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Burl Ives * Wayfaring Stranger: Selected Classics 1941-62 [New CD]

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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.

Tracklist:

  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

UPC: 824046918224
Label: Acrobat
Release Date: 4.3.26
Format: CD