As someone who grew up in Ann Arbor listening to the U of M Glee Club and the Friars, it was fun to hear old versions of Ann Arbor Days and the Yellow and the Blue. The Jack Baird Music Library, hosted by the Barbershop Harmony Society, is a great collection of MP3 music files of historic barbershop performances. Shows like The Sing Off have done a great job of introducing people to a cappella music who may not have had the opportunity to see it before. You can find the music to sing Blue Juniata among others. For example, we loved the Laura Ingalls Wilder books and the stories of Pa playing fiddle tunes. Not only it is (personally) fascinating to see the tunes and music that were printed during the American Civil War and other important periods, but it’s fun to find songs that are referenced but not song. The Library of Congress’ American Memory site has an incredible digital library of public domain song sheets. It’s also typical of the Canada penchant for providing tidy retribution in ballads. Note: This has got to be the only version of this song that plugs life jackets. One of my favorites was this note appended to a version of The Golden Vanity (good song about the sinking of a Turkish ship off the Low Country) that pokes fun at the safety concerns of Canadians:įrom Folksongs from Southern New Brunswick, Creighton Collected from Angelo Dorman (between 19). The music has been contributed with all sorts of extra metadata about who sang it or its appearance in a particular film or slight variations in verses. Actually, my first stop was a mirror site that made it easy to search and browse music. The evening song book is a binder that I have created over the years with songs from sites like the Mudcat traditional music site.
Our kids have been scarred by my renditions of a variety of folk songs, sea shanties, military ditties and other songs their peers have almost certainly never had to sit through! One of the great pleasures I have is coming across a digital repository of music that allows me to try something new. Singing at bed time is a ritual in our house.
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