Coon Creek Girls - Little Birdie [1938].

PIC SHOWS L - R
Rosie - Violet - Lily May - Daisy
[Meade - 1913 - No Composer Credit]
Recorded 1925 by Land Norris
Jack Hammond
Vernon Dalhart
Issued on Vocalion 4413 B
Also Recorded 1967 [Rosie, Lily May and Susie]
Recorded 30 May 1938 Chicago, IL -
Lily May Ledford [banjo/vcl leader] [1917 - 1985] Ex Powell County, KY
Esther [Violet] Koehler [mandolin] [1916 - 1973] Ex Indiana
Rosie Ledford [gt] [1915 - 1976] Ex Powell County, KY
Evelyn [Daisy] Lange [bass] [1919 - 2002] Ex Ohio
Recorded Sessions
30 May 1938 - 13 Tracks - [inc 4 with Aunt Idy Harper]
5 June 1955 - 4 Tracks [inc. 2 with Ferlin Husky]
Circa 1967 -
14 Tracks on LP and ONE Unissued - released 2015
[Rosie, Lily May and Susie 1922 - 1987]
1968 to 1983 Lily May Ledford Recordings
Gems: Lily May Ledford Rare Concert and Studio Recordings
Issued on CD [2000]
1985 - National Heritage Fellowship
2004 - Kentucky Music Hall of Fame

[@davidfraley8770]

Beautiful version ❤

[@oates45]

I've got this on a wooden 78rpm record, made during WW2. My grandparents bought it while on a trip a long time ago. The varnish is so worn that only parts of it still play.

[@ColeSlawShaw]

Good tune!

[@RedcoatsReturn]

Boy...that takes me back...loved thaem gals 😉😊😊😊

[@floydyopz]

This is the first version of this wonderful song I ever heard. I'll always love it, it changed my life and I sing it to this day.

[@bethanysamons692]

My grandmother Josephine bray Hall from my used too sing this too me she was born in 1924

[@514570HP]

Just wonderful !!!!!! Thanks for sharing !!!!!

[@estyM]

Love it...Loveee it!

[@TheRoadToShambala]

:-) I haven't heard this in a very long time. :-D

[@floydyopz]

I didn't know there even WAS a road to Shambala!