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Wirz' AMERICAN MUSIC

C I S C O   H O U S T O N; from cover of Sing Out! Vol. 11 No. 4 Oct-Nov. 1961
source: Front cover of Sing Out! Vol. 11 No. 4 Oct-Nov. 1961

Gilbert Vandine  Cisco Houston
b. August 18, 1918 in Wilmington, Delaware
d. April 28, 1961 in San Bernardino, California

discography

#
year
of
release
title / label # / notes
119??Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston

- Hard Ain't It Hard   @ youtube
- More Pretty Gals Than One   @ youtube

rec. April 16, 1944 in New York City by Moses Asch (before the Asch label was established); Woody Guthrie, lead voc, mand; Cisco Houston, harmony voc, g


Folk Tunes S 150

1a1944The Union Boys: Songs For Victory
Music for Political Action

346-1
- Hold The Fort We Shall Not Be Moved (The Union Boys, Burl Ives, g, Tom Glazer, g)
- Hold On (621) #


346-2
- UAW-CIO (The Union Boys, Pete Seeger, g)
- A Dollar Ain't A Dollar Any More (The Union Boys, Tom Glazer, g)


346-3
- Sally Don't You Grieve (Woody Guthrie, voc, g & Cisco Houston, voc)
- Jim Crow (613) Josh White & the Union Boys *

rec. March 11, 1944 in New York, NY by Alan Lomax
"Sally ..." prob. 1944 in New York, NY
# The Union Boys: Josh White, voc, g; Pete Seeger, voc, banjo; Tom Glazer, voc, g; Burl Ives, voc
* The Union Boys: Josh White, voc, g; Burl Ives, voc; Tom Glazer, g; Alan Lomax, voc; Pete Seeger, voc
Brownie McGhee, voc, g; Sonny Terry, hca

set of three 78 rpm records

Asch Records A346 (US 1944)


346-1


346-2


346-3

1b1944BLUES

550-1
Josh White
- T.B. Blues   @ youtube
- Careless Love   @ youtube

550-2
Mary Lou Williams, Nora Lee King
- Until My Baby Comes Home   @ youtube
Champion Jack Dupree
- Too Evil To Cry #   @ youtube

550-3
Sonny Terry
- Lonesome Train   @ youtube

Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston
- Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way   @ youtube

front cover artwork by David Stone Martin

set of three 78 rpm records
 
Asch Album A 550 (US 1944)

1c1945American FOLKSAY   Ballads and Dances

432-1
- Mule Skinner Blues (work blues) (Ma 12) - Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Pete Seeger   @ youtube
- 900 Miles (railroad song) (Ma 85) - Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Baldwin Hawes, Bess Lomax   @ youtube

432-2
- Glory (spiritual) (688) - Sonny Terry, Alek, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston   @ youtube
- Poor Lazarus (bad man ballad) (Ma 56) - Woody Guthrie   @ youtube

432-3
- Don't Lie Buddy (answer back song) (Ma 63) - Josh White, Lead Belly   @ youtube
- Biggest Thing (nonsense ballad) (Ma 15) - Woody Guthrie   @ youtube

432-4
- Cindy (country dance) (Ma 52) - Pete Seeger and Orchestra   @ youtube

- Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet (Tennessee Mountain Song) (Ma 27) - Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston   @ youtube

front cover artwork by David Stone Martin

set of four 78 rpm records


Asch Album A 432 (US 1945)

1d1946Songs To Grow On - School Days

Leadbelly
- Skip To My Lou

Cisco Houston
- Night Herding Song

Charity Bailey
- Don't We Look Pretty?
- Hey Betty Martin

Charity Bailey with Pete Seeger on banjo
- Pat Works On The Railway
- Driving Steel Cotton Needs Picking


set prepared under supervision of Beatrice Landeck

three 10 inch 78 rpm

Disc 604

21947Cisco Huston [sic]: Cowboy Songs

- Blue Yodel #2 (688)
- Drunken Rat (689)

- Roving Gambler (690)
- Philadelphia Lawyer (691)

- Oh Willy My Darling (692)
- Tying A Knot In The Devil's Tail (693)

three 10 inch 78 rpm
notes by Woody Guthrie


Disc 608 (US 1947)

