<<<   Bob Coltman: Paul Clayton           & The Folksong Revival.           Scarecrow Press 2008		Paul Clayton 1959 source: Gahr/Shelton: The Face Of Folk Music, p. 100
	Paul Clayton, who came from the old whaling town, New Bedford, Massachusetts, and who sang sea chanties went around singing Dylan's praises to any who would listen. "Bobby worshipped Pablo Clayton artistically," one of the folksingers from those days [Dave Van Ronk] recalls. "And Pablo became absolutely fixated on Bobby. Bobby could talk about nothing else but Woody Guthrie, and Pablo could talk about nothing else but Bobby Dylan." Anthony Scaduto: Bob Dylan.- London 1972, p. 59 Paul Clayton Paul Clayton Worthington b. March 3, 1931 [not 1933] in New Bedford, Massachusetts d. March 30, 1967 in New York City buried at Oak Grove Cemetery, New Bedford, Massachusetts discography

Paul Clayton 45 rpm / EPs / LPs / CDs

#	year of release	title / label / notes
1	1954?	Whaling Songs & Ballads - Blow Ye Winds - A Fitting Out - Whale To The Starboard - Desolation - The Coast Of Peru - Ye Men Of Renown - The Sailor's Grave - The Sailorman's Alphabet - The Greenland Fishery - In Days Of Old - The Bark Gay Head - The Wings Of A Goney - Off To Sea Once More - Rolling Home prod. in cooperation with the New Bedford Whaling Museum 10 inch album Stinson SLP 69
2	1956?	Waters Of Tyne English North Country Songs & Ballads - Waters Of Tyne - Billy Boy - Collier's Rant - Keel Row - Lambton Worm - When This Old Hat Was New - Geordie Hinny - Cushie Butterfield - Willow Tree - Blaydon Races - Ca' Hawkie - Maa Bonny Lad - Heh You Seen Wor Jimmy - Banks Of The Dee Stinson SLP 70
3	1956	Bay State Ballads Sea Songs - Cape Cod Girls - Huzza For Commodore Rodgers - The Ocean Rover - Blow The Man Down - Come All Ye Shipmates - Whiskey Johnny - The Seaman's Grave Land Songs - Springfield Mountain - The Bailiff's Daughter Of Islington - The Old Soldier - Polly Van - The Embargo - Bachelor's Hall - Around The Ingals Blazing 10 inch album Folkways FP 47/2 = FA 2106
4	1956	Folk Songs And Ballads Of Virginia - Railroad Bill - In The Pines - Gambling Man - Wild Rover - Bill Dooley - Talt Hall - The Farmer's Curst Wife - Harvey Logan - Lady Margaret - Frankie - If I Had A Bottle Of Rum - Lord Darnell - Poor Old Maids - The Little Pig 10 inch album Folkways FP 47/3 = FA 2110
5	1957	Cumberland Mountain Folksongs - The Hustling Gamblers - Lord Bateman - Floyd Collins - Mush Toodin - The House Carpenter - Sugar Baby - Spotty And Dudie - Pretty Polly And False William - Once I Courted A Pretty Little Girl - Kathy Fiscus - Walk, Tom Wilson, Walk - Cold Winter's Night - The Texas Rangers 10 inch album Folkways FA 2007
6	1956	The Folkways-Viking Record of Folk Ballads of the English Speaking World - Botany Bay - The Twa Sisters - Katherine Jaffray - The Dying Stockman - Silkie Of Sule Skerry - Lass Of Roch Royal - Derby Ram - Dupree - Lilliburlero - Naomi Wise - The Sea Captain - The Baffled Knight - The Cherry Tree Carol - The Bailiff's Daughter Of Islington - Avondale Mine Disaster prod. in connection with A.B. Friedman, ed., "The Viking Book of Folk Ballads" Folkways FA 2310
7	1956	Whaling And Sailing Songs from the Days of Moby Dick - The Maid Of Amsterdam - Old Stormalong - The Girls Around Cape Horn - Paddy Doyle's Boots - Spanish Ladies - Sally Brown - The Dying Sailor To His Shipmates - Ranzo - The Mermaid - Johnny's Gone To Hilo - Saturday Night At Sea - Shenandoah - Admiral Benbow - Round The Corner - The Greenland Whale Fisheries - Go Down You Blood Red Roses - The Turkish Revelee - Boney Was A Warrior - Lady Franklin's Lament - Santy Anna Tradition 1005 = Legacy CD 389 (1994) "Sailing and Whaling Songs of the 19th Century" =Tradition CD 1064 (1997) more info =Empire Musicwerks 450 765-2 (2006)
