VA - Songs for Political Action: Folk Music, Topical Songs and the American Left [1996] (10 x CD's)

 

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VA - Songs for Political Action: Folk Music, Topical Songs and the American Left [1996] (10 x CD's)

Spanning the years 1926 to 1953,'Songs for Political Action: Folk Music, Topical Songs and the American Left' features nearly 300 extremely rare recordings on ten CD's. There's folk material, of course, but also cowboy songs, country songs, blues and country-blues. These ten CDs also tear down the stereotype of the dry and doctrinaire political song.

This set is incredible. It is full of things from Pete Seeger's personal archives. Old recordings and photos not found anywhere else. The set is chock full of great recordings by lesser know artists like Vern Partlow and Tom Glazer as well as obscure releases from the Almanac Singers, Bernie Asbel, Josh White and others. There will be some duplication if you own sets like " Little Red Box of Protest Songs " from Proper and recordings from Pete Seeger and the Almanac Singers.  A must for any fan of political music, folk music and absolutely essential for any fan of Pete Seeger. (Amazon)

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Track lists

CD1

01 Carl Sandburg The Boll Weevil 2:38

02 John Allison Patriotic Diggers 2:22

03 Charles Seeger London's Bridge is Falling Dow 1:06

04 Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeg Risselty Rosselty 1:07

