American Favorite Ballads, Vol. 5

Pete Seeger SFW40154

These are the songs Pete Seeger sang for America, songs every school child and summer camp attendee learned to sing and now sing with their children and grandchildren. The five-volume American Favorite Ballads (issued 1957 to 1962) is a cornerstone of Seeger’s work with Folkways Records. This CD concludes this reissue series of digitally remastered recordings, including not only the complete original set but many more songs from other Seeger albums of the same era, including the 1954 Frontier Ballads collection, which makes up most of this volume. 36-page booklet, 29 tracks, 67 minutes.

Lyric transcriptions as permissible by the publisher available here.
Year of Recording 2007
Record Label Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Source Archive Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Credits Compiled by Jeff Place ; Compiled by Guy Logsdon ; Mastered by Pete Reiniger ; Cover photo by David Gahr ; Design by Visual Dialogue ; Liner Notes by Guy Logsdon ; Liner Notes by Jeff Place