335:"We had a recording machine by this time and small discs. This was long before tape, and because our supply of discs was short, we would record two stanzas of a song - to get the melody - and stop the machine. The fortunate aspect was that I got them all down correctly then and there. From then on, we spent our month's vacation, which we each had each year from our regular jobs, working as hard as we did any other time - usually spending two weeks in the South and two weeks in the North..".
343:, writing in the 1990s: "For many years the Warners spent every vacation and every scrap of spare cash on their recording trips. It was a continuous act of unpaid, tender devotion to American folk song and a life-long love affair with the people who remembered the ballads...".
456:- and in colleges and at folk festivals across the US, including the First Annual Newport Folk Festival in 1959, and the 1961 festival. He was often joined onstage by Anne and by their sons Jeff and Gerret Warner, who accompanied them on guitar,
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Frank Warner also appeared regularly on radio and TV, and gave hundreds of lectures and public appearances before educational, civic and community audiences. His banjo playing and singing was featured in the 1957 movie
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588:Our Singing Heritage, Vol.III
554:From the Mountains to the Sea
409:Our Singing Heritage, Vol.III
536:Collections of the Warners'
229:Marriage and song collecting
149:executive. He and his wife
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515:Archiving and legacy
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435:Rod Steiger
421:liner notes
385:Pete Seeger
357:Long Island
279:New England
271:Adirondacks
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233:He married
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607:References
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462:jew's harp
458:concertina
389:Tom Glazer
381:Bess Lomax
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169:Early life
155:Tom Dooley
90:Folklorist
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499:in 1975.
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191:Glee Club
143:folk song
117:1924-1975
976:Archived
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482:Folktrax
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478:England
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