Bela Lam & Family: Poor Little Benny - 1920's

Weirdo Video Exclusive Virginia native Zanddervon Beliah Lamb, renamed Bela Lam by Okeh Records, performs the song Poor Little Benny with wife Rose Meadows. With Bela's brother-in-law Paul and son Alva, they became local favorites near the Blue Ridge Mountain region in the 1920's, eventually being called to New York City to record six songs. [gmap zoom=12 |center=38.852336,-78.1505549 |width=650px |height=350px |control=Small |type=Hybrid] Influenced by the local religious music of the day, Bela Lam & the Greene County Singers, as they would come to be known, are notable for their shape-note harmonies, highly influential during the period.