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[edit] Copyright

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[edit] Performance and recording

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[edit] Composition and arrangement

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[edit] Library of Congress description

Dust jacket notes: Verse 1 on AFS 3864 A1; verse 2 on AFS 3864 A3.

Inscribed on dust jacket by Sidney Robertson Cowell: "The sneeze song. Learned from his aunt or older sister."

Giuseppe Russo, unaccompanied vocals.

Recorded by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Pittsburg, California on March 11, 1939.

In Italian.

Forms part of a group of field materials documenting Giuseppe Russo performing Sicilian and Italian songs, some in Neapolitan dialect, at times accompanying himself on the piano, on March 11 and 29, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Pittsburg, California.

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