Spivey's Corner (1978)

[Music] wonder which one be the best he Len When My Blue Moon turned to gold [Music] [Music] when BL moon turn to Gold again and the rainow CH the cloud to we When My Blue Moon turn to go again I'll be like with in your arms to [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] well that's a good morning har my name is lar Emmanuel I was born right here right over there I for from that tree in a log cabin I've Liv here all my life I was 73 years old I was born 194 August the 26th back then them days everybody holled just about in the whole neighborhood they get up in the morning get out feet up one holler other answering back one answer move Yonder went to fi to work coming home from work of the evening they holler back and forth to each other if they needed some help they'd huler for help and if they wanted to borrow something they' huler back cross through young ask so and so can I get your plow tomorrow can I borrow so and so from me tomorrow they answer him back back then you could hear it a long way sometimes I've heard I'm holler as far as four miles [Music] away give [Music] [Applause] [Music] I got one well this year is a distress huler now and every one needed some help something went wrong and needed help you get out do something like this [Music] everybody come to see what was wrong and then if you want to meet somebody somewhere and you got there first downside the river maybe sometimes you be going down the river on a r uh raft of Timber and they get down to the river the first thing go up there you H something like this oh they're dancing back [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] W some morning it's about 2 or 3:00 you can hear I'm coming to the field to tie that father while he K on you hear one h on coming holling something like [Music] all going to holler back to let him know they were coming so uh that's what Hing is all about it's being handed down from generation to generation hey [Music] I'm Skinner Barber from Benson route three Johnson County North Carolina and this is my third year I've been down here at uh sty corner and I've been three time second runner up in the National hollering contest and I don't think I'll come back anymore [Music] [Music] oh well my dad hollered before me you know way back then the most men holler you know I own the farm I've been on the farm all my life farmed all my life and they' all holler you know that's the way they had a a connection you know about over the neighborhood you don't know radio television you know back then or nothing else the only way it you heard from anybody body close by way off you'd holler you know alone well sometime I'd need help about getting a stock maybe out got out or something and i' I'd uh I just need a little bit of help I'd come inoo [Music] well pretty quick I'd get help it's well it brings that old tradition back you know where uh has always been a custom in this part of the country always [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] well I've grown up around holler because my grandfather was the champion and I've grown up to just start holler in and then one day I decided that I would yell and so I hollered and one of my hollers was the distress holler which went like this W and then there's a water call which like when I'm out in the field and I want some water I'll yell to the house and it goes like this woo wo and then if I want some dog to come to me there's a holler which goes like this and I've got this song that I holler to and the it is entitled somebody loves me and it goes like this [Music] well they wanted me to go back then uh Mike Douglas to Philadelphia and I she went with me and I wanted to sort of wanted to show them some of my grandchildren and told him that she had win Junior hollering at uh our place and he so when they got on with that said don't see them grandchildren two of them come in this and another and uh about 13y old and so they they just well it just almost went wild sound like with the all the slaps they got you know about being grandchildren and she holled a little bit and there and got a second chair in job [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] last my name's de Jackson and I'm on rosebury route to and North Carolina now and uh I've been living here 53 years been married 53 right about 53 and I'm uh going in 80 year old and I've been a hollering about all my life I told some of them that when I was a baby that Mama spanked me and I started to holler in [Applause] I was the first Champion that was in 69 and I told some I just knew my brother had beat me but he hollered I told somebody the reason he didn't get it he uh I hollered what a friend we have in Jesus and he hollered old Gray Goose and there's two preachers judges and they us not like that old Gray [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Goose OB and myself went and I said well this is a dead dog there ain't going to be nothing to this I thought everybody know doll but my God it started and it build up it's bigger ever larger every year [Applause] [Music] [Music] turn this way [Music] [Music] come to dinner come to dinner [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] me I'm my way I'm my Myck is and my heart is home [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] hi my name's Robert good I just won the junior the national holling contest of SP Corner North Carolina the junior contestants and how I got started was the rescue squad and the fire department go by sometime and I just picked it up and I'm Proud To Be A Winner the we I begin to harder this little hard that I a holler I call it some calls it the Diddy and some calls it uh different things but I always call it yell there some boys stay across the river and they come down the boat and the river both all my huling together and I got the answering them back and I kept putting a little more to it a little more to it I made it up myself and I don't think there anybody ever haul it never will haul it just exactly like I haul it something like is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] e for