Discography

Posted By Mike Palumbo

Discography

This is a list of some of the vinyl albums and CDs that present compilations of songs on various topics relevant to twentieth century american history that I have come across in researching this project. Some of the songs set out in the project came from these sources; but, they contain many more songs that could have been included and might be of interest to other researchers. Some of these records can be found in their entirety on YouTube.

American History in Ballad and Song, Albert Barouch and Theodore O. Cron, (eds.), Vol. 1 & 2, Folkway Records, 1960 and 1962;
Anthology of American Folk Music, Harry Smith (ed.) (1952) (Smithsonian Folkways (CD) 1997;
Atomic Platters: Cold War Music from the Golden Age of Homeland Security, 5 CD collection with an extensive pamphlet annotating the music, plus one DVD of historical clips related to nuclear weapons, Bear Family BCD 16065- FM (2005);
Ballad for Americans, Songs for Free Men,1940-1945, Music by Earl Robinson, lyrics, John La Touche, sung by Paul Robeson: Pavillion Records 9264;
Best of Broadside, 1962-1988, 5 CD discs of songs that originally appeared in Broadside Magazine, Smithsonian Folkways (SFW 40130 (2000) (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUSRfoOcUe4Z2SWHoqOtIsTl6w7aKPmHM); (http://lyrics.wikia.com/The_Best_Of_Broadside_1962%E2%80%931988_(2000));
Carry It On: Songs of America’s Working People, Si Kahn, Pete Seeger, and Jane Sapp, Flying Fish Records 1986;
The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories; Songs of the life, times, and assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Repository: Library of Congress. American Folklife Center;
Dust Bowl Ballads, Woody Guthrie, Folkways FW 05212 (1964);
43 Songs for 43 U. S. Presidencies, Of Great and Mortal Men, Standard Records (2008) (singer songwriters write songs about each American President; it was begun and finished before the 2008 Election of Barak Obama; after the 2008 election a 44^th song was added relating to President Obama)
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Songs of the Mississippi Civil rights Movement,( 2 discs) various artists, Folk Era Records;
Freedom is a Hammer: Conservative Folk Revolutionaries of the Sixties, Omni Recording Corp.;
The Great War: An American Musical Fantasy. Archeophone Records, a 2-CD set featuring a 76 page, full-color booklet that tells the story of how the recording industry sold the war;
In Country: Folk Songs of Americans in the Vietnam War (https://youtu.be/S_JdrciSPrU);
Little Red Box of Protest Songs, various artists, 2014 Labor Heritage Foundation, 4 discs (including disc of DVDs) celebratingf the 100th anniversary of the publication of the IWW’s first American protest song book, “The Little Red Song Book.” The compilation follows the beginning of the protest song in the U.S. from the first half of the last century up to the ’50s;
Music of Coal: Mining Songs from the Appalachian Coalfields (Lonesome CD071, 2007, story of black-lung disease, mining disasters and union busting;
Next Stop Is Vietnam – The War on Record, 1961-2008, (2010), 13 disc box set of about 300 songs with a 304 page booklet on the war, at home and in the jungles giving an in depth look behind each song. Bear Family Records , http://www.discogs.com/Various–Next-Stop-Is-Vietnam-The-War-On-Record-1961-2008/release/3844594;
Peace Songs: Workers Music Association Anniversary Collection, John Jordan;
Seeds:The Songs of Pete Seeger (3 volumes, Appleseed records, 2003;
American Favorite Ballads, Pete Seeger, five volume series on Folkway Records (1957-1962);
Sing for Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through its Songs, Guy and Candie Carawan, Sing Out Corporation, 1990;
The Songs and Stories of Aunt Molly Jackson, Folkways records, FW 05457 (1961);
Songs of the Depression: Boom, Bust and the New Deal, Bear Family Records, (1999) 4 disc box set with historical notes;
Songs of Social Justice, various artists, from a concert series at the University of Rhode Island in conjunction with the University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium (2 CD set) (2006);
Songs for Political Action: Folk Music, Topical Songs, and The American Left, 1926-1953, a ten album set with a 212 page book of notes released on Bear Records in 1996 (BCD 15720) (http://www.discogs.com/Various-Songs-For-Political-Action-Folk-Music-And-The-American-Left-1926-1953/release/4437581) , “the definitive collection of left-wing folk songs from the late 1920s through the Almanacs era and into the early 1950s” (Donaldson, p. 187)
Soul of Vietnam, Risky Business, Sony Records;
Spain in My Heart, Songs of the Spanish Civil War, Appleseed (APR 1074)
Strong Love – Songs Of Gay Liberation 1972–81, by Various Artists; Strong Love explores the first wave of openly gay songwriting, emerging after New York’s Stonewall Riots kickstarted the modern gay rights movement in 1969. It took just a few years for the defiant chanting and interlocked arms of early 70s pride marches to reverberate onto record, and Strong Love begins with the earliest known example, 1972’s A Gay Song by London hippie collective Everyone Involved.;
This Land is Your Land: Songs of Unity (Earth Beat);
This Land is your Land: Songs of Freedom (Vanguard);
Voices of the Civil rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs, 1960-1966, Smithsonian Folkways, SFW 40084 (1997);
Washington Square Memoirs: The Great Urban Folk Boom 1950-1970 (Rhino R2 74264 (2001);
We Shall Overcome: Songs of the Freedom Riders and the Sit-ins, Folkways 05591 (1961);
When the Spirit Says Sing! The Role of Freedom Songs in the Civil Rights Movement, Kerran Sanger, ed., Taylor & Francis, Inc., 1995;
“Whores, Hell, and Biscuits for two Centuries,” Hedy West, Bear Family Records BF 15003, 1976, a analogy of women’s rights songs; and,
Vietnam War – Protest Songs by Vietnam War Song Project on YouTube.

