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Peggy Seeger

Most songs are from Ruth Crawford Seeger’s book Animal Folk Songs for Children (New York: Doubleday, 1950).

Produced by Mike Seeger;
Mixed by Bob Read with Penny and Mike Seeger;
Mastered by David Glasser and Mike and Penny Seeger at Airshow, inc., Springfield, Virginia;
Photography by David Gahr, August 1991;
Animal illustrations by Barbara Cooney from Animal Folk Songs for Children by Ruth Crawford Seeger;
Cover design by Sonya Cohen;
Design and layout by Nancy Given

Musicians

Mike Seeger: vocals [1, 6, 9, 14, 22, 30-31, 34-35, 37, 42-43, 50, 57], fiddle [1, 3, 30, 33, 42, 57], 5-string banjo [6, 20, 31, 44, 54, 58], 5-string mandoline banjo [9], guitar [7, 43], mandocello [16], banjo-ukelele [19], quills [22], harmonica [23], jew’s harp [25, 50], autoharp [29], banjo-mandolin [32], fretless bass [34], fretless banjo [53];
Peggy Seeger: vocals [3, 5, 7, 16, 18, 21, 24, 41, 45-47, 51, 55-56], piano [1-2, 4, 8, 18, 30-31, 41], 5-string banjo [5, 15, 33, 55], guitar [23, 19, 47, 51], English concertina [36], lap dulcimer [46, 51];
Barbara Seeger: vocals [24];
Penny Seeger: vocals [1, 7, 10-11, 13, 20, 27, 36, 40, 44, 49, 53], sandpaper [3, 19], guitar [7, 23, 29, 33, 44, 57], lap dulcimer [20], dulcimer [25], percussion [25]; hand game clapping [40], ukelele [58];
Neill MacColl: vocals [2, 8, 25, 28, 37, 48], ukelele [1, 43], slide guitar [10, 37], mandolin [16], banjo-guitar [19,32], shaker [22], banjo-ukelele [25], percussion [31], guitar [33, 57], autoharp [58];
Calum MacColl: vocals [8, 17, 32, 37, 41], whistle [1, 25, 33, 36], slide guitar [3, 43], guitar [8, 10, 22, 37, 58], ukelele [16], thumb piano [19], mandolin [31], banjo-ukelele [32, 57];
Kitty MacColl: vocals [15, 39];
Sonya Cohen: vocals [1, 4, 7, 12-13, 16, 23, 36, 40, 52], hand game clapping [40];
Rufus Cohen: vocals [1, 10, 26, 38], guitar [38];
Kim Seeger: fiddlesticks [42];
Irene Scott: spoons [55];
Chorus: vocals [16, 17, 19, 21-22,24-27, 31-32, 34, 43, 56-57];
All: vocals [29, 44, 58]

Tracks

CD 1

  1. Raccoon and Possum (2.39)
  2. Mister Rabbit (2.06)
  3. Peep Squirrel (1.54)
  4. A Squirrel Is a Pretty Thing (1.37)
  5. Cross-Eyed Gopher (0.43)
  6. Muskrat (3.06)
  7. Old Ground Hog (2.38)
  8. Snake Baked a Hoecake (0.52)
  9. Mole in the Ground (2.26)
  10. Little Dog Named Right (1.34)
  11. Little Lap Dog Lullabye (1.00)
  12. Little Brown Dog (1.56)
  13. Oh, Blue (2.03)
  14. Old Fox (2.12)
  15. The Deer Song (3.15)
  16. And We Hunted and We Hunted (3.03)
  17. The Gray Goose (3.23)
  18. Old Lady Goose (1.15)
  19. The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster Laid an Egg (1.32)
  20. My Old Hen’s a Good Old Hen (1.45)
  21. Turkey Song (0.30)
  22. Shake That Little Foot, Dinah-O (1.56)
  23. There Was an Old Frog (2.20)
  24. Little Pig (1.35)
  25. The Old Sow (2.04)
  26. The Little Black Bull (2.22)
  27. The Old Cow Died (1.53)
  28. Black Sheep, Black Sheep (0.52)
  29. The Big Sheep (3.47)

CD 2

  1. Old Bell’d Yoe (1.23)
  2. The Kicking Mule (2.41)
  3. Whoa Mule! Can’t Get the Saddle On (1.13)
  4. Hop On, My Ladies (2.23)
  5. Stewball (3.31)
  6. Riding Round the Cattle (2.19)
  7. Crocodile Song (2.52)
  8. Go On, Old ’Gator (2.42)
  9. Of All the Beast-es (0.53)
  10. Go to Sleep (2.28)
  11. Jack, Can I Ride? (1.03)
  12. Daddy Shot a Bear (0.25)
  13. Wolves A-Howling (1.15)
  14. Song of the Doodlebug (1.45)
  15. Little Birdie (2.00)
  16. The Sea Fowl (0.53)
  17. Old Bangum (3.46)
  18. The Swapping Song (3.06)
  19. Great Big Dog (1.06)
  20. Saw a Sow (1.46)
  21. Turkey in the Straw (2.26)
  22. Once I Had an Old Gray Mare (3.36)
  23. Little Rooster (2.06)
  24. Who Killed Poor Robin? (3.10)
  25. Lost Gander instrumental (1.59)
  26. The Leatherwing Bat (4.10)
  27. Jane, Jane (1.14)
  28. Old Bell Cow (2.08)
  29. Animal Song (1.20)

All tracks trad.