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Author White, Josh, composer.

Title The Josh White song book / Biography and song commentaries by Robert Shelton. Illus. by Stu Gross.

Publication Info. Chicago : Quadrangle Books, [1963]

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  M1629 .R16 J7    Available  ---
 Talbott: Circulating Collection  M1629.J67 R3    Available  ---
Description 191 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
score
Note For voice and piano, with chord symbols for guitar.
Discography: pages 190-191.
Contents The Josh White story : Fighter -- Cabaret king -- "I never had a childhood" -- Dark was the day -- Trouble and triumph -- "John Henry" -- Cafe Society -- Years of war and peace -- Albatross of guilt -- Comeback trail -- "The house I live in". -- Josh White sings -- Blues : Number 12 train -- Evil-hearted me -- Outskirts of town -- Red river -- Baby, baby. -- Spirituals : Home in that rock -- Lord have mercy -- Takin' names -- Who shall deliver poor me -- Run, Mona, run -- Peter -- Jesus gonna make up my dyin' bed -- So soon in the mornin' -- He never said a mumblin' word -- Gonna live the life I sing about -- I don't intend to die in Egypt land -- His eye is on the sparrow -- Two little fishes -- Dip your fingers in the water -- Whole world in his hand. -- Songs of protest : Midnight special -- Hard time blues -- Silicosis blues -- Goin' home, boys -- Jim Crow train -- Strange fruit. -- Ballads : Black girl -- Nobody knows you when you're down and out -- Delia -- Waltzing Matilda -- When I lay down and die -- House of the rising sun -- House I live in -- I know moonlight -- Man who couldn't walk around -- Cotton-eyed Joe -- Lord Randall -- Go 'way from my window -- Barb'ry Allen -- Sam Hall -- Riddle song -- Wanderin'. -- Work songs : Timber -- John Henry -- Trouble. -- Ditties and tunes : Boll weevil -- What you gonna do -- Freedom road -- Raise a ruckus -- Where were you baby -- One meatball -- Woman sure is a curious critter -- Gray goose. -- Children's songs : Skip to my Lou -- Black-eyed Susan -- Froggie went a-courtin' -- What are little boys made of.
Bibliography Discography: pages 190-191.
Subject Folk songs, English -- United States.
Folk songs, English.
United States.
Ballads, English -- United States.
Ballads, English.
Spirituals (Songs)
Spirituals (Songs)
Folk songs, English -- United States -- Discography.
Genre/Form Discographies.
Folk music.
Folk music.
Notated music.
Notated music.
Discographies.
Added Author Raim, Walter, editor.
Other Form: Online version: Raim, Walter. Josh White song book. Chicago, Quadrangle Books [1963] (OCoLC)678860797