ZONO MINSTRELS - Way Down Dar In Tennessee
http://www.zonominstrels.co.uk/
“
Way Down Dar
In Tennessee” is the first song in the
Third Volume of
Alfred Scott Gatty's
Plantation Songs. This version, by the
Zono Minstrels, was recorded at the studios of the
Gramophone Company in
Hayes, Middlesex. It was uploaded to YouTube on the
100th Anniversary of its being recorded.
RECORDED
Friday,
15th August 1913
PERFORMERS
Annie Rees –
Soprano
Violet Oppenshaw – Contralto
Ernest Pike –
Tenor
Stewart Gardner – Baritone
LYRIC (Alfred Scott Gatty, 1893)
Pompey's bought a bran new suit,
Way down dar in
Tennessee!
Pompey's bought a bran new suit,
Tall black hat and varnish'd boot,
Don't him pinch poor Pompey's foot,
Now dat he am free
O', Way down dar!
Way down dar!
Way down dar in Tennessee!
Now de Darkie, he am free,
Such a great big
Boss am he
O', Way down dar!
Way down dar!
Way down dar in Tennessee!
Now de Darkie, he am free,
Such a great big Boss am he
Dinah's clothes are made in
France,
Way down dar in Tennessee!
Dinah's clothes are made in France,
Ogles men with side long glance,
Knows, ob course, de new skirt dance,
Now dat she am free
O', Way down dar!
Way down dar!
Way down dar in Tennessee!
Now de Darkie, he am free,
Such a great big Boss am he
O', Way down dar!
Way down dar!
Way down dar in Tennessee!
Now de Darkie, he am free,
Such a great big Boss am he
Banjo songs hab lost deir charms,
Way down dar in Tennessee!
Banjo songs hab lost deir charms,
Dinah, Pompey's nerves now calms,
Sings him songs by
Grieg and
Brahms,
Now dat dey are free
O', Way down dar!
Way down dar!
Way down dar in Tennessee!
Now de Darkie, he am free,
Such a great big Boss am he
O', Way down dar!
Way down dar!
Way down dar in Tennessee!
Now de Darkie, he am free,
Such a great big Boss am he
Pompey's now on bus'ness bent,
Way down dar in Tennessee!
Pompey's now on bus'ness bent,
Money making, cent per cent,
Gwine to run for
President!
Now dat he am free
O', Way down dar!
Way down dar!
Way down dar in Tennessee!
Now de Darkie, he am free,
Such a great big Boss am he
O', Way down dar!
Way down dar!
Way down dar in Tennessee!
Now de Darkie, he am free,
Such a great big Boss am he
Sheet music of the entire Plantation
Song series is now available at the Zono Minstrels tribute website, linked to above.
ZONO MINSTRELS RECORDINGS
The Zono Minstrels recorded ten of
Alfred Scott-Gatty's Plantation Songs, and they were released as five double-sided
Zonophone Records in the last five months of 1913. Two of the songs were re-released on the
Ariel Grand label, in a different pairing.
Zonophone
GOOD NIGHT X-49435
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHWcCaRZcQ0
DAT'S BERRY QUEER X-49436
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90zTjzDV-3g
CLICK CLACK X-49447
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPP0n-RElng (
High Noise Reduction)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E29nIqt5XzY (Low Noise Reduction)
DE
OLE BANJO X-49448
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azqJxxB3wDQ (High Noise Reduction)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fhyxNrRSHk (Low Noise Reduction)
FAR, FAR AWAY X-49451
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G43fPyb1KNk (High Noise Reduction)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItH7Bz5CwR8 (Low Noise Reduction)
WAY DOWN
DAR IN TENNESSEE X-49452
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPkEWEXO2NQ (High Noise Reduction)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcNola8B2Bo (Low Noise Reduction)
DING
DONG DING X-49453
Not available
DOWN BY DAT RIBBER X-49454
Not available
DIS OLE
NIGGER X-44266
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GpgsLbBPhg
FAR AWAY OBER DARE X-44267
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4-Z2laAfeU
Ariel Grand
FAR, FAR AWAY 271 1227
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfJAclSYF_g (High Noise Reduction)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVFYT_CWrdg (Low Noise Reduction)
GOOD NIGHT 271 1162
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgMmy-b0e0g (High Noise Reduction)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc9lOiSe3yQ (Low Noise Reduction)
If anyone has access to the gramophone record I need to complete the series,
Ding Dong Ding/
Down By Dat Ribber, please get in touch. If you don't want to sell, I would be happy to just borrow the record to create the transfer. Any contribution will take me closer to realising my lifetime ambition of bringing all ten of the Zono Minstrels recordings back to the world, in the highest quality possible.