Logan English b. November 11, 1928 in Henderson, Kentucky d. March 9, 1983 at Saratoga Springs, New York discography | ![]() source: Front cover of Century Fox TFM 3126 photographer: Norman C. Vershay |
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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 | |
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 | |
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 ![]() | |
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 | |
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
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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)
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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 | |
8 | 196? | The Folksingers Of Washington Square | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
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
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thanks to Katsu Suzuki for additional info
Logan English
is member of the population of
Humbead's Revised Map of the World
1979 autobiographical poem
"No Land Where I Have Traveled: A Kentucky Poem"
reprinted 2001 by Larkspur Press
Kentucky Poetry Review vol. 19, no. 2, Fall 1983
Logan English Memorial Issue
The Logan English Family Papers at University of Kentucky