Ed McCurdy

About the artist

Ed McCurdy was born in 1919 in Willow Hill, Pennsylvania. His professional career started in 1937 as a Gospel singer over station SVKY in Oklahoma City, and he has since of worked as a niteclub and theatre performer (including a short stint in burlesque) and as a radio announcer. In 1946, McCurdy began singing folksongs over the Canadian Broad casting Corporation radio system. In 1952, he began writing and performing for children's program's in radio and television, continuing to utilize folkmusic at every opportunity.

Top songs

  1. Poor Lonesome Cowboy
  2. Last night I had the strangest dream
  3. My bonny lies over the ocean
  4. Red River Valley
  5. Jack O'Diamonds
  6. O Suzanna
  7. Josie
  8. Billy Boy
  9. Punchin' the Dough
  10. Darlin' Cory
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  1. Hush Little Baby
  2. When the Works all Done this Fall
  3. Strawberry Roan
  4. Barbara Allen
  5. Along Side of the Santa Fe Trail
  6. The Cowboy
  7. The Bird's Courtship
  8. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
  9. Utah
  10. Banks Of The Ohio
  11. A Wanton Trick
  12. Utah Carroll
  13. The Cowboys
  14. Jack Was Every Inch A Sailor
  15. Go Bring Me A Lass
  16. Colorado Trail
  17. Lukey's Boat
  18. Back Bay Hill
  19. When The Work's All Done This Fall
  20. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
  21. Four Nights Drunk
  22. Kentucky Moonshiner
  23. Cowboy's Lament
  24. The Dublin Murder Ballad
  25. No More Boozer
  26. The Trooper
  27. Stackerlee
  28. When Soldiers Die on Battlefields
  29. When Cockle Shells Turn Silver Bells
  30. Sally Brown
  31. Portland County Jail
  32. All the Pretty Little Horses
  33. John Hardy
  34. A Lusty Young Smith
  35. No More Booze
  36. The Dreary Black Hills
  37. S-M-I-L-E
  38. O, Dear, What Can The Matter Be
  39. Mr. Rabbit
  40. The Old Fisherman
  41. Tree In The Hole
  42. Green grow the lilacs
  43. Farewell To Grog
  44. Frankie And Johnny
  45. I Had A Little Rooster
  46. My Gal on the Rio Grande
  47. The Pig And The Inebriate
  48. Where Did You Come From
  49. When the Curtains of Night
  50. One Man Went To Mow
  51. Lamkins
  52. The Jolly Tinker
  53. A Hole In The Bucket
  54. Yo Ho Ho
  55. A Young Man And A Maid
  56. Blood On The Saddle
  57. John Brown's Body
  58. My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean
  59. I Had A Horse
  60. A Riddle
  61. Keemo Kimo
  62. Little Turtle Dove
  63. The Drunkard's Doom
  64. Lulu
  65. Two Maidens Went Milking One Day
  66. There Was A Knight
  67. The Jolly Miller
  68. Froggy Went A'Courting
  69. The Days of '49
  70. Come To The Bower
  71. Good Bye, My Lover, Good Bye
  72. A Maiden Did A-Bathing Go
  73. Old Texas
  74. Robin Hood And The Bold Pedlar
  75. The Little Black Bull
  76. The Four Able Physicians
  77. I Ride an Old Paint
  78. A Great Big Sea Hove In Long Beach
  79. Tom And Doll
  80. The Bold Fisherman
  81. Merchant And The Fiddler's Wife
  82. Three Fishermen
  83. The Old Woman And The Pig
  84. The Noble Duke Of York
  85. Pretty Saro
  86. The Lovely Ohio
  87. Dear Evelina
  88. The Bird’s Courtship
  89. Jack Of Diamonds
  90. The Three Travelers

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