Howard Porper collection

This collection contains the materials related to Howard Porper's musical career, as well as his progressive politics.

Includes photographs of Lightnin' Hopkins, John A. Lomax, Jr., Ed Badeaux, Ben Ramey, Jimmmie Lee Grubbs Radliff, and others.

Contents include: Side A: "Big Rock Candy Mountain," "The Rambler" performed by Cisco Houston; "Ramblin' Reckless Hobo," "Railroad Bill" performed by Cisco Houston and Woody Guthrie; "Jesse James" performed by Woody Guthrie; "When Death Has Closed My Eyelids," "Way up in Heaven," "What Did the Deep Sea Say," "You Want to Get to Heaven This Morning," "Travelin' through Birmingham," "Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad," fiddle and guitar, performed by Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston; "John Henry," "Blow the Candles Out," "John Hardy," "Cowboy and Devil" performed by Cisco Houston; Side B: "Name of the Rat is Franco," "Listen Mr. Thomas," "Hoover, Dewey, and Westbrook Pegler," "Henry Wallace Man," "Don McCann to a Foreign Man" performed by Cisco Houston; "Glory Glory Hallelujah," "Jim Crow Hallelujah I'm a Travelin'," "The Donkey Tired and Thin,"You're Going to Vote for Wallace," "Spread It on the Ground," "John Hardy" performed by Pete Seeger; "Tell Me Where Are You Going" performed by Cisco Houston; "Joe Hill" fiddle Woody Guthrie, vocal Houston and Guthrie; "Bath My Back," "El Rancho Grande," Guthrie talking, "Which Side Are You On" performed by Woody Guthrie; "Hoover and Dewey and Westbrook Pegler" performed Cisco Houston.

Contents include: The Weavers consisting of Lee Hays, Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, and Fred Hellerman playing at Harold Belikoff's house when they were playing at the Shamrock. Side A: "Takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Song," "Dig an Oil Well as Deep as Can Be," "Midnight Special" - John Lomax, Jr. (Mimi Lomax in background) trying to remember verses. "Old Riley," "Green Corn," "Pick a Bale of Cotton," "Squid-Jigglin' Ground," Harold Belikoff's voice, "Last Night I had the Strangest Dream," Harold Belikoff talking to Lee Hays, "When My Blood Runs Chilly and Cold" John Lomax, Jr., Mimi Lomax, and Harold Belikoff, "Take a Whiff on Me" performed by John Lomax, Jr. uses a racial slur, which might have been in the original version. Side B: "The Banks Are Made of Marble," "Aimee McPherson," "Skip to My Lou," "Greensleeves," "Ba-Ba Black Sheep," "Froggy Went a Courtin'," "Dirty Miner," "There Was an Old Man," "The Farmer Is the Man," "Zum Gali Gali," "Zhankoye," "Erie Canal," "Blow Ye Mind in the Morning"

Contents include: Side A: Pete Seeger at the Jewish Commuity Center: " Follow the Drinking Gourd," "Boll Weevil" - John A. Lomax, Jr. uses a racial slur for Black people, "Little Phoebe," "Shalom Aleichem" - Howie Porper, "T for Texas," "Careless Love," "Frozen Logger," "Everybody Loves Saturday Night," "Beans, Bacon, and Gravy"; Side B: "We Shall Not Be Moved," "We Shall Overcome," "Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho"; "Dug Out Dug" - Ed Badeaux, 1956; Weavers at the Harold Belikoff's house: "Stormalong," "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," "Wassail Song," "Shalom Chaverim," "When the Sun Goes Down," "Mexican Birthday Song," "Angelico," "Concertina"

Contents include: Side A: Pete Seeger at the Jewish Commuity Center: Chester Bower's introduction, "House Carpenter," "Old Joe Clark" - banjo solo, "The Devil and the Farmers Wife," "Texian Boys," "Long John," "Take a Whiff on Me" - This switches back to the song sung by John A. Lomax, Jr. and performed at Harold Belikoff's house, when the Weavers were there. Side B: "On My Way," "Down Derry Down," "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues," "Squid-Jiggin' Ground," "Jay Gould's Daughter," "Big Rock Candy Mountain," "Bull Frog," "Leatherwing Bat"

Contents include: Side A: Pete Seeger at the Jewish Commuity Center: "Tum-balalayke," "Mexican Birthday Song," "Jefferson and Liberty," "No Irish Need Apply," "If You're Black Get Back," "In the Evenin' When the Sun Goes Down," "Drill Ye Tarriers Drill," "Izina, Izina," "Suliram," Recorder melodies - Irish, Japanese, Israeli; Side B: Recorder melodies - Native American, "Tarantella," Irish, "Hey Daroma," "Bayeza," "Down in the Valley," "Aimee McPherson," "Old Maid's Lament," "Hey Lolly Lolly"

Contents include: "Come a Ti-Yi-Yippie-Yay" - John A. Lomax, Jr., "Spanish Is a Loving Tongue" - Kyla Bynum / Ben Ramey; "Down on Penny's Farm" - Jim Lyday and Howard Porper, "All the Chickens in the Garden", "Long John" - John A. Lomax, Jr., "Takes a Worried Man to Sing a Worried Song" - Jim Lyday, "Down in the Mine" - Howard Porper, "Hold the Fort," "Take a Whiff on Me" - John A. Lomax, Jr., "Beans, Bacon, and Gravy," "This Is Land is Your Land." Ben Ramey is the announcer.

