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May 1, 2021:
Work Songs For May Day (International Worker's Day)
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Children's Choir and Symphony Orchestra of Hungarian Radio and Television • Magyar Rádió És Televízió Gyermekkara És Szimfónikus Zenekara | A Welcome to May | Various Artists: Best of Communism | Gong | 1997 | 0:00:00 (Pop-up) | |
Terauchi and Blue Jeans | Saitaro Bushi | Let's Go Eleki-Bushi - Electric Folk Song Tour of the Country | King | 0:03:56 (Pop-up) | ||
Meshugga Beach Party | Zum Gali Gali | 20 Songs of the Chosen Surfer | Jewish Music Group | Kibbutz song promoting work ethic | 0:07:37 (Pop-up) | |
Ebonee Webb | Soran Bushi (So Run) | Memphis Soul Meets Japanese Folk Songs ディスコ花笠音頭 • 相馬盆唄 ―メンフィス・ディスコで日本民謡― | Seven Seas | 1979 | 0:10:07 (Pop-up) | |
Sainkho Namtchylak | Worker Song (Nomads Dance Around the Fire) | Like A Bird Or Spirit, Not A Face | Ponderosa Music & Art | 2015 | 0:12:38 (Pop-up) | |
Huun-Huur-Tu | Tuvan Internationale | 60 Horses In My Herd | Shanachie | 1993 | Albert Kuvezin and Sayan Bapa, Vocals | 0:18:44 (Pop-up) |
Soul Flower Mononoke Summit | L'Internationale | 2013 Wandering Song Music Festival, in honor of Great Hanshin Earthquake Victims | 0:21:11 (Pop-up) | |||
René LaCaille | International Maloya | Cordéon Kaméléon | G Point Music, Connecting Cultures | 2009 | Feat. Bob Brozman on steel guitar | 0:25:07 (Pop-up) |
Fan Fan (Louis-Gabriel Joseph) | Réveil Travailleur! = Wake Up Worker! | Ile Maurice: Séga Ravanne | Ocora | 1999 | Drum [Ravanne], Rattle [Maravanne], Triangle, Vocals – Louis-Gabriel Joseph, recorded at home in 1998 | 0:27:40 (Pop-up) |
The Association For The Preservation Of Tamping A Railroad Track Ground Song | Senro Tsuki-Katame Ondo 線路搗固め音頭 | Various Artists: Japanese Work Songs | King / Seven Seas | 0:29:32 (Pop-up) | ||
Performers under the direction of Fumio Hayasaka | Rice Planting Song | Seven Samurai - OST | Trunk Records | 1954 | 0:32:14 (Pop-up) | |
Group from Fukuoka | The coal miners's song in Kyushu | Traditional Folk Songs of Japan | Folkways | 1961 | "songs... selected by Ryutaro Hattori from his own collection" | 0:33:34 (Pop-up) |
Man from Kitaki Island | Songs of the stonemason | Traditional Folk Songs of Japan | Folkways | 1961 | 0:35:47 (Pop-up) | |
Jaimeo Brown Transcendence | Stonemason | Work Songs | Motema | 2013 | 0:37:09 (Pop-up) | |
Haenyeo Divers (Women Divers) | Ieodo Sana | Various Artists: Traditional Folk Songs Cheju (Jeju) Island of Korea | Work song for women divers sailing out to sea | 0:48:28 (Pop-up) | ||
Juying Ke and Taishan Mai | Song of Weaving (Rukai Tribe) | Various Artists: Folk Music of China, Vol. 5 - Aboriginal Folk Songs of Taiwan | Naxos | This album features folk songs from the Austronesian aboriginal ethnic minority groups living in Taiwan: Amis, Atayal, Saisiyat, Tsou, Paiwan, Rukai, Bunnun, Seediq and Truku. | 0:50:35 (Pop-up) | |
Villagers from Luona Tribe, Xinyi Country and Nantou County | A Brewing Song (Bunun) | Various Artists: Folk Music of China, Vol. 5 - Aboriginal Folk Songs of Taiwan | Naxos | 0:51:54 (Pop-up) | ||
Wimme Saari | Vuoján / Draft Reindeer | Gierran | Northside | Sami joik from Finland | 0:52:56 (Pop-up) | |
Ziwar Khanum Ziyayi | Gawas: Manga lawaneh (I Love My Cow - cow-milking work song) | Various Artists - Kurdish Folk Music From Western Iran | Folkways | Recorded by Dieter and Nerthus Christensen in Bawale, Iran, 1962 | 0:54:06 (Pop-up) | |
Mixed Duo from Sikka Regency | Belasi (Work song sung during weeding) | Various Artists: Music of Indonesia, Vol. 8: Vocal & Instrumental Music from East & Central Flores | Smithsonian Folkways | Recorded by Philip Yampolsky | 0:54:53 (Pop-up) | |
Members of Sango Budaya Mawarane - Lero Men's Chorus | Lero (work song for communal agriculture, house building etc but now also festival and wedding dance song) | Various Artists: Music of Indonesia, Vol. 8: Vocal & Instrumental Music from East & Central Flores | Smithsonian Folkways | 0:57:37 (Pop-up) | ||
