Description
DESCRIPTION
Before forming The Limeliters in July 1959, GLENN YARBROUGH - "the tenor with the golden voice" - had pursued an impressive solo career, which stretched back to the early 50s. This compilation features his unfeasibly rare 78rpm debut single, 'Follow The Drinking Gourd' (1951), appearing here for the first time in the digital format, alongside his three pre-Limeliters albums. "Come And Sit By My Side" (also known as "Here We Go Baby!") appeared in 1957 on Tradition, the specialist Folk label founded and financed by Guggenheim heiress Diane Hamilton. "Songs By Glenn Yarbrough" (also 1957) appeared on Jac Holzman's Elektra label. "Glenn Yarbrough & Marilyn Child Sing Folk Songs", an LP shared with fellow-folkie Marilyn Child, appeared on Elektra in 1958. This is the first time that this body of work has been compiled, and the informative original liner notes to all three LPs are included in the booklet.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Follow the Drinking Gourd
2 Waltzing Matilda
3 Red River Valley
4 All Round My Hat
5 My Mule Sal
6 Poor Boy
7 Come Again
8 Capitol Ship
9 Dark As a Dungeon
10 The Tailor and the Mouse
11 Banks of the Ohio
12 John Hardy
13 Suspiros Del Chanchamayo
14 Old Maids Song
15 Lonesome Valley
16 Rich Gal, Poor Gal
17 Spanish Is a Loving Tongue
18 Hey, Jim Along
19 Johnny I Hardly Knew You
20 All My Sorrows
21 Hard Ain't It Hard
22 All Through the Night
- Disc 2 -
1 Here We Go, Baby
2 Turtle Dove
3 Goodbye My Lover
4 One More River
5 Sailor's Grave
6 Wasn't That a Mighty Day
7 House of the Rising Sun
8 This Land Is Your Land
9 We Come for to Sing
10 Wee Cooper O'Fife
11 Lilli-I-O
12 Bound for the Promised Land
13 Weel Man the Keel Row
14 Wayfaring Stranger
15 Nickety Nack
16 Three Jolly Sailor Boys
17 Gently Johnny, My Jingalo
18 Mary Had a Baby
19 New York Girls
20 Red River Valley
21 An Irish Fragment
22 Buffalo Boy
23 Who Killed Cock Robin
24 Now, Let Me Fly
25 Everywhere I Look This Morning
