Frankie Baker

This item is part of the W. Amos Abrams Folksong Collection, which includes some 400 individual song titles, most of which have multiple variants. Dr. Abrams recorded songs primarily from the Appalachian region of North Carolina from 1938 to 1946 and transcribed them in 1973. Like the I. G. Greer Collection, the titles contained in Abrams’ collection range from traditional Child Ballads to 19th century popular music to compositions of local origin.

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Ballads

Folk music--Appalachian Region

Frankie and Johnnie, Frankie, Aggie and Alfred, He Done Her Wrong, Frankie and Johnny, Frankey and Albert, Franky and Albert

W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection, Appalachian State University

Abrams, W. Amos (William Amos), 1904-1991

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Song texts

English

Text

Frankie and Albert, Variant 1

Bonnie Ethel Dickson, 1898-1987. Rettie C. Tucker [Mrs. Charles M. Dickson], 1876-1955

Bonnie Ethel Dickson and Lottie Lorene Dickson are daughters of Rettie C. Tucker Dickson.

Lottie Lorene Dickson, 1919-?

student of Dr. Abrams

Brown Native American Ballads - 251(A), Randolph 159, Laws I 3, Combs 83