[78-L] Carter Family..slight oddity

[David Lennick]

I found among my stuff a Canadian Bluebird, B-5301, which is definitely cut in 
Canada (easy to detect on 20s and 30s Canadian Victors). But it's obviously a 
dub..the question is, why? Did the original sides (My Clinch Mountain Home and 
Little Darling, Pal of Mine) run too close to the label? Canadian Bluebirds 
were still using large labels in 1934. Odd.

Also odd is the fact that both songs are remarkably similar to later ones, and 
plagiarism suits have been won on far less convincing similarities. "My Clinch 
Mountain Home" is very close to "Teddy Bear" and "Little Darling, Pal of Mine" 
not only sounds almost identical to "This Land is Your Land", it has a solo 
guitar chorus that is note for note the same except for a couple of notes in 
the last line.

dl