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Re: need help with recording credits and more (fwd)
- From: Kame'a Media <media...>
- Subject: Re: need help with recording credits and more (fwd)
- Date: Sun 19 Sep 1999 00.44 (GMT)
Kame'a Media wrote:
> Ari Davidow wrote:
>
> > I have usually seen Leadbelly's name spelt as one word, but
> > cannot assert that the common version is correct. (The nickname
> > was for folk/blues singer Huddie Ledbetter.)
> >
> > ari
>
> "Leadbelly" was the version most commonly used in the past.
> However, according to the Lead Belly Society, "Lead Belly" has become the
> official spelling of the man's name according to the desires of the executrix
> of
> his estate, his niece.
> A recent biography (by Wolfe and Lornell: Harper Collins, pub.)
> uses the old spelling.
>
> Wolf Krakowski
>
> >
> >
> > Ari Davidow
> > ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
> > list owner, jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> > the klezmer shack: http://www.klezmershack.com/
> >
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