This was the first in a series of four broadcasts of ‘chants and songs’ about ‘American heroes’ by folklorist, minstrel, and poet-singer Julian Lee Rayford. The subjects of the series were Paul Bunyon, this first program, and three other programs on Davey Crockett, Abe Lincoln and the Ballad of Springfield Mountain and an enchanted sermon Blueseed Lucifer Saton. Incomplete.
Julian Lee Rayford (1908-1980) was also a sculptor, journalist, and storyteller.
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