2a1947Lead Belly: Midnight Special
with Woody Guthrie and Cisco Huston [sic]

- Ham & Eggs (6043-A)
- Midnight Special (6043-B)

- Yellow Gal (6044-A)
- Grey Goose (6044-B)

- Stewball (6045-A)
- Alabama Bound (6045-B)

cover art by David Stone Martin

three 10 inch 78 rpm
notes by Woody Guthrie

Disc 726 (US 1947)

31950Lonesome Valley
A Collection of American Folk Music sung by Pete Seeger, with Tom Glazer, Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Bess Lomax, Baldwin Hawes, Butch Hawes, Dock Reese, Hally Wood, and Lee Hays

- Down In The Valley (Pete Seeger, Bess Lomax, Tom Glazer)
- The Rambler (= "I Don't Mind Marrying") (Cisco Houston)
- Arthritis Blues (Butch Hawes)
- Polly Wolly Doodle (Pete Seeger, Bess Lomax, Tom Glazer)

- Lonesome Traveler (Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Bess Lomax)

- On Top Of Old Smoky (Cisco Houston)
- Black Eyed Suzy (Pete Seeger)
- Cowboy Waltz (Woody Guthrie)

- Sowing On The Mountain (Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston)

rec. 1943-1946
Folkways FA 2010 artwork by Carlis

10 inch LP
"copyright 1950"   "copyright 1950/51"
Folkways FP 10 (US 1950/51)

10 inch LP
 
= Folkways FA 2010 (US 1958)

custom-made CDr

= Smithsonian Folkways

CDr on-demand

= Smithsonian Folkways FA 2010 (US 2006)

4195?Cisco Houston: 900 Miles and other R.R. Songs

- 900 Miles
- 'Getting Up' Holler
- The Roamer
- Wreck Of The '97
- Hobo Bill
- The Great American Bum
- The Brave Engineer
- The Gambler
- The Rambler
- R.R. Bill
- Worried Man Blues

10 inch LP

= Folkways FP 13 (US 195?)


= Folkways FA 2013 (US 1954)


= Smithsonian Folkways custom-made CD 02013 (combined with FA 2022 "Cowboy Ballads")

5195?Songs To Grow On   Vol. 2 - School Days

Pete Seeger
- By'm By, The Mail Boat
- All The Pretty Little Horses
- The Mail Boat
- Go Tell Aunt Rhodie
Adelaide Van Wey
- Mary Wore A Red Dress
- The Mocking Bird

Cisco Houston
- Fire Down Below
- Crawdad Song
- Night Herding Song

Charity Bailey
- Hey Betty Martin
- Going To Boston
- Cape Cod Chantey
- Little Brass Wagon
Leadbelly
- The Gray Goose
- Rock Island Line
- Skip To My Lou


FP 20 cover illustration by David Stone Martin
FC 7020 cover artwork by Irwin Rosenhouse

10 inch LP

= Folkways FP 20 (US 195?)


= Folkways FC 7020 (US 1958)

61952Cisco Houston: Cowboy Ballads

- Chisolm Trail
- Riding Old Paint
- Diamond Joe
- Tying A Knot On The Devil's Tail

- Stewball
- Little Joe The Wrangler
- Betsy From Pike
- Trouble In Mind

10 inch LP

Folkways FP 22 (US 1952)


Folkways FA 2022 (US 1958)


= Smithsonian Folkways
custom-made CD 02022 (combined with FA 2013 "900 Miles and other ...")

6a1954American Folksay Ballads And Dances   Vol. 2

- Round The Bay Of Mexico (Roger Sprung, Erik Darling, Bob Carey)
- Alabama Bound (Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Leadbelly)
- Tom Dooley (Roger Sprung, Erik Darling, Bob Carey)
- Devilish Mary (Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston)

- Midnight Special (Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Leadbelly)
- Sportin' Life Blues (Bob Carey)
- Crawdad Song (Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry)
- Raise A Rukus (Roger Sprung, Erik Darling, Bob Carey)

cover illistration by David Stone Martin

10 inch LP
notes by Ken Goldstein
 
Stinson SLP 6 (US 1954)

