Coon Creek Girls - Flowers Blooming in the Wildwood [1938].

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Channel: mrblindfreddy9999 · 2011 · Music

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PIC SHOWS L - R
Rosie - Violet - Lily May - Daisy

[Meade - No Composer Credit]
 Recorded 17 January 1928 
      by Emry and Henry Arthur
as    "You're A Flower Blooming In The Wildwood"
    Also 21 March 1938
      by Edith and Sherman collins
 
Issued on Vocalion  04659 B
 
Recorded 30 May 1938 Chicago, IL - 
Lily May Ledford [banjo/vcl solo]             [1917 - 1985]  Ex Powell County, KY
Esther [Violet] Koehler [vcl]                        [1916 - 1973]  Ex  Indiana
Rosie Ledford [gt/vcl]                                  [1915 - 1976]  Ex  Powell County, KY
Evelyn [Daisy] Lange [bass/vcl]                  [1919 - 2002]  Ex  Ohio

Recorded Sessions
      30 May 1938 - 13 Tracks - [inc 4 with Aunt Idy Harper]
       5 June 1955 - 4 Tracks  [inc. 2  with Ferlin Husky]
        Circa   1967 - 
             14 Tracks on LP  and ONE  Unissued - released 2015
                      [Rosie, Lily May and Susie 1922 - 1987]
      1968 to 1983  Lily May Ledford  Recordings  
 - Gems: Lily May Ledford Rare Concert and Studio Recordings  
                                Issued on CD [2000]
 1985 - National Heritage Fellowship
 2004 - Kentucky Music Hall of Fame

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