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Stranded In The USA: Early Songs of Emigration
US-0326
Released: May 16, 2005
Track Listing
(click for audio samples)
- 1. I'm Leaving Tipperary
- 2. Lannen Lokari (The Western Logger)
- 3. Ponoc Kad Dodje (When Midnight Comes)
- 4. M' Ekapses Ameriki (America, you ruined me)
- 5. Poor but Ambitious
- 6. Fado do Emigrante (Fate of the Emigrant)
- 7. Dziewczyna z Chicargo (The Girl from Chicargo)
- 8. An Irish Farewell
- 9. Galitziana Ball
- 10. La Discriminacion (Discrimination)
- 11. Little German Ball
- 12. Poor Pilgrim of Sorrow
- 13. Li Fimmini cu Lu Lipstick (The Women with Their Lipstick)
- 14. Ole (A Norwegian Emigrant Arrives in the USA)
- 15. U Daljini (In the Distance)
- 16. O Gero Amerikanos (The Old American)
- 17. Siirtolaisen Ensi Vastuksia (The immigrant's first difficulties)
- 18. Un Jibaro en Nueva York (A Puerto Rican Peasent in New York)
- 19. Dzieci w Krateczki (Children in Squares)
- 20. Urkrainska Weselia w Ameryci (Ukrainian Wedding in America)
- 21. Die Griene Cusiene (The Female Greenhorn Cousin)
- 22. Lacrime 'E Cundannate (Tears of the condemned)
- 23. Oi! Kuinka Engeliski Mielin (The Preacher and the Slave)
- 24. Heimwehlied der Schweiz-Amerikaner (Song of Homesickness)
- 25. Grüße an die Daheimgebliebenen (Greetings to the Loved Ones Left Behind)
- 26. Herrlich, Herrlich (Glorious, Glorious)
Recorded between 1922 and 1959, this set of tunes is an outstanding encapsulation of the immigrant experience in the US.
The songs are sung in the languages of virtually every major national group that arrived in the New World.
Recommended if you like:
- Doom & Gloom: Early Songs of Angst of Disaster 1927 - 1945
- American Yodeling: 1911 - 1946
- Dope & Glory: Reefer Songs Of The '30s & '40s
- Dead & Gone Vol. 2: Totenlieder - Songs of Death
- Dead & Gone Vol. 1: Funeral Marches / Trauermärsche
- Black & White Hillbilly Music: Early Harmonica Recordings from the 1920s & 30s
