Len Chandler Singles

#	year of release	title	label # / notes
1	196?	- Song Of The Mind - Shadow Of The Magic Dancer	Columbia 43887
2	1967	- Touch Talk - The Lovin' People	Columbia 44269

Len Chandler 1965
from David Gahr & Robert Shelton: The Face Of Folk Music.- New York 1968, p. 191

Len Chandler LPs / CDs

#	year of release	title	label # / notes
1	1967	Len Chandler: To Be A Man - To Be A Man - Feet First Baby - Nancy Rose [lyrics] - Shadow Dream Chaser Of Rainbows - Missionary Stew #2 - Keep On Keepin' On - Bellevue - Hide Your Heart, Little Hippie - Roll, Turn, Spin - Time Of The Tiger - Takin' Me Away From You Train - Quittin' Time prod. by John Hammond	notes by Gordon Friesen Columbia CL 2459 / CS 9259 = CBS BPG 62931 (UK)
2	1967	Len Chandler: The Lovin' People - Bound To Fly - Naked Fool - Lovin' People - Warmth Of You Beside Me - Still I Dream - Behind Your Eyes - Touch Talk - Sold Out, No More Reservations - I Can't Keep From Carin' After All - Language Of Love prod. by Elliot Mazer; executive producer John Hammond	notes by Robert Shelton Columbia CL 2753 / CS 9553
3	1968	Lew Irwin and The Credibility Gap: An Album Of Political Pornography 'The Credibility Gap' were Newsmen Lew Irwin, Richard Beebe, Thom Beck and John Gilliland, along with folksinger Len Chandler	Blue Thumb BTS 2 Blue Thumb discography
4	19??	Len Chandler - Something - I Have Tried With You - Wasted Matches	7 inch 45 rpm EP PLS-8004 (Jp)
		Additional information appreciated !!!

from Jean Ritchie (ed.): The Newport Folk Festival Songbook.- Alfred Music, New York 1965, p. 21

