Wallace House: Ballads of the Revolution 1767-1781
Wallace House: Ballads of the Revolution 1767-1781
Format: CD
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Artist: Wallace House
Label: Folkways Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 093070500129
Genre: Country, Folk
British-born folklorist Wallace House selected these 20 ballads for their historical significance and arranged them on this collection chronologically. The recording opens with a song from 1767 describing attempts to reconcile England with the colonies, and ends with a song about the defeat of the British Army at Saratoga from 1781. Illustrated liner notes set the scene for the music and describe the background to events featured in the songs.
Tracks:
1.1 The World Turned Upside Down
1.2 The Liberty Song
1.3 Free America
1.4 Maryland Resolves
1.5 What a Court Hath Old England
1.6 Banks of the Dee (Original)
1.7 Banks of the Dee (American Parody)
1.8 The Pennsylvania Song
1.9 Yankee Doodle, or the Yankee's Return from Camp
1.10 How Happy the Soldier
1.11 The Death of Warren
1.12 Bunker Hill
1.13 The Dying Sergeant
1.14 The British Light Infantry
1.15 Chester
1.16 The Toast
1.17 The Yankee Man of War or the Stately Southerner or Paul Jones Privateer or the Ranger
1.18 Mad Anthony Wayne
1.19 Sergeant Champe
1.20 Cornwallis Burgoyned