8	1956	Bloody Ballads British and American Murder Ballads - Pearl Bryan - Banks of the Ohio - Stagolee - Two Brothers - Brookfield Murder - Down in the Willow Garden - Jellon Grame, Bloody Ballads - Suncook Town Tragedy - Poor Ellen Smith - Knoxville Girl - Delia - Pretty Polly - Cruel Mother - John Hardy - Tom Dooley - Edward - Lula Viers notes by Paul Clayton & Kenneth S. Goldstein Riverside RLP 12-615 notes by Paul Clayton & Kenneth S. Goldstein = Washington WLP 727 (US 1962) (Folk Music of the World)
9	195?	Wanted For Murder Songs of Outlaws and Desperados - Jesse James - Cole Younger - Charles Guiteau - Duncan And Brady - Kenny Wagner - Wild Bill Jones - Quantrell - Ella Speed - Billy The Kid - Bully Of The Town - Sidney Allen - Claude Allen - Bad Lee Brown - Sam Bass - Coon-Can Game - Zeb Turney's Girl ed. by Kenneth S. Goldstein Riverside RLP 12-640 P-Vine PCD-5145 (Jp 1997) (Coffee House Folkie Sounds)
10	1957	American Broadside Ballads In Popular Tradition - When Cockle Shells Make Silver Bells - Pleasant And Delightful - Three Maidens To Milking Did Go - The Bonny Bunch Of Roses - The Bold Thrasher - My Grandmother - The Lost Lady Found - When Pat Came Over The Hill - The Dark-Eyed Sailor - Jim, The Carter's Lad - Geordie - The Oyster Girl - The Bold Fisherman - Brian O'Lynn - The Sweet Primroses - Green Room - Herchard Of Taunton Dene - The False-Hearted Knight - The Indian Lass Folkways FA 2378 = F 8708
11	1957	Dulcimer Songs And Solos - Flop-Eared Mule - Old Joe Clark - False Love - Soldier's Joy - Goin' To Georgia - Shady Grove - Boil Them Cabbage Down - Mary Hamilton - Charley's Ran - John Henry - Lonesome Road - Sad And Lonely - Cedar Mountain Breakdown - Swannanoah Tunnel - Dogwood (Knocking Blues) - Storms Of The Ocean - Massey Groves - John Hardy - Chinese Breakdown - Georgia Buck - All the Good Times Are O'er Folkways FA 2382 = FG 3571 (1962)
12	1957	American Songs of Revolutionary Times - The Gambling Suitor (Paul Clayton & Jean Ritchie) - That's Once (told by Richard Chase) - The Bashful Courtship (Jean Ritchie) - The Split Dog (told by Richard Chase) - Locks And Bolts (Paul Clayton) - The Snakebite Hoehandle (told by Richard Chase) - The Old Grey Goose Is Dead (Jean Ritchie) - The Big Toe (told by Richard Chase) - The Deaf Woman's Courtship (Paul Clayton & Jean Ritchie) - Wondrous Love (Jean Ritchie) - The Devil's Question (Paul Clayton & Jean Ritchie) - The Man In The Kraut Tub (told by Richard Chase) - The Swapping Song (Paul Clayton) - The Hickory Toothpick (told by Richard Chase) - The Riddle Song (Jean Ritchie & Paul Clayton) Olympic 6123 "The Atlas Series - Music from around the World"
13	1958	timber-r-r! Lumberjack Folk Songs & Ballads - Lumberman's Alphabet - Jerry's Rock - Little Brown Bull - Harry Dunn - James Whalen - Wild Mustard River - Banks of the Little Eau Plaine - Canaday - Jack Haggerty - Rackets Around Blue Mountain Lake - Backwoodsman - Lost Jimmie - Peter Emberly - Harry Bale - Jolly Shantyboys Riverside RLP 12-648
14	195?	Concert Of British And American Folksongs Riverside RLP 12-836 [??? Riverside RLP 12-836 is much more likely "Ohela Halevy: Voice of Israel"]
15	1958	Unholy Matrimony - Stay Away From The Girls - The Wooden-Legged Parson - Will The Weaver - Mother-In-Law Song - I Wish I Was Single Again - The Old Wife Who Wanted Spruncin' - The Charleston Merchant - Life On The Installment Plan - The Dumb Wife - Jack The Sailor - Farmers Nagging Wife - Dirty Wife - The Farmer's Servant - A Quick Way To Be Rid Of A Wife - The Butcher And The Tailor's Wife - The Husband With No Courage In Him - I Can't Change It - Home, Sad Home with Bob Yellin, bj, cithern Elektra EKL 147 = Collector's Choice CD 682 (US 2008)
16	1958	Bobby Burns' Merry Muses Of Caledonia Sung By Paul Clayton - Nine Inch Will Please A Lady - Our Jock's Broke Yesterday - How Can I Keep My Maidenhead? - Who Will Mow Me Now? - Johnnie Scott - John Anderson - My Jo - Tommie Makes My Tail Toddle - Tweedmouth Town - Would You Do That? - Ellibanks - Beware Of The Ripples - Duncan Macleerie - Muirland Meg - No Hair On It - Copper Of Dundee - Who The Devil Can Hinder The Wind To Blow - Lassie Gathering Nuts - The Thrusting Of It - My Bonnie Highland Lad - The Patriarch - Duncan Davison - Know Ye Not Our Bess - Auntie Jean - A Hole To Hide It In - Can You Labour Lea Elektra EKL-155
