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American Music Heritage
These recordings are unavailable via iTunes or Amazon.com. To find Burl Ives on Amazon.com, use the following link: Burl Ives
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"Burl Ives Presents
America's Musical Heritage"

114 Best Loved Songs & Ballads for Listening, Singing and Reading

A Treasury of American Folk Songs & Ballads
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This huge collection of music was released by Longines Symphonette in 1963. It is a six album release of 114 songs.

The actual package makes no mention of Longines Symphonette though, the labels on the LPs state that the records were pressed by Decca Records.

It is packaged with a hardbound book called "The Burl Ives Sing-Along Song Book." This book includes, for every song, a little narrative, lyrics and illustrations by Peter Bryt. The narratives are uncredited.

For their historical significance, MP3 audio is available to listen to these rare but important recordings.

Follow the links below to each volume.

Here is the introduction from the book:
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The American people are a free people living with a consciousness of their heritage - freedom to speak, act and move around where ever they like - the children of frontiersmen who created a country with the courage of their hearts and the strength of their bodies.

Free people the world over know America is made up of pioneers: the English refugees who came over in the Mayflower to pioneer and settle in Massachusetts, the Irish and Scottish who came over to pioneer and settle in the 1800's ... the Germans, Swedes, Italians, Jews, Russians, Yugoslavs, Chinese ... I guess every nation, race, or creed you could name has its quota of pioneers who picked up their roots and brought them to America.

Pioneering is the taking up of one's roots and transplanting them to a new soil. Nobody ever did it easily, it took hard work, humor and perseverance. The record of these people has been kept in many ways - and one of the most attractive way is in Song.

The many languages brought over by the pioneers were discarded in favor of the earliest pioneer language - English, which is the mother tongue of the United States. To be able to hear the songs of America from its earliest days is to have an auditory experience parallel to having a visual panorama unroll before one's eyes: tavern and theatre songs brought here by the early English; folk songs, broadside ballads, church and music hall songs that originated here; songs that originated in every possible way, that reflected every possible mood and event from tragedy to humor, lyric to narrative.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Leeds Music Corporation for: “The Wee Cooper o’ Fife”; words and music arranged by Burl Ives; © Copyright MCMXLV, MCMLVII by Leeds Music Corporation, New York, New York; used by permission; all rights reserved. “Ox-Driver’s Song”; word and music arranged by Burl Ives; © Copyright MCMLVII by Leeds Music Corporation, New York, New York; used by permission; all rights reserved. “Big Rock Candy Mountain”; words and music arranged by Burl Ives; © Copyright MCMLVII by Leeds Music Corporation, New York, New York; used by permission; all rights reserved. “The Blue tail Fly”; words and music arranged by Burl Ives; © Copyright MCMLVII by Leeds Music Corporation, New York, New York; used by permission; all rights reserved. “Sweet Betsy From Pike”; words and music arranged by Burl Ives; © Copyright MCMLVII by Leeds Music Corporation, New York, New York; used by permission; all rights reserved. “Wake Nicodemus”; words and music arranged by Burl Ives; © Copyright MCMLVII by Leeds Music Corporation, New York, New York; used by permission; all rights reserved. “The Roving Gambler”; words and music arranged by Burl Ives; © Copyright MCMLVII by Leeds Music Corporation, New York, New York; used by permission; all rights reserved. “The Cowboy’s Lament”; words and music arranged by Burl Ives; © Copyright MCMLVII by Leeds Music Corporation, New York, New York; used by permission; all rights reserved. “The Sow Took The Measles”; words and music arranged by Burl Ives; © Copyright MCMLVII by Leeds Music Corporation, New York, New York; used by permission; all rights reserved.

Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., for the following: “High Barbaree”; © Copyright 1949 by Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., used by permission. “Lolly Tu Dum”; © Copyright 1949 by Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., used by permission.  “Old Bangam”; © Copyright 1953 by Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., used by permission. “Mr. Rabbit”; © Copyright 1953 by Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., used by permission. “Hush Little Baby”; © Copyright 1953 by Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., used by permission. “Old Blue”; © Copyright 1952 by Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., used by permission.  “Buckeye Jim”; © Copyright 1953 by Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., used by permission. “The Leather-Winged Bat”; © Copyright 1952 by Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., used by permission. “Saturday Night and Sunday Too”; © Copyright 1949 by Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., used by permission. “Goober Peas”; © Copyright 1952 by Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., used by permission. “The Lavender Cowboy”; © Copyright 1952 by Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., used by permission. “Old Paint”; © Copyright 1952 by Southern Music Publishing Co. Inc., used by permission.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 63-14399
© Copyright 1963 by Franklin Watts, Inc.
All Rights Reserved
Composition by The Photo-Composing Room, New York
Manufactured in the United States of America

Endpaper Illustration: The Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775
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