American History in Ballad and Song, Vol.2
Various Artists

Originally intended as a teaching aid for senior high school social studies and covering a broad scope of civic, government, economic, citizenship and immigration issues, this compilation provides a provocative mid-century impression of America culled from witnesses to the first half of the twentieth century. We are treated to songs from Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds; speeches from Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Williams Jennings Bryan; so-called "brag talk" by cowboys; and pronouncement of an oath of loyalty by Chief John Oberly of the "Osage Tribe of Indians" affirming that he will not conspire with any political parties to overthrow the US government.
Track Listing
101
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Skada In America | Gene Bluestein | 2:13 | |
102
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Bragg Talk | Harry Jackson | 1:34 | |
103
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Immigrant Worker | Michael Quill | 0:45 | |
104
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He Lies in The American Land | Pete Seeger | 1:59 | |
105
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German-American Loyalty | James Watson Gerard | 2:49 | |
106
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American Indian Loyalty Oath | John Oberly | 1:03 | |
107
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Two Good Men | Woody Guthrie | 3:15 | |
108
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Ballad of Sherman Wu | Pete Seeger | 2:07 | |
109
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Immortality | Williams Jennings Bryan | 2:09 | |
110
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The Lord's Prayer | Dora Bliggen | 2:06 | |
201
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F.D.R's Back Again | The New Lost City Ramblers | 2:20 | |
202
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Then And Now | Oscar Brand | 2:45 | |
203
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Puerto Ricans in New York | Tony Schwartz | 2:43 | |
204
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Roll On Columbia | Pete Seeger | 3:35 | |
205
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Conestoga Wagoner's Complaint | Vivien Richman | 1:46 | |
206
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Trusts | William Howard Taft | 1:54 | |
207
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Banks of Marble | Pete Seeger | 3:11 | |
208
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The Farmer | Theodore Roosevelt | 1:35 | |
209
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The Farmer is the Man (Who Feeds Us All) | Gene Bluestein | 1:37 | |
301
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One-Third Of a Nation | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1:56 | |
302
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Pastures of Plenty | Woody Guthrie | 2:07 | |
303
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Labor Strife | Aunt Molly Jackson | 4:48 | |
304
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Ludlow Massacre | Woody Guthrie | 3:28 | |
305
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Money, Money, Money | Tony Schwartz | 1:42 | |
306
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Too Old to Work | John Greenway | 2:04 | |
307
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Corruption | Broadcast | 0:32 | |
308
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Teacher's Blues | Pete Seeger | 2:16 | |
309
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The Taxation Tyranny | Elizabeth Knight | 1:42 | |
401
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Van Buren | Oscar Brand | 0:44 | |
402
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The Political Smear | Broadcast | 3:04 | |
403
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If He's Good Enough For Lindy | Oscar Brand | 2:00 | |
404
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I'm a Migrant | Will Geer | 0:51 | |
405
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Keep Moving | The New Lost City Ramblers | 2:12 | |
406
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Too Many Bookmakers | Broadcast | 1:43 | |
407
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The Delinquent | Malvina Reynolds | 4:12 | |
408
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Let's Move It | Frederic Ramsey, Jr. | 1:22 | |
409
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The Negro Voter | Martin Luther King, Jr. | 0:25 | |
410
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Desegregation at Little Rock | Dwight Eisenhower and Orval Faubus | 0:42 | |
411
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The State of Arkansas | Pete Seeger | 2:01 | |
412
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The Supreme Court | Dwight Eisenhower and Orval Faubus | 1:14 | |
413
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The Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan | Freedom Riders | 0:18 | |
414
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They Go Wild Over Me | The Freedom Riders | 1:42 | |
501
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First, Fifth and Sixth Amendments | Broadcast | 2:51 | |
502
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The Communist 11 | Vito Marcantonio | 0:54 | |
503
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Land of the Daily Worker | Joe Glazer | 0:58 | |
504
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Landing of the A.E.F | General John Pershing | 1:32 | |
505
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Let's Bury the Hatchet | Ernest Hemingway | 0:55 | |
506
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The Spanish Civil War | Woody Guthrie | 1:47 | |
507
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Valley of Jarama (Jarama Valley) | Woody Guthrie | 2:54 | |
508
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Isolationism | Charles A. Lindberg | 1:09 | |
509
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Quarantine Speech | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 2:01 | |
510
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The Sinking of the Reuben James | Woody Guthrie | 2:54 | |
601
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The League of Nations | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1:15 | |
602
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The United Nations | Franklin D. Roosevelt | 1:21 | |
603
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The Marshall Plan | Robert A. Taft | 0:44 | |
604
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Isolationism | Robert A. Taft | 1:09 | |
605
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The Red Issue | Henry Wallace | 2:13 | |
606
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Little Joe the Rustler | Joe Glazer | 2:26 | |
607
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The Baruch Plan | Bernard Baruch | 0:27 | |
608
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Strontium 90 | Bann the Bomb Recording | 2:50 | |
609
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Nuclear Control | John F. Kennedy | 0:45 | |
610
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Doomsday Blues | Dwight Eisenhower and Orval Faubus | 2:47 | |
611
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Inagural Address | John F. Kennedy | 2:12 | |
612
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Then We'll Have Peace | Pete Seeger | 1:52 |