Hermes Nye b. February 11, 1908 in Chicago, Illinois d. January 1, 1981 in Dallas, Texas discography

source: http://leonardo.sfasu.edu/tfs/Things.html

Hermes Nye LPs / CDs

#	year of release	title / label / notes
1	1952	Hermes Nye: Anglo-American Ballads - John Peel - The Mermaid - Earl Richard - Earl Of Murray - The Red Herring - Greenland Fishery - Bailiff's Daughter - A North Country Maid - King Arthur Had Three Sons - Tomorrow Is St. Valentine's Day 10 inch LP Folkways FP 37 = FA 2037 www.folkways.si.edu download tracks / notes at Smithsonian Global Sound
2	1954	Hermes Nye: Ballads Of The Civil War Vol. 1 1830-1861 - Abolitionist Hymn - Davy Crockett - Santa Anna - Battle Hymn Of The Republic - Lincoln And Liberty - The Bonnie Blue Flag - Lorena - When This Cruel War Is Over - Farewell Mother - There Was An Old Soldier 10 inch LP Folkways FP 48-7 = FP 5004 (two 10 inch LPs "Ballads of the Civil War 1830-1865") = FA 2187 (1960) www.folkways.si.edu download tracks at Smithsonian Global Sound
3	1954	Hermes Nye: Ballads Of The Civil War Vol. 2 1861-1865 - General Patterson - The Cumberland's Crew - Cumberland Gap   @ youtube - When Johnny Comes Marching Home - In Charlston Jail - All Quiet Along The Potomac - Longstreet's Rangers - Goober Peas - Roll, Alabama, Roll - Abe Lincoln - Old Rebel 10 inch LP Folkways FP 48-8 = FP 5004 (two 10 inch LPs "Ballads of the Civil War 1830-1865") = FA 2188 (1960) www.folkways.si.edu download tracks at Smithsonian Global Sound
4	1955	Hermes Nye: Texas Folk Songs - The Devil Made Texas - Bucking Bronco - Bonnie And Clyde - Bad Brahma Bull (rodeo song) - Amazing Grace - The Buffalo Skinners - Shorty George - The Boll Wevil - Diamond Joe - Sam Bass - The Toolie's Death - Corrido de Kansas - Louisiana Gals   @ youtube 10 inch LP intro by J. Frank Dobie Folkways FP 47-1 = FA 2128 www.folkways.si.edu download tracks / notes at Smithsonian Global Sound
5	1957	Hermes Nye: Ballads Reliques Early English Ballads from the Percy and Child Collections - Robin Hood's Golden Prize - The Death Of Robin Hood - Whittingham Fair - The Outlandish Knight - The Three Ravens - Twa Corbies - Binnorie - The Cruel Sister - Thomas, The Rhymer - Sir Patrick Spens - Queen Eleanor's Confession - Clerk Saunders - Lord Thomas And Fair Ellinor - My Love Built Me A Bonnie Bower - Mary Hamilton - O, Waly, Waly - Rob Roy - Lizzie Lindsay - Glenlogie - Jean O Bethelnie - Get Up And Bar The Door - The Lament Of The Border Widow - King O'Luve - Fause Foodrage Folkways FA 2305 www.folkways.si.edu download tracks / notes at Smithsonian Global Sound
6	1959	Hermes Nye: Soldier Songs - Why, Soldiers, Why - Ballad Of The Tea Party - Free America - Bennington Skirmish - The Battle Of Saratoga - Butternut Hill - Constitution And Guerrier - Benny Haven - Mustand Grey - Saro Jane - The Regular Army, Oh! - The Boy's Of The Thirsty First - The Cavalry Remount - If You Want To Know Where The Privates Are - Mademoiselle From Armentiers - I Landed In London - I Got Sixpence - I Don't Want To Join The Army - Gee But I Want To GO Home - The One-Eyed Riley - Bell Bottom Trousers - The Officers Ride The Whale Boats - Were You With The Marines - The Engineers - The Fighting Q.M.C Folkways FH 5249 = Folkways F 5249 (1977) "War Ballads U.S.A." www.folkways.si.edu download tracks / notes at Smithsonian Global Sound