6b1954?Folksay   American Ballads and Dances   Volumes 5 & 6

Stinson SLP 12 (10 inch LP) ("Volume 5") track sequence:
Hally Wood - Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies
Leadbelly - Take This Hammer

Cisco Houston - Hobo Bill
Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston - Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Pete Seeger - Teeroo, Teeroo

Hally Wood - Johnson Boys

Cisco Houston - The Rover
Woody Guthrie - House Of The Rising Sun
Frank Warner - Old Smokey


Stinson SLP 13 (10 inch LP) ("Volume 6") track sequence:
Lead Belly - Corn Bread Rough
Tom Glazer - Laredo
Unknown - Down In The Valley
Ernie Lieberman - Foggy Dew
Pete Seeger - Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn

Frank Warner - Jolly Rovin Tar

Woody, Cisco & Sonny - Froggy Went A-Courtin'
Pete Seeger - Erie Canal
Ernie Lieberman - Soldier
Garry [sic] Davis & Sonny Terry - When The Train Comes Along #   @ youtube

Stinson SLPX12 (12 inch LP) ("Volume 5 & 6") track sequence:
Hally Wood - Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies
Leadbelly - Take This Hammer

Cisco Houston - Hobo Bill
Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston - Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Pete Seeger - Teeroo, Teeroo
Hally Wood - Johnson Boys

Cisco Houston - The Rover
Woody Guthrie - House Of The Rising Sun
Frank Warner - Old Smokey

Garry [sic] Davis & Sonny Terry - When The Train Comes Along #
Lead Belly - Corn Bread Rough
Tom Glazer - Laredo
Unknown - Down In The Valley
Ernie Lieberman - Foggy Dew
Pete Seeger - Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn
Frank Warner - Jolly Rovin Tar

Woody, Cisco & Sonny - Froggy Went A-Courtin'
Pete Seeger - Erie Canal
Ernie Lieberman - Soldier


# rec. April 1954 in New York City; Gary Davis, voc, g; Sonny Terry, hca

10 inch LP

Stinson SLP 12 ("Vol. 5") (US 1954?)

10 inch LP

Stinson SLP 13 ("Vol. 6") (US 1954?)

12 inch LP
notes by Kenneth Goldstein

(=) Stinson SLPX12 ("Volume V & VI") (US 1962)

Collectables COL-CD-5601

71954Cisco Houston: Hard Travellin

- Hard Traveling
- Stagolee
- John B Sails
- The Frozen Logger
- Turtle Dove

- True Love On My Mind
- Dink's Song
- Hound Dog' Gypsy Dave
- Intoxicated Rat
- The Girl In The Wood

10 inch LP

Folkways FP 42 (US 1954)


Folkways FA 2042


= Smithsonian Folkways custom-made CD 02042

81955Memorial To Woody Guthrie And Cisco Houston

- Take A Whiff On Me
- Bad Lee Brown
- The Golden Vanity
- Cumberland Gap
- Sourwood Mountain
- Old Time Religion

- Columbus Stockade
- Johnny Hard
- Foggy Mountain Top
- Buy Me Beneath The Willow
- Skip To My Lou
- Ezekiel Saw The Wheel


Melodisc MLP 12.106 (UK 1955)


Melodisc MLP 12.106 (UK 1959) "More Songs by Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston"


= Stinson SLP 53 (US 1963) "More Songs by Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston"


= Ember CW 135 (UK 1969) "Cisco Houston & Woody Guthrie"


= Archive of Folk Music FS-205 "Cisco Houston"


= Collectables COL-CD-5605 (US 1995)

91958Cisco Houston Sings American Folk Songs

- Rambling, Gambling Man
- Pat Works On The Railway
- Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
- The Killer
- Zebra Dun
- Old Reilly
- Going Down The Road

- St. James Infirmary
- Poor Howard
- Make Me A Pallet Down On Your Floor
- John Hardy
- Boll Weevil
- The Midnight Special
- Great July Jones


Folkways FA 2346


= Folkways FT 1012 (mono)
= FTS 31012 (stereo) (US 1968)


