Hermes
Nye

b. February 11, 1908 in Chicago, Illinois
d. January 1, 1981 in Dallas, Texas

discography
H E R M E S   N Y E; from 'http://leonardo.sfasu.edu/tfs/Things.html'
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This discography is a non-commercial labor-of-love and is in no way associated with any business firm.
All I know about the resp. artist's / label's musical output is shown on this page. To purchase out-of-print records I recommend an ebay, gemm or google search. And - sorry for that - I have not the time to answer any e-mails asking me about further information, let alone duplicating out-of-print recordings I happen to own.

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Hermes Nye LPs / CDs
#year
of release
titlelabel # / notes
11952Hermes Nye: Anglo-American Ballads

- John Peel
- The Mermaid
- Earl Richard
- Earl Of Murray
- The Red Herring

- Greenland Fishery
- Bailiff's Daughter
- A North Country Maid
- King Arthur Had Three Sons
- Tomorrow Is St. Valentine's Day
10 inch LP
Folkways FP 37

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= FA 2037

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21954Hermes Nye: Ballads Of The Civil War Vol. 1 1830-1861

- Abolitionist Hymn
- Davy Crockett
- Santa Anna
- Battle Hymn Of The Republic
- Lincoln And Liberty

- The Bonnie Blue Flag
- Lorena
- When This Cruel War Is Over
- Farewell Mother
- There Was An Old Soldier
10 inch LP

Folkways FP 48-7

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= FP 5004 (two 10 inch LPs
"Ballads of the Civil War
1830-1865"
)

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= FA 2187 (1960)

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31954Hermes Nye: Ballads Of The Civil War Vol. 2 1861-1865

- General Patterson
- The Cumberland's Crew
- Cumberland Gap
- When Johnny Comes Marching Home
- In Charlston Jail

- All Quiet Along The Potomac
- Longstreet's Rangers
- Goober Peas
- Roll, Alabama, Roll
- Abe Lincoln
- Old Rebel
10 inch LP
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Folkways FP 48-8

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= FP 5004 (two 10 inch LPs
"Ballads of the Civil War
1830-1865"
)

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= FA 2188 (1960)

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41955Hermes Nye: Texas Folk Songs

- The Devil Made Texas
- Bucking Bronco
- Bonnie And Clyde
- Bad Brahma Bull (rodeo song)
- Amazing Grace
- The Buffalo Skinners

- Shorty George
- The Boll Wevil
- Diamond Joe
- Sam Bass
- The Toolie's Death
- Corrido de Kansas
- Louisiana Gals
10 inch LP
intro by J. Frank Dobie
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Folkways FP 47-1

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= FA 2128

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51957Hermes Nye: Ballads Reliques
Early English Ballads from the Percy and Child Collections

- Robin Hood's Golden Prize
- The Death Of Robin Hood
- Whittingham Fair
- The Outlandish Knight
- The Three Ravens - Twa Corbies
- Binnorie - The Cruel Sister
- Thomas, The Rhymer
- Sir Patrick Spens
- Queen Eleanor's Confession

- Clerk Saunders
- Lord Thomas And Fair Ellinor
- My Love Built Me A Bonnie Bower
- Mary Hamilton
- O, Waly, Waly
- Rob Roy
- Lizzie Lindsay
- Glenlogie - Jean O Bethelnie
- Get Up And Bar The Door
- The Lament Of The Border Widow
- King O'Luve - Fause Foodrage
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Folkways FA 2305

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61959Hermes Nye: Soldier Songs

- Why, Soldiers, Why
- Ballad Of The Tea Party
- Free America
- Bennington Skirmish
- The Battle Of Saratoga
- Butternut Hill
- Constitution And Guerrier
- Benny Haven
- Mustand Grey
- Saro Jane
- The Regular Army, Oh!
- The Boy's Of The Thirsty First
- The Cavalry Remount

- If You Want To Know Where The Privates Are
- Mademoiselle From Armentiers
- I Landed In London
- I Got Sixpence
- I Don't Want To Join The Army
- Gee But I Want To GO Home
- The One-Eyed Riley
- Bell Bottom Trousers
- The Officers Ride The Whale Boats
- Were You With The Marines
- The Engineers
- The Fighting Q.M.C
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Folkways FH 5249

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= Folkways F 5249 (1977)
"War Ballads U.S.A."

