Historic Bibliographies and Reference Aids

A Brief List of Material Relating to "Bingo" ("B-I-N-G-O")

Compiled by: Joseph C. Hickerson
Publication Date: June 27, 1974

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"Ancient Village Sports." Northampton Notes and Queries, volume 1, part 8, October 1885, pp.214-215

Andrews, S.C.
The American College Songster. Ann Arbor: Sheehan & Co., 1876. P. 131.

Broadwood, Lucy E.
"Note on 'Bango' the Miller's Dog." Journal of the Folk-Song Society, volume 6, number 1 (number 21), 1918, p. 39

Brown, Florence Warren, and Boyd, Neva L.
Old English and American Games for School and Playground. Chicago: Saul Bros., 1915. p.18

Chase, Richard.
Hullabaloo and Other Singing Folk Games. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, 1949. Pp. 52-53.

Dearmer, Percy, and Shaw, Martin.
Song Time. London: J. Curwen and Sons, Ltd., 1915. Pp 66-67: "Little Bingo."

Gardner, Evelyn E.
"Some Play-Party Games in Michigan." Journal of American Folklore, volume 33, number 127, January-March 1920, pp. 91-133. Pp. 93-94.

Gillington, Alice E.
Old Hampshire Singing Games and Trilling the Rope Rhymes. London: J. Curwen and Sons, Ltd., 1909. P.22, number 15: "Bobby Bingo."

Old Isle of Wight Singing Games. London: J. Curwen and Sons, Ltd., 1909. P.6, number 4.

Gomme, Alice Bertha.
The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Two volumes, reprint edition, New York: Dover Publications, Inc. 1964. Volume 1, pp. 29-33.

Grahame, Pauline.
"Play-Party Games." The Palimpsest [The State Historical Society of Iowa], volume 10, number 2, February 1929, pp. 33-67. Pp. 60-61.

Hausman, Ruth L.
Sing and Dance with the Pennsylvania Dutch. New York: Edward B. Marks Music Corp., 1953. P. 66.

Heck, Jean Olive.
"Folk Poetry and Folk Criticism, As Illustrated by Cincinnati Children in their Singing Games and in their Thoughts about these Games." Journal of American Folklore, volume 40, number 155, January-March 1927, pp. 1-77. P. 37, number 83.

Hofer, Mari Ruef.
All the World A-Dancing. Chicago: Clayton F. Summy Co., 1925. Pp. 64-65: "Little Bingo."

Hunt, Beatrice A., and Wilson, Henry Robert.
Sing and Dance. Chicago: Hall and McCreary, 1945. Pp. 44-45.

Reynardson, H. F. Birch.
Sussex Songs (Popular Songs of Sussex). London: Stanley Lucas, Weber & Co., n.d. Pp 32-33, number 16: "Bango."

Rimbault, Edward F.
Nursery Rhymes. London: Cramer, Wood & Co., n.d. Pp.62-63

Rohrbough, Lynn.
Handy Play Party Book. Delaware, Ohio: Cooperative Recreation Service, Inc., 1940. Pp. 24-25, 43.

Sharp, Cecil J. and Marson, Charles L.
Folk Songs from Somerset. Third Series. London: Simpkin & Co., Ltd., 1906. Pp. 14-15, number 60.

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"Songs Connected with Customs." Journal of the Folk-Song Society, volume 5, number 2 (number 19), 1915, pp. 204-220. Pp. 219-220.

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"Songs from the Collection of Mr. Frank Kidson." Journal of the Folk-Song Society, volume 1, number 5, 1904, pp. 228-256. P. 242, number 10: "A Farmer's Dog Jumped over the Style."

Waite, Henry Randall.
College Songs. Revised Edition, Boston: Oliver Ditson Co., 1906. P. 54.

Wintenberg, W. J.
"Folk-Lore Collected in Toronto and Vicinity." Journal of American Folklore, volume 31, number 120, April-June 1918, pp. 125-134. P. 130, number 62.