Pete Seeger - American Favorite Ballads Volumes 1-5 [2013] (5 x CD's)

PETE SEEGER

Pete Seeger - American Favorite Ballads Volumes 1-5 [2013] (5 x CD's)

These songs have been part of the fabric of America for a half century or more-and these five volumes of folk ballads recorded by Pete in the '50s and '60s were an integral part of our folk revival. Here are all 139 folk ballads on 5 CDs, each with its own booklet full of extensive notes; legendary songs and performances abound: John Henry; Clementine; Goodnight Irene; Yankee Doodle; Old Dan Tucker; Hole in the Bucket; This Land Is Your Land; America the Beautiful; Midnight Special; Froggie Went A-Courtin'; Boll Weevil; Erie Canal; Arkansas Traveler, and more!

Pete Seeger began singing, playing the banjo, and collecting folk music in the mid-1930s¯and has continued doing so into the 21st century. His life encompasses the social upheavals and transformations of much of the 20th century, while his peace anthems and songs of struggle and hope thread through our national soundtrack. They are as often sung by schoolchildren as by activists at peace and environmental rallies. Even in his late eighties, he inspires people across generations, cultures, and nations. Moses Asch founded Folkways Records in 1948 to document folk music and other sounds from around the world. Considering these to be educational as well as entertaining, yet aware of their limited commercial appeal, he directed his sales towards libraries and schools. Pete Seeger's five-volume series American Favorite Ballads (recorded 1957-1962), comprised of classic songs from the American experience that adults and children could sing together, formed a cornerstone for Asch's primary audience. Pete Seeger recorded 38 albums for Folkways between 1950 and 1964.  The Smithsonian Institution acquired Folkways from the Asch estate in 1987; Asch's emphasis on the educational nature of Folkways recordings comported perfectly with the Institution's mandate, the "increase and diffusion of knowledge." The year 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of Folkways and the 20th anniversary of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. We are pleased to honor Pete Seeger's life and legacy through this reissue and continue our commitment to preserve and expand Asch's "encyclopedia of sound," thus keeping it available for current and future generations of listeners.  (Amazon)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Pete Seeger - John Henry 4:33

