The unfortunate rake
By: Edited by Kenneth S. Goldstein
Published: 1960
Language: eng
Format: [Sound recording]
Subjects: Ballads,  American; English Ballads
Notes: "20 different versional and variational forms of the 'Rake' cycle of ballads" performed by various folksingers.

Program notes by the compiler, including texts of the songs (8 p.)
Table of contents: title: The unfortunate rake; title: The trooper cut down in his prime; title: The young sailor cut down in his prime; title: Now I'm z young man cut down in mi prime; title: The bad girl's lament; title: One morning in May; title: Bright summer morning; title: The girl in the Dilger case; title: The cowboy's lament; title: Streets of Laredo; title: St. James Hospital; title: Gambler's blues; title: I once was a carman; title: The lineman's hymn; title: The wild lumberjack; title: A sun valley song; title: The ballad of Bloody Thursday; title: The streets of Hamtramck; title: Ballad of Sherman Wu; title: The professor's lament.