Learned Hand Sings, Part One: Liner Notes for 'Songs of His Youth'

Abstract

This is part one of a two-part set of liner notes for Songs of His Youth – a complete edition of Learned Hand’s 1942 folk music recording session at the Library of Congress. This part deals with the immediate business of how Hand ended up singing and talking into a microphone at the Library, and with what he sang and said, including a lightly annotated transcript of the recordings, which can be difficult to follow in places. The second part (in the next issue of the Green Bag) will deal mostly with the background and aftermath of the recording session.

Keywords: Atlantic Coast Line, Augustus Hand, Civil War, Daniel Webster, George Elliott, Harlan Fiske Stone, Judicial Conference, Lomax, Merrimack, Monitor, Rogers's Rangers, Second Circuit, Sheridan, Springfield Mountain, Vinyl, Where is Your Boy, Woodbine, Yankee Doodle

JEL Classification: A20, C15, C80, C93, D01, D03, D23, D71, D72, D80, D81, D83, D87, K00, K2, K21, K23, K40