= Smithsonian Folkways custom-made CD 02346

101958Folk Music USA. Vol. 1

- John Henry - Virgil Perkins, Jack Sims
- Grizzly Bear: Negro Prison Camp Worksong
- Blowing The Train - Percy Randolph   @ Spotify
- Six Thousand Miles From Nowhere - Snooks Eaglin   @ Spotify
- Dark Was The Night - Blind Willie Johnson
- Amasee: Children's Ring Game Song

- Spooky Drums - Warren "Baby" Dodds
- Black Jack Davy - Mary Jo Davis
- Drunken Sailor: Dulcimer Medley
- Ellen Smith - Pete Steele
- Run, Run - Elizabeth Cotton [sic]
- Mole In The Ground - Bascom Lamar Lunsford
- Rolling River: Country Dance


- Allons Danser Colinda: Cajun Dance - Roy Brule
- Sourwood Mountain: Square Dance Tune - Hobart Smith

- Diamond Joe: Cowboy Song - Cisco Houston
- Siete Leguas: Corrido - Peter Hurd
- Matachines Dance
- Moonlight Song: Taos Indian Serenade

- War Dance Song
- Esta Navidad: Puerto Rican Christmas Song
- Aguinaldo Cagueno: Puerto Rican Song
- Rocky Road: Shape-Note Singing - Alabama Sacred Harp Singers
- If We Never Meet Again
- Inviting-In Dance Song


edited by Harold Courlander

DLP
notes by Charles Edward Smith

Folkways FE 4530 (US 1958)


= Smithsonian Folkways custom-made CD

111959Cisco Houston: The Cisco Special!

- Badman Ballad
- Hard Traveling
- Nine Hundred Miles
- Old Smoky
- This Train
- Talking Dust Bowl
- This Land

- Old Man Tucker
- Colorado Trail
- Old Blue
- Chilly Winds
- Dark As A Dungeon
- I Don't Mind Marrying
- Big Rock Candy Mountain


Fontana TFL 60074 (UK 1959)


= Vanguard VRS 9057 (US 1960)


= Top Rank 30/028 (UK 1960)

121960Cisco Houston Sings Songs Of The Open Road

Folkways FA 2480 track sequence:
- Mule Skinner Blues
- Git Along Little Dogies
- Erie Canal
- Hobo's Lullaby
- East Virginia Blues
- Travel On
- Pie In The Sky

- Mysteries Of A Hobo's Life
- Soup Song
- Beans, Bacon And Gravy
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
- Cryderville Jail
- I Ain't Got No Home

Albatros / Le Chant Du Monde LPs track sequence:
- Mule Skinner Blues
- Git Along Little Dogies
- The Erie Canal
- East Virginia Blues
- Travel On
- Beans, Bacon And Gravy

- Pie In The Sky
- The Job I Left Behind Me [= Mysteries Of A Hobo's Life]
- Soup Song
- Hobo's Lullaby
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
- Cryderville Jail
- I Ain't Got No Home


Folkways FA 2480 (US 1960)


= Smithsonian Folkways custom-made CD 02480


(=) Le Chant Du Monde FWX-M 52480 (Fr 1962) "(hobo and wobbly songs)"


= Albatros VPA 8371 (It 1977) "Pie In The Sky"

Albatros Records discography

131960Songs Of The Civil War

Cisco Houston
- Both Shot Lincoln

two album boxed set

Folkways FH 5717 (US 1960)

141961The Newport Folk Festival 1960   Vol. 2

Bob Gibson
- This Little Light of Mine
- Wayfaring Stranger
- You can tell the World
- Well, Well, Well (with Bob Camp, Dick Rosmini and Herb Brown)
- Railroad Bill

Cisco Houston
- The Cat Came Back
- Hush Little Baby
- The Lavender Cowboy

Ed McCurdy
- Blood On The Saddle
- Handsome Molly
Peggy Seeger
- Willie Moore
Ewan McColl
- Lang A Growing
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
- Salty Dog Blues
- Before I met you
- Cabin On The Hill
- Jimmy Brown


