''The Wayfaring Stranger'' (Asch 345) is an album consisting of three 10-inch, 78 rpm records by

Burl Ives Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an American Folk music, folk singer and actor with a career that spanned more than six decades. Ives began his career as an itinerant singer and guitarist, eventually launching his o ...

released on

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in 1944. It should not be confused with Ives' 1944 album for

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(C-103) – also called '' The Wayfaring Stranger-'' and a re-release of a 1941 album on

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- containing different songs. The Asch album includes the first releases of two

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s by Ives: " Poor Wayfaring Stranger" and "

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." The same collection of songs was reissued in 1947 on the Stinson label as a 78-rpm album (Stinson 345), then a 10-inch LP (Stinson SLP-1) in 1949, a 12-inch LP c. 1954 (also with catalog number Stinson SLP-1), retitled ''Blue Tail Fly and Other Favorites'', and finally a

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(Stinson CA-1). All of the Stinson releases with the exception of the 78-rpm album had two bonus tracks: " The Fox" and "

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." In 1948

also released an autobiography with the same title.
Ives, Burl (1948). Wayfaring stranger. Whittlesey House, New York, 253 pages

Track listing

References

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