Old Bangum- Bentley Ball (OH-NY) 1920 REC
[Recording of Old Bangum on Columbia - A-3084 - 02-01- 1920-; matrix: 90055 by Bentley Ball. According to a source at WFMU Ball traveled around selling typewriters and collecting songs in rural states. This evidently is the first recording of Bangum, billed as a Kentucky Mountain song. He also recorded "The Hangman's Tree." Listen: http://wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=44465&archive=76834
Bentley Ball was a concert and college-circuit baritone. A NYC program from 1920 follows.
A bio from an online chart gives this info: Walter Bentley Ball was born on February 2, 1878 in Ohio. He was the son of Bentley E. Ball and Mary Margaret Curtis. Walter Bentley Ball married May Foley circa 1911. Ball died on August 1957 13 at age 79. He was buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark, Licking Co., OH.
R. Matteson 2015]
The Song-A-Logue of America will be presented by Bentley Ball, baritone of New York, at the University Auditorium at 8:15 o'clock tomorrow evening. This program was to have been given last Thursday evening but was postponed because of the University convocation. The admission will be free. Mr. Ball will give a unique recital, nothing like it having been given on the concert stage before. It is a program of songs and ballads containing all of the elemental drama of America's early settlers. The program is being given under the auspices of the School of Music. The program follows The Indian Tribal Prayer, Omaha; Love Call, Iroquois; Two Songs from Hiawatha Ojibway. The Pioneer- The Gallows Tree , Kentucky Mountains; Bangum and the Boar , Kentucky Mountains ; A barnyard song , Kentucky Mountains . The Cowboy- Jessie James , The Dying Cowboy . The Negro- Go Down Moses , Spiritual ; Peter Go Ring Dem Bells , Spiritual; Ise Gwine to Alabamy , Occupation Songs . The Negro Minstrelsy-”De Little Old Log Cabin in de Lane , Old Dan Tucker , Carry Me Back To Old Virginy.
OLD BANGUM- Bentley Ball, 1920, Kentucky mountain song,
There is wild boar in these woods,
Dillum dum dillum;
There is a wild boar in this woods,
Dillum dum dillum
There is a wild boar in this woods,
He eats our flesh and drinks our blood,
With a quee quiddle quo qum.
"How shall I this wild boar see?"
"Blow your horn he'll come to thee."
Bangum what[1] with a fearless eye,
Till he saw the boar go sailing by.
Bangum blew his horn at last,
The wild boar came cutting oak and ash.
Bangum drew his wooden knife
And he worried the wild boar out of his life.
Bangum rode to the wild boar's den,
And he found the bones of a thousand men.
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