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71960Songs Of The Civil War

Hermes Nye
- Old Abe Lincoln Came Out Of The Wilderness
- Farewell Mother
- Oh, I'm A Good Old Rebel
two album boxed set
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Folkways FH 5717

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81961American History In Ballad And Song   Volume One

- Washer Lad - Pete Seeger
- Shamrock - Pete Seeger
- When I Was Single - Peggy Seeger

- The Ballad of Tea Party - Hermes Nye
- The Liberty Song - Ed McCurdy
- The Dying Sergent - Ed McCurdy

- The Battle of Saratoga - Hermes Nye
- Cornwallis Burgoyned - Ed McCurdy
- Buffalo Skinners - Pete Seeger

- Davy Crockett - Hermes Nye

- Sioux Indians - Pete Seeger
- Greer County Bachelor (Starving to Death on My Government Claim) - Pete Seeger
- Crossing the Plains - Logan English
- Cowboy Yodel - Pete Seeger
- Free Elections - Pete Seeger
- Jefferson and Liberty - Ed McCurdy
- Andrew Jackson - Ed McCurdy
- Oh Dear, What Can The Matter Be? - Elizabeth Knight
- No Irish Need Apply - Pete Seeger
- The Harrison Song - Ed McCurdy


- Hail Africa Band - Wallace House

- Abolitionist Hymn - Hermes Nye
- The Bonnie Blue Flag - Hermes Nye
- Cumberland Crew - Hermes Nye
- General Patterson - Hermes Nye
- In Charleston Jail - Hermes Nye
- All Quiet Along the Potomac - Hermes Nye
- Lincoln and Liberty - Hermes Nye
- Old Rebel - Hermes Nye

- Pittsburgh Town - Pete Seeger
- The Blind Fiddler - Pete Seeger
- Eight-Hour Day - Pete Seeger
- My Children Are Seven in Number - Pete Seeger
- Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine - Pete Seeger
- Cotton Mill Colic - Pete Seeger
- Mill Mother's Lament - Pete Seeger
- The Faith of Harry Simms - Pete Seeger
- The TVA Song - Pete Seeger
- Inflation - Pete Seeger
- Sixty Percent - Pete Seeger


- Raggedy - Pete Seeger
- Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat - Pete Seeger
- Dust Storm Disaster - Woody Guthrie
- Old English Forty Years Ago - Wallace House
- The Hunters of Kentucky - Wallace House

- Santa Anna - Hermes Nye
- Roll Alabama Roll - Hermes Nye
- Cuba Libre - Jerry Silverman

- The Flood and the Storm - Woody Guthrie
- Well, What a Time - Prisoners on a Texas Prison Farm
- Japanese Buddhist Service
- Indian (Hindu) Religious Hymn
- Moslem Hymn
- It's the Same All Over - Arthur Samuels
- To I Hola - The Grail Singers
- Erdo - The Grail Singers
- Ntabezikude - The Grail Singers


prepared by Albert Barouh and Theodore O. Cron
3 LP set
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Folkways FH 5801

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91961The LIFE Treasury Of American Folk Music

Gene Bluestein
- Skada At America
Fort Wingate Indian School Children
- Song Of Happiness
Navajo Chorus
- Riding Song
Alan Mills
- Ballad Of New Scotland
Gene Bluestein
- Ah, Si Mon Moine Voulait Danser

Hermes Nye
- Constitution And Guerriere
Pete Seeger
- The Knickerbocker Line
Alan Mills & Shanty Men
- Lowlands
Cisco Houston
- The E-R-I-E Canal
Alan Mills & Shanty Men
- Rio Grande
Mickey Miller & Bess Hawes
- Rosewood Casket
Alan Mills & Shanty Men
- Shenandoah

Hermes Nye
- I'm A Good Old Rebel
Huddie (Leadbelly) Ledbetter
- Ha Ha This A-Way

Hermes Nye
- Bonnie Blue Flag
Cisco Houston
- Drill Ye Tarriers, Drill
Woody Guthrie
- Billy The Kid
Logan English
- Sacramento
Woody Guthrie
- Hard Work

Hermes Nye
- Bonnie And Clyde
"Kid" Clayton & His Orchestra
- Gettysburg March
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Life L-1001
101965Folk Go-Go

