Description |
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
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plastic metal |
Description |
digital |
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optical |
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stereo |
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1.4 m/s |
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audio file |
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CD audio |
Note |
Smithsonian Folkways: SFW 40111 (on container: SFW CD 40111). |
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"A collection of topical songs"--Container. |
Performer |
Pete Seeger, banjo, guitar, vocals. |
Event |
Recorded 1955-1999. |
Note |
Includes some previously unreleased material. |
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Title from disc label. |
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Program notes by Mark Greenberg, bibliography, discography, and selected lyrics (23 pages : portraits) inserted in container. |
Credits |
Compiled, annotated, and produced by Mark Greenberg. |
Contents |
Peg and awl (2:24) -- Titanic (when that great ship went down) (3:40) -- Sinking of the Reuben James / W. Guthrie (2:15) -- Listen Mr. Bilbo / Robert Claiborne, Adrienne Claiborne (1:59) -- Hold the line / L. Hays, P. Seeger (4:34) -- Passing through / Dick Blakeslee (2:48) -- Coal Creek march / P. Steele ; Payday at Coal Creek / P. Steele, J.A. Lomax, A. Lomax ; Roll down the line (6:38) -- I come and stand at every door / N. Hikmet (2:24) -- Times a-getting hard / L. Hays, P. Seeger (2:20) -- Little boxes / M. Reynolds (1:51) -- From way up here / P. Seeger (2:39) -- Battle of Maxton Field / M. Reynolds (2:26) -- My get up and go / Pete Seeger (2:31) -- Bells of Rhymney / I. Davies, P. Seeger (5:34) -- Waist deep in the big muddy / P. Seeger (2:56) -- Guantanamera / J.F. Diaz, P. Seeger, J. Orborn, J. Marti (5:51) -- There once was a woman who swallowed a lie / A. Mills (3:30) -- Wasn't that a time / L. Hays, W. Lowefels (2:54) -- Viva la Quince Brigada / B. Van der Schelling (2:58) -- Wimoweh (mbube) / Gilbert, Hays, Hellerman, Seeger, Linda (2:16) -- English is cuh-ray-zee (English is crazy) / Richard Lederer (3:39) -- Odds on favorite (a long story terse) / E.Y. Harburg, P. Seeger (1:48) -- A little of this and that / P. Seeger (2:28). |
Language |
Sung mostly in English, with some Spanish. |
Subject |
Topical songs.
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Topical songs. |
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Folk songs, English -- United States.
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Folk songs, English. |
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United States. |
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Folk music -- United States.
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Folk music. |
Genre/Form |
Folk songs.
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Folk songs.
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Folk music.
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Folk music.
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Sound recordings.
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Sound recordings.
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Added Author |
Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014, composer, lyricist, singer, instrumentalist.
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Greenberg, Mark, 1945- compiler, writer of added commentary.
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Added Title |
Headlines and footnotes |
Standard No. |
093074011126 |
Music No. |
SFW 40111 Smithsonian Folkways |
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SFW CD 40111 Smithsonian Folkways |
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