Big Rock Candy Mountains
McClintock, Harry
Performer
Eskin, Sam
Recordist
sound recording-musical
Library of Congress
1968
English
sound recording
access
1 sound recording
reformatted digital
general
First pubished on Library of Congress LP AFS L61 "Railroad Songs and Ballads," edited by Archie Green.
Recorded in San Pedro, California.
Recorded in 1951.
The singer says that he composed this song while hoboing in his youth, inspired by hot springs in Idaho and Utah.
Harry McKlintock was originally from Knoxville, Tennessee.
Fantasy
Tramps
Folk Songs--United States
Idaho
Utah
Tennessee
AFC 1952/021: AFS10506A4
75550
200197158
ihas
75550
soa_west
West
songamerica
Song of America
Song of America
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soa_contemporary
Contemporary America (1945-present)
soa_TN
Tennessee - Song of America
soa_ID
Idaho - Song of America
soa_UT
Utah - Song of America
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
http://www.loc.gov/performingarts
American Folklife Center
DLC
IHAS
141210
loc.natlib.ihas.200197158