05 Ruth Crawford Seeger Old Grey Mare 0:37

06 Charles Seeger Hands 2:42

07 Aunt Molly Jackson Ragged Hungry Blues (Part 1) 2:35

08 Aunt Molly Jackson Ragged Hungry Blues (Part 2) 2:56

09 Sara Ogan Gunning I'm Going to Organize, Baby Mi 1:21

10 Tillman Cadle I Don't Want Your Millions, Mi 1:40

11 John Handcox Raggedy, Raggedy 1:32

12 John Handcox No More Mourning 1:07

13 John Handcox Join the Union Tonight 0:45

14 John Handcox We're Going to Roll the Union 1:00

15 John Handcox There is Mean Things Happening 0:48

16 Bob Ferguson (Bob Miller) Farmer's Letter to the Preside 2:58

17 Bob Miller Farm Relief Blues 2:56

18 Bob's Boys (Bob Miller) 11 Cent Cotton, 40 Cent Meat 2:55

19 Miller's Bullfrog Entertainers The Hootenanny Song 3:14

20 Bob Ferguson and His Scalawagg Bank Failures 3:17

21 Bob Miller The Rich Man and the Poor Man 2:58

22 Bill Palmer (Bob Miller) The Poor Forgotten Man 2:45

23 New Singers The Soup Song 2:35

24 New Singers The Internationale 2:15

25 New Singers Rise Up (Comintern) 2:24

26 New Singers United Front 1:55

27 New Singers Forward, We've Not Forgotten 2:12

28 New Singers In Praise of Learning 1:46

29 Manhattan Chorus On the Picket Line 2:56

30 Manhattan Chorus Hold the Fort 3:05

31 Manhattan Chorus Casey Jones 3:01

32 Manhattan Chorus Sit Down 1:55

33 Manhattan Chorus Write Me Out My Union Card 1:32

34 Manhattan Chorus We Shall Not Be Moved 1:42

35 Manhattan Chorus Join the Union 1:46

36 Manhattan Chorus Solidarity Forever 2:46

CD2

01 Mordecai Bauman Strange Funeral in Braddock 7:11

02 Earl Robinson Abraham Lincoln, Pt. 1 & 2 5:21

03 Earl Robinson Joe Hill 2:35

04 Paul Robeson Spring Song 3:38

05 Tony Kraber Old Chisholm Trail 3:01

06 Saul Aarons Old Paint (The Horse With the Union Label) 3:10

07 Saul Aarons Capitalistic Boss, Pt. 1 & 2 7:01

08 Harrison Dowd Little Theater on the Right 2:32

09 Harrison Dowd Little Theater on the Left 2:44

10 Josh White Nine Foot Shovel 2:42

11 Josh White Chain Gang Boun' 3:01

12 Josh White Trouble 3:22

13 Josh White Goin' Home Boys 2:55

14 Josh White Cryin' Who? Cryin' You!, Pt. 1 & 2 5:47

15 Josh White Told My Captain 3:20

16 Josh White Jerry 2:48

17 Josh White Southern Exposure 3:09

18 Josh White Uncle Sam Says 2:41

19 Josh White Jim Crow Train 3:06

20 Josh White Bad Housing Blues 2:36

21 Josh White Hard Time Blues 2:46

22 Josh White Defense Factory Blues 2:41

CD3

01 Almanac Singers Strange Death of John Doe 1:26

02 Almanac Singers Billy Boy 2:19

03 Almanac Singers C for Conscription 1:31

04 Almanac Singers Washington Breakdown 1:31

05 Almanac Singers Lisa Jane 2:42

06 Almanac Singers Ballad of October 16th 2:44

07 Almanac Singers Plow Under 2:24

08 Almanac Singers Talking Union 2:59

09 Almanac Singers Union Train 2:21

10 Almanac Singers Which Side Are You On? 2:08

11 Almanac Singers Get Thee Behind Me, Satan 2:37

12 Almanac Singers Union Maid 2:12

13 Almanac Singers All I Want 3:00

14 Almanac Singers Songs for Bridges 3:09

15 Woody Guthrie Babe O' Mine 2:45

16 Almanac Singers Blow Ye Winds, Heigh Ho 2:46

17 Almanac Singers Haul Away, Joe 3:14

18 Almanac Singers Blow the Man Down 2:35

19 Almanac Singers The Golden Vanity 3:05

20 Almanac Singers Away, Rio 2:24

21 Almanac Singers The Coast of High Barbary 2:33

22 Almanac Singers Greenland Fishing 2:52

23 Almanac Singers The Dodger Song 2:38

24 Almanac Singers Ground Hog 2:39

25 Almanac Singers State of Arkansas 2:46

