Word: singin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playin' for the Lumber Workers' Union. We was singin' around in the shingle mills. There was a lady out West out there in the lumber camp and her name was Annie and so every time they'd have a songfest Annie would outshout all of them. So people got to call her Hootin' Annie but the name got spread all over and so out there when they are going to have a shindig they call it Hootenanny...
Congrats to you for giving a hand to Jean Thomas and her Singin' Gatherin' [TIME, June 22]. Miss Thomas has worked untiringly and unceasingly in behalf of this annual event, and she has made a permanent contribution to the best in American folk music. Moreover, in her books, particularly The Traipsin' Woman, she has made outstanding contributions to American regional literature...
...with the West Virginia Hatfields. Announcing numbers in her mountain dialect was tiny, thin-lipped Author Jean Thomas (Blue Ridge Country), the "traipsin' woman," who started collecting folk songs while she "traipsed"' over the mountains as a circuit court reporter, then founded the festival to perpetuate a "singin' gatherin'" she once heard...
Heroic highlight of this year's singin' gatherin' was the Ballad of Sergeant York, celebrating the deeds of Tennessee's World War I hero. It was composed by the late Jilson Setters, bristle-bearded fiddler who once sang mountain songs for the King and Queen of England. Sample stanzas...
...This is her story: "I decided we weren't gonna go on relief in Sacramento. So Ilene [her younger sister] and me worked out a plan to make some money. We figured we could sing as good as some of those people on the radio, so we started singin' on street corners. We did purty good. Then we got the idea of singin' at banquets, like the Chamber of Commerce and the gas company and all them other companies that give big feeds for the people who work for 'em. We put Sonny [her younger brother...