The Original Carter Family - Little Darling, Pal Of Mine [1936 Transcription].

[Early 1900's Traditional Song.
Melody is the Spiritual "When The World's On Fire" also "Little Sweetheart Pal Of Mine"
or "My Little Girl"...Adapted By A.P. Carter].

Issued on 12" Transcriptions (2 Carter Songs Per Side) and 16" Transcriptions (4 Carter Songs per Side)...Some of the Discs had Carter Material on one Side and Dance Band Tunes on the other...They were Recorded on the Then-New 33 1/3 speed...The Discs were widely distributed to Radio Stations in the US and Canada.

Released to the Public on LP "The Original Carter Family from 1936 Radio Transcripts" [1975]
OLD HOMESTEAD RECORDS
Also Recorded 1935

Recorded 10 June 1936, New York City - Transcription A 188
A.P. [vcl], Sara [gt/vcl leader], Maybelle [gt/vcl].

Alvin Pleasant (AP) Delaney Carter (1891 - 1960)
Sara Dougherty Carter (1898 - 1979)
Maybelle Addington Carter (1909 - 1978)

Maybelle was married to A.P.'s Brother EZRA CARTER who was Sara's 1st COUSIN...All three were Born & Raised in South Western Virginia

The day before the 1st Recording Session (August 1 1927) AP persuaded Sara & Maybelle to make the trip from Maces Spring VA to BRISTOL TN to Audition for Record Producer RALPH PEER who was seeking new talent.....The SESSIONS now called the BRISTOL SESSIONS included performances by JIMMIE RODGERS & 17 other Acts...They Received $50 for each song they Recorded plus half a cent Royalty on every copy sold of each song they Registered as "COPYRIGHT"...By the end of 1930 they had sold 300,000 Records in the USA....To expand his repertoire in the early 1930's AP befriended LESLIE RIDDLE a black guitar player from Kingsport TN who accompanied AP on his song Collecting trips


Elected to the COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME in 1970