Anthologies / Compilations / Samplers
containing music performed by Len Chandler

#	year of release	title / songs (Len Chandler)	label # / notes
1	1964	Hootenanny Live At The Bitter End Len Chandler - Trombone Cholly - Troubador Gay - Youth Of The Heart Jo Mapes - Ha Ha Thisaway - The Ballad Of Julia Bulette - San Francisco Bay Fred Neil - Linin' Track - The Sky Is Falling Bob Carey - Wade In The Water - For Elise - Well I Wonder	FM FMLP-309 www.bitterend.com (no info on Len Chandler !)
2	1964	A Rootin' Tootin' Hootenanny The Big Three - Come Along Fred Neil - Raindrops Falling The Ward Singers - Bye And Bye - Go Down Moses Allen & Grier - Lonesome Traveler - Pied Piper Len Chandler - Green Green Rocky Road - Old Time Religion Jo Mapes - Anathea - Copper Kettle Bob Carey - I'm Just A Wanderin' Stranger	FM FMLP-310
3	1964	The World Of Folk Music The Big Three (Mama Cass Elliot, Tim Rose, and James Hendricks) - Come Along Jo Mapes - Ha, Ha Thisaway - Ballad of Julia Bulette - San Francisco Bay Len Chandler - Green Green Rocky - Ole Time Religion Allan & Grier - Lonesome Traveller - Pied Piper Fred Neil - Linin Track - Raindrops Falling Bob Carey - Wade in the Water - Well I Wonder	FM FMLP-319
4	1964	Broadside Ballads Vol. 3 The Broadside Singers - Ain't That News - The Broadside Singers with Tom Paxton - More Good Men - Goin' Down The Broadside Singers with Dave Cohen - Times I've Had - The Broadside Singers with Mark Spoelstra - Paths Of Victory - The Broadside Singers with Bob Dylan - Christine - The Broadside Singers with Matt McGinn - Rattlesnake - The Broadside Singers with Peter La Farge - Carry It On - The Broadside Singers with Gil Turner - Links On The Chain - The Broadside Singers with Phil Ochs - Causes - The Broadside Singers with Pat Sky - Immigrante - The Broadside Singers with Buffy Sainte-Marie - The Faucets Are Dripping - The Broadside Singers wth Malvina Reynolds - Father's Grave - For Cordell Reagon - The Broadside Singers with Len Chandler - The Scruggs Picker - The Broadside Singers with Ernie Marrs - Plains Of Nebrasky-O - The Broadside Singers with Eric Andersen - Freedom Is A Constant Struggle - The Broadside Singers	notes by Phil Ochs Broadside BR 303 =Folkways FH 5303
5	1965	Len Chandler / Pete Seeger / The Freedom Voices: WNEW's Story Of Selma Pete Seeger & The Freedom Voices - Hold On (Keep Your Eyes On The Prize) The Freedom Voices - We've Got A Rope That's A Berlin Wall Pete Seeger, & The Freedom Voices - I Love Everybody Len Chandler & The Freedom Voices - Pick 'Em Up and Lay 'Em Down Pete Seeger & The Freedom Voices - If You Want to Get Your Freedom Len Chandler & The Freedom Voices - Yankee Doodle (Wallace Said We Couldn't March) Pete Seeger & The Freedom Voices - Oh, Wallace Len Chandler & The Freedom Voices - Which Side Are You On? (Civil Rights Version) Pete Seeger & The Freedom Voices - Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round The Freedom Voices - Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round (chorus) Len Chandler & The Freedom Voices - Do What The Spirits Say Do - Do What The Spirits Say Do (at Montgomery) Pete Seeger & Len Chandler - Freedom Now Chant Len Chandler - Murder On The Roads Of Alabama	Folkways FH 5595 www.folkways.si.edu
6	1967	Broadside Ballads Vol. 4: The Time Will Come and Other Songs from Broadside Magazine Elaine White - The Time Will Come Will McLean, Paul Champion - Hold Back the Waters Danny Valdez & Agustin [sic]Lira - The Migrant's Song Chris Gaylord - Don't Talk to Strangers Blind Girl Grunt (Janis Ian) - Shady Acres Will McLean + Paul Champion, 2nd g - Osceola Paul Kaplan - I've Been Told Tom Parrott + John Mackiewicz, 2nd g - Freedoms We've Been Fighting For Zachary 2 & Group (Len Chandler) - Genocide Matthew Jones & Group - Herll No, I Ain't Gonna Go	cover artwork by Agnes Friesen notes by Gordon Friesen Broadside BR 306 = Folkways FH 5306 www.folkways.si.edu
7	1971	Broadside Ballads Vol. 6: Broadside Reunion Eric Anderson - Long Time Troubled Road Bob Dylan ("Blind Boy Grunt") - Train A-Travelin' Bobby Donahue - Only Time Will Tell Bob Dylan ("Blind Boy Grunt") - Dreadful Day Len Chandler - I'm Going To Get My Baby Out Of Jail Mike McLean - Tate's Hell Richard Black - A Very Close Friend Of Mine Mike Millus - Moon Song Tom Paxton - Last Train To Auschwitz Phil Ochs - Hunger and Cold Phil Ochs - Changing Hands Peter La Farge - Drums Bob Dylan ("Blind Boy Grunt") - Ballad Of Emmett Till - Ballad Of Donald White Sis Cunningham, Mike Millius, Wesley Houston - The Ballad of Jesse James	rec. 1962/63 Folkways FR 5315 www.folkways.si.edu
7a	1975	A Place To Be Fox Hollow Festival 10th Anniversary Album Volume 1 Biograph 12051 (first edition 1975) Len Chandler - Lovin' People (1967) # Pat Sky - She's Up For Grabs (1968) Michael Cooney - Be Kind To Your Parents (1969) # Dave Bromberg & John Hartford - The Holdup (1971) # Douglas Neidt - Argentine Folk Dance (1971) Dan Smith, Bessie Jones, Doris Frazier, Robert Caplin - Something Down In Me (1971) Lorre Wyatt - Clearwater (1974) # Lou & Sally Killen - Thousand Or More (1973) # Martha Nagler - The Lone Pilgrim - (1971) The Boys Of The Lough - Lament (1973) # Michael Cooney - Watermelon Song (1969) # Sandy Paton & The Golden Ring - Wild Mt. Thyme & The Hunt (1971) John Hartford, Dave Brober, Norman Blake, Vassar Clements, Alan Stowell - Babe, You've Been On My Mind (1971) # Gordon Bok - Leaving Glen Aben (1972) # Joe Hickerson - Maid On The Shore (1974) John Wright - Jew's Harp Solo (1974) Susan Boyer - Bell Song (1974) Evelyn Beers - Green Gravel (1974) R. U. Brown - Highland Bagpipe Playing (1971) Bob Beers - Closing Speech (1971) Biograph 12051 (revised edition 1976) Roger Sprung - June Apple (1967) # Pat Sky - She's Up For Grabs (1968) John Jackson - Bad Badman (1969) # Sandy Paton & The Golden Ring - Wild Mt. Thyme (1970) Douglas Neidt - Argentine Folk Dance (1971) Dan Smith with Bessie Jones - Something Down In Me (1971) Bottle Hill - Sittin' On Top Of The World (1972) # Joe Hickerson - Maid On The Shore (1972) Craig Morton - Go To Sea No More (1973) # John Wright - Jews Harp Solo (1974) Susan Boyer - Bell Song (1974) Evelyne Beers - Green Gravel (1974) R. U. Brown - Highland Bagpipe Playing (1971) Bob Beers - closing speech (1971) # on first resp. revised edition only	Biograph BLP-12051 (first edition) Biograph BLP-12051 (revised edition) Biograph discography
8	1980	Lest We Forget Vol. 3 - Sing For Freedom Betty Mae Fikes - Up Over My Head / This Little Light Of Mine (medley) Doc Reese - Bullyin' Jack Of Diamonds Bessie Jones, Georgia Sea Island Singers - Give Me The Gourd To Drink Water Bernice Reagon - Been In The Storm So Long Doc Reese - Guide My Feet While I Run This Race Carlton Reese & The Birmingham Movement Choir - 99 1/2 Won't Do Carlton Reese, Cleo Kennedy - Yes, We Want Our Freedom Charles Neblet, Cordell Reagon, Ruth Harris - Which Side are You On? Cordell Reagon - Brown Baby Len Chandler - Father's Grave Freedom Singers - Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round Phil Ochs - I'm Gonna Say What I Have To Say Mamie Brown, Birmingham Movement Choir - I'm On My Way	Folkways FR 5488 www.folkways.si.edu
9	1994	Freedom Is a Constant Struggle (Songs of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement) - We Will Not Bow Down To Genocide - Move On Over - I'm Going To Get My Baby Out Of Jail	Folk Era Productions FE-1419 folkera.com
10	2000 5-CD boxed set	The Best of Broadside 1962 - 1988 Anthems of the American Underground from the Pages of Broadside Magazine The Broadside Singers with Len Chandler - Carry It On - Father's Grave Len Chandler and Bernice Johnson Reagon - I'm Going To Get My Baby Out Of Jail	Smithsonian Folkways SFW CD 40130 www.folkways.si.edu
		Additional information appreciated !!!

