Annotations for "Herbert Halpert"

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Her Kind 0:12 - 0:16 Well, is it known, is it a consistent song as you hear it all over?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 0:24 I mean does it have the same choral verses? Does it have 'Mule on the Mount' wherever you hear it?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 0:35 - 0:39 Where did you learn it this particular way?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 0:46 - 0:48 And this is one version you're going to sing?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 0:53 - 0:54 Alright.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 3:39 - 3:47 When you hear that sung, or nearly sung, about how many verses does a man know? He doesn't know as many as you do.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 3:50 - 3:51 Is one of these continuous?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 3:57 [inaudible]
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 4:08 - 4:09 What's your name, please?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 4:11 - 4:12 Where do you come from?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 4:16 - 4:17 Where? What part of South Georgia?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 4:18 - 4:19 And how old are you?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 4:21 - 4:23 And what are you going to tell us or?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 4:28 - 4:29 How long ago?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 4:31 - 4:32 A short, a short while back.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 4:35 - 4:38 I mean, how did it, it happened long ago . . . what do you mean by that?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 4:41 - 4:43 Well, how did it go? I mean how did it --
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 4:48 - 4:48 Uh-huh
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 4:51 - 4:54 The negro told it to him when? I mean did he ever tell you that?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 4:57 - 4:59 I mean the negro had just told him the story?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 5:01 - 5:07 I see. And you don't have any name for it? Is that right?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 5:12 - 5:13 Just, okay, [laughing] go ahead .
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 5:16 - 5:19 Well, let's start off with just one. That's the easiest way.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 5:20 - 5:23 Alright. Well, can you tell it or are you going to tell it or read it?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 5:25 - 5:26 Alright. Go ahead.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 7:27 - 7:33 Now look, suppose you don't read it from there and you just tell me it as a story. Go ahead. You can do it.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 7:33 - 7:33 Alright. Go ahead.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 7:36 - 7:36 Go ahead.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 9:11 - 9:17 I think it's better if you explain just how the cards, which way the cards get out or how people are standing there before you go on.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 9:42 Well, what does he do? Is the dealer holding the deck of cards?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 9:49 Alright.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 9:53 He just turns over . . .
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 13:29 - 13:34 What, is it sung before the respectable ladies?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 13:42 - 13:44 I thought you heard it from women?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 13:46 - 13:47 Go ahead.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 15:55 - 15:57 Is there more to it?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 16:06 - 16:08 I think that's a very valuable contribution to scientific recording.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 16:13 Alright.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 16:24 - 16:24 Well, what type of song is it?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 16:59 - 17:03 How do they play it? Would you tell us very quickly?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 17:07 - 17:09 Was it, is it solo dancing?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 17:10 - 17:12 Well, what kind of group is it?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 17:31 - 17:33 Where did you get it
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 17:37 - 17:42 Can you tell me, do you know how old a Blues it is? And how you happened to learn it?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 19:56 - 19:57 Who did you hear it from and when?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 21:13 - 21:16 You said you learned it in a crowd. How do you learn most of your songs?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 21:44 - 21:48 Well how about those that you have in your books and publish in the journals?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 23:09 - 23:11 You say that was uh. . . when was that sung?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 23:27 Alright.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 23:49 - 23:51 Where did you pick up the way you sing it?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 26:34 - 26:35 Just play it for me in ballad.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 4:57:00 Your name, age?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 5:05:00 And where were you brought up?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 5:16:00 Uh, huh, What do you mean 'voice'? Singing?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 5:19:00 Uh-huh, Alright. But you were brought up, most of your life, you spent right around here?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 5:34:00 - 5:54:00 Alright, now you'll tell the story. Apparently the interest in the story is just to have you talk naturally and at the same time, we'll have the story. So, would you try --
