Illustrated Logan English discography

Logan English
b. November 11, 1928 in Henderson, Kentucky
d. March 9, 1983 at Saratoga Springs, New York
discography

L O G A N E N G L I S H; Front cover of 20th Century Fox TFM 3126 'Logan English sings the Woody Guthrie songbag'; photographer: Norman C. Vershay

source: Front cover of Century Fox TFM 3126 photographer: Norman C. Vershay

# year
of release title / label / notes

1 1957 Logan English: Kentucky Folk Songs and Ballads

- Bangum And The Boar
- East Virginia
- Little Cory
- Bold Robington's Courtship
- Wild Bill Jones
- William And Dinah

- A Railroader For Me
- Bruton Town
- Old Doc Jones
- Love Henry
- The Lady And The Glove
- Durant Jail
10" LP
notes by
Kenneth S. Goldstein

Folkways FA 2136

2 1957 Logan English
The Days of '49: Songs of the Gold Rush

- What Was Your Name In The States?
- Sacramento
- A Ripping Trip
- Sweet Betsy From Pike
- Crossing The Plains
- Prospecting Dream
- Life in California
- I Often Think Of Writing Home

- The Days Of '49
- He's The Man For Me
- Clementine
- The Gambler
- Joe Bowers
- The California Stage Company
- California Bloomer
- Sacramento Gals

rec. by Kenneth S. Goldstein; Logan English, voc, g; Billy Faier, bj

Billy Faier discography
notes by Kenneth S. Goldstein

Folkways FH 5255

= Chants Du Monde
FWX-M-55255 (Fr)

3 1957 Logan English: Gambling Songs

- The Roving Gambler
- The Texas Gambler
- My Father Was A Gambler
- Stewball
- The California Gambler
- Duncan & Brady
- Spotty & Doodie
- I Got Mine

- Jack O' Diamonds
- John Hardy
- My True Love Is A Gambler
- Stackerlee
- Little Brown Bulls
- The Coon-Can Game
- A Hearty Good Fellow

notes by Kenneth S. Goldstein

Riverside RLP 12-643

4 1961 American History In Ballad And Song Volume One

- Washer Lad - Pete Seeger
- Shamrock - Pete Seeger
- When I Was Single - Peggy Seeger
- The Ballad of Tea Party - Hermes Nye
- The Liberty Song - Ed McCurdy
- The Dying Sergent - Ed McCurdy
- The Battle of Saratoga - Hermes Nye
- Cornwallis Burgoyned - Ed McCurdy
- Buffalo Skinners - Pete Seeger
- Davy Crockett - Hermes Nye

- Sioux Indians - Pete Seeger
- Greer County Bachelor (Starving to Death on My Government Claim) - Pete Seeger
- Crossing the Plains - Logan English
- Cowboy Yodel - Pete Seeger
- Free Elections - Pete Seeger
- Jefferson and Liberty - Ed McCurdy
- Andrew Jackson - Ed McCurdy
- Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be? - Elizabeth Knight
- No Irish Need Apply - Pete Seeger
- The Harrison Song - Ed McCurdy

- Hail Africa Band - Wallace House
- Abolitionist Hymn - Hermes Nye
- The Bonnie Blue Flag - Hermes Nye
- Cumberland Crew - Hermes Nye
- General Patterson - Hermes Nye
- In Charleston Jail - Hermes Nye
- All Quiet Along the Potomac - Hermes Nye
- Lincoln and Liberty - Hermes Nye
- Old Rebel - Hermes Nye

- Pittsburgh Town - Pete Seeger
- The Blind Fiddler - Pete Seeger
- Eight-Hour Day - Pete Seeger
- My Children Are Seven in Number - Pete Seeger
- Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine - Pete Seeger
- Cotton Mill Colic - Pete Seeger
- Mill Mother's Lament - Pete Seeger
- The Faith of Harry Simms - Pete Seeger
- The TVA Song - Pete Seeger
- Inflation - Pete Seeger
- Sixty Percent - Pete Seeger

- Raggedy - Pete Seeger
- Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat - Pete Seeger
- Dust Storm Disaster - Woody Guthrie
- Old English Forty Years Ago - Wallace House
- The Hunters of Kentucky - Wallace House
- Santa Anna - Hermes Nye
- Roll Alabama Roll - Hermes Nye
- Cuba Libre - Jerry Silverman