7	1960	Songs Of The Civil War Hermes Nye - Old Abe Lincoln Came Out Of The Wilderness - Farewell Mother - Oh, I'm A Good Old Rebel two album boxed set Folkways FH 5717 www.folkways.si.edu download tracks / notes at Smithsonian Global Sound
8	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 download tracks / notes at Smithsonian Global Sound
9	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
10	1965	Folk Go-Go - Kentucky Bootlegger - New Lost City Ramblers - Mary Anne - Karen James - Crawdad Song - Sam Hinton - Blood On The Saddle - Ed Badeaux - Cuckoo - Doc Watson - Butternut Hill - Hermes Nye - House of the Rising Sun - Woody Guthrie - Alabama Bound - Leadbelly - Old Howard - Cisco Houston - Rio Grande - Alan Mills - Go Tell Aunt Rhody Children - Jean Ritchie - Free Little Bird - Clarence Ashley - Bury Me Beneath The Willow - Mickey Miller - Skillet Good And Greasy - Doc Watson - Whistle, Daughter, Whistle - Erie Canal - Pete Seeger Verve/Folkways FV 9011
11	1966	Toward World Understanding With Song - Abiyoyo - Pete Seeger - This Land is Your Land - The Harvesters - Dry Weather Houses - Louise Bennett - Mountain Call - Muss I Denn - Martha Schlamme - Que Bonita Bandera - Pete Seeger - Nippa Hut - Luz Morales - Goober Peas - Hermes Nye - Donkey Riding - Alan Mills - Digging Potatoes - Ellie Mao - Moonlight on the Ching Yang River - Chinese Cultural Theater Group - Planting Rice - Luz Morales - The Derby Ram - Gerry Armstrong - Who Did Swallow Jonah? - The Wagonners - I's the Boy That Builds the Boat - Alan Mills - Ragshe Chubi - Members of Bakhtiari tribe - So Goes the Train - Ora Dreyer - Train is A-Comin' - Pete Seeger - Fire Down Below - Cisco Houston - Rooster - Miriam Ben-Ezra - I Had a Rooster - Pete Seeger - Three Craw - Alan Mills - My White Horse - Martina and Maria Eugenia Diaz - Happy Birthday - Luz Morales - Come and Sing - Alan Mills - I'm So Happy - Alan Mills - Twelve Days of Christmas - Alan Mills - Lagu Srihardjono - Under the Shade of a Pine Tree - Kumbaya - Pete Seeger - Drums of the Yoruba - How Do the Boers Ride? - Ora Dreyer - Roll Over - The Harvesters - Heiveinu Shalom Aleichem - Miriam Ben-Ezra - Zuņi Harvest Dance - Simple Gifts - George and Gerry Armstrong - Study War No More (Down By the Riverside) - Pete Seeger - Holla Hi, Holla Ho - Erica Vopel - Yodel Song (Weggis Song) - Martha Schlamme and Pete Seeger developed to be used with a song collection "Toward World Understanding with Song" by Vernice Trousdale Nye, Robert Evans Nye, H. Virginia Nye 2 LP set Folkways FH 5720 download tracks at Smithsonian Global Sound
12	1976	American 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
13	1991	Cowboy Songs On Folkways Hermes Nye - The Devil Made Texas compiled from the Folkways Collection and annotated by Guy Logsdon Folkways CD SF-40043 www.folkways.si.edu download tracks at Smithsonian Global Sound
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left column foto from notes to Folkways FP 37 (1952)

"How to be a Folksinger"
How to Sing and Present Folksongs;
or The Folksinger's Guide;
or Eggs I Have Laid
by Hermes Nye
Oak Publikations, New York 1965

Hermes Nye with family in the fifties
(from notes to Folkways FA 2128)

R.G. Dean