Len Chandler at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival
picture from Kristin Baggelaar & Donald Milton: The Folk Music Encyclopedia
London / New York / Sidney 1977, p. 64

Collaborations with / (Guest) Appearances on other Artist's recordings

#	year of release	artist / title	label # / notes
1	2000	Sandy Ross: Portraits Of Innocence Len Chandler choir, chorus	Chartmaker 1140

1969 Len Chandler biography
(Stambler, Irvin & Landon Grelun: Encyclopedia of Folk, Country and Western Music.- New York / London 1969, p. 53/54)

 

Other artist's Covers of Len Chandler songs

#	year of release	Artist: Record Title - featured Len Chandler song	label # / notes
1	1964	The Serendipity Singers single: - Beans In My Ears - Sailin' Away EP: - Beans In My Ears - Soon It's Gonna Rain - The New Frankie & Johnny Song - Mill Girls Don't Sing Or Dance - Six Foot Six - Down Where The Winds Blow	7 inch 45 rpm Philips 40198 = Philips 44012 Philips (EP) Philips PHM 200-134 (LP) "The Many Sides of ..." Collectables CD 2728 (1999)
2	1964	Lonnie Donegan - Beans In My Ears - It's A Long Road To Travel	7 inch 45 rpm PYE 7N15669
3	8/1966	Pete Seeger: Dangerous Songs - Medley:   Robin The Bobbin   Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary   Little Jack Horner - Die Gedanken sind frei - Jackaro - Never Wed An Old Man - John Brown's Body - Going Across The Mountains - Harry Simms - King Henry - Medley:   Ode To Joy   Goliath, Goliath - Queen Anne Front - Joe Hill's "Casey Jones" - One Grain Of Sand - The Pill - The Draft Dodger Rag - Mao Tse Tung - Walking Down Death Roe - From Shakespeare:   Full Fantom Five   Perchance To Win - Beans In My Ears produced by John Hammond	Columbia CL 2503 Columbia CS 9303 (=) Sony 65261 (1998)
4	1968	The Pozo Seco Singers: Shades Of Time - Good Morning Today - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - You've Got To Hide Your Love Away - Green, Green, Grass Of Home - Hey Babe Open Up Your Mind - You Better Sit Down Kids - Spanish Harlem Incident - Bye Bye Love - The Renegade - Gotta Come Up With Something - Keep On Keeping On	Columbia CS 9656
5	1971	Lonesome Travellers: The Lost Children - Wind Chime (Graham Cooper) - Boothferry Bridge (Harvey Andrews) - I Wish I Had Been There (Woodstock), (John Denver) - Song For You (Graham Cooper & Doug Porter) - Hazy Michael (Graham Cooper) - Turn A Deaf Ear (Rab Nokes) - Roll Turn Spin (Len Chandler) - Cindy's Crying (Tom Paxton) - Jimmy Newman (Tom Paxton) - The Lost Children (Gordon Lightfoot) - Hey Sandy (Harvey Andrews) The Lonesome Travellers were Graham Cooper, Steve Rostron and Doug Porter	Nebula Records NEB 100 (UK)
		Additional information appreciated !!!

Sources:
- own record collection
- Stambler, Irvin & Landon Grelun: Encyclopedia of Folk, Country and Western Music
  New York / London 1969, p. 53/54
- Baggelaar, Kristin & Donald Milton: The Folk Music Encyclopedia.- London/ New York/
  Sidney 1977, p. 64
- various other internet sources

Sing Out! vol 15 # 3 July 1965: FREEDOM SONGS - SELMA ALABAMA
Articles include: Selma: A Folksinger's Report by Len Chandler, Jr.

Original Theatrical Release Movie Poster to the 1972 film "F.T.A." - directed by Francine Parker
with Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Michael Alaimo, Len Chandler, ...
("The show the Pentagon couldn't stop")