List of songs recorded by Lead Belly

The following is a partial list of songs performed by Lead Belly. Lead Belly, born Huddie Ledbetter, was an American folk and blues musician active in the 1930s and 1940s.

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  • "Kansas City Papa"
  • "Keep your Hands Off Her"
  • "Leaving Blues (When you are smiling)"
  • "Let It Shine on Me" [20] (trad.)
  • "Line Em"
  • "Lining Track" (trad.)
  • "Little Children's Blues"
  • "Little Sally Walker"
  • "Looky Looky Yonder" [21] (+)
  • "Match Box Blues"
  • "Medicine Man"
  • "Meeting at the Building"
  • "Midnight Special" [22](trad.)
  • "Mister Tom Hughes's Town"
  • "Mother's Blues"
  • "Mr. Hitler"
  • "Must I Be Carried into the Sky"
  • "National Defense Blues"
  • "New York City"
  • "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen"
  • "Noted (No Good) Rider"
  • "Oh, Something on My Mind"
  • "Old Man"
  • "Old Rattler"
  • "(Old) Stewball"
  • "Old Time Religion"
  • "On a Christmas Day"
  • "On a Monday" [23] (+)
  • "Out On the Western Plains" (aka: "Cow Cow Yicky Yicky Yea")
  • "Outshine the Sun"
  • "Outskirts of Town"
  • "Packing Trunk Blues"
  • "Pig Meat" (with Sonny Terry [24] - Harmonica)[25]
  • "Pig Meat Papa"
  • "Pick a Bale of Cotton" (trad.)
  • "Poor Howard"
  • "Prayer"
  • "Pretty Flowers in My Backyard" [26][27] (aka: "Pretty Flower in Your Backyard") [28][29]
  • "the Red Cross Store Blues"
  • "Red River"
  • "Relax Your Mind"
  • "Ride On"
  • "Roberta" (parts 1 & 2) [30]
  • "Rock Island Line" [31]
  • "the Roosevelt Song"
  • "Run Sinners"
  • "Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On"
  • "Salty Dog"
  • "the Scottsboro Boys"
  • "Silver City Bound"
  • "Skip to My Lou"
  • "Stand Your Test in Judgement"
  • "Stewball"
  • "Sweet Mary Blues (Governor Pat Neff)"
  • "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" (trad.)
  • "Sylvie" [32]
  • "Take a Whiff on Me"
  • "Take This Hammer" [33][34]
  • "TB Blues"
  • "Tell me Baby"
  • "They Hung Him on a Cross" (see: "He Never Said a Mumblin' Word")
  • "The Titanic"
  • "There's a Man Goin´ around Takin´ Names"
  • "Turn your Radio On"
  • "We shall Be Free" (with Woody Guthrie)"
  • "We shall Walk Thru the Valley"
  • "Western Plain"
  • "When I Was a Cowboy"
  • "When the Boys Were Out on the Western Plains"
  • "When the Train Comes Along"
  • "Where Did You Sleep Last Night"(trad.) (see: "In the Pines")
  • "Whoa Back Buck"
  • "Yellow Gal"
  • "Yellow Women's Doorbells" (see: "On a Monday")
  • "You Can't Lose-A Me Cholly"
  • "You don't Miss Your Water"
  • "You don't Know My Mind"
  • "You Must Have that Religion, Halleloo"

