"Squid Jiggin' Ground"

sheet music

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & SHEET MUSIC
Scammell, A. R.; Wulff, Lee
Canada
1944
paper
11 x 8-5/8 in.

Sheet music, "Squid Jiggin' Ground"; Songs of Newfoundland by A. R. Scammell, copyright 1944; blue cover with portrait photograph in circle of Arthur Scammell, and photograph by Lee Wulff of dories and fishing schooner; squid fisheries; Scammell is said to have composed this song when he was 15 years old, and it is "considered the first commercial recording of a Newfoundland folk song." (see correspondence file); 2 pages.

2000.159.20