Lolly Toodum

Title

Lolly Toodum

Digital Object

Alternate Titles

Alt. titles: Lolly Toodum, Lolly-Too-Dum, Rolly Trudum

Performer

Boggs, Abner

Date Recorded

1937-09-07

AFS Number

1384B2

AFC Collection

AFC 1937/001

AFC Catalog Record

Editor Note

Lomax identified another Pine Mountain performance of this as "Morning Air." See 1382A2/B1.

Genre

lyric song

Instrumentation

vocal

Setting

Pine Mountain settlement school

State

Kentucky

County

Harlan

Town

Pine Mountain

Is Referenced by

Originally:
Lomax, John A., Alan Lomax, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Folk Songs and Ballads. The Macmillan Company, 1941.
(Includes transcriptions.)  

Currently as:
Lomax, John A., Alan Lomax, and Ruth Crawford Seeger. Our Singing Country: A Second Volume of American Folk Songs and Ballads. Dover, 2000.

Citation

“Lolly Toodum,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed April 19, 2024, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/448.