Baby Dear, Don't You Cry

Audio file
Date recorded: July 9, 1937
Contributor(s): Performer: Smith, Daisy; Recordist: Lomax, John A.
Subject(s):
Genre: lullaby
Instruments: voice
Setting: Probably Pearson's Funeral Home, 1325 Park Street
Location: Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina, United States
Physical form: Acetate Disc
Tape number: 1026
Track Number: 1
Archive ID: 1026A1
Belongs to: Columbia 7/37
About the session: Sacred songs performed by Pearson’s Funeral Home Choir, led by D.H. White, and several pieces by individual members. This session was presumably arranged by Elise Ford Jenkins, director of the South Carolina Negro Writers’ Project (an outgrowth of the state branch of the Federal Writers’ Project).
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