tape box and handwritten notes for Rosenberg inventory tape 16, undated
Filename: rcrNVRNumber16box.pdf
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/Neil_Rosenberg/nvr1960-04-00/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.pdf)
Event ID: AFC 2011/011: SR32 Royal Recording Studio session, Berkeley, California - Redwood Canyon Ramblers, July 13, 1960
Sound recording (cut-level)
Filenames: rcr1960-07-13t01.aif - rcr1960-07-13t12.aif
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1960-07-13/
Extent: 12 sound files : high-resolution files, digital (.aif)
Content Elapsed time
"Cripple Creek" 00:02:21
"Snow Dove" #1 [with false start] 00:03:22
"Snow Dove" #2 00:03:41
"Molly And Tenbrooks" #1 [with tuning intro] 00:02:47
"Molly And Tenbrooks" #2 [with tuning and banter intro] 00:02:53
"Swanee" [with tuning and banter intro] 00:02:39
"Home Sweet Home" #1 [fast tempo, cuts in] 00:01:13
"Home Sweet Home" #2 [with vocal intro] 00:02:22
"Orange Blossom Special" #1 [with tuning and banter intro] 00:03:34
"Orange Blossom Special" #2 [with rowdy banter intro] 00:03:41
"Smith" #1 [discussion and off-mic run through twice] 00:02:40
"Smith" #2 [on-mic/tape runs out] 00:01:04
Song list and production notes for SR32, March 27, 2011
Filename: rcr1960-07-13.txt
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1960-07-13/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.txt)
Scott Hambly's notes, undated
Filename: Scotts notes 7-13-60.txt
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1960-07-13/
Extent: 1 manuscript : black and white, digital (.txt)
Tape reel, undated
Filename: rcr1960-07-13.pdf
Filepath: RCR_Archive_Audio_High_Resolution_Files/The_Redwood_Canyon_Ramblers/rcr1960-07-13/
Extent: 1 photograph : black and white, digital (.pdf)
Event ID: AFC 2011/011: SR33 Royal Recording Studio session, Berkeley, California - Redwood Canyon Ramblers, June 9, 1961
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