American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 1

~ Release by Pete Seeger (see all versions of this release, 4 available)

Annotation

Copyright: © 2002 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
℗ 2002 Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Annotation last modified on 2026-01-06 14:43 UTC.

Tracklist

1▼Digital Media
#TitleRatingLength
1John Henry
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
recording of:
John Henry
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
Sonet Publishing Ltd.
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 790)
4:31
2Shenandoah
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1958)
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
Shenandoah (in 1958)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 324)
1:50
3Blue Tailed Fly (Jimmie Crack Corn)
12 string guitar:
Pete Seeger (in 1958)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1958)
recording of:
Blue Tail Fly (“Jimmy Crack Corn”) (in 1958)
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 1274)
2:35
4Black Girl
12 string guitar:
Pete Seeger (in 1958)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1958)
recording of:
In the Pines (Black Girl) (in 1958)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 3421)
2:34
5Skip to My Lou
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
recording of:
Skip to My Lou (the original American folk song) (in 1957)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 3593)
3:12
6The Big Rock Candy Mountain
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
Big Rock Candy Mountain (in 1957)
lyricist and composer:
Harry “Haywire Mac” McClintock (in 1895)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 6696)
33:09
7Clementine
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1959)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1959)
recording of:
Oh My Darling, Clementine (in 1959)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
writer:
Percy Montrose (composer)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 9611)
33:06
8Yankee Doodle
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
recording of:
Yankee Doodle (in 1957)
anthem of:
Connecticut, United States
composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 4501)
1:41
9Home on the Range
12 string guitar:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
recording of:
Home on the Range (in 1957)
anthem of:
Kansas, United States
publisher:
Alfred Music (publisher of sheet music for music education)
lyricist:
Brewster Higley (from 1871 until 1873)
composer:
Daniel Kelley (in 1873)
arranger:
Mark Hayes (American composer and arranger, predominantly of Christian choral music)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 3599)
is based on:
My Home in the West
revision of:
My Home in the West
1:52
10John Brown’s Body
12 string guitar:
Pete Seeger (in 1959)
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
John Brown’s Body (Glory, Glory, Hallelujah) (in 1959)
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 771)
3:00
11Goodnight, Irene
guitar:
Pete Seeger (in 1959)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1959)
recording of:
Goodnight Irene (in 1959)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
arranger:
Ledbetter and John A. Lomax
publisher:
Lodlow Music, Spencer Music Corp., TRO-Ludlow Music, Inc. and Tyler Music Ltd.
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 11681)
translated version of:
Godnatt Irene
3:44
12Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1959)
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (in 1959)
lyricist and composer:
Wallace Willis (in 1862)
publisher:
E.C. Music (UK work publisher for Eric Clapton), Throat Music and Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 5435)
2:37
13Oh, Susanna
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1958)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1958)
recording of:
Oh! Susanna (in 1958)
orchestrator:
Herbert Spencer (Production music composer)
lyricist and composer:
Stephen Foster (composer)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 11745)
1:18
14Wayfaring Stranger
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1954)
recording of:
Wayfaring Stranger (in 1954)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
Copyright Control (not for release label use! this is only for copyrights and publishing relationships)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 3339)
1:16
15Oh, Mary, Don’t You Weep
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
Mary Don’t You Weep (pre-civil war spiritual) (in 1957)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
The Master Book of American Folk Song (number: 1338) and Roud Folk Song Index (number: 11823)
2:31
16Down in the Valley
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
recording of:
Down in the Valley (in 1957)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 943)
3:46
17The Wabash Cannonball
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
recording of:
Wabash Cannonball (in 1957)
composer:
A.P. Carter and William Kindt
publisher:
APRS (American Performing Rights Society, Inc.(BMI))
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 4228)
3:05
18On Top of Old Smoky
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
recording of:
On Top of Old Smoky
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
Union Songs AB (publisher)
2:19
19Frankie and Johnny
guitar:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
recording of:
Frankie and Johnny (traditional song, version of “Frankie and Albert”) (in 1957)
publisher:
Hughie Cannon (in 1904) and Carl Sandburg (in 1927)
lyricist, writer and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 254)
is based on:
You’re My Baby
4:28
20I Ride an Old Paint
12 string guitar:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
Old Paint (in 1957)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 915)
33:25
21The Wreck of the Old 97
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
Wreck of the Old 97 (in 1957)
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
Aberbach (London) (publisher)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 777)
1:53
22Wagoner’s Lad
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
Wagoner’s Lad (in 1957)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 414)
1:25
23Old Dan Tucker
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
recording of:
Old Dan Tucker (in 1957)
writer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 390)
2:14
24I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
12 string guitar:
Pete Seeger (in 1962)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1962)
recording of:
I’ve Been Working on the Railroad (in 1962)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 12606)
translated version of:
線路はつづくよどこまでも
1:27
25Cielito Lindo
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
vocals:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
recording of:
Cielito lindo (in 1957)
lyricist and composer:
Quirino Mendoza y Cortés
2:35
26So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You (Dusty Old Dust)
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1957)
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
So Long, It’s Been Good to Know Yuh (in 1957)
lyricist and composer:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter)
3:22
27America the Beautiful
guitar:
Pete Seeger (in 1961)
vocals:
Pete Seeger
recording of:
America the Beautiful (in 1961)
lyricist:
Katharine Lee Bates
composer:
Samuel Augustus Ward
1:39
28This Land Is Your Land
banjo:
Pete Seeger (in 1958)
vocals:
Pete Seeger
cover recording of:
This Land Is Your Land (in 1958)
lyricist and composer:
Woody Guthrie (American singer-songwriter) (in 1940)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 16378)
is based on:
When the World's on Fire
2:51