Burl Ives - The Wayfaring Stranger: Selected Classics 1941-62 (3xCD) | NEW

The Wayfaring Stranger: Selected Classics 1941-62
Artist: Burl Ives Format: CD Release Date: 4/3/2026
Label: Acrobat
Number of Discs: 3
UPC: 824046918224
Genre: Folk
Release Date: 4/3/2026
Product ID: ACBT9182.


Description
Burl Ives was a unique and remarkable entertainer, a folk and pop singer and guitarist, composer, radio performer and stage and film actor, who helped to popularise traditional folk music across all generations but also had pop hits in his later career. Born in Illinois in 1909, he gave up training to be a teacher to become an itinerant troubadour-style entertainer, working on radio where he could and once jailed for vagrancy in Utah. After Army service in WWII, and appearing in Irving Berlin's "This Is The Army", he became a radio regular, and started recording, revving many US and British folk songs. His early recordings of songs like "Blue Tail Fly", "Big Rock Candy Mountain" and "I Know An Old Lady" became children's radio favourites for decades. This 87-track 3-CD collection comprises selected A & B sides from releases on the Columbia & Decca labels from these years, plus selected titles from the Decca albums "A Collection of Ballads & Folk Songs", "Ballads & Folk Songs Vol 2", "Folk Songs - Dramatic And Humorous", "Women (Folk Songs About The Fair Sex)", "Wild Side Of Life", "Men: Songs For And About Men", "Down To The Sea In Ships", "Songs Of Ireland", "Capt. Burl Ives Ark", "Old Time Varieties", "Australian Folk Songs" and "Cheers". It includes his hits "Riders In The Sky, "Marianne", "A Little Bitty Tear", "Funny Way Of Laughing", "Call Me Mr. In-Between" and "Mary Ann Regrets". He was a one of a kind performer, and this selection from his prolific recorded canon is a celebration of his distinctive contribution to popular culture.


TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 Wee Cooper O' Fife
2 Cowboy's Lament
3 I Know Where I'm Going
4 Tam Pierce
5 Peter Gray
6 On Top of Old Smoky
7 Cotton Eyed Joe
8 Darlin' Cory
9 Foggy, Foggy Dew
10 Blue Tail Fly
11 Big Rock Candy Mountain
12 Old Dan Tucker
13 Eddystone Light
14 Fox
15 Aunt Rhody
16 Down in the Valley
17 I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes
18 Turtle Dove
19 Po' Boy
20 Lavender Blue
21 On the Grand Canyon Line
22 Wayfaring Stranger
23 Riders in the Sky
24 Roving Gambler
25 John Hardy
26 Worried Man Blues
27 Mr Froggie Went A-Courtin
28 Mule Train
29 John Henry
30 Doughnut Song
31 Pretty Polly
- Disc 2 -
1 Green Broom
2 Pig Pig
3 Wild Side of Life
4 This Time Tomorrow
5 Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves
6 Goober Peas
7 Git Along Little Dogies
8 Hush Little Baby
9 I Know An Old Lady
10 Nellie McNess
11 Molly Malone
12 Liza Jane
13 Barbara Allen
14 Close the Door Richard
15 Crawdad Song
16 Casey Jones
17 Ballad of Davy Crockett
18 Wabash Cannonball
19 Jack Was Every Inch a Sailor
20 Ox Driver's Song
21 Waltzing Matilda (The Jolly Swagman's Song)
22 Wild Rover
23 Frankie and Johnny
24 Prisoner's Song (Midnight Special)
25 Santy Anna
26 Blow Ye Winds!
27 Drunken Sailor
28 Rolling Home
- Disc 3 -
1 Maid of the Sweet Brown Knowe
2 Kilgary Mountain
3 Nell Flaherty's Drake
4 Paddy and the Whale
5 Squirrel
6 Horace the Horse
7 Bestiary
8 Monkey and the Elephant
9 In the Evening By the Moonlight
10 Man on the Flying Trapeze
11 Grandfather's Clock
12 Man That Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
13 Wild Colonial Boy
14 Nautical Yarn
15 Botany Bay
16 Oh By Jingo (Oh By Gee, You're the Only Girl for Me)
17 Tit Willow
18 I Never See Maggie Alone
19 There Is a Tavern in the Town
20 There's a Hole in My Bucket
21 Marianne
22 Long Black Veil
23 Little Bitty Tear
24 Shanghied
25 Mockin' Bird Hill
26 Funny Way of Laughin'
27 Mother Wouldn't Do That
28 Call Me Mr. In-Between
29 Mary Ann Regrets

• Condition: NEW
• Format: CD
• Internal ID: 824046918224
• Genre: FOLK
• Format Type: 3xCD