26 Almanac Singers Hard, Ain't it Hard 2:36

27 Almanac Singers I Ride an Old Paint 2:36

28 Almanac Singers House of the Rising Sun 2:56

29 Almanac Singers The Weaver's Song 2:37

CD4

01 Almanac Singers Dear Mr. President 2:50

02 Almanac Singers Belt Line Girl 2:20

03 Almanac Singers Round and Round Hitler's Grave 2:50

04 Almanac Singers Side By Side 2:34

05 Almanac Singers Deliver the Goods 2:26

06 Almanac Singers Reuben James 3:08

07 Almanac Singers Boomtown Bill 3:10

08 Almanac Singers Keep That Oil A-Rollin' 2:46

09 Priority Ramblers I'm Looking for a Home (Housing Song) 2:18

10 Priority Ramblers Amsterdam Maid 2:54

11 Priority Ramblers Song of the Free 2:01

12 Priority Ramblers In Washington 2:57

13 Priority Ramblers Overtime Pay 2:28

14 Pete Seeger Quinte Brigada 2:47

15 Tom Glazer Jarama Valley 2:47

16 Tom Glazer Spanish Marching Song 2:38

17 Tom Glazer Cook House - the Young Man From Alcala 2:39

18 Tom Glazer Quinte Regimento 2:20

19 Tom Glazer Quarter Master Song 2:03

20 Union Boys Little Man on a Fence 2:32

21 Union Boys Jim Crow 2:50

22 Union Boys You Better Get Ready 2:32

23 Union Boys Hold the Fort - We Shall Not Be Moved 3:02

24 Union Boys U.A.W. - C.I.O. 2:06

25 Union Boys Hold On 2:14

26 Burl Ives Solidarity Forever 2:54

27 Union Boys Dollar Ain't a Dollar Anymore 2:48

CD5

01 Earl Robinson Horace Greeley 3:06

02 Earl Robinson Kevin Barry 2:44

03 Earl Robinson The House I Live In 3:08

04 Earl Robinson A Man's a Man for A'that 2:24

05 Earl Robinson Drill Ye Tarriers Drill 2:45

06 Earl Robinson The Frozen Logger 2:32

07 Earl Robinson Jefferson and Liberty 2:43

08 Earl Robinson Sweet Betsy From Pike/Dirty Miner 3:07

09 Earl Robinson Grand Coolee Dam 2:58

10 Earl Robinson and Dooley Wilson Free and Equal Blues (Parts 1 & 2) 5:08

11 Sir Lancelot The Century of the Common Man 3:04

12 Vern Partlow I'm a Native American Nazi 3:02

13 Vern Partlow Join the U.A.W.-C.I.O. 2:36

14 Vern Partlow Keeping Score for `44 2:22

15 Vern Partlow The U.A.W. Train 2:28

16 Vern Partlow Susan's in the Union 2:32

17 Vern Partlow The Rollback Blues 2:18

18 Vern Partlow Mama Don't Allow 2:06

19 Woody Guthrie Farmer Labor Train 2:52

20 Woody Guthrie So Long, It's Been Good to Know You 2:47

21 Woody Guthrie Talking Sailor 3:05

22 Woody Guthrie Sally, Don't You Grieve 2:24

23 Tom Glazer & Josh White Citizen C.I.O. 2:30

24 Josh White No More Blues 2:50

25 Tom Glazer We've Got a Plan 2:35

26 Tom Glazer Social Worker's Talking Blues 2:32

27 Tom Glazer I'm Gonna Put My Name Down 3:03

28 Josh White Freedom Road 2:18

CD6

01 Josh White Landlord 2:40

02 Josh White Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier 2:43

03 Josh White Beloved Comrade 2:48

04 Josh White The Man Who Couldn't Walk Around 3:04

05 Josh White I'm the Guy 1:31

06 Josh White Little Man Sitting on a Fence 2:44

07 Tom Glazer When the Country is Broke 0:45

08 Tom Glazer Money in the Pocket 1:50

09 Tom Glazer Our Fight is Yours 2:11

10 Lee Hays Moses Green 2:48

11 Lee Hays The Rankin Tree 1:55

12 Lee Hays Talking Bilbo 2:22

13 Lee Hays This Old World 3:19

14 Bob Claiborne No.1 Stooge 2:15

15 Bernie Asbel Song on My Hands 3:12

16 Bernie Asbel & Pete Seeger Mad as I Can Be 1:56

17 Lord Invader Jackie Robinson 2:39

18 Brownie McGhee High Price Blues 2:46

19 Brownie McGhee Black, Brown & White 2:38

20 Anna Beyer Nix on Mundt/Nixon 2:26

