78 RPM - Lead Belly - Ain't You Glad / [Goodnight] Irene - Asch - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Lead Belly
Label:	Asch
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	343-2
Date:	1943
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Wants
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Lead Belly	Ain't You Glad		Rate
B	Lead Belly	[Goodnight] Irene		Rate

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Disc 2 of album Songs By Lead Belly, Asch 343.
Recorded probably August 1943, New York, NY.
A: Spiritual. Lead Belly and Guitar; Sanders Terry and Harmonica; mx: 262.
B: Blues. Lead Belly and Guitar, mx: 261

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fixbutte 8th Feb 2016		Here's the lively flipside, the spiritual "Ain't You Glad", with Sonny Terry's strong harmonica accompaniment:



fixbutte 8th Feb 2016		As said in the liner notes of the Songs By Lead Belly album (of which this record here was a part) in 1943, "Irene" was the theme song of Lead Belly, born Huddie Ledbetter, and this version was the only recorded one then. It was the first commercial recording anyway, as Lead Belly had been performing the song, best known as "Goodnight Irene", since 1908, and some of these performances had been recorded before (first in 1933, by folklorists John and Alan Lomax in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where Lead Belly served time). Very popular in the coffee-house circuit, mainly in New York, but not commercially successful during Lead Belly's lifetime, the song became a million-selling #1 pop hit only a few months after his death (on December 6, 1949), in a "prettied up" version sung by The Weavers with Gordon Jenkins and His Orchestra (Decca 27077, June 1950). The original Asch recording was then reissued on the Atlantic label (now titled "Goodnight Irene", and artist spelled Leadbelly, Atlantic 917, Aug 1950). Here's a documentation of all known Leadbelly recordings of "(Goodnight) Irene", as found on Keep On Living: Irene 1933.07.16-20 -- Angola LA, Louisiana State Penitentiary - 120-A-1,-6,-7 Library of Congress - Lead Belly (v,g) 1934.07.01? -- Angola LA, Louisiana State Penitentiary - 124-A-2,-B-1 Library of Congress - Lead Belly (v,g) 1935.01.21 -- Wilton CT - 44-A,-B Library of Congress - Lead Belly (v,g) 1935.02.05 -- NYC - 16810-2, 16811- ARC unissued - Lead Belly (v,g) 1941.02.27 -- NYC - Ace 384, radio broadcast on WNYC - Lead Belly (v,g) 1941.02.00 -- NYC - Ace 382, radio broadcast on WNYC - Lead Belly (v,g) 1941.03.13 -- NYC - Ace 381, radio broadcast on WNYC - Lead Belly (v,g) 1941.00.00? -- NYC - Ace 375, radio broadcast on WNYC - Lead Belly (v,g) 1941.12.03 -- NYC - Ace 379, radio broadcast on WNYC - Lead Belly (v,g) 1941.12.31 -- NYC - Ace 381, radio broadcast on WNYC - Lead Belly (v,g) 1942.00.00? -- NYC - Ace 378, radio broadcast on WNYC - Lead Belly (v,g) 1943.00.00 -- NYC - Ace 376, radio broadcast on WNYC - Lead Belly (v,g) 1943.08.00? -- NYC - SC-261-,-1 Asch 343-2, Asch 343, on: Songs by Lead Belly (released 1943), Melodisc 1151- Leadbelly (v,g) * 1944.10.11 -- Hollywood CA - 413-3A Capitol 40130 - Lead Belly (v,g), Paul Mason Howard (zither) 1946.12.09 -- Salt Lake City UT - Rounder 1151, on: Bridging Lead Belly (released 1999) - Lead Belly (v,g) 1948.10.15 -- NYC - Folkways 242, on: Lead Belly's Last Sessions 2 (released 1962) - Lead Belly (v,g) 1948.11.05/06? -- NYC - Folkways 242, on: Lead Belly's Last Sessions 2 (released 1962) - Lead Belly (v,g), Martha Ledbetter (v) Irene, Goodnight 1941.02.06 -- NYC - Ace 377, radio broadcast on WNYC - Lead Belly (v,g) 1945.02.15 -- San Franciso CA - Folkways 7533, on: Negro Folk Songs For Young People (released 1967) - Lead Belly (v,g) 1945.05.00? -- Berkeley CA - Broadcast over KRE - Lead Belly (v,g) 1949.06.15 -- Austin TX - Playboy 119, on: First Live Leadbelly (released 1973) - Lead Belly (v,g) ____________________ * Actually, there were two takes of "Irene" recorded (SC 261 and SC 261-1), in different keys and with differing lyrics. The alternative take (SC 261-1) has also Sonny Terry on the harmonica, but the released take, as heard on the YouTube video, is Lead Belly on guitar and vocal alone.

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