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Wirz' AMERICAN MUSIC

 
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'
source: http://leonardo.sfasu.edu/tfs/Things.html
Hermes Nye LPs / CDs
#year
of release
title / label / 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


= FA 2037

www.folkways.si.edu

download tracks / notes
at Smithsonian Global Sound

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


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


= FA 2187 (1960)

www.folkways.si.edu

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at Smithsonian Global Sound

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

- General Patterson
- The Cumberland's Crew
- Cumberland Gap   @ youtube
- 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

Folkways FP 48-8


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


= FA 2188 (1960)

www.folkways.si.edu

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at Smithsonian Global Sound

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   @ youtube

10 inch LP
intro by J. Frank Dobie

Folkways FP 47-1


= FA 2128

www.folkways.si.edu

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at Smithsonian Global Sound

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


Folkways FA 2305

www.folkways.si.edu

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at Smithsonian Global Sound

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


Folkways FH 5249


= 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

Folkways FH 5717

www.folkways.si.edu

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at Smithsonian Global Sound

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

Folkways FH 5801

download tracks / notes
at Smithsonian Global Sound

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


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



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
- Zuņi 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

Folkways FH 5720

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at Smithsonian Global Sound

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



Scholastic SCC 2745

131991Cowboy Songs On Folkways

Hermes Nye
- The Devil Made Texas

compiled from the Folkways Collection and annotated by Guy Logsdon


Folkways CD SF-40043

www.folkways.si.edu

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at Smithsonian Global Sound



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

 

 

 

 

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