21 George Levine The Daily Worker's Song 1:48

22 Unidntified Vocalist Taft-Hartley Blues 2:45

23 Sis Cunningham Parnell Thomas Blues 4:04

24 Malvina Reynolds & Bill Oliver Turn Me Loose 1:13

25 Berries Snowball 1:39

26 Berries Swingin' on a Scab 2:37

27 Mario Casetta On to Sacramento 2:09

28 Vern Partlow Atomic Talking Blues 3:44

29 Vern Partlow Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People 3:42

30 Dick Blakeslee Passsing Through 1:50

CD7

01 Seeger, Hawes, Hays, Wood & Kleinman Listen Mr. Bilbo 2:40

02 Seeger, Hawes, Hays, Wood & Kleinman Joe Hill 2:42

03 Pete Seeger & Bob Claiborne O.P.A. Shout 2:10

04 Seeger, Glazer, Hays & Wood Voting Union 1:46

05 Seeger, Glazer, Hays & Wood Get Out the Vote 0:54

06 Seeger, Glazer, Hays & Wood A Dollar Ain't a Dollar Anymore 2:22

07 Seeger, Glazer, Hays & Wood A Dollar for P.A.C. 2:44

08 Seeger, Glazer, Hays & Wood Oh, What Congress Has Done to Me 0:54

09 Seeger, Glazer, Hays & Wood Four P.A.C. Nursery Rhymes 1:12

10 Seeger, Glazer, Hays & Wood D.D.T. 1:44

11 Seeger, Glazer, Hays & Wood Fare Ye Well, Bad Congressman 1:25

12 Seeger, Glazer, Hays & Wood No, No, No Discrimination 0:53

13 Seeger, Glazer, Hays & Wood Voter, Oh Voter 1:23

14 Seeger, Glazer, Wood & Gilbert Intro/Commonwealth of You 3:26

15 Seeger, Glazer, Wood & Gilbert We've Got Our Eyes on You 2:52

16 Seeger, Glazer, Wood & Gilbert Talking Union 3:06

17 Seeger, Glazer, Wood & Gilbert The Preacher and the Slave 2:56

18 Seeger, Glazer, Wood & Gilbert Which Side Are You On? 2:36

19 Seeger, Glazer, Wood & Gilbert Solidarity Forever 3:34

20 Seeger, Glazer, Wood & Gilbert The Whole Wide World Around 3:59

21 Seeger, Glazer, Wood & Gilbert Hold the Fort/Conclusion 3:04

22 Pete Seeger Talking P.A.C. 2:33

23 Pete Seeger Conversation With a Mule 2:08

24 Pete Seeger The Farmer is the Man 1:42

25 Pete Seeger Join the Farmer's Union 1:14

26 Pete Seeger Talking Atom 2:52

27 Pete Seeger Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People 3:10

28 Pete Seeger Skillet Good and Greasy 0:53

29 Pete Seeger T For Texas 2:08

30 Pete Seeger Cumberland Mountain Bear Chase 2:39

CD8

01 Sir Lancelot Walk in Peace (Pt.1) 2:41

02 Sir Lancelot Walk in Peace (Pt.2) 2:36

03 Sir Lancelot Atomic Energy 2:45

04 Sir Lancelot Old Lady With a Rolling Pin 2:44

05 Goodson & Vale Red Boogie 3:13

06 Goodson & Vale Unity Rhumba 2:50

07 Goodson & Vale Elephant & the Ass 2:31

08 Goodson & Vale Hungry Rhapsody 3:14

09 Goodson & Vale Housing 3:04

10 People's Songs Chorus Ballad of F.D.R. 2:54

11 People's Songs Chorus Jim Crow 2:22

12 Berries Mein Shtetele Belz 3:02

13 Berries & Pete Seeger Zhonkoye 2:20

14 Pete Seeger Travelin' 1:50

15 Pete Seeger Black, Brown & White 2:30

16 Pete Seeger The Death of Harry Simms 1:45

17 Pete Seeger Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues 1:15

18 Pete Seeger No Irish Need Apply 2:26

19 Boots (Mario Casetta) Unemployment Compensation Blues 3:02

20 Betty Sanders The Fireship 2:58

21 Betty Sanders Johnny, I Hardly Knew You 3:02

22 Weavers & Howard Fast The Peekskill Story (Incl. Hold the Line), (Pts.1&2) 6:26

23 Weavers Wasn't That a Time 2:59

24 Weavers Dig My Grave 2:30

25 Weavers Freight Train Blues 2:36

26 Weavers Love Song Blues 3:24

27 Weavers The Hammer Song 2:17

CD9

01 Earl Robinson We're Keeping Score in '44 3:33

02 Josh White No More Blues 0:59

03 Bill Oliver Lay That Ballot Down ( Pt.1&2) 2:26

