The Wayfaring Stranger (1944 Asch album)

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The Wayfaring Stranger
The Wayfaring Stranger cover
Studio album by Burl Ives
Released 1944
Genre Folk
Label Asch
Note: This article is linked to the discography in the Burl Ives article.

The Wayfaring Stranger (Asch 345) is an album consisting of three 10-inch records by Burl Ives. It was released in 1944, but it should not be confused with The Wayfaring Stranger (Columbia Set C-103), which was also released in 1944 but contains different songs. The Asch album includes the first releases of two signature songs by Ives: "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" and "The Blue Tail Fly."

The same collection of songs was later reissued on the Stinson label as a 78 rpm album (Stinson 345), a 10-Inch LP (Stinson SLP-1), a 12-inch LP (also with catalog number Stinson SLP-1), and finally a cassette tape (Stinson CA-1). All of the Stinson releases with the exception of the 78 rpm album had two bonus tracks: "The Fox" and "Brennan on the Moor."

Contents

[edit] Track listing (Asch or Stinson 345)

[edit] Record 1 (Asch or Stinson 345-1 )

Track Song Title
1. Poor Wayfaring Stranger
2. Buckeye Jim
3. The Bold Soldier
4. The Sow Took the Measles

[edit] Record 2 (Asch or Stinson 345-2)

Track Song Title
1. The Foggy Foggy Dew
2. Black Is the Color

[edit] Record 3 (Asch or Stinson 345-3)

Track Song Title
1. Henry Martin
2. The Blue Tail Fly

[edit] Track listing (Stinson SLP-1, both versions)

[edit] Side One (Stinson SLP-1A)

Stinson SLP-1A (1963) on clear red vinyl (A Re-Pressing from the 1970s[citation needed])
Stinson SLP-1A (1963) on clear red vinyl (A Re-Pressing from the 1970s[citation needed])
Track Song Title
1. Poor Wayfaring Stranger
2. Black Is The Color
3. The Foggy Foggy Dew
4. Buckeye Jim
5. The Bold Soldier

[edit] Side Two (Stinson SLP-1B)

Track Song Title
1. The Sow Took The Measles
2. The Blue Tail Fly
3. Henry Martin
4. The Fox (Bonus Track)
5. Brennan on the Moor (Bonus Track)

[edit] Trivia

The Asch album was selling for $2.89 in 1944.[1]

The Stinson 12-inch LP album was selling for $3.98 in 1966 [2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Display ad, New York Times, April 2, 1944, p. X5.
  2. ^ Stinson Records Catalogue, 1966
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