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Wayfaring Stranger: Selected Classics 1941-62
Artist:
Burl Ives
Format: CD
New: Available
Wish
Formats and Editions
1. Wee Cooper O' Fife
2. Cowboy's Lament
3. I Know Where I'm Going
4. Tam Pierce
5. Peter Gray
6. On Top of Old Smoky
7. Cotton Eyed Joe
8. Darlin' Cory
9. Foggy, Foggy Dew
10. Blue Tail Fly
11. Big Rock Candy Mountain
12. Old Dan Tucker
13. Eddystone Light
14. Fox
15. Aunt Rhody
16. Down in the Valley
17. I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
18. Turtle Dove
19. Po' Boy
20. Lavender Blue
21. On the Grand Canyon Line
22. Wayfaring Stranger
23. Riders in the Sky
24. Roving Gambler
25. John Hardy
26. Worried Man Blues
27. Mr Froggie Went A-Courtin
28. Mule Train
29. John Henry
30. Doughnut Song
31. Pretty Polly
32. Green Broom
33. Pig Pig
34. Wild Side of Life
35. This Time Tomorrow
36. Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves
37. Goober Peas
38. Git Along Little Dogies
39. Hush Little Baby
40. I Know An Old Lady
41. Nellie McNess
42. Molly Malone
43. Liza Jane
44. Barbara Allen
45. Close the Door Richard
46. Crawdad Song
47. Casey Jones
48. Ballad of Davy Crockett
49. Wabash Cannonball
50. Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor
51. Ox Driver's Song
52. Waltzing Matilda (The Jolly Swagman's Song)
53. Wild Rover
54. Frankie and Johnny
55. Prisoner's Song (Midnight Special)
56. Santy Anna
57. Blow Ye Winds!
58. Drunken Sailor
59. Rolling Home
60. Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe
61. Kilgary Mountain
62. Nell Flaherty's Drake
63. Paddy and the Whale
64. Squirrel
65. Horace the Horse
66. Bestiary
67. The Monkey and the Elephant
68. In the Evening By the Moonlight
69. Man on the Flying Trapeze
70. Grandfather's Clock
71. Man That Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
72. Wild Colonial Boy
73. A Nautical Yarn
74. Botany Bay
75. Oh By Jingo (Oh By Gee, You're the Only Girl for Me)
76. Tit Willow
77. I Never See Maggie Alone
78. There Is a Tavern in the Town
79. There's a Hole in My Bucket
80. Marianne
81. Long Black Veil
82. Little Bitty Tear
83. Shanghied
84. Mockin' Bird Hill
85. Funny Way of Laughin'
86. Mother Wouldn't Do That
87. Call Me Mr. In-Between
88. Mary Ann Regrets
More Info:
Burl Ives was a unique and remarkable entertainer, a folk and pop singer and guitarist, composer, radio performer and stage and film actor, who helped to popularise traditional folk music across all generations but also had pop hits in his later career. Born in Illinois in 1909, he gave up training to be a teacher to become an itinerant troubadour-style entertainer, working on radio where he could and once jailed for vagrancy in Utah. After Army service in WWII, and appearing in Irving Berlin's "This Is The Army", he became a radio regular, and started recording, revving many US and British folk songs. His early recordings of songs like "Blue Tail Fly", "Big Rock Candy Mountain" and "I Know An Old Lady" became children's radio favourites for decades. This 87-track 3-CD collection comprises selected A & B sides from releases on the Columbia & Decca labels from these years, plus selected titles from the Decca albums "A Collection of Ballads & Folk Songs", "Ballads & Folk Songs Vol 2", "Folk Songs - Dramatic And Humorous", "Women (Folk Songs About The Fair Sex)", "Wild Side Of Life", "Men: Songs For And About Men", "Down To The Sea In Ships", "Songs Of Ireland", "Capt. Burl Ives Ark", "Old Time Varieties", "Australian Folk Songs" and "Cheers". It includes his hits "Riders In The Sky, "Marianne", "A Little Bitty Tear", "Funny Way Of Laughing", "Call Me Mr. In-Between" and "Mary Ann Regrets". He was a one of a kind performer, and this selection from his prolific recorded canon is a celebration of his distinctive contribution to popular culture.
