| Portion of title |
Songs of rags and riches |
| Contents |
Wall Street rag / Scott Joplin (Ann Charters, piano) -- Empty pocket blues : (Barrel of money blues) / Pete Seeger, Lee Hays (Seeger) -- Do-re-mi / Woody Guthrie (Guthrie) -- Bill Morgan and his gal / Halsey Mohr, Will Mahoney (The New Lost City Ramblers) -- One meat ball / Hy Zaret-Lou Singer (Josh White) -- Jim Fisk (June Lazare) -- Gallis pole / arr. and adapted by Huddie Ledbetter, Alan Lomax (Lead Belly) -- Brother, can you spare a dime! / Jay Gorney, E.Y. Harburg (Joe Glazer) -- Yankee dollar / Rupert Grant (Lord Invader) -- If I had a million dollars / Matt Melnick, Johnny Mercer (Speckled Red) -- Nobody knows you when you're down and out / James Cox (Rolf Cahn and Eric Von Schmidt) -- If I lose, I don't care (The New Lost City Ramblers) -- Banks of marble / Les Rice (Seeger) -- The old arm chair / John Read (Gale Huntington) -- The money rolls in (Derek Lamb) -- Business / Seeger, Walter Lowenfels, Eugéne Guillevic (Seeger) -- If you lose your money / Sonny Terry, Walter McGhee (Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee) -- Union maid / Guthrie (The Almanac Singers) -- Greenback dollar (Kilby Snow, Mike Hudek, autoharps) -- The miller and his sons (Horton Barker) -- Penny's farm (Seeger) -- Billy Grimes the rover / Richard Coe, William H. Oakley (The New Lost City Ramblers) -- Ida Mae : (The social security song) / Glazer (Glazer) -- Last gold dollar (Bascom Lamar Lunsford) -- Black dog blues (The Stoneman Family) -- I don't want your millions / Jim Garland (The Almanac Singers) -- Pretty Boy Floyd / Guthrie (Guthrie). |
| General note | "This compilation ... marks the opening of the Museum of American Finance on New York City's Wall Street"-- Container. |
| General note | Compilation of recordings originally released 1954-2000. |
| General note | Previously issued as compact disc. |
| General note | Program notes (20 p. : ill.) inserted in original container. |
| General note | Smithsonian Folkways: SFW 40195 (on original container: SFW CD 40195). |
| General note | Songs about money; chiefly popular songs; tracks 6-7, 12, 15, 19-21 and 24-25 are folk songs. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Track 5 recorded 6 Sept. 1944; track 7, Oct. 1948 from a radio broadcast. |
| UPC |
093074019528 |
