Recordings narrated by Julius Bartlett Lankes [manuscript] : [multimedia], ca. 1920s-1981.

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Recordings narrated by Julius Bartlett Lankes [manuscript] : [multimedia], ca. 1920s-1981.

Lankes narrates and comments on a variety of topics: excerpts from the vaudeville sketch The Virginia(n) Judge by Walter C. Kelly; music composed or made famous by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band; Excurses I, II, and III and Dixieland bands performing these selections; songs from Bottoms Up, sung at Chewning's Tavern, Williamsburg, Va., by the Hilton Village Gang; reminiscences of lower Virginia peninsula place names particularly around Newport News. Lankes also narrates Jazz Trumpet Epitome, with selections from famous jazz trumpeters; I Was There and Into the Storm, commercial recordings from the B.B.C. Sound Archives; College Daze, a collection of university songs including two by the University of Virginia Glee Club; The Dance Band Era by Albert McCarthy; Walter Camp's Daily Dozen and the Fred Allen's Chase and Sanborn Radio Program. Finally, Lankes comments on newscasts of the assassination of Anwar Sadat. With the recordings are two photographs of Julius John Lankes; a listing of the Lankes collection at Dartmouth; and a genealogy of Edee Maria Bartlett Lankes.

17 sound cassettes (60 min. each)4 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7920053

University of Virginia. Library

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Camp, Walter, 1859-1925

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Lankes, Julius J., 1884-1960

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The comic strip "Pogo", created by Walt Kelly, ran in daily newspapers from 1948 to 1973. The strip was set in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp and was populated by animals talking in a fractured southern dialect. Over the years "Pogo" often referred to Georgia and to several of the state's locales, such as Waycross, Fort Mudge, and Ware County. In the 1950s it was the most popular daily strip in America, primarily because of its blend of slapstick humor and engaging characters. The comic strip's popu...

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