American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4 (1961)

About this title: Although Pete Seeger did put out an LP on Folkways in 1961 titled American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 4, it's important to note straight off that the 2006 CD reissue on Smithsonian Folkways bearing the same title has a considerably different track listing. While 12 of the 28 tracks on the CD are indeed from the 1961 CD, the other songs are taken from other Seeger Folkways recordings. These include nine from the 1962 album American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 5; a smattering of cuts from material he recorded for Folkways in the '50s; and even a previously unreleased performance (date not given) of "Old ... read more

Tracks:

1. Banks of the Ohio [Traditional]
2. You Are My Sunshine [Davis/Mitchell]
3. Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
4. The Foggy Dew [Traditional]
5. Molly Malone [Traditional]
6. Old Maid's Song [Traditional]
7. Oh, How He Lied [Traditional]
8. Where the Old Allegheny and the Monongahela Flow [Traditional]
9. Leatherwing Bat [Traditional]
10. Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier [Traditional]
11. Farther Along [Traditional/Presley]
12. Go Down, Moses [Traditional]
13. All My Trials [Traditional]
14. Monsieur Banjo [Traditional]
15. No More Auction Block [Traditional]
16. Hole in the Bucket [Traditional]
17. What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor [Traditional]
18. Army Life [Rice]
19. Blue Mountain Lake [Traditional]
20. Lady Margaret [Traditional]
21. John Hardy [Traditional]
22. Johnson [Traditional]
23. John Riley [Traditional]
24. Washer Lad [Traditional]
25. Talking Bloues [Bouchillion]
26. Lolly-Too-Dum [Traditional]
27. T.B. Blues [Rodgers]
28. Summertime [Gershwin/Gershwin]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.