Menasha Public Library (Elisha D. Smith)

Folk song America, a 20th century revival

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Folk song America

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24341072

Recorded between May 1, 1919, and 1987; all selections previously released on various labels

a 20th century revival

v.1. Shout all over God's heaven (Fisk Jubilee Singers) -- Jesse James (Bentley Ball) -- Water boy (Paul Robeson) -- All night long (Carl Sandburg) -- Big Rock Candy Mountain (Harry McClintock) -- Deep river (Marian Anderson) -- Lady Gay (Buell Kazee) -- The maid freed from the gallows (John Jacob Niles) -- Marching to Pretoria (Josef Marais with his Bushveld Band) -- C for conscription (Almanac Singers) -- Goodnight Irene (Leadbelly) -- Wayfaring stranger (American Chamber Music Group) -- Buffalo skinners (John Lomax) -- So long, it's been good to know you (Woody Guthrie) -- Get thee behind me, Satan (Almanac Singers) -- Greensleeves (Richard Dyer-Bennet) -- The house I live in (Josh White) -- Venezuela (Burl Ives) -- Dark as a dungeon (Merle Travis)v. 1 (cont.). Swing down, chariot (Golden Gate Quartet) -- Black is the color (Jo Stafford) -- Rock Island Line (Leadbelly) -- We will overcome (Joe Glazer and the Elm City Four) -- Around the world medley (The Weavers) -- Old man atom (Sam Hinton)v. 2. Banana boat song (Tarriers) -- Johnny I hardly knew you (Martha Schlamme) -- I was born about ten thousand years ago (Oscar Brand) -- Jamaica farewell (Harry Belafonte) -- I wonder when I'll be called a man (Bill Broonzy) -- A wanton trick (Ed McCurdy) -- Coplas (Cynthia Gooding and Theodore Bikel) -- Willie Moore (Kossoy Sisters) -- Another man done gone (Odetta) -- This little light of mine (Gateway Singers) -- The day is past and gone (Jean Ritchie) -- Sweet bye and bye (Harry and Jeanie West) -- Si me quieres escribir (The Weavers) -- Trouble in mind (Barbara Dane) -- If I had my way (Gary Davis) -- The rakes of Mallow (Billy Faier) -- Tom Dooley (Kingston Trio) -- Old man (Hally Wood) -- If you lose your money (Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry) -- Delia's gone (Bud and Travis) -- Freight train (Elizabeth Cotten)v. 2 (cont.). MTA (Kingston Trio) -- Virgin Mary (Joan Baez and Bob Gibson) -- Stewball (Greenbriar Boys) -- Pastures of plenty (Cisco Houston) -- Leaving home (New Lost City Ramblers)v. 3. Lonesome traveler (The Limeliters) -- Santy Anna (A.L. Lloyd and Ewan MacColl) -- The lion sleeps tonight (The Tokens) -- Yas-yas-yas (Dave van Ronk) -- Portland town (Jack Elliott) -- Salty dog blues (Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs) -- Whiskey, you're the devil (Clancy Brothers) -- We shall not be moved (Freedom Singers) -- The first time ever I saw your face (Peggy Seeger) -- Candy man blues (Mississippi John Hurt) -- Walk right in (Rooftop Singers) -- Little boxes (Pete Seeger) -- Blowin' in the wind (Bob Dylan) -- Duncan and Brady (John Koerner) -- Pans of biscuits (Hedy West) -- I don't want your millions, Mister (Tom Rush) -- Rambling boy (Tom Paxton) -- St. James Hospital (Doc Watson) -- I am a pilgrim (Kentucky Colonels) -- Captain Woodstock's courtship (Ian and Sylvia) -- Ballad of Ira Hayes (Patrick Sky)v. 3 (cont.). Pack up your sorrows (Richard and Mimi Farina) -- Mr. Tambourine Man (The Byrds) -- Now that the buffalo's gone (Buffy Sainte-Marie) -- Jug band music (Jim Kweskin and the Jug Band) -- Last night I had the straingest dream (Simon and Garfunkel) -- There but for fortune (Phil Ochs)v. 4. Scarborough fair/Canticle (Simon and Garfunkel) -- If I could be the rain (Rosalie Sorrels) -- On the road again (Canned Heat) -- Over the waterfall (Hollow Rock String Band) -- Higher ground (Sara and Maybelle Carter) -- I-feel-like-I'm-fixin'-to-die rag (Country Joe and the Fish) -- Amazing grace (Judy Collins) -- Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah (Maria Muldaur) -- The city of New Orleans (Steve Goodman) -- I dreamed I saw Joe Hill (Joan Baez) -- Paradise (Jim Ringer) -- Way downtown (Doc Watson and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) -- Dueling banjos (Eric Weissberg) -- Greenland whale fisheries (Peter, Paul, and Mary) -- Corinna (Taj Mahal) -- Fire on the mountain (Highwoods String Band) -- We'll understand it better bye and bye (Sweet Honey in the Rock)v. 4 (cont.) Sacco's letter to his son (Magpie) -- Hey, good lookin' (Peter Ostroushko) -- The ballad of Francine Hughes (Lyn Hardy of the Rude Girls) -- Two Jewish reels: A shepherd's dream/Onga Bucharesti (De Dannan)