The Wayfaring Stranger (album)
The Wayfaring Stranger is an album consisting of three 10-inch, 78 rpm records by Burl Ives released on Asch in 1944. It should not be confused with Ives' 1944 album for Columbia Records – also called The Wayfaring Stranger- and a re-release of a 1941 album on Okeh Records - containing different songs. The Asch album includes the first releases of two signature songs by Ives: "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" and "The Blue Tail Fly."
The same collection of songs was reissued in 1947 on the Stinson label as a 78-rpm album, then a 10-inch LP in 1949, a 12-inch LP c. 1954, retitled Blue Tail Fly and Other Favorites, and finally a cassette tape. All of the Stinson releases with the exception of the 78-rpm album had two bonus tracks: "The Fox" and "Brennan on the Moor."
In 1948 Burl Ives also released an autobiography with the same title.
Track listing
| Track | Song Title |
| C. | The Foggy Foggy Dew |
| D. | Black Is the Color |
| Track | Song Title |
| E. | Henry Martin |
| F. | The Blue Tail Fly |
Track listing
| Track | Song Title |
| 1. | Poor Wayfaring Stranger |
| 2. | Black Is The Color |
| 3. | The Foggy Foggy Dew |
| 4. | Buckeye Jim |
| 5. | The Bold Soldier |
| Track | Song Title |
| 1. | The Sow Took the Measles |
| 2. | The Blue Tail Fly |
| 3. | Henry Martin |
| 4. | The Fox |
| 5. | Brennan on the Moor |