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 30:39 - 30:45 Dr. Corse would you please explain why we asked to have this record made?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 31:14 - 31:15 Dr. Corse will you please introduce the speaker?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 8:25:00 Can you state your name, your age, and your occupation?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 32:41 - 32:45 And, uh, you are also a preacher, aren't you, sir? What congregation?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 32:48 - 32:55 Now, uh, this isn't part of your usual, as a missionary Baptist, does your church approve of singing?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 32:57 - 33:01 You're going to help us out with these, however?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 9:06:00 Now you have one, you have that holler, that uh?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 9:12:00 What, would you explain something about how it was used and when or something like that?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 9:18:00 Go ahead. Tell me something about it.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 33:46 - 33:50 Let me interrupt you here. Now that, that, what would you call that?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 34:12 - 34:17 Suppose you give the effect of actually being out on the farm?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 35:03 No, no there's another one without words.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 11:22:00 How would it sound, suppose someone had just haerd it, what would they hear?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 35:52 - 35:54 Where would the two of them be?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 36:15 - 36:17 Would they be near each other? Or? Or?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 36:20 - 36:24 Would you do it again? Was it the same effect between a quarter mile [inaudible] do a quarter mile.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 38:01 - 38:03 Are there more verses to that?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 14:06:00 Will you sing that, will you repeat the point [inaudible]
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 38:47 - 39:07 Now, Those last directions, were they taught, is that what he called out for them to do?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 14:53:00 What do they do on the song part, I mean.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 14:56:00 They'd be dancing.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 15:01:00 I see. The last part was giving directions. The rest of the time they were dancing.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 15:06:00 What kind of dancing were they doing?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 15:16:00 Go ahead.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 40:01 - 40:03 Is that you as a kid? You learned it as a boy?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 42:12 - 42:13 How old are you?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 42:16 - 42:17 And where were you brought up?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 42:20 - 42:22 And what is it, tell us about what you are going to sing?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 18:37:00 You did? Well, woud you start in with?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 42:41 - 42:45 When you were small did you play it with a guitar.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 42:46 You're playing it with a guitar since then. Why are you singing it with a guitar? Can you sing it without?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 42:52 Well, would you try it without?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 42:55 Try it without.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 42:57 - 42:60 That's alright. Don't worry about it. Go ahead.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 43:60 - 44:04 And that's one you used to, you used to play games to that?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 44:12 Explain about that.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 44:25 - 44:28 Well, where was this? Where would you be? You wouldn't be doing it in the church.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 44:29 - 44:30 Just playing.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 44:30 Uh-huh
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 46:06 - 46:07 And where were you brought up?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 46:09 - 46:12 And, uh, what are you going to [inaudible]
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 46:18 - 46:19 And what was it called?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 46:24 - 46:25 Alright. Sing.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 47:13 - 47:16 How did they play that?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 47:24 Well now, how do you, was there somebody [inaudible].
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 47:30 Could you pat the way they did? Take it over again and do the patting.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 47:38 Alright
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 47:43 Oh, I see, well sing that and don't do your hands [Inaudible].
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 16:00 Now, what kind of motion would they do?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 49:44 - 50:04 [Inaudible] Just sitting down is alright. Well no, I want to get it close to you. I'm going to put it around here. Now, you just face in that direction. Talk right out. [Adjusts the microphone].
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 50:05 - 50:06 And how old are you?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 50:09 Tell us about this game. Where you learned it.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 50:36 - 50:41 Well, what, how did it go on? What else happened? What happened in the game?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 50:46 - 50:52 As if they were flying like a turkey? How was it played and how did they start off play
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 3:09:00 Now you'll have to talk a little bit louder now on the next game.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 3:21:00 - 3:23:00 Alright. How does it go?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 52:22 - 52:23 And where were you brought up?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 52:27 Where did you learn this particular song?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 52:31 - 52:34 How did you learn it?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 52:40 - 52:42 What is this one called?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 52:47 - 52:49 I like that. Alright. Let's hear it.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 7:08:00 What would they sing it for?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 55:18 - 55:20 What kind of work were they doing?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 55:24 - 55:31 And these were the mule-skinners who were doing the singing? And what do they do? Sing the song while they were [inaudible]
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 55:40 - 55:41 And what is the name of this song?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 55:43 - 55:44 Now how did you happen to learn it?
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 55:57 While they were driving spikes. Could you mark off how the hammers would be coming down? Just where they'd be coming, hitting against this.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 8:06:00 - 7:06:00 Yeah, that would be good.
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 56:08 - 56:21 [Banging] Alright. Can you, You can double-drive as long as you don't double-drive on the microphone. Alright. That's fine. Now, uh, and, This is 'John' -- you were telling me that this 'John Henry' wasn't sung the same way always? I mean, they wouldn't begin --
 Herbert Halpert
Her Kind 56:32 - 56:36 Well now tell me, uh, but did they always have the same tune to it?
 Herbert Halpert