Tae Dhenge De Mixed Chorus, Toto Region, North Flores | Gore: Taku Dhenge De | Various Artists: Music of Indonesia, Vol. 8: Vocal & Instrumental Music from East & Central Flores | Smithsonian Folkways | Communal work song | 1:01:31 (Pop-up) | |
Group of About 40 Lete Women | Tebele ya sila ya gaila (The Ndebele girl is grinding and crushing) | Various Artists - Sound of Africa Series 112 - Botswana (Tswana / Lete) ℗ ILAM | ILAM | 1959 | 1:09:12 (Pop-up) | |
Groupe Vocal de Himara | Fishermen's Work Song | Various Artists - Marcel Cellier Presents Mysterious Albania | ARC | 2007 | 1:11:05 (Pop-up) | |
A Group Of Fifty Fishermen (Basque) | The Whale's Child | Various Artists: World Library Of Folk & Primitive Music, Vol. 4: Spain (The Alan Lomax Collection) | 1:13:41 (Pop-up) | |||
Stalti Family | Fishermen's Song | Livonian Songs | Riga Recording Studio | 1999 | Livonia = Baltic sea (Eastern Shores) area now in Latvia and Estonia; Livonian is a dying Finno-Ugric language | 1:15:12 (Pop-up) |
Zedashe | Mushuri - Gutnuri (working song) | Silver Sanctuary | Electric Cowbell | 2020 | From late 18th century Kartli-Kakheti kingdom in what is now Republic of Georgia | 1:17:07 (Pop-up) |
Rustavi Choir | Odoia (Work Song from Megrelia) | Mirangula | 1994 | 1:19:18 (Pop-up) | ||
Brits Mawu Choir | Give the People | Various Artists: South African Trade Union Worker Choirs | Shifty / Rounder | 1986 | 1:23:39 (Pop-up) | |
Workers From Braitex Works | Somlandela Ufosatu | Various Artists: South African Trade Union Worker Choirs | Shifty / Rounder | 1:24:32 (Pop-up) | ||
Suzanai Bantu Transport Choir | Basoba Impimpi | Various Artists: South African Trade Union Worker Choirs | Shifty / Rounder | 1:25:29 (Pop-up) | ||
Frederick McQueen | Long Summer Days | Various Artists - Music of the Bahamas, Vol. 2 - Anthems, Work Songs and Ballads | Folkways | 1959 | Singing about low wages etc / recorded by Samuel Charters | 1:31:15 (Pop-up) |
Steeleye Span | Blackleg Miner | Hark! The Village Wait | RCA Victor | 1970 | Their debut LP recorded March, released June 1970 | 1:33:05 (Pop-up) |
Calan | A Miner's Life | Dinas | Sain | 2015 | Billy Bragg cover by young group from Wales | 1:35:56 (Pop-up) |
Guitar Slim & Jelly Belly | Working Man Blues | Various Artists: Ain't Times Hard: Political and Social Comment In The Blues | JSP Records | 2008 | 1:39:37 (Pop-up) | |
Woody Guthrie | Miner's song | Various Artists: The Little Red Box of Protest Songs - Disc 2 - Patriotic diggers | Proper Box | 1:42:09 (Pop-up) | ||
Stephen Tsotsi Kasumali | Marita Ku Mampampa | Various Artists: From The Copperbelt... Zambian Miners' Songs | Original Music | 1:44:19 (Pop-up) | ||
John Lushi | Bamgufya Ba Kwoti Banapengili Amapa | Various Artists: From The Copperbelt... Zambian Miners' Songs | Original Music | 1:47:30 (Pop-up) | ||
Big Bill Broonzy | Unemployment Stomp | Various Artists: Ain't Times Hard: Political and Social Comment In The Blues | JSP Records | 1:50:24 (Pop-up) | ||
Chang Loo | Sixteen Tons | Ying Chun Hua (Pathe 100: The Series Vol.1) | Pathe | One of the great singing stars of Shanghai's 1930s/40s era | 1:53:04 (Pop-up) | |
Priscilla Lee & The Filipino Rockets, Recardo Luna & His Revolvo Recording Quintet | Planting Rice | The Far East Today | 49th State Hawaii Record Co. | Version of famous Tagalog folk song "Magtanim Hindi Biro" | 1:55:54 (Pop-up) | |
Zoilita Soriano | La Canción de Trabajo | Single: A-B-C Ye Ye / La Canción Del Trabajo | Decibel | 1967 | From Peru | 2:01:31 (Pop-up) |
Banda Sinfónica de Sunicancha | El Obrero | Various Artists - Antologia del Huayno Peruano | 2:03:40 (Pop-up) | |||
Edwin Firth (cornet) and Foden's Prize Brass Band conducted by Thomas Hynes | Pandora (Damare) | 78 | The Winner (Edison / Bell UK imprint) | 1914 | Foden Motor Works funded band from Sandbach (Cheshire, England, UK) | 2:05:59 (Pop-up) |
Dueto Taxco | El Bracero y la Pachuca (Con Maríachi Capórales del Norte) | VarIous Artists: Historic Mexican-Américan Music, Vol. 10 - Pachuco Boogie | Arhoolie | 2:08:31 (Pop-up) | ||