- The Flood and the Storm - Woody Guthrie
- Well, What a Time - Prisoners on a Texas Prison Farm
- Japanese Buddhist Service
- Indian (Hindu) Religious Hymn
- Moslem Hymn
- It's the Same All Over - Arthur Samuels
- To I Hola - The Grail Singers
- Erdo - The Grail Singers
- Ntabezikude - The Grail Singers

prepared by Albert Barouh and Theodore O. Cron
3 LP set

Folkways FH 5801

4a 1961 The LIFE Treasury Of American Folk Music

Gene Bluestein
- Skada At America
Fort Wingate Indian School Children
- Song Of Happiness
Navajo Chorus
- Riding Song
Alan Mills
- Ballad Of New Scotland
Gene Bluestein
- Ah, Si Mon Moine Voulait Danser
Hermes Nye
- Constitution And Guerriere
Pete Seeger
- The Knickerbocker Line
Alan Mills & Shanty Men
- Lowlands
Cisco Houston
- The E-R-I-E Canal
Alan Mills & Shanty Men
- Rio Grande
Mickey Miller & Bess Hawes
- Rosewood Casket
Alan Mills & Shanty Men
- Shenandoah
Hermes Nye
- I'm A Good Old Rebel
Huddie (Leadbelly) Ledbetter
- Ha Ha This A-Way
Hermes Nye
- Bonnie Blue Flag
Cisco Houston
- Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill
Woody Guthrie
- Billy The Kid
Logan English
- Sacramento
Woody Guthrie
- Hard Work
Hermes Nye
- Bonnie And Clyde
"Kid" Clayton & His Orchestra
- Gettysburg March

Life L-1001

5 1962 The World Of Folk Music, Show # 144
guest: Logan English
(back side: Show # 145, Josef Marais & Miranda)

6 196? The World Of Folk Music, Show # 215
guest: Logan English
(back side: Show # 214, Susan Reed)

This series of 15-minute radio program shows (hosted by Oscar Brand) was presented by the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare's Social Security Administration and featured interviews and performances by the guests, sometimes in duets with the host

7 1962 Monitor Presents Logan English
American Folk Ballads

- Roll On Columbia
- The Dewy Dens Of Yarrow
- Mule Skinner Blues
- Red Clay Country
- Buck-Eye Jim
- Shenandoah
- The Talking Fishing Blues

- The Dance Set
- Little Brown Dog
- He's In The Jailhouse Now
- The Kentucky Moonshiner
- My Last Old Dollar Is Gone
- Pretty Saro
- Mole In The Ground
- King's Highway

rec. at Fine Studios, New York; engineer: John Quinn; Logan English, voc, g; Eric Weissberg, voc, bj, g, mand; Marshall Brickman, voc, fiddle, b; Martin Lorin, voc
cover photo by Norman Vershay
notes by Logan English

Monitor MF 388

8 196? The Folksingers Of Washington Square

Anne Bird, guitar & autoharp

Alexander "Sandy" Bull, five-string banjo

Logan English, guitar

Bruce Langhorne, guitar, fiddle, harmonica

Martin Lorin, guitar

Molly Scott, guitar

Continental CLP-4010

Side One
Introduction - This Land (Guthrie) and Narration (The Six Folksingers Speaker: Kelsey Marechal)
Big Ball In Nashville (Bird, Bull, English, Langhorne)
C.C. Rider (Bruce Langhorne, playing guitar and harmonica (simultaneously!)
The Sailor Boy (Anne Bird and Logan English, guitars)
Hoe-Down Medley ("Sandy" Bull, banjo solo)
Brooklyn John Henry (Martin Lorin, guitar)
The E-ri-e Canal (Bull, English, Lorin, Scott)

Side Two
Meetin' At The Building (Molly Scott & Bruce Langhorne, guitars)
Canon: "Non Nobis, Domine" (attributed to William Byrd, 1543-1623) ("Sandy" Bull, playing the banjo and whistling)
I'm Sad And I'M Lonely (Molly Scott)
Hard Trials ("Sandy" Bull, banjo and Martin Lorin, guitar)
Wanderin' Boy (Anne Bird, autoharp)
Talkin' Singin' Blues (Logan English, guitar)
Grand Finale - This Land (Guthrie) (The Six Folksingers)
liner notes illustration Continental CLP-4010

