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American favorite ballads, Pete Seeger, (sound recording)

Work
Publication
Extent
5 sound discs
Note
  • Reissues: 1950-1998
  • Program notes by Jeff Place and Guy Logsdon, including track annotations, bibliographies, and notes about the compilers, inserted in each pocket; song lyrics available online
  • Smithsonian Folkways: SFW CD 40155 (from booklets: SFW CD 40150-40154)
Contents
  • Vol. 1. John Henry (4:28) -- Shenandoah (1:47) -- Blue-tailed fly (Jimmy crack corn) / D. Emmett (2:31) -- Black girl / arr. H. Ledbetter (2:29) -- Skip to my Lou (3:08) -- The big rock candy mountain / H. McClintock (3:05) -- Clementine / P. Montrose (3:02) -- Yankee Doodle (1:36) -- Home on the range / B. Higley ; D.E. Kelley (1:48) -- John Brown's body (2:56) -- Goodnight, Irene / H. Ledbetter ; adapted by J.L. Lomax (3:39) -- Swing low, sweet chariot / W. Willis ; M. Willis (2:33) -- Oh, Susanna / S. Foster (1:13) -- Wayfaring stranger (1:11) -- Oh, Mary, don't you weep (2:27) -- Down in the valley (3:41) -- The Wabash cannonball (3:01) -- On top of Old Smoky (2:14) -- Frankie and Johnny (4:24) -- I ride an old paint (3:20) -- The wreck of the old 97 / H. Whitter ; C.W. Noell ; F.J. Lewey (1:49) -- Wagoner's lad (1:22) -- Old Dan Tucker / D. Emmett (2:11) -- I've been working on the railroad (1:23) -- Cielito Lindo / Q. Mendoza y Cortez (2:30) -- So long, it's been good to know you (dusty old dust) / W. Guthrie (3:19) -- America the beautiful / K.L. Bates ; S.A. Ward (1:35) -- This land is your land / W. Guthrie (2:50) --
  • Vol. 2. Barbara Allen (2:48) -- Young man who wouldn't hoe corn (1:34) -- Midnight special (3:02) -- House of the rising sun (2:30) -- Careless love (3:04) -- Oh, what a beautiful city (3:24) -- Poor boy (2:13) -- Sally Ann (1:28) -- The riddle song (2:23) -- Go tell aunt Rhody (3:11) -- The water is wide (3:31) -- The fox (2:02) -- The keeper and the doe (2:10) -- Pretty Polly (3:35) -- Jesse James (4:25) -- Stagolee (2:10) -- Black is the color of my true love's hair (2:27) -- Camptown races (1:27) -- Blow that man down (2:00) -- Froggie went a courtin' (2:48) -- I had a rooster (barnyard song) (3:51) -- Putting on the style (2:45) -- The farmer's curst wife (2:47) -- Hard travelin' (2:40) -- Alabama bound (2:17) -- Wimoweh (2:57) -- Dink's song (2:37) --
  • Vol. 3. Gypsy Davy (5:03) -- Deep blue sea (2:16) -- New river train (3:00) -- St. James hospital (2:58) -- E-ri-e Canal (3:21) -- St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy (2:22) -- Boll weevil (3:56) -- The girl I left behind (1:11) -- When I first came to this land / trans. by Oscar Brand (2:40) -- The Titanic (3:47) -- El-a-noy (1:46) -- Lady of Carlysle (3:23) -- My good man (2:39) -- Golden vanity (3:56) -- Ain't it a shame (1:47) -- Swanee River / Stephen Foster (3:01) -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (4:31) -- The boys from County Mayo (2:21) -- No Irish need apply / John F. Poole (1:56) -- Paddy works on the railroad (2:26) -- Arkansas traveler (2:39) -- When I was single (1:17) -- Wond'rous love / Alex Means (1:37) -- Ground hog (3:47) -- Old Blue (2:18) -- She'll be comin' round the mountain (1:51) -- Erie Canal / Thomas S. Allen (2:38) --