DISCOGRAPHY (This is a list of the songs set out in this section relating to the Fifties, listed in alphabetical order. This is a supplement to the Discography set out in the main Songbook.)

“Ain’t That a Shame” – Fats Domino
“All Shook Up” – Elvis Presley
“America” – Cast of West Side Story
“American Pie” – Don McLean
“Atlas Choking” – Richard Shindell
“A White Sport Coat and A Pink Carnation” – Marty Robbins
“Beaver Fever” – Bob Rivers
“Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots” – The Cheers
“Blueberry Hill” – Fats Domino
“Blue Suede Shoes” – Carl Perkins
“Bobby Sox to Stockings” – Frankie Avalon
“Boob-Tube” – The Homewreckers
“Brown-Eyed Handsome Man” – Chuck Berry
“Burgers and Fries and Cherry Pies” – Charlie Pride
“Big Yellow Taxi” – Joni Mitchell
“Charlie Brown” – The Coasters
“Crazy Joey” – Bob Dylan
“D’s Diner” – The Les Claypool Frog Brigade
“Don’t Be Cruel” – Elvis Presley
“Down in Suburbia” – The Turtles
“Downtown” – Petulia Clarke
“Drive-in” – The Beach Boys
“Earth Angel” – The Penguins
Eggs and Sausages – Tom Waits
“Eisenhower Summer, 1952” – George Wirth
“Gee, Officer Krupke” – Cast of West Side Story
“Go, Johnny, Go” – Chuck Berry
“Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight” – The Spaniels
“Great Balls of Fire” – Jerry Lee Lewis
“Happy Trails” – Dale Evans and Roy Rogers
“Heartbreak Hotel” – Elvis Presley
“Hey, Jack Kerouac” – Natalie Merchant and The 10,000 Maniacs
“Honey Love” – The Drifters
“Hound Dog” – Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton/Elvis Presley
“Howdy’s Theme Song”
“I’m Walkin” – Fats Domino
“In My Room” – The Beach Boys
“Is That All There Is” – Peggy Lee
“Johnny B. Goode” – Chuck Berry
“Little Boxes” – Melvina Reynolds
“Hi-O Silver”, “William Tell Overture” (“Lone Ranger” theme)
“Jailhouse Rock” – Elvis Presley
“James Dean of Indiana” – Phil Ochs
“Jenny, Jenny” – Little Richard
“Jet Song” – Cast of West Side Story
“Long Tall Sally” – Little Richard
“Love Me Tender” – Elvis Presley
“Little Darlin’ – The Gladiolas
“Lucille” – Chuck Berry
“Masters of War” – Bob Dylan
“Maverick” theme song
“Maybellene” – Chuck Berry
“Oh, Mr. President” – R.D.Henden and his Western Jamboree Cowboys
“Old Trails” (Gunsmoke Theme) – Tex Ritter
(“On The Road”) The Persecution and Restoration of Dean Moriarty – Aztec Two Step
“Patent the Sun (Song for Jonas Salk)” – Joey McGowan
“Pleasant Valley Sunday” – The Monkees
“POLIO” – Staff Benda Bilili
“Rock Around the Clock” – Bill Haley and His Comets
“Rock and Roll is Here to Stay” – Danny and the Juniors
“Rumble” – Link Wray
“School Days” – Chuck Berry
“Sh-Boom” – The Chords
“Short Shorts” – The Royal Teens
“Splish Splash” – Bobby Darin
“Sweet Little Sixteen” – Chuck Berry
“Sincerely” – The Moonglows
“Subdivisions” – Rush
“Subdivision Blues” – Tom T. Hall
“Superman’s Song” – The Crash Test Dummies
“Talkin’ Baseball (Willie, Mickey and The Duke)” – Terry Cashman
“Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces” – Dodie Stevens
“Texaco Star Theatre” theme song
“That’ll be the Day” – Buddy Holly and the Crickets
“The Ballad of Davy Crockett” – Fess Parker
“The Brockton Blockbuster” – Johnny Wakelin
“The Catcher in the Rye” – Guns N’ Roses
“The Great Suburban Showdown” – Billy Joel
“The Mickey Mouse March”
“The Quiz-Masters” – Pete Seeger
“Through the Centuries, A Song to Help End Polio” – Mashville
“Tom’s Diner” – Suzanne Vega
“Too Much Monkey Business” – Chuck Berry
“Tutti Frutti” – Little Richard
“(Roll Along) Wagon Train” (“Wagon Train” theme)
“Wake Up Little Susie” – The Everly Brothers
“Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” – Jerry Lee Lewis
“Who Wrote Holden Caulfield?” – Green Day
“Why Do Fools Fall in Love” – Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers
“Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow” – The Shirelles
“2112” – Rush