17	1959	Foc'sle Songs And Shanties - Ratcliffe Highway (Paul Clayton) - Rio Grande (Roger Abrahams) - Haul On The Bowline (Dave van Ronk) - Maggie May (Paul Clayton) - Haul Away Joe (Bob Brill) - Do My Johnny Booker (Paul Clayton) - Roll The Cotton Down (Roger Abrahams) - Haul Boys Haul (Paul Clayton) - Leave Her Johnny (Dave van Ronk) - Paddy Lay Back (Paul Clayton) - Fire Down Below (Paul Clayton) - A Hundred Years Ago (Bob Brill) - Santy Anno (Dave van Ronk) - Captain Nipper (Paul Clayton) - Hanging Johnny (Roger Abrahams) - Banks Of The Sacramento (Paul Clayton) - Won't You Go My Way (Roger Abrahams) - Good Bye Fare Thee Well (Paul Clayton) - All Bound To Go (Roger Abrahams) - The Black Ball Line (Paul Clayton) Folkways FA 2429 = Le Chant Du Monde FWX-M 52429 Chants de marins anglais
18	1959	Paul Clayton - Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons (When I'm Gone)   @ youtube - This Land Is Your Land "Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons (When I'm Gone)" was the basis for Bob Dylan's "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right". Clayton's composition was based on an older folksong, entitled "Who's Gonna Buy You Chickens When I'm Gone?" Monument 45-416
19	1960	Paul Clayton - Last Cigarette - So Long (It's Been Good To Know You) Monument 45-424
20	1960	Paul Clayton - So Long (It's Been Good To Know You) - Wings Of A Dove London 45-HLU-9285
21	1961	Home-Made Songs & Ballads - Durango Jail - Last Cigarette - The Bully Of The Town - Long John - Love For Love - Pharaoh`s Army - On The Job Too Long - Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons - Pretty Peggo-O - If She's Gone - Young But Growing - This Morning She Was Gone Monument M 4001
22	1961	Paul Clayton - Wings Of A Dove - So Long (It's Been Good To Know You) - Last Cigarette - Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons 7 inch EP London RE-U 1276 (GB)
23	1964	Paul Clayton - Wings Of A Dove - The Convent At Ronda Monument 45-432
24	196?	Paul Clayton - Yellow Bird - Kilgary Mountain Monument 45-450
25	196?	Paul Clayton - San Francisco Bay Blues - Green Rocky Road Monument 45-819
26	1965	Folk Singer! - Pay Day At Coal Creek - Silver City Bound - Green Rocky Road - Down By The Rio Grande - Gotta Travel On - San Francisco Bay Blues - Wild Mountain Thyme - Goin' On Down The Road - Spanish Is The Loving Tongue - Lie Down Betty - Cecil Gone In The Time Of Storm - Life Is A Toil Monument MLP 8017 = SP 18017
27	2008	Paul Clayton Sings Homemade Songs And Ballads / Folk Singer! - Durango Jail # - Last Cigarette # - Pharaoh's Army # - Bully of the Town # - Love For Love # - Long John (Long Gone) # - On the Job Too Long # - Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons (When I'm Gone) # - Pretty Peggy-O # - This Morning She Was Gone # - If She's Gone (Let Her Go) # - Young But Growing # - Pay Day At Coal Creek * - Silver City Bound * - Green Rocky Road * - Down By The Rio Grande * - Gotta Travel On * - San Francisco Bay Blues * - Wild Mountain Thyme * - Goin' On Down The Road * - Spanish Is The Loving Tongue * - Lie Down Betty * - Cecil Gone In The Time Of Storm * - Life Is A Toil * - So Long (It's Been Good To Know You) [] - This Land Is Your Land [] - Yellow Bird [] - Kilgary Mountain [] remastered from original master tapes of the two Monument LPs (# *) by Simon Polinski at Laundry Goat Studios 2008; four non-LP tracks ( [] ) included; originally prod. by Fred Foster Omni CD 120 www.worldwentdown.com/ omni/
"Mr. Clayton has also recorded songs traditional in his family for the Archive of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College, Vermont, and for the Library of Congress." from liner notes to Tradition TLP 1005