- Kentucky Bootlegger - New Lost City Ramblers
- Mary Anne - Karen James
- Crawdad Song - Sam Hinton
- Blood On The Saddle - Ed Badeaux
- Cuckoo - Doc Watson

- Butternut Hill - Hermes Nye
- House of the Rising Sun - Woody Guthrie
- Alabama Bound - Leadbelly

- Old Howard - Cisco Houston
- Rio Grande - Alan Mills
- Go Tell Aunt Rhody Children - Jean Ritchie
- Free Little Bird - Clarence Ashley
- Bury Me Beneath The Willow - Mickey Miller
- Skillet Good And Greasy - Doc Watson
- Whistle, Daughter, Whistle
- Erie Canal - Pete Seeger


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Verve/Folkways FV 9011
111966Toward World Understanding With Song

- Abiyoyo - Pete Seeger
- This Land is Your Land - The Harvesters
- Dry Weather Houses - Louise Bennett
- Mountain Call
- Muss I Denn - Martha Schlamme
- Que Bonita Bandera - Pete Seeger
- Nippa Hut - Luz Morales

- Goober Peas - Hermes Nye
- Donkey Riding - Alan Mills
- Digging Potatoes - Ellie Mao
- Moonlight on the Ching Yang River - Chinese Cultural Theater Group

- Planting Rice - Luz Morales
- The Derby Ram - Gerry Armstrong
- Who Did Swallow Jonah? - The Wagonners
- I's the Boy That Builds the Boat - Alan Mills
- Ragshe Chubi - Members of Bakhtiari tribe
- So Goes the Train - Ora Dreyer
- Train is A-Comin' - Pete Seeger
- Fire Down Below - Cisco Houston
- Rooster - Miriam Ben-Ezra
- I Had a Rooster - Pete Seeger


- Three Craw - Alan Mills
- My White Horse - Martina and Maria Eugenia Diaz
- Happy Birthday - Luz Morales
- Come and Sing - Alan Mills
- I'm So Happy - Alan Mills
- Twelve Days of Christmas - Alan Mills
- Lagu Srihardjono
- Under the Shade of a Pine Tree
- Kumbaya - Pete Seeger
- Drums of the Yoruba

- How Do the Boers Ride? - Ora Dreyer
- Roll Over - The Harvesters
- Heiveinu Shalom Aleichem - Miriam Ben-Ezra
- Zuñi Harvest Dance
- Simple Gifts - George and Gerry Armstrong
- Study War No More (Down By the Riverside) - Pete Seeger
- Holla Hi, Holla Ho - Erica Vopel
- Yodel Song (Weggis Song) - Martha Schlamme and Pete Seeger


developed to be used with a song collection "Toward World Understanding with Song" by Vernice Trousdale Nye, Robert Evans Nye, H. Virginia Nye
2 LP set
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Folkways FH 5720

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121976American Songs To Sing

- Yankee Doodle - Robert Michael Jones & Richard Shulberg
- The Ballad Of The Tea Party - Hermes Nye
- Ten Green Apples - Alan Mills
- The Erie Canal - Robert Michael Jones & Richard Shulberg
- Goober Peas - John Cohen

- I've Been Workin' On The Railroad - Robert Michael Jones & Richard Shulberg
- Buffalo Gals - Pete Seeger
- Whoopie Ti Yi Yo - Cisco Houston
- The Mocking Bird - Adelaide Van Way
- This Land Is Your Land - Woodie Guthrie


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Scholastic SCC 2745
131991Cowboy Songs On Folkways

Hermes Nye
- The Devil Made Texas

compiled from the Folkways Collection and annotated by Guy Logsdon

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Folkways CD SF-40043

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Additional information appreciated !!!

 

left column foto from notes to Folkways FP 37 (1952)

 

Hermes Nye: How to be a Folksinger; click to enlarge !
"How to be a Folksinger"
How to Sing and Present Folksongs;
or The Folksinger's Guide;
or Eggs I Have Laid
by Hermes Nye
Oak Publikations, New York 1965

 

Hermes Nye with family in the fifties; from notes to Folkways FA 2128; click to enlarge !
Hermes Nye with family in the fifties
(from notes to Folkways FA 2128)

 

"Lasca" by Frank Desprez

"Until his death, one of the high points of any meeting was his [Hermes Nye's] inimitable recitation of that stirring poem."

R.G. Dean

 

Stefan Wirz


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