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Thread #31032   Message #3700838
Posted By: GUEST
09-Apr-15 - 12:15 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Lincoln's Funeral Train (Norman Blake)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Lincoln's Funeral Train (Norman Blake)
This was one of the first radio folk ballad programmes from which Charles Parker, Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger were inspired to create the Radio Ballads.

various recordings exist.

On YouTube there is the original recording on 78s by Burl Ives - download using a YouTube DownLoader.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GdiUNRrEz0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-orvvEIkC8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zYosfpcGqI

There is also a CD of Burl Ives' original version on eBay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151638392575

On Archive.org there is a more modern commemorative version - download using Orbit or uTorrent

https://archive.org/details/BuildingBridgesNationalLincolnCantata-EarlRobinsonsLonesomeTrain

More details are here:

http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2015/01/16/lonesome-train-millard-lampell-and-ballad-opera

CJB