Vanguard VRS 9084


= Vanguard VSD 2088

Newport Folk Festival discography

151961The 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

15a1961Folk Song & Minstrelsy

LP 1:
The Deller Consort
- Sumer Is Icumen In
- He That Will An Alehouse Keep
- Greensleeves
- We Be Soldiers Three
Leon Bibb
- Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies
- Squirrel
- Cotton-Eyed Joe
- Darlin'
- Poor Lolette

Ronnie Gilbert
- The Golden Vanity
- Go From My Window
- Johnny Is Gone For A Soldier
- Spanish Is A Loving Tongue
- House Of The Rising Sun

Cisco Houston
- East Texas Red
- Sinking Of The Reuben James


LP 2:
The Weavers
- Meet The Johnson Boys
- The Wild Goose Grasses
- Aweigh, Santy Ano
- Get Along Little Dogies
- Erie Canal
- We're All Dodgin'
- State Of Arkansas
- Greenland Whale Fisheries
- Eddystone Light

Odetta
- I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain And Water Boy
- Saro Jane
- God's A-Gonna Cut You Down
- John Riley
- John Henry
- All The Pretty Little Horses
- No More Auction Block For Me


LP 3:
Odetta
- The Foggy Dew
- No More Cane On The Brazos
- The Fox
- He's Got The Whole World In His Hands
- The Ox Driver
- Another Man Done Gone
- I'm Going Back To The Red Clay Country


Cisco Houston
- Talking Guitar Blues
- Danville Girl
- Old Dan Trucker
- Buffalo Skinners
- The Streets Of Laredo
- Hard Travelin'
- Bonneville Dam
- Do Re Mi
- The Wreck Of The Old 97
- John Hardy


LP 4:
Ed McCurdy
- The Bold Fisherman
- When The Cockle Shells Turn Silver Bells
- Frankie And Johnny
- Long A-Growing
Joan Baez and Bob Gibson - Virgin Mary Had One Son
Bob Gibson - Wayfaring Stranger
John Jacob Niles - The Hangman, or The Maid Freed From The Gallows
Alan Mills - I Know An Old Lady

Tom Makem - Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye
Tom Maken - The Whistling Gypsy
Tom Maken - The Cobbler's Song

Cisco Houston - Railroad Bill
Cisco Houston - The Cat Came Back
Pete Seeger - East Virginia Blues
Jimmy Driftwood - Old Joe Clark
Jimmy Driftwood - The Unfortunate Man


4 LP box set with 24 page booklet

Vanguard RL 7624 ("The Classics Record Library")

16196?Cisco Houston: Cowboy Ballads And Railroad Songs

- The Chisolm Trail
- Diamond Joe
- Riding Old Paint
- Little Joe The Wrangler
- The Dying Cowboy
- Stewball
- Sweet Betsy From Pike
- Tying A Knot On The Devil's Tail

- 900 Miles
- ‘Getting Up' Holler
- The Roamer
- Wreck Of The ‘97
- Hobo Bill
- The Great American Bum
- The Brave Engineer
- The Gambler
- The Rambler
- Railroad Bill
- Worried Man Blues

12 inch LP

Le Chant Du Monde FWX-50101 (Fr 196?)

16a1962Leadbelly Sings And Plays
Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Josh White, Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry

- Alabama Bound
- Yellow Gal
- Midnight Special
- Haul Away Joe
- Corn Bread Rough

- Take This Hammer
- Don't Lie Buddy
- I've Got A Pretty Flower
- Old Man
- Stewball


Stinson SLPS 91

171962Frontiers

The Pioneer
The Indian
The Cowboy

- The Bent County Bachelor
- Buffalo Skinners
- Sacramento
- Sioux Indians
- St. George
- The Texian Boys
- Wild Bill Hickock
- Pilgrim And A Stranger
- Go 'long Li'l Dogies

Pete Seeger, L.M. Hinton, Ed McCurdy, Logan English, Cisco Houston, Sam Hinton, et al.


