Ed McCurdy

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Last night I had the strangest dream 00:00 Tools
Jack O'Diamonds 00:00 Tools
When The Work's All Done This Fall 00:00 Tools
Hush Little Baby 00:00 Tools
Red River Valley 00:00 Tools
Josie 00:00 Tools
Darlin' Cory 00:00 Tools
Billy Boy 00:00 Tools
Punchin' the Dough 00:00 Tools
Barbara Allen 00:00 Tools
Along Side of the Santa Fe Trail 00:00 Tools
Strawberry Roan 00:00 Tools
The Bird's Courtship 00:00 Tools
The Cowboy 00:00 Tools
Utah Carroll 00:00 Tools
A Wanton Trick 00:00 Tools
O Suzanna 00:00 Tools
The Cowboys 00:00 Tools
Utah 00:00 Tools
Colorado Trail 00:00 Tools
My bonny lies over the ocean 00:00 Tools
No More Boozer 00:00 Tools
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star 00:00 Tools
Go Bring Me A Lass 00:00 Tools
When Cockle Shells Turn Silver Bells 00:00 Tools
All the Pretty Little Horses 00:00 Tools
Banks Of The Ohio 00:00 Tools
The Trooper 00:00 Tools
Four Nights Drunk 00:00 Tools
The Old Fisherman 00:00 Tools
Kentucky Moonshiner 00:00 Tools
The Dublin Murder Ballad 00:00 Tools
Frankie And Johnny 00:00 Tools
When Soldiers Die on Battlefields 00:00 Tools
Cowboy's Lament 00:00 Tools
O, Dear, What Can The Matter Be 00:00 Tools
Stackerlee 00:00 Tools
Blood On The Saddle 00:00 Tools
Portland County Jail 00:00 Tools
A Lusty Young Smith 00:00 Tools
Where Did You Come From 00:00 Tools
No More Booze 00:00 Tools
S-M-I-L-E 00:00 Tools
Little Turtle Dove 00:00 Tools
Green grow the lilacs 00:00 Tools
Jack Was Every Inch A Sailor 00:00 Tools
Robin Hood And The Bold Pedlar 00:00 Tools
One Man Went To Mow 00:00 Tools
Farewell To Grog 00:00 Tools
I Had A Little Rooster 00:00 Tools
John Hardy 00:00 Tools
Yo Ho Ho 00:00 Tools
I Had A Horse 00:00 Tools
The Pig And The Inebriate 00:00 Tools
Tree In The Hole 00:00 Tools
The Bird’s Courtship 00:00 Tools
Lamkins 00:00 Tools
A Young Man And A Maid 00:00 Tools
Come To The Bower 00:00 Tools
There Was A Knight 00:00 Tools
The Bold Fisherman 00:00 Tools
Jesse James 00:00 Tools
Good Bye, My Lover, Good Bye 00:00 Tools
The Jolly Tinker 00:00 Tools
Froggy Went A'Courting 00:00 Tools
I Ride an Old Paint 00:00 Tools
Back Bay Hill 00:00 Tools
Keemo Kimo 00:00 Tools
Pretty Saro 00:00 Tools
A Riddle 00:00 Tools
The Four Able Physicians 00:00 Tools
Lulu 00:00 Tools
A Hole In The Bucket 00:00 Tools
Two Maidens Went Milking One Day 00:00 Tools
The Drunkard's Doom 00:00 Tools
The Dreary Black Hills 00:00 Tools
Three Fishermen 00:00 Tools
The Jolly Miller 00:00 Tools
John Brown's Body 00:00 Tools
Franky And Johnny 00:00 Tools
Tom And Doll 00:00 Tools
Hush Little Bay 00:00 Tools
A Maiden Did A-Bathing Go 00:00 Tools
Poor Lonesome Cowboy 00:00 Tools
Country Boy 00:00 Tools
Good Bye, My Lover, Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Uptails All 00:00 Tools
The Jolly Tinker (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Mr. Rabbit 00:00 Tools
The Little Black Bull 00:00 Tools
The Three Travelers 00:00 Tools
A Great Big Sea Hove In Long Beach 00:00 Tools
Bawdy Songs: A Love Song / A Travel Tale / A Line On Brotherhood (Medley) 00:00 Tools
My Gal on the Rio Grande 00:00 Tools
When the Curtains of Night 00:00 Tools
The Old Woman And The Pig 00:00 Tools
I Wish I Was 00:00 Tools
To A Lady 00:00 Tools
The Noble Duke Of York 00:00 Tools
A Lady So Frolic And Gay 00:00 Tools
The Days of '49 00:00 Tools
My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean 00:00 Tools
The Texas Song 00:00 Tools
Merchant And The Fiddler's Wife 00:00 Tools
Dear Evelina 00:00 Tools
Peter Gray 00:00 Tools
When Flora Had On Her New Gown 00:00 Tools
A Tradesman 00:00 Tools
Old Fumbler 00:00 Tools
Crocodile Song 00:00 Tools
Sylvia The Fair 00:00 Tools
Lukey's Boat 00:00 Tools
The Vine 00:00 Tools
The Lovely Ohio 00:00 Tools
The Big Rock Candy Mountain 00:00 Tools
The Lavender Cowboy 00:00 Tools
Gypsy Laddie 00:00 Tools
The Shepherd 00:00 Tools
Tottingham Frolic 00:00 Tools
Kitt Hath Lost Her Key 00:00 Tools
A Petition 00:00 Tools
The Spinning Wheel 00:00 Tools
She Lay All Naked 00:00 Tools
To The West 00:00 Tools
