16 - Private recordings (on a 7 inch AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL QUALITY RECORDING TAPE reel) by Will McLean ("Around 1963-67") includes handwritten song listings and notes (Notes on Box: ""For Chip - Will McLean Originals - 1st Copy from Masters"). Tape includes "Will McLean at Mark Frutchey's Home - Winter Park, Florida and Maitland, Florida" - "Miscellaneous recordings, Gospel, Barbershop, Lear Jet @ Herndon Airport (used as court evidence)" - "Winter Park's coffee shop (Carera Room) performances." Side 1 song listing: "Found in a Pocket," "Cush Holston," "Interview on Cush Holston's History," "Gopher John," "Pete Seeger," "Florida Sand," "Dog Named Ring," "Brother for Brother," "Ballad of Silver Springs," "Old Mother Hare," "Jaybird's Whistle and Buzzards Dance," "Gray Bird," "Old Black Dog," "Godly Dream," "Freedom Train," etc. Side 2 song listings: Eggeford Johnson,""Great Tortugas," "Floyd Collins," "Some Mother's Son," "Walking Cane - Sins Taken Away," "Careless Love" (Jim Rogers and friend), Tate's Hell," etc.

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16 - Private recordings (on a 7 inch AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL QUALITY RECORDING TAPE reel) by Will McLean ("Around 1963-67") includes handwritten song listings and notes (Notes on Box: ""For Chip - Will McLean Originals - 1st Copy from Masters"). Tape includes "Will McLean at Mark Frutchey's Home - Winter Park, Florida and Maitland, Florida" - "Miscellaneous recordings, Gospel, Barbershop, Lear Jet @ Herndon Airport (used as court evidence)" - "Winter Park's coffee shop (Carera Room) performances." Side 1 song listing: "Found in a Pocket," "Cush Holston," "Interview on Cush Holston's History," "Gopher John," "Pete Seeger," "Florida Sand," "Dog Named Ring," "Brother for Brother," "Ballad of Silver Springs," "Old Mother Hare," "Jaybird's Whistle and Buzzards Dance," "Gray Bird," "Old Black Dog," "Godly Dream," "Freedom Train," etc. Side 2 song listings: Eggeford Johnson,""Great Tortugas," "Floyd Collins," "Some Mother's Son," "Walking Cane - Sins Taken Away," "Careless Love" (Jim Rogers and friend), Tate's Hell," etc.

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Spanning a period beginning with his genealogical roots in the late 19th Century and detailing the private and public life of "Florida's premier folklorist" from his birth until his passing in 1990, THE WILL McLEAN FLORIDA FOLK MUSIC COLLECTION consists of family history and photographs, handwritten song lyrics and poetry, promotional posters, handbills, brochures and programs, recordings (various formats), artifacts (his iconic black wool hat, harmonicas, a guitar, etc.) as well as correspondence between McLean and his family, musical collaborators and colleagues and his longtime companion and champion Margaret Mary Longhill. This fascinating research collection reveals a complicated, creative and eccentric activist who lived to sing the praises of his home and to bring attention to the history of Florida and the environmental damage that threatened the ecology of this beautiful and fragile landscape. The researcher will find a vast archive of primary source ephemera that chronicles the 20th Century Florida folk music world and the talented musical pioneers who paved the way for future artists who now entertain and inform at the many folk festivals across the state.