Björn Ståbi & Ole Hjorth | Vallåt (herding-tune) from Orsa | Folk Fiddling from Sweden: Traditional Fiddle Tunes from Dalarna | Warner Music | 2008 | 2:11:06 (Pop-up) | |
Frifot | Vallätspolska (Herding-Tune Polska) | Sluring | Northside | 2003 | Ale Moller (multi-instrumentalist), Per Gudmundson (fiddler and bagpipes), and Lena Willemark (vocalist/fiddler) - a Swedish folk all-star trio | 2:12:14 (Pop-up) |
Julaba Kunda - Juldeh Camara and Griselda Sanderson | Working Song | Traders | Waulk Records | 2011 | From Gambia and Scotland | 2:14:58 (Pop-up) |
Alash | The Reindeer Herders’ Song | Buura | Self-released | 2012 | 2:17:43 (Pop-up) | |
Anda Union | The Herdsman | Homeland | Hohhot Records | 2016 | Mongolia, based in Beijing | 2:21:36 (Pop-up) |
La Drivers Union Por Por Group | Shidaa, A Song of praise and Tribute to Elders and Union Leaders | Por Por: Honk Horn Music of Ghana | Smithsonian Folkways | 2:33:40 (Pop-up) | ||
Fulani Women, Northern Benin | Pounding Millet | Various Artists: Peuls - Musical Atlas | Unesco Collection | Recorded by Simha Arom | 2:36:55 (Pop-up) | |
Two Women | Pounding the Maize | Various Artists: Music From Mozambique 1 | Folkways | 1980 | Two Women Pounding the Maize in Agricuiltural Co-op, singing anti-colonial praise song to President samora Machel | 2:40:33 (Pop-up) |
Women | Pounding Maize | Various Artists: Music From Mozambique 1 | Folkways | 1980 | Singing praise song to Eduardo Mondlane, first president of FRELIMO and about Ian Smith, last PM of Rhodesia | 2:41:05 (Pop-up) |
Woman Preparing Oswa | Work Song | Various Artists: Music From Mozambique 1 | Folkways | 1980 | Song ostensibly about making oswa that is in reality a critique of Lobolo (bride-price) | 2:41:49 (Pop-up) |
Dakpa People | Chant pour l'abattage d'un arbre | Various Artists: Musique Centrafricaine | Ocora Radio-France | Recorded by Charles Duvelle - song for chopping down a tree | 2:42:48 (Pop-up) | |
Shipibo singer | Work Song - Sung While Making a Feather Crown | Various Artists: Indian Music Of The Upper Amazon | Folkways | 1954 | 2:44:09 (Pop-up) | |
Conibo people | Public Work Music - Music to call men to public work project | Various Artists: Indian Music Of The Upper Amazon | Folkways | 1954 | 2:44:49 (Pop-up) | |
Bu-Nga Nak-Prank | Song of the Fisherman | Land of 1000 Smiles - Classical Music of Thailand | Intermusic | 2:46:10 (Pop-up) | ||
Songsak Pathomsin | Pong Lang solo "Cows Climbing the Mountain" (herding song) | Various Artists - Music of Northeast Thailand | King | 2:50:25 (Pop-up) | ||
Waiphot Phetsuphan | Lam By the Rice Fields | Various Artists: Classic Productions by Surin Phaksiri: Luk Thung Gems from the 1960s-1980s | Em | 2:53:25 (Pop-up) |
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Listener comments!
chresti:
Handy Haversack:
Bas NL:
Rob W:
slugluv1313:
Happy May Day and Beltane, Rob and Skeletons and Paradisians!
Rob W:
TDK60:
Revolution Rabbit Nov63:
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Ken From Hyde Park:
Bas NL:
chresti:
Handy Haversack:
chresti:
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chresti:
TDK60:
chresti:
chresti:
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chresti:
Handy Haversack:
TDK60:
chresti:
Bas NL:
slugluv1313:
i am indoors too but have windows open -- so gorgeous outside!
and gosh -- we are ALL May Day :)
(yeah, i am a Handmaid's Tale nut)
listener monica:
slugluv1313:
Rob W:
slugluv1313:
Rob, did you not recently have a Kantele musician (or ensemble?) on your program?
slugluv1313:
i found this! not specifically spinning songs, but acknowledges that often b/c "women's work" was not considered "real" work, their songs were kinda dismissed too:
www.loc.gov...
Bas NL:
Rob W:
chresti:
slugluv1313:
yes!
years ago, when Tower Records still had an "International" section (as opposed to a whole separate "World Music" shop) -- i bought an LP of Albanian folk music, which i still have -- beautiful and fascinating!
maestroso:
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wenzo llc.:
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