Talk:Hally Wood

Source
Appears to be somewhat notable, here's a possible source. K.e.coffman (talk) 22:00, 6 August 2016 (UTC)


 * ✅ &mdash; Dear ; Thank you very much. I have now added your source in the new Bibliography section.
 * With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 19:30, 9 August 2016 (UTC)

Content supplied by Hally Wood's daughter (Cynthia Tannehill Faulk Ryland)
The following content was initially added into the article, then commented out. I have now relocated it here in the talk page (see below), in order to clear it from the article but also externalise it for the benefit of other editors interested in the subject. The precise edit history of this specific content is as follows: Although we can obviously not rely on primary sources, per WP:PSTS etc., this content appears genuine, even though Ms. Faulk Ryland (assuming it really was her) contributed sporadically and under two usernames and one IP address. As a disclaimer, I have not relied on any of this content during my recent wave of edits, except for two dates, about which the other sources were less clear. If anyone disagrees with my decision, then by all means feel free to revert, per WP:PRIMARY (and probably also WP:NOR on my part). However, it seemed to me to be a reasonable risk to trust that the content was entered correctly by Ms. Faulk Ryland, and therefore that her dates were usable for our purposes when the other sources were unclear ("late 1950s" for her "1958") and different to hers ("1953" for her "1954"). Otherwise, I have painstakingly ensured that the article's current prose is corroborated by the sources used as references. Thank you. With kind regards; Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 10:58, 10 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) article created at 19:19 on 26 July 2008 by Cynthia Tannehill Faulk Ryland (as GrannyTanny)
 * 2) edit at 03:02 on 30 September 2009 by Cynthia Tannehill Faulk Ryland (as  Tannywheeler)
 * 3) edit at 18:41, 3 November 2009, seemingly by Cynthia Tannehill Faulk Ryland (as IP   70.112.210.210)

  "This is incomp. (The informant is only child of Ms. Wood & was born in 1943)" "I had serious sick-computer issues for a while & didn't get back to complete this entry. I will try to remedy that over the next few days. First, I will tell you that I am the main source. I am the only child of Harriet Elizabeth Wood, known as Hally Wood. She married John Henry Faulk in 1940, & I was born in '43. In '47, after WWII, they were living & working in NYC. They were divorced that year. She married Louis H. Gordon, veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade & later of the US Army. He came from a union family(Local 107 of the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite, and PaperMill Workers). He would later help found the Woody Guthrie Children's Fund. Hally had become acquainted with the Lomax family in Austin at the Univ. of Texas. JHF was also friendly with them. Hally found herself in the social milieu of the beginning of the "great folk scare". She had great secretarial skills, but also musical skills(including "perfect pitch") which made her handy as a transcriber of field recordings. She worked with a lot of the Lomax material over the rest of her life. She worked with "LeadBelly", Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Jean Ritchie, Robin Roberts, was acquainted with the Clancy Bros., ETC. During this early time in NYC she made 2 solo albums: Hally Wood Sings Texas Folksongs, & O' Lovely Appearance of Death(1 for Stinson, 1 for Elektra). By 1954 she was back in Austin, Texas, getting a divorce from Mr. Gordon. She lived with her mother about 2 blocks north of the main campus of the U. of Tx. with her daughter. In '56 she was back in NYC doing secretarial work & continuing singing & transcribing. During this time she worked with a group that called itself "The Skifflers" (incl. Milt Okun, Leon Bibb, and a woman named Libby Knight)& they made a record called "Goin' Down To Town". This was a bad experience. The record comp. dedided to add cutesy-pie instrumental tracks to the arrangements the original musicians had worked over so carefully. She decided that, if she ever made another record, she would keep more control over the material she wanted to present. In 1958 she married Dr. Robert Clarence McLeod Stephenson, who went to Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, to head a department at the University of Puerto Rico. I am hoping that Marga Pabon, who lived close to Hally & spent lots of time with her during her time in Puerto Rico, will help fill in the information on her life there. I was not able to participate. During the years 1957-58, while Hally still lived in NYC with her 3rd husband Dr. Stephenson, nicknamed "Sing", she sang with others, and helped have gatherings for Woody Guthrie (when he was able to spend a day or two out of the hospital. One of her singing "jobs" was rehearsing and recording an album ("Going Down to Town") with Milt Okun, Libby Knight, & Leon Bibb, who sometimes performed as Lee Charles. This group actually did a promotional appearance on the Today Show. At that time, they came to the attention of an adman & wound up doing a singing cigarette commercial!!(temporary halt)"