We're remixing "Sweet Babe of Mine," a beautiful lullaby sung by sixteen-year-old Margie Maddox in her Texas high school's coat closet in 1939. Our guests are Jesse Hocking from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and musical duo Elizabeth Mitchell and Daniel Littleton of the band Ida.

We're remixing "Sweet Babe of Mine," a beautiful lullaby sung by sixteen-year-old Margie Maddox in her Texas high school's coat closet in 1939. Our guests are Jesse Hocking from the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress and musical duo Elizabeth Mitchell and Daniel Littleton of the band Ida.

Sweet Babe of Mine

Hosted by Postell Pringle, LOC Mixtape digs into the stacks of the largest library in the world, The Library of Congress, to make the ultimate mixtape. We find the best, craziest, most inspiring songs in the library archive and talk to experts about who made them and why. Then, we mix it up, bringing in amazing contemporary recording artists to make new songs inspired by those classics. Funded by a grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program, through the Lewis-Houghton Initiative. Content created and featured in partnership with the TPS program does not indicate an endorsement by the Library of Congress For more primary sources, go to loc.gov&nbsp; For more information about audiyo-yo, go to fablevisionstudios.com/audiyoyo&nbsp;

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Hosted by Postell Pringle, LOC Mixtape digs into the stacks of the largest library in the world, The Library of Congress, to make the ultimate mixtape. We find the best, craziest, most inspiring songs in the library archive and talk to experts about who made them and why. Then, we mix it up, bringing in amazing contemporary recording artists to make new songs inspired by those classics. Funded by a grant from the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program, through the Lewis-Houghton Initiative. Content created and featured in partnership with the TPS program does not indicate an endorsement by the Library of Congress For more primary sources, go to loc.gov  For more information about audiyo-yo, go to fablevisionstudios.com/audiyoyo 

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