American Folk Songs
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American Folk Songs is a 1950
album by Jo Stafford
. The album features twelve popular folk songs.
Judy Collins
has cited the album as one of the first to spark her interest in folk music.
1950 in music
-Events:*January 3 – Sam Phillips launches Sun Records at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee.*August – Herbert Howells' Hymnus Paradisi is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival.*Malcolm Sargent becomes chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra....
album by Jo Stafford
Jo Stafford
Jo Elizabeth Stafford was an American singer of traditional pop music and jazz standards and occasional actress whose career ran from the late 1930s to the early 1960s...
. The album features twelve popular folk songs.
Judy Collins
Judy Collins
Judith Marjorie "Judy" Collins is an American singer and songwriter, known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records ; and for her social activism. She is an alumna of the University of Colorado.-Musical career:Collins was born and raised in Seattle, Washington...
has cited the album as one of the first to spark her interest in folk music.
Track listing
- ShenandoahOh Shenandoah"Oh Shenandoah" is a traditional American folk song of uncertain origin, dating at least to the early 19th century...
- Black Is the Color
- Old Joe ClarkOld Joe ClarkOld Joe Clark is a folk song, a mountain ballad that was "sung during World War I and later by soldiers from eastern Kentucky." An early version was printed in 1918, as sung in Virginia at that time. Joe Clark was born in 1839, a mountaineer who was murdered in 1885. There are about 90 stanzas in...
- Wayfaring StrangerThe Wayfaring StrangerThe Wayfaring Stranger may refer to:* "The Wayfaring Stranger" , also called "Poor Wayfaring Stranger," a folk song* Okeh Presents the Wayfaring Stranger, an album by Burl Ives that was released in 1941, 1944 and 1950...
- Barbara Allen
- Single Girl
- Red Rosey Bush
- I Wonder as I WanderI Wonder As I Wander"I Wonder as I Wander" is a Christmas carol written by John Jacob Niles. The carol has its origins in a song fragment collected on July 16, 1933 by folklorist and singer John Jacob Niles....
- Cripple Creek
- The Nightingale
- Johnny Has Gone for a SoldierJohnny Has Gone for a Soldier"Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier" is an American folk music song that dates to the American Revolution. The lyrics lament the sacrifices that men and women make in going off to war.ll- Origins :...
- Sourwood MountainSourwood Mountain"Sourwood Mountain" is a traditional American folk song. Like many folk songs, there are numerous lyrical versions extant, however there are certain commonalities. The song's theme is a lament over the narrator's true love, from whom he is separated. The title comes from the opening line, which...