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Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections, 1937-1942
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Item Title
Worked All Summer Long
Author/Creator
Performer: Griffin, James
Created/Published
August 19, 1939
Notes
duration: 4 minutes, 20 seconds
The singer, a 21-year-old Tennessee-born turpentine worker at Putnam Lumber Company, learned this song while at the Dixie County Prison Camp. He served three months for not paying the lumber company $50 for three months' rent, which he said he accumulated while he was ill.
The sound quality of this recording is extremely poor. It has been included online because the melody line can still be identified.
Subjects
African Americans
vocals
Ethnography
Music
Narratives
Interviews
Work songs
Office of the Aycock & Lindsey Turpentine Camp
Cross City, Florida
Dixie County
Object Type
Related Names
Collector: Kennedy, Stetson
Collector: Cook, Robert
Speaker: Kennedy, Stetson
Speaker: Griffin, James
Medium
sound recording
Language
English
Call Number
AFS 3527A:1
Part of
Florida Folklife from the WPA Collections 1937-1942
Digital ID
afcflwpa 3527a1
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcflwpa.3527a1