References

  1. ↑ Discogs - Rock Island Line (images) 1953 10", Folkways Records (FP 14) US
  2. ↑ AllMusic - The Bourgeois Blues - Lead Belly song info
  3. ↑ Discogs - The Bourgeois Blues (images) - 1939 78-RPM-10"-LP, Musicraft (227) US
  4. ↑ Discogs - Take This Hammer: Huddie Ledbetter Memorial Album (images) - 1950 vinyl-10"-LP, Folkways Records (804 FLP) US
  5. ↑ Discogs - Martha Ledbetter - profile and discography
  6. ↑ Discogs - Leadbelly's Last Sessions Vol.1 - 1959 vinyl, Melodisc (MLP 12-113) UK; recorded 1948 September/October, NYC
  7. ↑ Discogs - Leadbelly's Legacy Volume 3: Early Recordings (images) - 1951 vinyl-10"-LP, Folkways Records (FP 24) US
  8. ↑ Discogs - Leadbelly's Legacy Volume 3: Early Recordings (images) - 1951 vinyl-10"-LP, Folkways Records (FA 2024) US
  9. ↑ AllMusic - De Kalb Blues - Lead Belly song info
  10. ↑ Discogs - Diggin' my Potatoes - 1962 vinyl-7"-EP, Storyville (SEP 387) Denmark
  11. ↑ AllMusic - Duncan and Brady - Lead Belly song info
  12. ↑ Discogs - the Gallis Pole (images) - 1939 78-RPM-10", Musicraft (227) US
  13. ↑ AllMusic - Governor O.K. Allen - Lead Belly song info
  14. ↑ Discogs - Leadbelly's Last Sessions Volume One - 1953 2-vinyl-LP, Folkways Records (FP 241) US
  15. ↑ Discogs - Easy Rider: Leadbelly Legacy Vol.4 - 1953 vinyl-10"-LP, Folkways (FA 2034) US; recorded January 1941-1946
  16. ↑ Discogs - Lead Belly's Last Sessions - 1994 compilation 4-CD, Smithsonian Folkways (SF CD 40068/71) US; recorded September 27, 1948
  17. ↑ Discogs - "Live": New York 1947 & Austin, Texas 1949 - 2004 reMastered-CD, Document Records (DOCD-5676) Europe; recorded June 15 1949, University of Texas
  18. ↑ Discogs - (Black Gal) Where Did You Sleep Last Night? - 1944 78-RPM-10", Musicraft (312) US
  19. ↑ Discogs - In New Orleans - 1944 78-RPM-10", Musicraft (312) US
  20. ↑ Discogs - where did you sleep last night (LEAD BELLY LEGACY VOL.1) - 1996 CD, (SF CD 40044) US; recorded 1941-46, NYC
  21. ↑ Discogs - The Bourgeois Blues / American Jazz & Blues History Vol.128 - vinyl-12", Tobacco Road (B/2628) Germany
  22. ↑ AllMusic - The Midnight Special - Lead Belly song info
  23. ↑ Discogs - On a Monday / John Henry - 1943-August 78-RPM-10", Asch Recordings (343-3) US
  24. ↑ Discogs - Sonny Terry - profile and discography
  25. ↑ Discogs - Pig Meat - 1962 vinyl-7"-EP, Storyville (SEP 387) Denmark
  26. ↑ Discogs - the Definitive Lead Belly - 2005 compilation 2CD, Not Now Music (NOT2CD261) UK
  27. ↑ Discogs - Black Betty - 2011 compilation 2-vinyl-LP, Not Now Music Limited (NOT2LP133) UK
  28. ↑ Discogs - Absolutely the Best - 2000 compilation CD, Fuel_2000 (302 061 080 2) US
  29. ↑ Discogs - Bluesman - Collector's Edition (images) - 2005 compilation 2CD, Fuel 2000 Records (302 061 532 2) US
  30. ↑ Discogs - Leadbelly's Legacy Volume 3: Early Recordings - 1951 vinyl-10"-LP, Folkways Records (FA 2024) US
  31. ↑ AllMusic - Rock Island Line - Lead Belly song info
  32. ↑ "Sylvie" was written by Ledbetter with "Paul Campbell", which according to attribution on the 1959 album Belafonte at Carnegie Hall was a collective pen name of The Weavers.
  33. ↑ Discogs - Take This Hammer (Steel Drivin') / Corn Bread Rough - 1942 78-RPM-10", Asch Recordings (101) US
  34. ↑ AllMusic - Take This Hammer - Lead Belly song info
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