  • Vol. 4. Banks of the Ohio (3:32) -- You are my sunshine / J.H. Davis ; C. Mitchell (1:46) -- Hallelujah, I'm a bum (1:40) -- The foggy dew (1:59) -- Molly Malone (2:22) -- Old maid's song (1:40) -- Oh how he lied (1:43) -- Where the old Allegheny and the Monongahela flow (2:44) -- Leatherwing bat (3:11) -- Johnny has gone for a soldier (2:29) -- Farther along (2:34) -- Go down, Moses (2:57) -- All my trials (3:07) -- Monsieur Banjo (2:13) -- No more auction block (1:58) -- Hole in the bucket (2:22) -- What shall we do with the drunken sailor (2:18) -- Army life / G. Rice (2:08) -- Blue mountain lake (2:47) -- Lady Margaret (2:56) -- John Hardy (3:36) -- Johnson (2:54) -- John Riley (2:24) -- Washer lad (1:12) -- Talking blues / C. Bouchillion (2:05) -- Lolly too dum (3:37) -- T.B. blues / J. Rodgers (4:04) -- Summertime / G. Gershwin ; I. Gershwin ; D.B. Heyward (3:45) --
  • Vol. 5. Trail to Mexico (2:45) -- Red River Valley (2:05) -- Old Joe Clark (3:53) -- St. James infirmary (2:30) -- Green County bachelor (2:32) -- Ox driver's song (1:52) -- Buffalo gals (2:18) -- Joe Bowers (2:56) -- Texian boys (1:26) -- My sweetheart is a mule in the mines (:25) -- Johnny Gray (1:51) -- Cowboy yodel (:51) -- Sioux Indians (3:38) -- Ida Red (1:53) -- Holler (1:15) -- Cumberland Gap (1:18) -- Wake up, Jacob (:17) -- Sweet Betsy from Pike / John A. Stone (3:24) -- Buffalo skinners (2:42) -- Whiskey, rye whiskey (2:14) -- Stewball (4:51) -- Whoopie ti-yi-yo, get along, little dogies (1:27) -- Strawberry roan / Curly Fletcher (5:01) -- Jay Gould's Daughter (2:37) -- Play-party (1:22) -- I never will marry / arr. Texas Gladden (2:02) -- Riflemen of Bennington /John Allison (2:10) -- Kingdom coming (year of jubilo) / Henry Clay Work (2:32) -- Cumberland Mountain bear chase / Uncle Dave Macon ; Pete Seeger (3:35)
Instance
Label
American favorite ballads
Title
American favorite ballads
Statement of responsibility
Pete Seeger
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Accompanying matter
  • discography
  • bibliography
  • biography of performer or history of ensemble
  • technical information on music
  • historical information
Cataloging source
ISM
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1919-2014
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Seeger, Pete
Date time place
Recorded in New York, 1950-1962
Dewey number
782.4216213
Form of composition
multiple forms
Format of music
not applicable
LC call number
M1629.S44
LC item number
A44 2009
Music parts
not applicable
PerformerNote
Pete Seeger, vocals, banjo, guitar
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Ballads, English
  • Folk music
Transposition and arrangement
not applicable
Label
American favorite ballads, Pete Seeger, (sound recording)
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Reissues: 1950-1998
  • Program notes by Jeff Place and Guy Logsdon, including track annotations, bibliographies, and notes about the compilers, inserted in each pocket; song lyrics available online
  • Smithsonian Folkways: SFW CD 40155 (from booklets: SFW CD 40150-40154)
Capture and storage technique
digital storage
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Contents