Folkways FR 10003

181962Cisco Houston Sings Songs of Woody Guthrie

THIS LAND
- Pastures Of Plenty
- Ship In The Sky
- Deportees
- Grand Coulee Dam
- Sinking Of The Reuben James
CURLY HEADED BABIES
- Curly Headed Baby
- Ladies Auxiliary
- Taking It Easy
- Hard, Ain't It Hard

BIG MEN
- Jesus Christ
- Buffalo Skinners
- Pretty Boy Floyd
- Philadelphia Lawyer
LONE WOLVES
- Old Lone Wolf
- Talking Fishing Blues
- Ranger's Command
- Do Re Mi
- Blowing Down That Old Dusty Road prod. by Harold Leventhal and Lee Hays


Fontana TFL 6014 (UK)


= Vanguard VRS 9089 (US 1963)


= Vanguard VSD 2131


= Vanguard CD 2131-2

191962Cisco Houston: I Ain't Got No Home

- I Ain't Got No Home
- Waggoner's Lad
- New York Town
- Danville Girl
- Bonneville Dam
- Wreck Of The '97
- My Gal
- Tom Joad

- Talking Guitar Blues
- Rambling Round
- I'm A Dust Bowl Refugee
- Trouble In Mind
- East Texas Road
- Hobo Blues
- Streets Of Laredo
- Take My Hand - Didn't it Rain
- This Land Is My Land

front cover drawing by Eric Von Schmidt


Vanguard VRS 9107


= Fontana FJL 412 (UK 1967) "The Legendary Cisco Houston"


= Vanguard SRV 73006

201963Nursery Rhymes, Games and Folk Songs sung by Cisco Houston

- London Bridge
- My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean
- Pumpkin Eater
- Three Blind Mice
- Humpty Dumpty
- Peas Porridge Hot What Are Little Boys Made Of?

- Yonder Tree
- Froggie Went A-Courting
- My Daddy
- Clickety Clack
- Mulberry Bush

10 inch LP

Folkways FC 7606


= Scholastic SC 7606 (1966)


= Smithsonian Folkways custom-made CD 07606

211963Cowboy Songs sung by Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston

- Chisholm Trail
- Billy The Kid
- Whoopie Ti Yi Yo
- Philadelphia Lawyer

- Ride Around Little Dogies
- Gambling Man
- Red River Valley
- Jesse James

10 inch LP

Stinson SLP 32

221963Cisco Houston & Bill Bender: Traditional Songs Of The Old West

Cisco Houston
- Outlaw Horse
- Tying A Knot In The Devils Tail
- Drunken Rat
- Windy Bill

Bill Bender
- Joe Bowers
- Billy The Kid
- Bald Faced Steer
- Trail To Mexico

10 inch LP
notes by Kenneth S. Goldstein

Stinson SLP 37

231963Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston: Folks Songs, Vol. 1




Stinson SLP 44


re-released on Collectables COL-CD-5605 (1995)

23a1963Folk Blues Song Fest

Brownie McGhee - Face In The Crowd
Big Bill Broonzy - Hush Somebody Is Calling Me
Sonny Terry - Beautiful City
Lightning Hopkins - Fan It
Arbee Stidham - Let It Be Me
Leadbelly - Keep Your Hand Off Her


Leadbelly / Houston / Guthrie - Stewball
Memphis Slim - How Long Blues
Sonny Terry - Dirty Mistreater
Brownie McGhee - Big Wide World
Jack Dupree - Come Back Baby
Arbee Stidham - I Wonder Why



Aravel AB 1004 (1963)


= Ember NR 5015 (1964)


= Vox / Super Majestic BBH-VS 1.780 (1972)

241964Cisco Houston

- Midnight Special
- Dan Tucker
- Venezuela
- Blow The Candles Out
- The Fox
- Molly Malone
- Red River Valley
- Ship In The Sky
- John Henry

- East Virginia Blues
- Haul Away Joe
- Down In The Valley
- Precious Lord
- Clickery Clack
- Black Is The Colour
- My Girl
- Talking Blues
- Frankie And Johnny


XTRA 1002 (UK 1964)

XTRA Records discography

2519??Cisco Houston: Passing Through

- It Takes A Worried Man
- Stewball
- Red River Valley
- Barbara Allen
- Down In The Valley
- Children Go Where I Send Thee
- The Cat Came Back

- East Virginia #2
- Little Dogie #2
- Mole In The Ground
- Old Blue
- John Henry
- Trouble In Mind
- Passing Through


