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Folk song and minstrelsy
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- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
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- Houston, Cisco, performer
- Odetta, 1930-2008, performer
- Baez, Joan, performer
- Gibson, Bob, 1931-1996, performer
- McCurdy, Ed, 1919-2000, performer
- Mills, Alan, 1912-1977, performer
- Bibb, Leon, 1922-2015, performer
- Driftwood, Jimmie, performer
- MacColl, Ewan, performer
- Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014, performer
- Makem, Tommy, performer
- Niles, John Jacob, 1892-1980, performer
- Weavers (Musical group)
- Deller Consort
- Publication
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- New York : Classic Record Library; Vanguard, [1962]
- ℗1962
- Physical Details
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- 4 audio discs : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereophonic ; 12 in
- OCLC
- ocm03581399
- Credits
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- Cisco Houston, Odetta, The Weavers, and other soloists, with various accompaniments
- Sides 7-8 have subtitle: Newport Folk Festival.
- Program notes (24 p.) include texts of the 66 songs, and brief biographical sketches of the 15 performers.
- Disc 1, Traditional songs and ballads of the British Isles: Sumer is icumen in -- He that will an alehouse keep -- Lang a-growing -- The hangman, or The maid freed from the gallows -- John Riley -- We be soldiers three -- Johnny, I hardly knew ye -- The whistling gypsy -- When cockle shells turn silver bells -- Greensleeves -- The bold fisherman -- The cobbler's song -- Eddystone Light
- Disc 2, British-American ballads and songs: Come all ye fair and tender ladies -- The fox -- Go from my window -- The golden vanity -- Johnny is gone for a soldier -- Greenland whale fisheries -- Aweigh, Santy Ano -- The streets of Laredo
- Disc 3, The American tradition: East Virginia blues -- Cotton-eyed Joe -- Poor Lolette -- Spanish is a loving tongue -- The Erie Canal -- Saro Jane -- John Henry -- Virgin Mary had one son -- Wayfaring stranger -- He's got the whole world in his hands -- God's a-gonna cut you down -- All the pretty little horses -- No more auction block for me -- The ox driver -- The buffalo skinners -- Get along, little dogies -- Old Dan Tucker -- Squirrel -- We're all dodgin' -- The state of Arkansas -- Old Joe Clark -- The unfortunate man
- Disc 4, Modern minstrelsy: Another man done gone -- I'm going back to the red clay country -- No more cane in the brazos -- Darlin' -- I've been driving on Bald Mountain -- Water boy -- John Hardy -- Railroad Bill -- House of the rising sun -- East Texas red -- The cat came back -- Meet the Johnson boys -- Talking guitar blues -- I know an old lady -- The foggy dew -- The wreck of the old 97 -- The sinking of the Reuben James -- Frankie and Johnny -- The wild goose grasses -- Danville girl -- Hard travelin' -- Bonneville Dam -- Do re mi