  • Vol. 1. John Henry (4:28) -- Shenandoah (1:47) -- Blue-tailed fly (Jimmy crack corn) / D. Emmett (2:31) -- Black girl / arr. H. Ledbetter (2:29) -- Skip to my Lou (3:08) -- The big rock candy mountain / H. McClintock (3:05) -- Clementine / P. Montrose (3:02) -- Yankee Doodle (1:36) -- Home on the range / B. Higley ; D.E. Kelley (1:48) -- John Brown's body (2:56) -- Goodnight, Irene / H. Ledbetter ; adapted by J.L. Lomax (3:39) -- Swing low, sweet chariot / W. Willis ; M. Willis (2:33) -- Oh, Susanna / S. Foster (1:13) -- Wayfaring stranger (1:11) -- Oh, Mary, don't you weep (2:27) -- Down in the valley (3:41) -- The Wabash cannonball (3:01) -- On top of Old Smoky (2:14) -- Frankie and Johnny (4:24) -- I ride an old paint (3:20) -- The wreck of the old 97 / H. Whitter ; C.W. Noell ; F.J. Lewey (1:49) -- Wagoner's lad (1:22) -- Old Dan Tucker / D. Emmett (2:11) -- I've been working on the railroad (1:23) -- Cielito Lindo / Q. Mendoza y Cortez (2:30) -- So long, it's been good to know you (dusty old dust) / W. Guthrie (3:19) -- America the beautiful / K.L. Bates ; S.A. Ward (1:35) -- This land is your land / W. Guthrie (2:50) --
  • Vol. 2. Barbara Allen (2:48) -- Young man who wouldn't hoe corn (1:34) -- Midnight special (3:02) -- House of the rising sun (2:30) -- Careless love (3:04) -- Oh, what a beautiful city (3:24) -- Poor boy (2:13) -- Sally Ann (1:28) -- The riddle song (2:23) -- Go tell aunt Rhody (3:11) -- The water is wide (3:31) -- The fox (2:02) -- The keeper and the doe (2:10) -- Pretty Polly (3:35) -- Jesse James (4:25) -- Stagolee (2:10) -- Black is the color of my true love's hair (2:27) -- Camptown races (1:27) -- Blow that man down (2:00) -- Froggie went a courtin' (2:48) -- I had a rooster (barnyard song) (3:51) -- Putting on the style (2:45) -- The farmer's curst wife (2:47) -- Hard travelin' (2:40) -- Alabama bound (2:17) -- Wimoweh (2:57) -- Dink's song (2:37) --
  • Vol. 3. Gypsy Davy (5:03) -- Deep blue sea (2:16) -- New river train (3:00) -- St. James hospital (2:58) -- E-ri-e Canal (3:21) -- St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy (2:22) -- Boll weevil (3:56) -- The girl I left behind (1:11) -- When I first came to this land / trans. by Oscar Brand (2:40) -- The Titanic (3:47) -- El-a-noy (1:46) -- Lady of Carlysle (3:23) -- My good man (2:39) -- Golden vanity (3:56) -- Ain't it a shame (1:47) -- Swanee River / Stephen Foster (3:01) -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (4:31) -- The boys from County Mayo (2:21) -- No Irish need apply / John F. Poole (1:56) -- Paddy works on the railroad (2:26) -- Arkansas traveler (2:39) -- When I was single (1:17) -- Wond'rous love / Alex Means (1:37) -- Ground hog (3:47) -- Old Blue (2:18) -- She'll be comin' round the mountain (1:51) -- Erie Canal / Thomas S. Allen (2:38) --
  • Vol. 4. Banks of the Ohio (3:32) -- You are my sunshine / J.H. Davis ; C. Mitchell (1:46) -- Hallelujah, I'm a bum (1:40) -- The foggy dew (1:59) -- Molly Malone (2:22) -- Old maid's song (1:40) -- Oh how he lied (1:43) -- Where the old Allegheny and the Monongahela flow (2:44) -- Leatherwing bat (3:11) -- Johnny has gone for a soldier (2:29) -- Farther along (2:34) -- Go down, Moses (2:57) -- All my trials (3:07) -- Monsieur Banjo (2:13) -- No more auction block (1:58) -- Hole in the bucket (2:22) -- What shall we do with the drunken sailor (2:18) -- Army life / G. Rice (2:08) -- Blue mountain lake (2:47) -- Lady Margaret (2:56) -- John Hardy (3:36) -- Johnson (2:54) -- John Riley (2:24) -- Washer lad (1:12) -- Talking blues / C. Bouchillion (2:05) -- Lolly too dum (3:37) -- T.B. blues / J. Rodgers (4:04) -- Summertime / G. Gershwin ; I. Gershwin ; D.B. Heyward (3:45) --