Verve Folkways FVS 9002

261964Cisco Houston: A Legacy

- Black Is The Color
- Molly Malone
- Frankie & Johnny
- Clickety Clack
- Venezuela
- Precious Lord

- Midnight Special
- Blow The Candle Out
- Haul Away Joe
- Talking Blues
- Black Girl
- Dan Tucker


Disc D-103 (US 1964)

271965Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston, Sonny Terry, Leadbelly

- Springfield Mountain
- Hey Little Water Boy
- Chisholm Trail
- Rubber Dolly
- Lindburgh
- Hard Travellin'

- Jiggy Jiggy Bum Bum
- Put My Little Shoes
- I Ain't Got Nobody
- Yeller Gal
- Philadelphia Lawyer
- Ida Red


XTRA 1012 (UK 1965)

XTRA Records discography

27a1966Songs Of Street And Road
Folk Music Of The World

60's Harlem youths
- Rhythmic & Vocal Improv.
- Ole
Shoeshine boy raps
- Shoe Shine Shakedown
New Orleans street peddlers
- Street Cries
Percy Randolph
- Shine
Blind Snooks Eaglin
- Mean Old Frisco
Memphis Slim & Willie Dixon
- Stewball
- Slop Boogie


Cisco Houston
- 900 Miles
- The Rambler
- Hobo Bill
Sonny Terry
- My Baby Leaving
Sticks McGhee
- Drink of Wine
John Cohen
- Keep On Moving


collection of material originally released on various Folkways LPs
ed. by Clement J. McNaspy; artwork by Frank Biondo


ARS AR 1047 (US 1966) (American Record Society) (Music for Everyman series)

281968?Cisco Houston [Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston]

- Take A Wiff On Me [sic]
- The Golden Vanity

- Old Time Religion
- Cumberland Gap


JOC 45 FS 509 (Fr 1968?)

JOC Records discography

291968?Cisco Houston [Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston]

- Columbus Stockade
- Foggy Mountain Top

- Bury Me Beneath The Willow
- Ezekiel Saw The Wheel


JOC 45 FS 510 (Fr 1968?)

JOC Records discography

301972The Greatest Songs Of Woody Guthrie

Cisco Houston


Vanguard VSD 35/36

311976U.S. Story

Cisco Houston
- Nine Hundred Miles
- Pie In The Sky

DLP

= Le Chant Du Monde FWX 50107/8 (Fr 1976)

321976American Songs To Sing

- Yankee Doodle - Robert Michael Jones & Richard Shulberg
- The Ballad Of The Tea Party - Hermes Nye
- Ten Green Apples - Alan Mills
- The Erie Canal - Robert Michael Jones & Richard Shulberg
- Goober Peas - John Cohen

- I've Been Workin' On The Railroad - Robert Michael Jones & Richard Shulberg
- Buffalo Gals - Pete Seeger

- Whoopie Ti Yi Yo - Cisco Houston
- The Mocking Bird - Adelaide Van Way
- This Land Is Your Land - Woodie Guthrie



Scholastic SCC 2745

32a197?Real Bluesmen & Folksingers

LP 1:
- Dog Me Around - Howlin' Wolf
- Lonesome Bedroom Blues - Curtis Jones
- Red River - Sonny Terry
- See See Rider - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Texas Tony - Yank Rachell

- Bad Boy - John Lee Hooker
- In The Wee Wee Hours - Junior Wells
- Nobody Knows Chicago Like I Do - Big Joe Williams
- The Gallis Pole - Leadbelly
- Pretty Boy Floyd - Woody Guthrie
- Dust My Blues - Elmore James



LP 2:
- Prison Blues Come Down On Me - Lightnin' Hopkins
- Baby, Please Lend Me Your Love - Otis Spann, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
- Crying At Daybreak - Howlin' Wolf
- The House Carpenter - Pete Seeger

- Buffalo Skinners - Woody Guthrie
- Rambling On My Mind - 'Big Boy' Crudup
- Gonna Boogie - John Lee Hooker
- So Glad I'm Livin' - Sleepy John Estes
- Looky, Looky Younder - Leadbelly

- Johnny Hard - Cisco Houston

gatefold DLP

BYG 20 A (Fr 197?)

