Accession
Number: 66
The John Lair Papers
Papers: 1930-1984
Audio/Visual: 1937-1999
35.7 Linear feet
Online
Catalog Record (BANC)
Overview & Series Description
Series I - John Lair - Biographical
Series II - Business Correspondence
Series III - Performer Correspondence and Biographical
Material
Series IV - Published Material
Series V - Songs
Series VI - Radio Program Scripts
Series VII - Listener Mail
Series VIII - Photographs
| Series V |
Songs |
Boxes 28-30 |
This series consists of material relating to songs John Lair composed or arranged
and his research regarding the origins of several popular songs from the late
1800s and early 1900s.
Box 28 - Songs Composed or Arranged by John Lair
- Misc. Song Lists and Artists
- Publisher Song Catalog
- John Lair - Personal Song / Poems
- Songs by Renfro Valley Performers or Listeners
- "Alright, Honey, Alright" - 1965
- "At the Rendezvous" - 1964
- "Boating Up the Sandy" - 1963
- "Bowman Town" - n.d.
- "Calling Me Back Again" - 1963
- "Calomel" - 1965
- "Christmas Bells" - 1963
- "Come Another Spring" - 1964
- "Cracklin' Hen" Arrangement - n.d.
- "Darling, What Will I Do?" - 1965
- "Dogwood Blossoms" - 1965
- "Down at the Country Store" - 1965
- "The Evergreen Pine" - 1963
- "The Family Reunion" - 1960
- " Forsaken" - 1963
- "Freight Train Blues" -
Copyright Dispute I (1957-1958, Undated)
- "Freight Train Blues" - Copyright Dispute II (1963)
- "Freight Train Blues" - Copyright Dispute III (1964-1965)
- "Grandma's Remedies"
- "Hello, Baby, Hello!" - 1966
- "Ho! For Kentucky" - 1965
- "Hold On!" - 1965
- "Honey, You're a Big Girl Now" - 1965
- "Huckleberry Bill" - 1963
- "I'm Starting My School Days All Over" - 1965
- "I Like Santa Claus" - 1965
- "In an Old-Fashion Buggy" - 1965
- "In Renfro Valley Tonight" - 1965
- "In the Valley Where Time Stands Still" - 1965
- "Johnny Bird" - 1963
- "Just the Kind of Guy for Me" - 1963
- "Keep Them Cold, Icy Fingers Off of Me" - 1946
- "Lasses Making Time" - n.d.
- "Let's Have an Old-Fashion Christmas" - n.d.
- "Listen and Think of Me" - n.d.
- "Listen to the Mockingbird" - n.d.
- "Little Birdie" - 1962
- "Lonesome Lulu"
- "Love and Learn"
- "The Man Who Comes Around"
- "My Heart Says I'm Still in Love with You" - 1966
- "No Fool Like an Old Fool" - 1964
- "O Darling, You're Breaking My Heart" - 1963
- "The Old County Fair" - 1965
- "The Old-Feathered on the Farm" - 1963
- "Old Joe Clark" Arrangement
- "On Halloween Night" - 1965
- "The One I Love is Gone" - 1964
- "Pop Goes the Weasel"
- "Pretty Little Miss" - 1963
- "Renfro Valley Sally" - 1954
Box 29 - Songs Composed or Arranged by John Lair
- "Sally Goodin' " Arrangement
- "Self-Starting Loving" - 1965
- "Sparkie" - 1965
- "Swing Your Lady" - 1963
- "Tales My Great-Grandfather Told" - 1965
- "Thank God America" - 1954
- "That Old Familiar Feeling" - 1966
- "Them Eyes" - 1965
- "This Land, Kentucky" - 1964
- "Too Many Times"
- "Turkey in the Straw" Arrangement
- "Warmed-Over Love" - 1966
- "When a Younger Woman Comes to Take Your Place"
- "When I Told My Baby Goodbye" - 1963
- "Will They Play with Me Up There"
- "Wonder Valley" - 1931
- "You Can't Do a Thing Without a Man"
- "You'll Be in My Heart"
- "Young Willie Brannon"
Box 30 - Song History Material Compiled by John Lair
- "Ballad of Jesse James"
- Burnett, R.D. (Blind Dick)
- "Casey Jones"
- "Darling Nellie Gray" - Benjamin Russell Hanby
- "Death for Bonnie and Clyde"
- "Down by the Old Mill Stream"
- Foster, Stephen C.
- Hatfields and McCoys [Feud]
- Will S. Hays
- "Home on the Range"
- "Homespun Dress"
- "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen"
- "In the Baggage Coach Ahead"
- "Little Sod Shanty on the Claim" ("Old Log Cabin in the
Lane")
- Misc. Songs
- "Murder of Pearl Bryan"
- "The Old Oaken Bucket"
- "Old Rugged Cross" / "The Church in the Wildwood"
- "Poor Omie"
- "Silver Threads Among the Gold" - Eben E. Rexford
- "Strawberry Roan"
- "When the Work's All Done This Fall" - J.D. O'Malley
- "When You and I were Young, Maggie"
- "Wreck of the 97"
- John Lair Song Roots - "Adam" throuth "Ellen"
- John Lair Song Roots - "Fate" throuth "My"
- John Lair Song Roots - "Pardon" throuth "Zeb"
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