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Recording

Wind blew through her nightie; No balls at all; Three old whores from Canada

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TypeRecording

Date1938-08-27

WithinSaint James · Beaver Island

ErasModern era

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Summary
Catalog metadata
Provenance and limits
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Sources

Photograph: The wind blew through her nightie, 1938-08. — The wind blew through her nightie Unidentified (Singer); Lomax, Alan (1915-2002) (Recordist)

Recording

Date: 1938-08-27
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: music-folkloreheritage
Within: Saint James · Beaver Island
Media: No balls at all · The three old whores from Canada · The wind blew through her nightie

Summary

The Library of Congress catalogues Wind blew through her nightie; No balls at all; Three old whores from Canada as a sound recording, AFC 1939/007: AFS 02291 A, and dates it to 27 August 1938. The held item is afc1939007_afs02291a. The catalog credits the performance to Unidentified. Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 is named as collector. That title runs three songs together; they stay one item here because the catalog keeps them as one.

Catalog metadata

Library of Congress identifier: afc1939007_afs02291a
Call number: AFC 1939/007: AFS 02291 A
Catalog date: 1938-08-27
Catalog contributor labels: Unidentified (Performer); Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002 (Collector)
Original format: sound recording

The held item.json is the authority for every field above. The contributor labels are the catalog’s own, and this article does not claim that anyone has checked them against the audio.

Provenance and limits

The recording belongs to the Beaver Island subset of the Alan Lomax Collection of Michigan and Wisconsin Recordings, AFC 1939/007. Alan Lomax Beaver Island field recordings, 1938 covers all 71 sound recordings and the 108 catalog-card photographs held beside them. What is here is the catalog layer. Song texts and performance attribution beyond the labels are still open.

See also

Sources

Library of Congress, 'Wind blew through her nightie; No balls at all; Three old whores from Canada', AFC 1939/007: AFS 02291 A, recorded 1938-08-27.
Held item.json identifies this record as a sound recording and preserves its catalog title, date, location, call number and contributor labels.
audio · lomax_michigan_1938_beaver_island · afc1939007_afs02291a · item

Added 31 July 2026 · revised 4 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Wind blew through her nightie; No balls at all; Three old whores from Canada”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/lomax-afc1939007-afs02291a/, accessed [date], citing Library of Congress, 'Wind blew through her nightie; No balls at all; Three old whores from Canada', AFC 1939/007: AFS 02291 A, recorded 1938-08-27..

Last revised 2026-08-04. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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