Talk:Anthology of American Folk Music/Archive 1

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Fixed the title from «Giteau» to «Guiteau» in Kelly Harrell's song, linking it to Charles J. Guiteau's page...

Unlinked two links re: Henry Thomas. Previously pointed to Henry Thomas, the kid from E.T. No page for the musician Henry Thomas exists, but until one is created it seems that it would be better for no link to be there at all than for it to lead to little Elliot. :) Jason 19:35, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

When this first came out Harry Smith didn't bother clearing any copyrights. Does this make it a bootleg? (None of the tracks were public domain at that time). A: I went with "yes" on this question in my massive Oct 23 2008 overhaul of this page, and provided proper citation for that info. Jbushnell (talk) 19:09, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm very interested in overhauling the list of "Personnel," which jumbles performers from the 1920s and 30s together with personnel on the 1952 original and personnel responsible for the Smithsonian reissue. My preference would be to sort the 1952 staff apart from the 1997 staff, and delete the musicians entirely (they are already credited in full detail in the track listings immediately above). I'll wait a reasonable span of time to see if anyone registers objections. Jbushnell (talk) 19:13, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Nobody objected, so I went ahead and did the first part. Picking the 1952 staff from the 1997 will take a bit more work. --jpgordon:==( o ) 15:16, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

Track Numbering
Some time ago, to conform to Harry Smith's original system, I tried to renumber the cuts on the Anthology from 1 to 84. This numbering is widley, and properly, understood to be important to his editorial scheme. Another editor reverted the entry to the earlier (completely unique and arbitrary) numbering system, with the note "that may be the way the album is numbered, but not how we format things here." Would Wikipedia make up an arbitrary numbering scheme for the US Constitution, or the Bible? Go look at Smith's 1952 liner notes. You can see Smith's numbering system from across a large room; it's obviously their most salient characteristic -- as you might expect given Smith's well-known occultist obsession with numerological and other ordering systems. What can I do to get this corrected? Darkhollarblues (talk) 17:23, 17 March 2010 (UTC)


 * I did the same thing (ie, re-established Harry Smith's original continuous track numbers), and another editor (RepublicanJacobite) reverted my changes. I've asked that editor about it and I hope that he'll agree to letting me restore the original (and correct) numbers. ZoneAlarm5 (talk) 20:16, 23 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Receiving no reply from RepublicanJacobite, I've restored the original numbering of the tracks - based on Smith liner notes book. ZoneAlarm5 (talk) 11:17, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

What about Volume 4?
There's a subtly here that this article ignores. The original title was "American Folk Music" - that was issued by Folkways on LPs. When Smithsonian Folkways reissued it as CDs, they used the common name "Anthology of American Folk Music". Furthermore, the original scheme for the recordings was to have four volumes, not three (don't worry, I have the references for this). The fourth volume has been assembled from notes and released by Revenant.

Shouldn't we rework this page a bit to include both the original scheme *and* the original name?

ZoneAlarm5 (talk) 17:54, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

I notice the 1960s reissue with the farmer cover was titled an "Anthology". I'll check the original artwork and see how that compares. Would be good to have an example here. The Revenant volume is now mentioned a couple of times in the article and also has its own article.

Footnote73 (talk) 03:38, 20 May 2013 (UTC)