The carter family - little darling pal of mine

[dstrobel3]

I had heard that Maybelle played "slide" on some songs but could never get anyone to give me a title....thanx much....pax doug

[nexwaval]

The wanabees of today will never sound like this.

[aberdurant]

i have this 78 sounds really good



[aguerrero1]

this and Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land" sound very similar.

[meplayin]

You are right about that, Woody took this music added is owns words for This Land is Your Land in thr 1930's

[WildeNotesMusic]

@meplayin  If you play the two tunes without the lyrics, I think you'll easily see that the two tunes are quite distinct and recognizable, even though the chord patterns are the same or similar (which happens with a lot of songs) and a couple of melodic phrases are shared between the two songs.

[williestratton]

@aguerrero1 yes indeed they do, that's because he borrowed the melody from this song, which he did in a lot of his songs

This Land is Your Land was actually written as a political response to God Bless America, which Woody didn't like, and thought it was unrealistic

[sandyjo55]

Another Carter Family song that sounds like "This Land is Your Land" is "When the World's on Fire". Just wanted to note the comparison in the music in all three of the songs ;)

[WildeNotesMusic]

@sandyjo55 "This Land Is Your Land" also sound a lot like "You Are My Sunshine." But the only melodic lines in TLIYL that are very similar to Little Darlin' Pal Of Mine are the first two, and the first lines of the 2 songs are the same only on the first 6 notes. There the melodies depart strikingly.

[catgumart]

"Take Me Back" by Frank Stokes sounds like this also.

[proceedapathy]

Apparently the melody of "This Land Is Your Land" is based from this song.

[bentoast99]

nice song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dtoddmiller]

One of the very few Carter Family recordings featuring Mother Maybelle on the Dobro.

[bigjaw1]

that's an interesting fact that i never knew, thank you for that

[hulud99]

@bigjaw1 Sounds LOUD enough to believe.

[SettlersMuseum]

The Carters first recorded this in Camden N.J., May 9th 1928. On the original recording Maybelle played her guitar in the fretted Hawaiian style for both this song and "Meet Me by the Moonlight".

It is possible she picked that style up from a 78 record of Vernon Dalhart's "The Wreck of the Old 97".

Maybelle also gave writing credit of this song to A.P. Carter.

[naicisumeht]

@dtoddmiller good to know. Thanks!