331994Cisco Houston: The Folkways Years 1944 - 1961

- I Ain't Got No Home In This World Anymore
- Hard Traveling
- Rambling Gambling Man
- Hobo Bill
- Better World A-Comin'
- Strawberry Roan
- The Great American Bum
- Intoxicated Rat
- The Cat Came Back
- The Frozen Logger
- Pat Works On The Railroad
- Dark As The Dungeon
- Diamond Joe
- The Girl in the Wood
- Ship In The Sky
- The Fox
- What Did the Deep Sea Say?
- St. James Infirmary
- Born 100,000 Years Ago
- The Preacher And The Slave
- Mysteries Of A Hobo's Life
- 900 Miles
- Great July Jones
- Picture from Life's Other Side
- Farmer's Lament
- The Killer
- I Ride An Old Paint
- Zebra Dun
- Passing Through


Smithsonian Folkways CD 40059

341995Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston Vol. 1 & 2

- Gypsy Davy
- More Pretty Girls Than One
- Pretty Boy Floyd
- Buffalo Skinners
- Hey Lolly Lolly
- Lonesome Day
- John Henry
- Ranger's Command
- Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way
- Poor Boy
- Hard, Ain't It Hard
- Worried Man Blues
- Take A Whiff on Me
- Skip To My Lou
- Ezekiel Saw The Wheel
- Johnny Hart
- Columbus Stockade
- Foggy Mountain Top
- Sourwood Mountain
- Bad Lee Brown
- Cumberland Gap
- The Golden Vanity
- Old Time Religion
- Bury Me Beneath The Willow


Collectables COL-CD-5605

351995Folksay - American Ballads & Dances Vol. 5 & 6 / Chain Gang Vol. 1 & 2

Volume 5
Holly Wood - Come All You Fair And Tender Ladies
Leadbelly - Take This Hammer

Cisco Houston - Hobo Bill
Woody Guthrie - Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Pete Seeger - Teeroo Teeroo
Holly Wood - Johnson Boys

Cisco Houston - The Rover
Woody Guthrie - House Of The Rising Sun
Frank Warner - Old Smokey
Volume 6
Gary Davis & Sonny Terry - When The Train Comes Along   @ youtube
Leadbelly - Corn Bread Rough
Tom Glazer - Streets Of Loredo
Unknown - Down In The Valley
Ernie Liberman - Foggy Dew
Pete Seeger - Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn
Frank Warner - Jolly Roving Tar

Woody Guthrie, Cisco Houston & Sonny Terry - Froggie Went A-Courtin'
Pete Seeger - Erie Canal
Ernie Liberman - Soldier, Soldier
Volumes 1&2
Woody Guthrie
- Cornbread, Meat & Molasses
- Ham And Eggs
- Lost John
- Chain Gang Blues
- It Takes A Chain Gang Man
- Betty And Dupree
- Stack-O-Lee
- Rock Me Momma
- Chain Gang Special



Collectables COL-CD-5601 (The Stinson Collectors Series)

362000Cisco Houston: Best Of The Vanguard Years

- This Train **
- Roll On Columbia *
- Colorado Trail **
- Dark As A Dungeon **
- Hard Traveling **
- Old Blue **
- Nine Hundred Miles **
- Badman Ballad **
- Diamond Joe *
- John Hardy *
- Big Rock Candy Mountain **
- So Long It's Been Good *
- Buffalo Skinners
- Pastures Of Plenty
- Grand Coulee Dam
- Hand, Ain't It Hard
- Pretty Boy Floyd
- Do Re Mi
- Deportees
- Tramp On The Street *
- Talking Dust Bowl **
- This Land Is Your Land **
- Way Out There **
- Chilly Winds **

*   previously unreleased
** never issued on CD


Vanguard VCD 79574



Additional information appreciated !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- http://www3.justnet.ne.jp/~urawamats/cisco-houston1.html
- http://www.searchingforagem.com/1976.htm
- Ebay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Patrice Champarou and Cary Ginell for additional info / scans

 

www.ciscohouston.com

Cisco Houston bio

 

 

 

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