Contents include: Ben Ramey is the announcer. "Bily Barlow" - Howard Porper, "T for Texas" - Pete Rose and Jim, "Come to the Bower" - Jimmie Lee Grubbs, "Willie Poor Boy" - Mance Lipscomb, "Motherless Children" - Mance Lipscomb, Recitation - John A. Lomax, Jr., "Streets of Laredo" - Jim and Howard Porper, "Wreck of the Old 97," "Galveston Flood" - Ed Badeaux, "The Alamo" - all, "Binori" - Howard Porper, "Little Black Flies" - Ben Ramey, "Happy Blues for John Glenn" - Lightnin' Hopkins, "Ship You Back to Arkansas" - Lightnin' Hopkins, "Grizzly Bear" - John A. Lomax, Jr.

Contents include: KUHF Folksay program featuring Jim Lyday and Kyla Bynum performing songs.

Contents include: Side A: Ben Ramey's brother in law Dave Eisen: "Toom Ba La Like" (parody), "Frankie and Jonnco" (parody), "Give My Regards to Barry," "8 Days of Channukah," "My Darlin' What Makes You Such a Bargain," "Give My Regards to Barry," "Clementine" Yiddish, "Chicken Fat Blues," "Brith of the Jews," "Mazel"; Side B: "Benny Kid Paret," "Leave Her Johnny Leave Her" - Burl Ives; "There is a Balm in Gilead," "Johnny I Hardly Knew You," - Tom Makem and Clancy Bros., "Range of the Buffalo" - Jim McClennon and Ben Ramey commentary, "Long Summer Day" - Jim McConnell, "All the Pretty Little Horses" - Ben Ramey commentary, "Take This Hammer" - John A. Lomax, Jr., "Chicken Oh Chicken" - Jim McConnell, "Boll Weevil" - John A. Lomax, Jr., "I'm on My Way" - Howie Porper, "I'm a Good Old Rebel" - Jim McConnell, "Coal Miner's Wife" - Howie Porper

Contents include: Side A: "He Lies in the American Land," "Goofing-Off Suite," 2nd Movement Beethoven with words by Seeger, "Mexican Blues," "Didn't Old John Cross the Water" (chopping wood with ax) performed by Pete Seeger; "Buckeye Jim," "All the Pretty Little Horses," "Hush Little Baby," "Bye, Baby, Bye," "The Foggy Foggy Dew," "Cowsong" - Ed Badeaux; Side B: "John Henry" - John A. Lomax, Jr., "Binorie," "Venezuela," "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" performed by Howie Porper; "Join the C.I.O.," "The Death of Harry Simms," "Roll Down the Line," "I'm on My Way to Canaan," "Poisoning the Student's Minds" performed by Pete Seeger.

Contents include: Hootenanny - "Yankee Doodle" - Howard Porper, John A. Lomax, Jr., Kyla Bynum, Jim Lyday; Ben Ramey narration; "Yankee Doodle" (Confederate version) - John A. Lomax, Jr.; "Yankee Doodle" (British version) - Howie Porper; "Jefferson and Liberty" - Jim Lyday; "Paddy Works on the Railway" - Howie Porper; "If I Had a Ribbon Bow" - Kyla Bynum; "John Henry" - John A. Lomax, Jr.; "I am a Roving Gambler" - Howard Porper; "Erie Canal" - Kyla Bynum and Jim Lyday; "When I Was Single" - Kyla Bynum; "Down the Hatch" - Howard Porper; "Dreary Black Hills" - John A. Lomax, Jr.; "Drinking Gourd" - Jim Lyday; "Goober Peas" - John A. Lomax, Jr.; "All the Pretty Horses" - Howard Porper; "If I Had a Hammer"

Contents include: Side A: "Banana Boat (Day-O)" - Howard Porper, "Der Rebe Elimelech," "Az Der Rebbe Zingt," "Margaritkelech"- Theo Bikel; Side B: Child singing

Contents include: Side A: "South Africa Would Be Grand," Kyla Bynum and Jim Lyday speaking. Side B: Kyla Bynum and Jim Lyday speaking.