[78-L] Carter Family..slight oddity

Cary Ginell soundthink at live.com
Fri Aug 24 20:20:13 PDT 2012


Guthrie used a lot of Carter melodies for his songs. 

Cary 

On Aug 24, 2012, at 8:11 PM, "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 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
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