  • Vol. 5. Trail to Mexico (2:45) -- Red River Valley (2:05) -- Old Joe Clark (3:53) -- St. James infirmary (2:30) -- Green County bachelor (2:32) -- Ox driver's song (1:52) -- Buffalo gals (2:18) -- Joe Bowers (2:56) -- Texian boys (1:26) -- My sweetheart is a mule in the mines (:25) -- Johnny Gray (1:51) -- Cowboy yodel (:51) -- Sioux Indians (3:38) -- Ida Red (1:53) -- Holler (1:15) -- Cumberland Gap (1:18) -- Wake up, Jacob (:17) -- Sweet Betsy from Pike / John A. Stone (3:24) -- Buffalo skinners (2:42) -- Whiskey, rye whiskey (2:14) -- Stewball (4:51) -- Whoopie ti-yi-yo, get along, little dogies (1:27) -- Strawberry roan / Curly Fletcher (5:01) -- Jay Gould's Daughter (2:37) -- Play-party (1:22) -- I never will marry / arr. Texas Gladden (2:02) -- Riflemen of Bennington /John Allison (2:10) -- Kingdom coming (year of jubilo) / Henry Clay Work (2:32) -- Cumberland Mountain bear chase / Uncle Dave Macon ; Pete Seeger (3:35)
Control code
ocn317965758
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
Extent
5 sound discs
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Other control number
  • 093074015520
  • 00093074015520
Other physical details
digital
Publisher number
  • SFW CD 40155
  • SFW CD 40150
  • SFW CD 40151
  • SFW CD 40152
  • SFW CD 40153
  • SFW CD 40134
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
sound disc
Speed
1.4m. per second (discs)
System control number
(OCoLC)317965758
System details
Compact discs
Tape configuration
not applicable
Tape width
not applicable
Label
American favorite ballads, Pete Seeger, (sound recording)
Publication
Note
  • Reissues: 1950-1998
  • Program notes by Jeff Place and Guy Logsdon, including track annotations, bibliographies, and notes about the compilers, inserted in each pocket; song lyrics available online
  • Smithsonian Folkways: SFW CD 40155 (from booklets: SFW CD 40150-40154)
Capture and storage technique
digital storage
Configuration of playback channels
unknown
Contents
  • Vol. 1. John Henry (4:28) -- Shenandoah (1:47) -- Blue-tailed fly (Jimmy crack corn) / D. Emmett (2:31) -- Black girl / arr. H. Ledbetter (2:29) -- Skip to my Lou (3:08) -- The big rock candy mountain / H. McClintock (3:05) -- Clementine / P. Montrose (3:02) -- Yankee Doodle (1:36) -- Home on the range / B. Higley ; D.E. Kelley (1:48) -- John Brown's body (2:56) -- Goodnight, Irene / H. Ledbetter ; adapted by J.L. Lomax (3:39) -- Swing low, sweet chariot / W. Willis ; M. Willis (2:33) -- Oh, Susanna / S. Foster (1:13) -- Wayfaring stranger (1:11) -- Oh, Mary, don't you weep (2:27) -- Down in the valley (3:41) -- The Wabash cannonball (3:01) -- On top of Old Smoky (2:14) -- Frankie and Johnny (4:24) -- I ride an old paint (3:20) -- The wreck of the old 97 / H. Whitter ; C.W. Noell ; F.J. Lewey (1:49) -- Wagoner's lad (1:22) -- Old Dan Tucker / D. Emmett (2:11) -- I've been working on the railroad (1:23) -- Cielito Lindo / Q. Mendoza y Cortez (2:30) -- So long, it's been good to know you (dusty old dust) / W. Guthrie (3:19) -- America the beautiful / K.L. Bates ; S.A. Ward (1:35) -- This land is your land / W. Guthrie (2:50) --
  • Vol. 2. Barbara Allen (2:48) -- Young man who wouldn't hoe corn (1:34) -- Midnight special (3:02) -- House of the rising sun (2:30) -- Careless love (3:04) -- Oh, what a beautiful city (3:24) -- Poor boy (2:13) -- Sally Ann (1:28) -- The riddle song (2:23) -- Go tell aunt Rhody (3:11) -- The water is wide (3:31) -- The fox (2:02) -- The keeper and the doe (2:10) -- Pretty Polly (3:35) -- Jesse James (4:25) -- Stagolee (2:10) -- Black is the color of my true love's hair (2:27) -- Camptown races (1:27) -- Blow that man down (2:00) -- Froggie went a courtin' (2:48) -- I had a rooster (barnyard song) (3:51) -- Putting on the style (2:45) -- The farmer's curst wife (2:47) -- Hard travelin' (2:40) -- Alabama bound (2:17) -- Wimoweh (2:57) -- Dink's song (2:37) --