Paul Clayton performing at Caffé Lena autumn 1963
source: Kristin Baggelaar & Donald Milton: The Folk Music Encyclopedia
London / New York / Sidney 1977, p. 73

Anthologies / Compilations / Samplers
containing music performed by Paul Clayton

#	year of release	title / songs (Paul Clayton / label # / notes
1	195?	Tradition Folk Sampler - The Bird's Courtship (Erik Darling) - O'Donnell Aboo (Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem) - John Henry (Etta Baker) - The Hearse Song (Colyn Davies) - Rodenos (El Niño de Ronda) - Johnny's Gone To Hilo (Paul Clayton) - Dark As A Dungeon (Glenn Yarbrough, Fred Hellerman) - Johnny Lad (Ewan MacColl) - Ha-Na-Ava Ba-Ba-Not (Hillel & Aviva) - I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago   (Oscar Brand, Fred Hellerman) - Keel Row (Isla Cameron) - The Fairy Boy (Seamus Ennis) - The Gambling Suitor (Jean Ritchie & Paul Clayton) - Spirtual Trilogy (Oh, Freedom, Come And Go With Me,   I'm On My Way) (Odetta) Tradition TSP1
2	1958	Our Singing Heritage Vol. 1 - Jack Went A-Sailing (Lori Holland) - Strawberry Roan (Pat Foster) - Rich Old Lady (Peggy Seeger) - Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane (Pegram and Parham) - Gypsy Lover (Lori Holland) - When I Was Single (E.G.Huntington) - Roll On Buddy (Paul Clayton) - The House Carpenter (Ellen Stekert) - Nobody Know [sic] You When You're Down And Out (Dave Van Ronk) - Who's Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet (Lee Charles) - Lakes Of Ponchartrain (E.G.Huntington) - Froggie Went A-Courtin (Ellen Stekert) - Goodbye, Little Bonnie, Goodbye (Paul Clayton) - John Riley (Myra Ross) - Johnny Runkins (Pat Foster) - Mary, What You Call That Pretty Little Baby (Dave Van Ronk) - Yellow Rose Of Texas (Pegram and Parham) - Love Henry (Peggy Seeger) notes by Kenneth S. Goldstein Elektra EKL 151
3	1958	Folk Sampler Five - A Maid Goin's To Comber - Tom Kines - Bulerias - Cuarda Flamenco - Nine Foot Shovel - Josh White - Hora Heachzut - Oranim Zabar Israeli Troupe - Mary Had A Baby (Marily Child) - Glenn Yarbrough - Beryuzoviye Kalyechke - Theodore Bikel - Swannanoa Tunnel - Erik Darling - Steel Meringue - The Original Trinidad Steel Band - Kum Aher du Filozop - Theodore Bikel - Johnson Boys - The Shanty Boys - Ankaranin Tasina Bak - Cynthia Gooding - Michael, Row The Boat Ashore - Pete Seeger - Il Est Petit - Gene and Francesca - Which Is The Properest Day To Drink - Randolph Singers - Stay Away From The Girls - Paul Clayton - Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) - Lord Foodoo + booklet Elektra SMP-5 (mono) (US 1958) = Elektra SMP-5 (mono) (US 1960) = Elektra SMP-5 (mono) (US 1962)
4	196?	Everybody Sing, Vol 2. Songs For Juniors - Lumberman's Alphabet - Buffalo Skinners Riverside/Wonderland RLP-1419
5	196?	Little Cowboys 15 Cowboy Songs specially selected for Children Bob Gibson, Paul Clayton, Ed McCurdy, Oscar Brand, Milt Okun, Merrick Jarrett & others Riverside/Wonderland RLP-1423
6	196?	Folksong Selection - Banks Of The Sacramento Chants Du Monde FWX 1601
7	1970	A Nation Conceived And Dedicated American Adventures Program Vol. 1 Ella Jenkins, Barry Hall, Pete Seeger, Sam Hinton, Ewen McCall, Paul Clayton, Ossie Davis, Montgomery Gospel Trio and others Side One: The Early Americans Side Two: The Rise Of A Nation Folkways
8	1996	The Riverside/Folklore Series Vol. 3: Singing the New Tradition Songs, Singers, and Instrumentalists of the Folk Revival - Omie Wise - Tom Dula rec. 1955-1958 Riverside RCD-9911-2 more info

