For a generation growing up in the 1950s, Burl Ives was the avuncular voice regularly heard on radio in the USA and UK, gently crooning novelty songs like I Knew An Old Lady, Blue Tail Fly and Big Rock Candy Mountain – these really were Children’s Favourites. This comprehensive collection of 50 songs is a timely reminder of thewide-ranging talent of the children’s favourite and renowned troubadour, Burl Ives…

• - 1 -

  • 1. A Little Bitty Tear
  • 2. Mary Ann Regrets
  • 3. I Know an Old Lady
  • 4. Lenora, Let Your Hair Hang Down
  • 5. Big Rock Candy Mountain
  • 6. It's So-Long and Good-Bye To You
  • 7. On Top of Old Smoky
  • 8. Brooklyn Bridge
  • 9. Riders In the Sky
  • 10. Woolie Boogie Bee
  • 11. Cool Water
  • 12. Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly) (With Captain Stubby & the Bucca
  • 13. Grandfather's Clock
  • 14. Diesel Smoke, Dangerous Curves
  • 15. Blue Tail Fly
  • 16. Old Blue-Ballanderie
  • 17. Thumbin' Johnny Brown
  • 18. Marianne
  • 19. Shanghied
  • 20. Wild Side of Life
  • 21. Poor Little Jimmie
  • 22. Ninety-Nine
  • 23. What You Gonna Do, Leroy
  • 24. The Man On the Flying Trapeze
  • 25. The Worried Man Blues

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  • 1. Funny Way of Laughin'
  • 2. Call Me Mr. In-Between
  • 3. Shoo Fly
  • 4. Mule Train
  • 5. Royal Telephone
  • 6. I Walk the Line
  • 7. Little Green Valley
  • 8. The Ballad of Davy Crockett
  • 9. Delia
  • 10. Polly Wolly Doodle
  • 11. John Henry
  • 12. I Ain't Comin' Home Tonight
  • 13. Forty Hour Week
  • 14. In Foggy Old London
  • 15. Close the Door Richard
  • 16. The Crawdad Song
  • 17. Sixteen Fathoms Down
  • 18. One Hour Ahead of the Posse
  • 19. Mockin' Bird Hill
  • 20. True Love Goes On and On
  • 21. Billy the Kid
  • 22. Mama Don't Want No Peas an' Rice an' Cocoanut Oil
  • 23. Wayfaring Stranger-Woolie Boogie Bee
  • 24. The Man Who Broke the Bank At Monte Carlo
  • 25. The Long Black Veil