Ed McCurdy - My Little John Henry (with Alan Lomax) 00:00 Tools
A Lusty Young Smith (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
The Sound Country Lass 00:00 Tools
Darlin' Cory [1956] 00:00 Tools
The Country Wake 00:00 Tools
Trail To Mexico 00:00 Tools
People and Horses 00:00 Tools
The Hive Of Bees 00:00 Tools
Three Birds 00:00 Tools
Midnight Special 00:00 Tools
Good Old Colony Times 00:00 Tools
Hush, Little Baby 00:00 Tools
The Gambler's Song 00:00 Tools
If I Were a Duck 00:00 Tools
Good Old Mountain Dew 00:00 Tools
The Clock That Told the Wrong Time 00:00 Tools
My Thing Is My Own 00:00 Tools
A Pleasant Ballad 00:00 Tools
Bold Turpin 00:00 Tools
The Young Man Who Wouldn't Hoe Corn 00:00 Tools
A Petition (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
My Little John Henry 00:00 Tools
Twinkle twinkle little star 00:00 Tools
Black Is The Color 00:00 Tools
Mrs. McGraw 00:00 Tools
The End 00:00 Tools
When Cookie Shells Turn Silver Bells 00:00 Tools
A Lady So Frolic And Gay (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
The Star Of Logy Bay 00:00 Tools
Simple Gifts 00:00 Tools
Scaramento 00:00 Tools
Come, O My Love 00:00 Tools
The Very Green Fields of Ireland 00:00 Tools
Unfortunate Miss Bailey 00:00 Tools
Go Bring Me A Lass (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
A Pleasant Ballad (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
"Sing", Said The Mother 00:00 Tools
A True Lover Of Mine 00:00 Tools
Stars 00:00 Tools
The Yeoman Of Kent 00:00 Tools
The Little Snail 00:00 Tools
The Playhouse Saint 00:00 Tools
Tobacco Is An Indian Weed 00:00 Tools
The Jolly Boatman 00:00 Tools
To Bed To Me 00:00 Tools
The Swapping Song 00:00 Tools
Character Of A Mistress 00:00 Tools
I Had a Little Dog 00:00 Tools
"Sing," Said The Mother 00:00 Tools
Poor Polly, The Mad Girl 00:00 Tools
The Trooper (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
The Birds Courtship 00:00 Tools
Acres Of Clams 00:00 Tools
Worried Man Blues 00:00 Tools
Once There was a Woodpecker 00:00 Tools
A Virgin's Meditation 00:00 Tools
Rye Whiskey 00:00 Tools
Young People All Come Listen Clearly 00:00 Tools
The Cowboy's Dream 00:00 Tools
Blow The Candles Out 00:00 Tools
Sally, let Your Bangs Hang Down 00:00 Tools
I've Got No Use For The Women 00:00 Tools
The End (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
Uptails All (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
A Wanton Trick (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
When Flora Had On Her New Gown (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
The Sound Country Lass (LP Version) 00:00 Tools
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Ed McCurdy was born in 1919 in Willow Hill, Pennsylvania. His professional career started in 1937 as a Gospel singer over station SVKY in Oklahoma City, and he has since of worked as a niteclub and theatre performer (including a short stint in burlesque) and as a radio announcer. In 1946, McCurdy began singing folksongs over the Canadian Broad casting Corporation radio system. In 1952, he began writing and performing for children's program's in radio and television, continuing to utilize folkmusic at every opportunity. Since late 1954, he has been living in New York City, and has appeared frequently in Televisions broadcasts for both adults and children originating from that city. McCurdy is accompanied on second guitar, and banjo, by ERIK DARLING, an Upstate New Yorker who has been working out of New York City in recent years. Mr. Darling has made numerous recordings as a banjoist and singer, both as a solo performer and as an accompanist. He has performed extensively in concerts, and on television and radio, including several years on Oscar Brand's "Folksong Festival" over station WNYC. His most recent musical adventure has been performing as all integral part of an exciting new folksong trio, "The Tarriers", in whose success his instrumental and vocal talents have played an important role. McCurdy died March 23, 2000 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.