Ed McCurdy

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Ed McCurdy (born January 11, 1919 in Willow Hill , Pennsylvania , † March 23, 2000 in Halifax , Nova Scotia ) was a Canadian folk singer , songwriter and television entertainer.

life and career

In 1937 McCurdy moved to Oklahoma where, within a few years, he became known locally as a radio host and disc jockey . In 1948 he took up a position as a presenter at CBC in Vancouver , which was later broadcast from Toronto . Folk performers such as Pete Seeger , Lena Horne and Josh White appeared on his show, and McCurdy published his first own record of folk songs in 1949. From 1950 he worked as a folk musician and TV entertainer in New York. Shortly before this time, his most famous song, Last night I had the strangest dream , was written, which later became a hymn of pacifism and established a tradition of new anti-war songs of the counterculture in the USA that differed from the more traditional protest songs .

Discography

  • 1949: (Ed McCurdy) Sings Canadian Folksongs (Manhattan Records)
  • 1955: Folksongs of the Canadian Maritime and Newfoundland ( Whitehall Records )
  • 1955: Badmen, Heroes, and Pirate Songs ( Elektra Records )
  • 1955: Sin Songs Pro & Con (Elektra EKL 124)
  • 1955: The Ballad Record ( Riverside Records )
  • 1956: The Miracle of the Wheat (Single - Kapp Records)
  • 1956: Blood Booze 'n Bones (Elektra)
  • 1956: Bar Room Ballads (Riverside)
  • 195 (?): Let's Sing Out (Capri 507)
  • 1956: The Folk Singer (Dawn Records)
  • 1956: A Ballad Singer's Choice (Tradition Records, Empire Musicwerks)
  • 1956: When Dalliance Was In Flower (and Maidens Lost Their Heads) vol. 1 (Elektra)
  • 1957: Sin Songs - Pro and Con (Elektra)
  • 1957 (?): Songs of the Old West (Elektra)
  • 195 (?): Songs I Learned Coming Thru The Great Smokies (FolkArt FLP 5001)
  • 1958: When Dalliance Was In Flower (and Maidens Lost Their Heads) vol. 2 (Elektra)
  • 1958: When Dalliance Was In Flower (and Maidens Lost Their Heads) vol. 3 (Elektra)
  • 1958: Children's Songs (Tradition Records)
  • 1959: Son of Dalliance (Elektra)
  • 1959: Children's Songs and Stories ( Folkways Records )
  • 1950s: Sings Folksongs Of The Sea (Tiara Spotlight Series - TST 537)
  • 1961: The Legend of Robin Hood ( Wonderland Records )
  • 1961: A Treasure Chest Of American Folk Song Double LP (Elektra)
  • 1963: The Best of Dalliance (Elektra)
  • 1971: Song of the Old West (Tradition / Everest TR 2061)
  • 1976: Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream (Bear Family Records)
  • 1977: On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand: Sacred Songs of America with Dana McCurdy ( Folkways Records )
  • 1980: Songs and Stories ( Folkways Records )
  • 1987: A Child's Introduction to American Folk Songs (Spoken Arts)
  • 1991: American Folk Songs (Spoken Arts)
  • 1996: Cowboy Songs (Tradition Records)
  • 1996: Naughty & Bawdy Songs of Olde England ( Warner Bros. Records )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James E. Perone: Music of The Counterculture Era . Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004, p. 33
  2. ^ Ronald D. Cohen, Rachel Clare Donaldson: Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s . University of Illinois Press, 2014, p. 48
personal data
SURNAME McCurdy, Ed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian folk singer, songwriter and television entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Willow Hill , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 2000
Place of death Halifax , Nova Scotia