02 Pete Seeger - Shenandoah 1:52

03 Pete Seeger - Blue-Tailed Fly 2:37

04 Pete Seeger - Black Girl 2:35

05 Pete Seeger - Skip to My Lou 3:13

06 Pete Seeger - The Big Rock Candy Mountain 3:10

07 Pete Seeger - Clementine 3:07

08 Pete Seeger - Yankee Doodle 1:42

09 Pete Seeger - Home on the Range 1:53

10 Pete Seeger - John Brown's Body 3:01

11 Pete Seeger - Goodnight, Irene 3:45

12 Pete Seeger - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 2:39

13 Pete Seeger - Oh, Susanna 1:19

14 Pete Seeger - Wayfaring Stranger 1:18

15 Pete Seeger - Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep 2:33

16 Pete Seeger - Down in the Valley 3:47

17 Pete Seeger - The Wabash Cannon Ball 3:07

18 Pete Seeger - On Top of Old Smoky 2:21

19 Pete Seeger - Frankie and Johnny 4:29

20 Pete Seeger - I Ride an Old Paint 3:26

21 Pete Seeger - The Wreck of the Old 97 1:55

22 Pete Seeger - Wagoner's Lad 1:27

23 Pete Seeger - Old Dan Tucker 2:16

24 Pete Seeger - I've Been Working on the Railroad 1:29

25 Pete Seeger - Cielito Lindo 2:36

26 Pete Seeger - So Long, It's Been Good to Know You 3:24

27 Pete Seeger - America the Beautiful 1:40

28 Pete Seeger - This Land Is Your Land 2:51

CD2

01 Pete Seeger - Barbara Allen 2:53

02 Pete Seeger - Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn 1:39

03 Pete Seeger - Midnight Special 3:08

04 Pete Seeger - House of the Rising Sun 2:35

05 Pete Seeger - Careless Love 3:08

06 Pete Seeger - Oh, What a Beautiful City 3:29

07 Pete Seeger - Poor Boy Foot 2:19

08 Pete Seeger - Sally Ann 1:33

09 Pete Seeger - The Riddle Song 2:28

10 Pete Seeger - Go Tell Aunt Rhody 3:16

11 Pete Seeger - The Water Is Wide 3:36

12 Pete Seeger - The Fox 2:07

13 Pete Seeger - The Keeper and the Doe 2:14

14 Pete Seeger - Pretty Polly 3:40

15 Pete Seeger - Jesse James 4:29

16 Pete Seeger - Stagolee 2:15

17 Pete Seeger - Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair 2:33

18 Pete Seeger - Camptown Races 1:33

19 Pete Seeger - Blow the Man Down 2:05

20 Pete Seeger - Froggie Went a Courtin' 2:53

21 Pete Seeger - I Had a Rooster 3:56

22 Pete Seeger - Putting on the Style 2:51

23 Pete Seeger - The Farmer's Curst Wife 2:52

24 Pete Seeger - Hard Travelin' 2:46

25 Pete Seeger - Alabama Bound 2:22

26 Pete Seeger - Wimoweh 3:03

27 Pete Seeger - Dink's Song 's 2:38

CD3

01 Pete Seeger - Gypsy Davy 5:02

02 Pete Seeger - Deep Blue Sea 2:16

03 Pete Seeger - New River Train 3:01

04 Pete Seeger - St. James Hospital 2:57

05 Pete Seeger - E-Ri-E Canal 3:22

06 Pete Seeger - St. Louis Blues 2:25

07 Pete Seeger - Boll Weevil 3:54

08 Pete Seeger - The Girl I Left Behind 1:12

09 Pete Seeger - When I First Came to This Land 2:42

10 Pete Seeger - The Titanic 3:45

11 Pete Seeger - El-A-Noy 1:50

12 Pete Seeger - Lady of Carlysle 3:21

13 Pete Seeger - My Good Man  Man 2:40

14 Pete Seeger - Golden Vanity 3:52

15 Pete Seeger - Ain't It a Shame 1:49

16 Pete Seeger - Swanee River 3:04

17 Pete Seeger - Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child 4:34

18 Pete Seeger - The Boys from County Mayo 2:26

19 Pete Seeger - No Irish Need Apply 1:57

20 Pete Seeger - Paddy Works on the Railroad 2:27

21 Pete Seeger - Arkansas Traveler 2:43

22 Pete Seeger - When I Was Single 1:19

23 Pete Seeger - Wond'rous Love 1:40

24 Pete Seeger - Ground Hog 3:50

25 Pete Seeger - Old Blue 2:24

26 Pete Seeger - She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain 1:58

27 Pete Seeger - Erie Canal 2:35

CD4

01 Pete Seeger - Banks of the Ohio 3:32

02 Pete Seeger - You Are My Sunshine 1:48

03 Pete Seeger - Hallelujah, I'm a Bum 1:41

04 Pete Seeger - The Foggy Dew 2:01

05 Pete Seeger - Molly Malone 2:23

06 Pete Seeger - Old Maid's Song 1:45

07 Pete Seeger - Oh, How He Lied 1:43

08 Pete Seeger - Where the Old Allegheny and the Monongahela Flow 2:46

09 Pete Seeger - Leatherwing Bat 3:12

10 Pete Seeger - Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier 2:28

11 Pete Seeger - Farther Along 2:35

12 Pete Seeger - Go Down, Moses 2:58

13 Pete Seeger - All My Trials 3:10

14 Pete Seeger - Monsieur Banjo 2:12

15 Pete Seeger - No More Auction Block 1:58

16 Pete Seeger - Hole in the Bucket 2:19

17 Pete Seeger - What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor 2:18

18 Pete Seeger - Army Life 2:08

19 Pete Seeger - Blue Mountain Lake 2:50

20 Pete Seeger - Lady Margaret 2:56

21 Pete Seeger - John Hardy 3:34

22 Pete Seeger - Johnson 2:53

23 Pete Seeger - John Riley 2:30

24 Pete Seeger - Washer Lad 1:16

25 Pete Seeger - Talking Blues 2:07

26 Pete Seeger - Lolly Too Dum 3:37

27 Pete Seeger - T. B. Blues 4:06

28 Pete Seeger - Summertime 3:40

CD5

01 Pete Seeger - Trail to Mexico 2:51

02 Pete Seeger - Red River Valley 2:11

03 Pete Seeger - Old Joe Clark 3:58

04 Pete Seeger - St. James Infirmary 2:36

05 Pete Seeger - Green County Bachelor 2:38

06 Pete Seeger - Ox Driver's Song 1:57

07 Pete Seeger - Buffalo Gals 2:24

08 Pete Seeger - Joe Bowers 3:02

09 Pete Seeger - Texian Boys 1:32

10 Pete Seeger - My Sweetheart Is a Mule in the Mines 0:30

11 Pete Seeger - Johnny Gray 1:56

12 Pete Seeger - Cowboy Yodel 0:56

13 Pete Seeger - Sioux Indians 3:43

14 Pete Seeger - Ida Red 1:59

15 Pete Seeger - Holler 1:21

16 Pete Seeger - Cumberland Gap 1:24

17 Pete Seeger - Wake Up, Jacob 0:22

18 Pete Seeger - Sweet Betsy from Pike 3:29

19 Pete Seeger - Buffalo Skinners 2:48

20 Pete Seeger - Whiskey, Rye Whiskey 2:20

21 Pete Seeger - Stewball 4:58

22 Pete Seeger - Whoopie Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along, Little Dogies 1:33

23 Pete Seeger - Strawberry Roan 5:07

24 Pete Seeger - Jay Gould's Daughter 2:43

25 Pete Seeger - Play-Party 1:27

26 Pete Seeger - I Never Will Marry 2:08

27 Pete Seeger - Riflemen of Bennington 2:16

28 Pete Seeger - Kingdom Coming 2:37

29 Pete Seeger - Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase [Bear Chase] [Bear Hunt] 3:35

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