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Will McLean Florida Folk Music Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0401

15 - Private recordings (on a 7 inch AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL QUALITY RECORDING TAPE reel) by Will McLean (1959, 1963, 1964) includes handwritten song listings and notes (Notes on Box: "Tallahassee Tapes - Will McLean & Paul Champion - Jim Rogers , Jim Below - Caraero Room Originals - Mark Frutchey 1959 12 string - S.T. on King 980"). Tape includes "Wild Hog," "Found in Pocket," Dade Massacre," "Fun Song," "Banjo Warm- Up (Paul Champion), "Abraham Washington," "Charlottesville," "Kissing is a Crime," "Arthritas Blues," "C.C. Rider," "Jack Daniels," "Noah," "Sampson," "John Henry," "Spinning Wheel," "Arkansas," "One Dime Blues," "Going Down the Road," "Railroad Bill," etc.

 Digital Record
Identifier: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00065387

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.

 Digital Record
Identifier: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00065388

19 - Private recordings (on a 7 inch SHAMROCK RECORDING TAPE reel) by Will McLean (9-1971) includes handwritten song listings and notes (Notes on Box: ""Paul Champion - Mockingbird's Gone - Courtship Dance of the Horned Owl" - "Songs of Florida by Will McLean- Backed up Paul Champion and Gamble Rogers on 4 Songs - Paul Champion co-wrote Cush Holston and Mocking Bird's Gone"). Tape includes: "Hold Back the Water," 'Cush Holston," 'Osceola's Last Words," "George Collins," "Prisoner's Song," "Florida Sand," "Seminole," "No Folk Singers Down Yonder," "Abraham Washington," "Mocking Bird's Gone," "1928 Flood Okeechobee," "Hermit from Cedar Key," "Last Words to His People," " "Tragedy of North Florida," etc.

 Digital Record
Identifier: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00065391