| Description |
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Note |
Smithsonian Folkways: SFW 40195 (on container: SFW CD 40195). |
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Songs about money; chiefly popular songs; tracks 6-7, 12, 15, 19-21 and 24-25 are folk songs. |
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"This compilation ... marks the opening of the Museum of American Finance on New York City's Wall Street"--Container. |
| Performer |
Various performers. |
| Event |
Track 5 recorded Sept. 6, 1944; track 7 recorded Oct. 1948, from a radio broadcast. |
| Note |
Compilation of recordings originally released 1954-2000. |
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Compact disc. |
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Program notes (20 p. : ill.) inserted in container. |
| Contents |
Wall Street rag / Scott Joplin (Ann Charters, piano) (3:51) -- Empty pocket blues : (Barrel of money blues) / Pete Seeger, Lee Hays (Seeger) (1:29) -- Do-re-mi / Woody Guthrie (Guthrie) (2:31) -- Bill Morgan and his gal / Halsey Mohr, Will Mahoney (The New Lost City Ramblers) (2:55) -- One meat ball / Hy Zaret-Lou Singer (Josh White) (3:09) -- Jim Fisk (June Lazare) (2:51) -- Gallis pole / arr. and adapted by Huddie Ledbetter, Alan Lomax (Lead Belly) (2:44) -- Brother, can you spare a dime! / Jay Gorney, E.Y. Harburg (Joe Glazer) (3:59) -- Yankee dollar / Rupert Grant (Lord Invader) (2:28) -- If I had a million dollars / Matt Melnick, Johnny Mercer (Speckled Red) (4:25) -- Nobody knows you when you're down and out / James Cox (Rolf Cahn and Eric Von Schmidt) (4:46) -- If I lose, I don't care (The New Lost City Ramblers) (2:57) -- Banks of marble / Les Rice (Seeger) (3:13) -- The old arm chair / John Read (Gale Huntington) (3:36) -- The money rolls in (Derek Lamb) (1:18) -- Business / Seeger, Walter Lowenfels, Eugéne Guillevic (Seeger) (2:04) -- If you lose your money / Sonny Terry, Walter McGhee (Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) (2:40) -- Union maid / Guthrie (The Almanac Singers) (2:08) -- Greenback dollar (Kilby Snow, Mike Hudek, autoharps) (1:45) -- The miller and his sons (Horton Barker) (3:12) -- Penny's farm (Seeger) (1:47) -- Billy Grimes the rover / Richard Coe, William H. Oakley (The New Lost City Ramblers) (2:28) -- Ida Mae : (The social security song) / Glazer (Glazer) (2:20) -- Last gold dollar (Bascom Lamar Lunsford) (1:15) -- Black dog blues (The Stoneman Family) (2:10) -- I don't want your millions / Jim Garland (The Almanac Singers) (2:54) -- Pretty Boy Floyd / Guthrie (Guthrie) (3:03). |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Popular music -- United States.
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Folk music -- United States.
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Songs, English -- United States.
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Folk songs, English -- United States.
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Money -- Songs and music.
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Working class -- United States -- Songs and music.
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Piano music (Ragtime)
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Autoharp music (Autoharps (2))
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| Added Author |
Charters, Ann, 1936-
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Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014.
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Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967.
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White, Josh.
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Lazare, June.
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Leadbelly, 1885-1949.
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Glazer, Joe.
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Lord Invader, 1914-1961.
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Speckled Red, 1892-1973.
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Cahn, Rolf.
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Von Schmidt, Eric.
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Huntington, Gale.
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Lamb, Derek.
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Terry, Sonny.
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McGhee, Brownie, 1915-1996.
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Snow, Kilby, 1905-1980.
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Hudek, Mike.
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Barker, Horton, 1889-1973.
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Lunsford, Bascom Lamar, 1882-1973.
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New Lost City Ramblers.
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Almanac Singers.
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Stoneman Family (Musical group)
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Museum of American Finance.
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| Note |
Subtitle on container: Songs of rags and riches |
| Standard No. |
093074019528 |
| Music No. |
SFW CD 40195 Smithsonian Folkways |
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SFW 40195 Smithsonian Folkways |
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