04 Vern Partlow The Fertilizer Song 3:04

05 Vern Partlow Talking F.T.A. 3:00

06 Vern Partlow Kiss the Boys Goodbye 2:38

07 Vern Partlow Round and Round the Canneries 2:18

08 Vern Partlow My Name is Cannery Bill 3:00

09 Maria Alexander & Others Bosses' Gang 2:27

10 Maria Alexander Bye, Bye Bosses 2:35

11 Richard Huey & Chorus The New Walls of Jericho (Wallace Fit the Battle of America) 2:39

12 Royal Harmonaires Henry Wallace is the Man 2:54

13 Abigail Alvarez A Corrido to Wallace and Taylor 1:35

14 Abigail Alvarez Second Corrido to Wallace and Taylor 1:22

15 Paul Robeson The Battle Hymn of '48 1:38

16 Michael Loring The Same Old Merry Go-Round 1:44

17 Michael Loring I've Got a Ballot 1:32

18 Michael Loring Great Day 1:29

19 George Levine Wallace Button/Goodbye, Harry 1:49

20 Sis Cunningham Henry Wallace 4:12

21 Bill Oliver We Can Win With Wallace 1:23

22 Malvina Reynolds Work With Wallace 2:45

23 Sir Lancelot The Century of the Common Man 1:46

24 Sir Lancelot Wallace is the Man for Me 2:09

25 Michael Loring & Alan Lomax Yankee Doodle, Tell the Boss 2:48

26 Weavers Intro/New York City 2:36

27 Fred Hellerman Marcantonio for Me 1:03

28 Weavers & Hope Foye Skip to the Polls 1:11

29 Fred Hellerman Marcantonio for Mayor 1:03

30 Laura Duncan Now, Right Now 3:02

31 Weavers We Shall Not Be Moved 1:03

32 Hope Foye & Pete Seeger Oh, Freedom 2:45

33 Pete Seeger Ben Davis 2:59

34 Unidentified Vocalist M.T.A. 2:31

35 Unidentified People's Choice 1:17

36 Fred Hellerman Keep A-Goin' and A-Growin' 1:45

CD10

01 Decormier, Bernardi & Booth The Riddle of Thurman Towns 3:28

02 Gerald Gallant Grapes to Pick 2:23

03 Fred Hellerman Medley... 3:32

04 Bob Hill (Fred Hellerman) Pity the Downtrodden Landlord 2:24

05 Weavers The Hammer Song 2:01

06 Weavers Banks of Marble 2:56

07 Ernie Lieberman & Hope Foye Spring Song 3:12

08 Ernie Lieberman Songs of My Hands 3:14

09 Ernie Lieberman My Old Man 3:06

10 Ernie Lieberman I'm on My Way 3:05

11 Lieberman, Duncan, Smith & Sanders In Contempt 2:07

12 Lieberman, Duncan, Smith & Sanders Die Gedanken Sind Frei 1:23

13 Lieberman, Duncan, Smith & Sanders Walk Along Together 2:46

14 Lieberman, Duncan, Smith & Sanders Put My Name Down 2:48

15 Lieberman, Duncan, Smith & Sanders Hold On 1:47

16 Osborne Smith Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel 1:01

17 Laura Duncan I've Got a Right 2:46

18 Jewish Young Folksingers We Shall Overcome 3:22

19 Betty Sanders Talking Un-American Blues 3:32

20 Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland Old Bolshevik Song 1:46

21 Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland The Cloakmaker's Union 0:36

22 Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland Land of the Daily Worker 0:59

23 Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland Our Line's Been Changed Again 1:54

24 Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland In Old Moscow 1:47

25 Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland Unite for Unity 2:34

26 Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland Bill Bailey 2:45

27 Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland The Last Internationale 2:09

28 Joe Glazer The Giveaway Boys in Washington 1:40

29 Joe Glazer Joe McCarthy's Band 2:03

30 Woody Guthrie I've Got to Know 5:35

31 Woody Guthrie This Land is Your Land 2:26

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