  • Vol. 3. Gypsy Davy (5:03) -- Deep blue sea (2:16) -- New river train (3:00) -- St. James hospital (2:58) -- E-ri-e Canal (3:21) -- St. Louis blues / W.C. Handy (2:22) -- Boll weevil (3:56) -- The girl I left behind (1:11) -- When I first came to this land / trans. by Oscar Brand (2:40) -- The Titanic (3:47) -- El-a-noy (1:46) -- Lady of Carlysle (3:23) -- My good man (2:39) -- Golden vanity (3:56) -- Ain't it a shame (1:47) -- Swanee River / Stephen Foster (3:01) -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child (4:31) -- The boys from County Mayo (2:21) -- No Irish need apply / John F. Poole (1:56) -- Paddy works on the railroad (2:26) -- Arkansas traveler (2:39) -- When I was single (1:17) -- Wond'rous love / Alex Means (1:37) -- Ground hog (3:47) -- Old Blue (2:18) -- She'll be comin' round the mountain (1:51) -- Erie Canal / Thomas S. Allen (2:38) --
  • Vol. 4. Banks of the Ohio (3:32) -- You are my sunshine / J.H. Davis ; C. Mitchell (1:46) -- Hallelujah, I'm a bum (1:40) -- The foggy dew (1:59) -- Molly Malone (2:22) -- Old maid's song (1:40) -- Oh how he lied (1:43) -- Where the old Allegheny and the Monongahela flow (2:44) -- Leatherwing bat (3:11) -- Johnny has gone for a soldier (2:29) -- Farther along (2:34) -- Go down, Moses (2:57) -- All my trials (3:07) -- Monsieur Banjo (2:13) -- No more auction block (1:58) -- Hole in the bucket (2:22) -- What shall we do with the drunken sailor (2:18) -- Army life / G. Rice (2:08) -- Blue mountain lake (2:47) -- Lady Margaret (2:56) -- John Hardy (3:36) -- Johnson (2:54) -- John Riley (2:24) -- Washer lad (1:12) -- Talking blues / C. Bouchillion (2:05) -- Lolly too dum (3:37) -- T.B. blues / J. Rodgers (4:04) -- Summertime / G. Gershwin ; I. Gershwin ; D.B. Heyward (3:45) --
  • Vol. 5. Trail to Mexico (2:45) -- Red River Valley (2:05) -- Old Joe Clark (3:53) -- St. James infirmary (2:30) -- Green County bachelor (2:32) -- Ox driver's song (1:52) -- Buffalo gals (2:18) -- Joe Bowers (2:56) -- Texian boys (1:26) -- My sweetheart is a mule in the mines (:25) -- Johnny Gray (1:51) -- Cowboy yodel (:51) -- Sioux Indians (3:38) -- Ida Red (1:53) -- Holler (1:15) -- Cumberland Gap (1:18) -- Wake up, Jacob (:17) -- Sweet Betsy from Pike / John A. Stone (3:24) -- Buffalo skinners (2:42) -- Whiskey, rye whiskey (2:14) -- Stewball (4:51) -- Whoopie ti-yi-yo, get along, little dogies (1:27) -- Strawberry roan / Curly Fletcher (5:01) -- Jay Gould's Daughter (2:37) -- Play-party (1:22) -- I never will marry / arr. Texas Gladden (2:02) -- Riflemen of Bennington /John Allison (2:10) -- Kingdom coming (year of jubilo) / Henry Clay Work (2:32) -- Cumberland Mountain bear chase / Uncle Dave Macon ; Pete Seeger (3:35)
Control code
ocn317965758
Dimensions
4 3/4 in.
Dimensions
4 3/4 in. or 12 cm. diameter
Extent
5 sound discs
Groove width / pitch
not applicable
Other control number
  • 093074015520
  • 00093074015520
Other physical details
digital
Publisher number
  • SFW CD 40155
  • SFW CD 40150
  • SFW CD 40151
  • SFW CD 40152
  • SFW CD 40153
  • SFW CD 40134
Special playback characteristics
digital recording
Specific material designation
sound disc
Speed
1.4m. per second (discs)
System control number
(OCoLC)317965758
System details
Compact discs
Tape configuration
not applicable
Tape width
not applicable

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