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A.L. Camp - Plays the Banjo

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Format: CD
Catalog: 0003525
Rel. Date: 06/12/2007
UPC: 093070352520

Plays the Banjo
Artist: A.L. Camp
Format: CD
New: Available $19.98
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Formats and Editions

DISC: 1

1. Jumping Jacks
2. Golden Bell Polka
3. Watch Hill March
4. The Darkie's Awakening
5. Mount Gretna March
6. The Darktown Cakewalk
7. Light And Gay Polka
8. Silver Crown Schottish
9. Ciri-Ciri-Bin Waltz
10. The Frogville Band
11. Medley: Mocking Bird/Mockingbird/Listen To the Mocking Bird/List
12. Little Toy Train
13. Dixie/Chicken Reel
14. Beautiful Dreamer
15. Banjo Sketch
16. The Jersey Carnival March
17. Dance Of the Fireflies
18. Serenade Of the Mandolins
19. Dance Of the Wooden Dolls
20. Jumping Jacks

More Info:

Archibald Camp had been playing the banjo for 70 years when he wrote to Folkways Records in January 1961, offering a tape of his banjo playing for their consideration. Camp was one of the few remaining five-string banjo players who remembered the original arrangements, and he feared that this old music would be lost forever unless he recorded them. In this significant album Camp revived fifteen of the twenty banjo solos from memory. Liner notes include a copy of Camp's letter, his autobiography, notes on banjo listening, and an introduction to the country music in the Folkways catalog.
        
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