Coon Creek Girls - Give Me The Roses While I Live (1938).

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Channel: mrblindfreddy9999 · 2011 · Music

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

Unissued - Released on LP - 
"Various Artists - Country and Western Classics - The Women"    [1981]

 [Meade - 1925 - Written by James Rowe - R.H.Cornelius]
Recorded 1933 by Original Carter Family
     [vcls Sara Carter]

 Recorded 30 May 1938 Chicago, IL - 
Lily May Ledford [fiddle/vcl solo]         [1917 - 1985]  Ex Powell County, KY
Esther [Violet] Koehler]                           [1916 - 1973]  Ex  Indiana
Rosie Ledford [gt]                                    [1915 - 1976]  Ex  Powell County, KY
Evelyn [Daisy] Lange [bass]                    [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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