9 1963 All The Folk There Is
recorded Live at the American Hootenanny Festival

- The Land Is Your Land - entire company
- The Alcoholic Rat - Logan English
- Sing Hallelujah - Steel Singers
- A Friend Of Mine - Judy Roderick
- Salty Dog Blues - Greenbriar Boys
- Marching To Pretoria - Lenny & Dick

- Goodbye, Old Pal - Greenbriar Boys
- Barb'ry Allen - Logan English
- Follow The dringking Gourd - Steel Singers
- Down In My Soul - Judy Roderick
- Nancy Whisky - Lenny & Dick
- So Long (It's Been Good To Know You) - entire company

rec. live in Norwalk, CT

20th Century Fox TFM 3121
(mono)
= TFS 4121 (stereo)

= Stateside SL-10138 (1965)

10 1964 Logan English sings the Woody Guthrie songbag

- Sally, Don't You Grieve
- Talkin' Dust Bowl
- Jackhammer John
- Lay Down, Little Dogies
- The Ladie's Auxiliary
- Pastures Of Plenty
- This Land Is Your Land

- Dead Or Alive
- Ramblin' Round
- Plane Wreck At Los Gatos (Deportee)
- East Texas Red
- Hard Work (Woody's Rag)
- So Long, It's Been Good To Know You

rec. at Gotham Sudios, NYC; Logan English, voc, g; Milt Hinton, b; John Herald, Bob Yellin, Ralph Rinzler, g, bj & mandolin; "and a young lady we can't name"; prod. by Fred Hertz for Joseph Csida Enterprises, Inc.
notes by Fred Hertz

20th Century Fox TFM 3126
(mono)
= TFS 4126 (stereo)

11 1971
Medicine, Mind And Music
A Consideration of Their Links Through the Centuries

LP 1:
From Early Times
- Invocation To Ra
- Greek Modality
- Hymn To Saint John
Spells, Chants And A Street Cry
- Medieval Incantations
- Illinois Incantations
- Touch And Go
Veneration, Purgation And Flagellation
- Maria, Mutter, Reine Maid
- Sic Laventur Intestina
- Carro Della Morte
Three Plague Songs
- Ring Around The Rosie
- Ein Männlein Steht Im Walde
- O Du Lieber Augustin

Sickness And Surgery In Legend And History
- The Sick Tune
- The Death Of Robin Hood
- The Death Of Queen Jane
A Lithotomy
- Le Tableau De L'Operation De La Taille
In And Around London
- The Suburbs Is A Fine Place
- Ballad Of New Bethlehem
- Tom A' Bedlam

LP 2:
Drugs-And-Diseases Blues
- Silicosis Blues - Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- Dust Pneumonia Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliott
- Doctor, Doctor Blues - Olive Brown
- TB Blues - Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry
- Arthrities Blues - Ramblin' Jack Elliott
- Got The Monkey On My Back - Olive Brown
- Doctor, Have Mercy On Me - Olive Brown

Quacks, Quirks And Quick Remedies
- The Clinical Examination
- Lydia Pinkham
- Doktor Eisenbart
- The Infallible Doctor
Snuff, Smoking And Spanish Fly
- Cigarettes Will Spoil Yer Life - Carl Sandburg
- Vom Rauch - Und Schnupf-Taback
- La Cantharide, Ou Le Philtre
- The Dance On The Operating Room Floor
- The McBurney Square (Appendectomy--Country Style) - Logan English
- Surgery

also Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Jack Elliott, Olive Brown, Oscar Brand
Booklet containing essays by Emanuel Winternitz and Nicolas Slonimsky, program notes, and words of the songs (53 p. ill.) bound in album
2 LP set

CBS Legacy Collection
L2X 30680

12 1974 Woody Guthrie's Children's Songs
sung by Logan English

- Make A Blobble
- I Want It Now
- Bling Blang
- Needle Song
- Ocean Go
- Merry-Go-Round
- I'll Write 'N Draw

- Pick It Up
- The Mailman
- The Little Seed
- My Dolly
- Wild Animal
- Sleep Eye
notes by Logan English

Folkways FC 7503

13 1996 The Riverside / Folklore Series Vol. 3:
Singing the New Tradition Songs, Singers, and Instrumentalists of the Folk Revival

- The Roving Gambler
rec. 1955-1958

Riverside RCD-9911-2

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