Long before there were musical intruments, the voice was all one needed to convey a melody. This week and next, we'll be sending the band home and listening to the simple unaccompanied voice. We’ll hear songs from Windborne, Finest Kind, Elizabeth LaPrelle Stan Rogers, Michael Cooney and many more. Celebrating vox humana … this week on The Sing Out! Radio Magazine.

Episode #20-38: Send the Band Home, Pt. 1

Host: Tom Druckenmiller

Artist/”Song”/CD/Label

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways

Chanticleer / “Soar Away” / Our American Journey / Teldec

Finest Kind / “A Sailor's Life” / Heart's Delight / Fallen Angle

Elizabeth LaPrelle / “Pretty Saro” / Lizard in the Spring / Old 97 Wrecords

Stan Rogers / “Northwest Passage” / Northwest Fassage / Fogarty's Cove

Trio Mediaeval / “In My Restless, Youthful Days” / Folk Songs / ECM

John Roberts & Tony Barrand / “The Rolling Mills of New Jersey” / Live at Holsteins / Golden Hind

John Roberts & Debra Cowan / “Drive Dull Care Away” / Ballads Long & Short / Golden Hind

Chanticleer / “David's Lamentation” / Our American Journey / Teldec

Windborne / “Song of the Lower Classes” / Song on the Times / Self Produced

Chanticleer / “Byrd-Ave Regina caelorum” / Music for a Hidden Chapel / Harmonia Mundi

Michael Cooney / “Hamlet” / Together Again / Cove Haven

The Dicey Doh Singers / “Sloop John B” / Classic Maritime Music / Smithsonian Folkways

Moving Star Hall Singers / “Ask the Watchman How Long” / Been in the Storm So Long / Smithsonian Folkways

Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers / “Shout and Sing” / The Colored Sacred Harp / New World Records

Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer”(excerpt) / Songs of Hope and Struggle / Smithsonian Folkways