Songs the People Sing : Richard Dyer-Bennet

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.

Program 36.

Richard Dyer-Bennet performs songs that represent the background of the American musical heritage.


Rundown: "Aunt Rhody"
"Ballad of the Soldier of the Lady"
"Swapping Song"
"Feign Would I Wed Fair Young Maid"
"Hullabaloo Belay"
unnamed Irish song from Illinois
"Dinah and Villikens"
unnamed song about blinding people with eggs and marrow
"Black is the Color of My True Love's Hair"
"The Cruelty of Barbara Allen"


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 72610
Municipal archives id: LT5372

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