Pretty Polly

Title

Pretty Polly

Digital Object

Performer

Roberts, Hulda

Date Recorded

1937-10-07

AFS Number

1483B

AFC Collection

AFC 1937/001

AFC Catalog Record

Editor Note

Announcement by Lomax follows: "This version was recorded about 20 or 30 miles from Corbin, Ky., where the now-standard of 'Pretty Polly' was commercially recorded by the Victor company, four or five years ago," in a reference to B.F. Shelton's 1927 record.

Genre

ballad

Instrumentation

vocal

State

Kentucky

County

Clay

Town

Goose Rock

Tags

Citation

“Pretty Polly,” Alan Lomax Kentucky Recordings, accessed March 28, 2024, https://lomaxky.omeka.net/items/show/790.