Paul Clayton

Collaborations with / (Guest) Appearances on other Artist's recordings

#	year of release	artist / title / label # / notes
1	1956	Instrumental Music Of The Southern Appalachians recording (with Diane Hamilton, Liam Clancy), liner notes - Cripple Creek (Mr. Hobart Smith) - Pateroller Song (Mr. Hobart Smith) - One Dime Blues (Mrs. Etta Baker) - Sourwood Mountain (Mr. Boone Reid) - Going Down The Road Feeling Bad (Mrs. Etta Baker) - Amazing Grace (Mrs. Edd Presnell) - The Girl I Left Behind Me (Mr. Richard Chase) - Marching Jaybird (Mr. Lacey Phillips) - John Brown's Dream (Mr. Hobart Smith) - Sally Goodin (Mrs. Edd Presnell) - Railroad Bill (Mrs. Etta Baker) - Soldier's Joy (Mr. Lacey Phillips) - Molly Brooks (Mr. Richard Chase) - Pretty Polly (Mr. Hobart Smith) - Johnson Boys (Mr. Boone Reid) - John Henry (Mrs. Etta Baker) - Drunken Hiccups (Mr. Hobart Smith) - Shady Grove (Mrs. Edd Presnell) - The Bully Of The Town (Mrs. Etta Baker) - Skip To My Lou (Mr. Richard Chase) rec summer 1956 Tradition TLP 1007 Rykodisc TCD 1061 more info
2	195?	Jean Ritchie & Paul Clayton: American Folk Tales & Songs - The Gambling Suitor - That's Once - The Bashful Courtship - The Split Dog - Locks And Bolts - The Snakebit Hoehandle - The Old Grey Goose Is Dead - The Big Toe - The Deaf Woman's Courtship - Wondrous Love - The Devils Questions - The Man In The Kraut Tub - The Swapping Song - The Hickory Toothpick - The Riddle Song. Tradition TLP 1011
3 1961	Rev. Gary Davis and Pink Anderson: American Street Songs rec. by Paul Clayton May 29, 1950 Charlottesville, Virginia Pink Anderson: Carolina Street Ballads - John Henry - Everyday In The Week - The Ship Titanic - Greasy Greens - Wreck Of The Old 97 - I've Got Mine - He's In The Jailhouse Now Rev. Gary Davis: Harlem Street Sprituals - Blow, Gabriel - Twelve Gates To The City - Samson And Delilah - Oh Lord, Search My Heart - Get Right Church - You Got To Go Down - Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning - There Was A Time That I Was Blind Pink Anderson rec. May 29 1950 by Paul Clayton Davis rec. Jan. 20 1956 by Kenneth F. Goldstein Riverside RLP 12-611 = Riverside RLP 148 "Gospel, Blues and Street Songs" = OBCCD-524-2 (1987) fantasyjazz.com acerecords.co.uk Pink Anderson discography
4	1975	Bill Clifton & Paul Clayton: The First Recordings A Bluegrass Session, 1952 - John Henry - Watermelon On The Vine * - Roll On The Ground § - Pleasant And Delightful # - The Fox # - John Hardin # - East Virginia Blues # - Jealous Lover # - Beautiful Mable Clare # - Burry Me Beneath The Willow # - Poor Boy # - Roll On The Ground # Paul Clayton, lead vocal, guitar * Paul Clayton, guitar § Paul Clayton, guitar and vocal Folk Variety FV 12004 (D) Folk Variety has been Richard Weize's first effort before starting Bear Family Records Bear Family BF-15001 (1979) King GXF 6002 (Jp)

Other artist's Covers of Paul Clayton songs

#	year of release	Artist: Record Title - featured Paul Clayton song	label # / notes
1	1958	Billy Grammer - Gotta Travel On - Chasing A Dream www.grammerguitar.com Monitor 400
2	19??	Arthur Fiedler & The Boston Pops: Gotta Travel On - Leaving On A Jet Plane (John Denver) - I Feel The Earth Move (Carole King) - By The Time I Get To Phoenix (Jim Webb) - Gotta Travel On (Paul Clayton) - Wichita Lineman (Jim Webb) - King Of The Road (Roger Miller) - Music From Across The Way (James Last, Carl Sigman) - Until It's Time For You To Go (Buffy Sainte Marie) - Homeward Bound (Paul Simon) - Green, Green Grass Of Home (Curly Putnam)
		Additional information appreciated !!!

thanks to Barbara Souza (for correcting Paul's birth date), Ewan Viney, Elijah Wald and Larry Hoffman for additional info