The Wayfaring Stranger (album)

The Wayfaring Stranger
Studio album by
Burl Ives
Released1944
GenreFolk
LabelAsch

The Wayfaring Stranger (Asch 345) is an album consisting of three 10-inch, 78 rpm records by Burl Ives released on Asch in 1944. It should not be confused with Ives' 1944 album for Columbia Records (C-103) – also called The Wayfaring Stranger- and a re-release of a 1941 album on Okeh Records - containing different songs. The Asch album includes the first releases of two signature songs by Ives: "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" and "The Blue Tail Fly."[1]

The same collection of songs was reissued in 1947 on the Stinson label as a 78-rpm album (Stinson 345), then a 10-inch LP (Stinson SLP-1) in 1949, a 12-inch LP c. 1954 (also with catalog number Stinson SLP-1), retitled Blue Tail Fly and Other Favorites, and finally a cassette tape (Stinson CA-1). All of the Stinson releases with the exception of the 78-rpm album had two bonus tracks: "The Fox" and "Brennan on the Moor."

In 1948 Burl Ives also released an autobiography with the same title.[2]

  1. ^ [1] Ives, Burl and Haufrecht, Herbert The wayfaring stranger : a collection of 21 folk songs and ballads, with guitar and piano accompaniment. Leeds, New York, 1945.
  2. ^ [2] Ives, Burl (1948). Wayfaring stranger. Whittlesey House, New York, 253 pages