audio:6842; APSdigrec_0598; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 08
Description
"Minnie Johnson says a few words.... Minnie Johnson sings drinking song, using the banjo as drum, but forgetting to hold down the strings... Whistle.... Jack Reed is urged to sing too, but refuses.... Minnie Johnson translates the song...."
audio:7051; APSdigrec_1095; Recording Number: 08; Program Number: 08
Description
"This song is believed to be Tlingit. Joe's uncle, Nikolai, used to drink and sing this song. He would pour liquor into the mouths of dancers as they danced passed him."; Recording concludes with identification of this song and the three preceding ones by Frederica de Laguna. See Related Recording.
audio:6909; APSdigrec_1010; Recording Number: 02; Program Number: 10
Description
A song from Klukwan, first heard by the singer in 1914.; This song is identified by Frederica de Laguna and the end of the subsequently recorded song. See Related Recording.
audio:6900; APSdigrec_1000; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 12
Description
Ends with identification of song and previous song by Frederica de Laguna.; Charley White explains in Tlingit that the composer of the song, who died in 1941, was addressing his wife.
Recording ends with identification of this song and the previously recorded song. See Related Recording.; Collector identifies words of song as being Athabascan and having been given by Indians at Klukshu to cInkuqedi. The specific Athabascan language is not identified. Most likely Southern Tutchone.
audio:5907; APSdigrec_3506; Recording Number: 01; Program Number: 26
Description
From an LP titled "Songs and Dance of Great Lakes Indians," Ethnic Folkways Library, 1956. In section titled "Algonquians." Liner notes contain extensive notes on songs and performers, and musical analysis.
"Bill Joe introduces the song. It was composed by Titus John, former husband of Lucy (Albert??). 'When I'm drunk I act like a muskrat, go around collecting grass.' There is also said to be a reference to an outboard motor on a lake."; Recorded at Chistochina Song Fest.;