Folksongs from the Beehive State : early field recordings of Utah and Mormon music.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Utah State University. Mountain West Center for Regional Studies, Fife Folklore Archives
Other Authors: Thatcher, Elaine (Compiler), Williams, Randy, 1961- (Compiler), Fife, Austin E. (recorder.), Fife, Alta (Alta Stevens), 1912-1996 (recorder.), Tarbet, Joseph (recorder.)
Format: CD Audio
Language:English
Published: [Logan, Utah] : Utah State University Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The gospel news / sung by L.M. Hilton ; recorded by Austin and Alta Fife (4:32)
  • In the midst of the awful Mormons / sung by Mrs. Jetta Huntsman ; recorded by Austin and Alta Fife (1:17)
  • Marching to Utah (All are talking of Utah) / [John Silvanus Davis] ; sung by Rose Seegmiller Thompson ; recorded by Austin and Alta Fife (2:43)
  • Blue Mountain / [Fred W. Keller] ; sung and composed by F.W. Keller ; recorded by Hector Lee (3:11)
  • The boys of Sanpete County (The Green River song) / sung by Mrs. Elva A. Christiansen ; recorded by Austin and Alta Fife (6:22)
  • St. George Temple builder's song / [Charles Lowell Walker] ; sung by Jane Moss ; recorded by Austin and Alta Fife (3:04)
  • My Dixie home / [Anthony Ivins] ; sung by Joseph W. McAllister ; recorded by Austin and Alta Fife (2:46)
  • The handcart song / [John Daniel Thompson McAllister] ; sung by Mrs. Maria Platt Mumford and Mrs. Mary Ann Platt Seegmiller ; recorded by Austin and Alta Fife (3:56)
  • O ye mountains high (Zion) / [Charles W. Penrose] ; sung by the Fletcher Bronson Family ; recorded by Austin and Alta Fife (3:25)
  • A glass of sweet Dixie wine (Back to dear St. George again) / sung by Francis Y. Morse ; recorded by Austin and Alta Fife (2:28)
  • Hard times / sung by L.M. Hilton ; adapted from Stephen Foster ; recorded by Austin and Alta Fife (2:23)
  • Ballad of the Mountain Meadows Massacre / sung by George Harter ; recorded by Joseph Tarbet (3:32)
  • Utah Carroll / sung by Buck Lee ; recorded by Austin and Alta Fife (7:47)
  • Turkey in the straw / sung and adapted by Myron Crandall ; recorded by Austin and Alta Fife (3:59)
  • Utah trail / [Bob Palmer] ; sung by the Sagebrush Quartet (Reed, Nelson, and Edward Jones and Ramon Black) ; recorded by Austin and Alta Fife (2:45)