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Thanks to all who sent information.
Below is the data collected - still some information needed.
I have sent inquiries to various people/companies who may have information, including Harry West but
many have not yet responded.
If others are interested in this information, please let me know. It there is interest I will post the
file when I have more data.
Thanks!
Best wishes, Thomas.


HARRY and JEANIE WEST recordings
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COUNTRY CHURCH CC6 (10" 78rpm) Sunny Side of Life(Grant/Hogan) (matrix C5004) What would the profit be(Monroe) (matrix C5006)


STINSON 10" SLP-36 Southern Mountain Folk Songs



STINSON 10" SLP-74 Southern Mountain Folk Songs Vol.II


STINSON 12" ????????????????????????
Where the Soul of Man Never Dies,
Granny Only Left You Her Old Rocking Chair
I Wonder How the Old Folks Are At Home
????

produced by Kenneth S. Goldstein for Bob Harris-Stinson Records.
outtakes issued by Topic =??? (statement in OH liner notes, unverified
no H&JW recordings listed in Topic discography)


ESOTERIC ES-538 Shivaree! (1955)
(Jean Ritchie, Oscar Brand, Tom Paley, Harry & Jeanie West)
Tom Paley, Harry & Jeanie West ("The Ensemble")
1.Cripple Creek The Ensemble
2.Farmer's Wife Jean Ritchie
3.Good Peanuts Oscar Brand
4.Medley(Bile Them Cabbage Down/Joe Clark/Pretty Little Willow) The Ensemble
5.Bury Me Beneath The Willow Harry & Jeanie West
6.Down The Old Plank Road Tom Paley
7.Devil's Nine Questions Jean Ritchie & Oscar Brand
8.Shortnin' Bread Jean Ritchie
9.I Wish I Was Single Again Oscar Brand
10.Roll On The Ground Tom Paley
11.Blackest Crow Jean Ritchie
12.Devilish Mary Oscar Brand
13.I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow Harry & Jeanie West
14.Railroad Bill Tom Paley
15.Billy Boy (My Boy Billy) Jean Ritchie & Oscar Brand
16.Arkansas Traveller Tom Paley, Oscar Brand & Harry West
17.Raise a Ruckus (Tonight) The Ensemble




RIVERSIDE RLP 12-610 Banjo Songs of the Southern Mountains (1956)
WASHINGTON WLP 712
Harry West, banjo; Jeanie West, guitar and vocals
* same instruments, vocal duet
recorded c.1955 in NYC, by Kenneth S. Goldstein and William A. Grant
(remainder of album recorded in Ashville NC, August 1955)
A3 Keep My SKillet Good and Greasy
A5 Careless Love *
A8 Awake. Awake Ye Drowsy Sleepers *
B3 The Boston Burglar
B5 Lost John
B7 Finger Ring


RIVERSIDE RLP 12-617 Southern Mountain Folk Songs and Ballads (c.1957) WASHINGTON WLP 734 Boston Burglar Knoxville Girl Nine Pound Hammer Banks of the Ohio - Harry & Jeanie West

RIVERSIDE 9910-2 (CD) Riverside Folklore Series V.2
-Singing the American Roots (1996)
19. The Boston Burglar
20. Finger Ring



FOLKWAYS FW 2357 Favorite Gospel Songs (1957)
Harry and Jeanie West
101 When Our Lord Shall Come Again
102 Matthew Twenty-Four
103 What Are They Doing in Heaven Today
104 Sweet Bye and Bye
105 Walking My Lord Up Calvary's Hill
106 He's Set Your Fields on Fire
107 Campin' in Canaan's Land
108 Man of Galilee, The
201 Oh, Hide You in the Blood
202 Amazing Grace
203 Preach the Gospel
204 Only One Step More
205 Thirty Pieces of Silver
206 Sea of Life, The
207 I'm Gonna Let It Shine
208 I'm Only on a Journey Here

SMITHSONIAN RECORDS xxxx Folk Song America - VOl.2 (1991)
12. Sweet Bye and Bye

SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS SF 40137 Classic Southern Gospel (2005)
105. What Are They Doing in Heaven Today


Ed Kahn collection University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/htm/20360.html Audiotape FT-12669 Chesterland Oberlin Folk Festival, May 1957. 1:1. "Shivaree," Unidentified recording. 1:2. "Cripple Creek," Ensemble. 1:3. "Bile Them Cabbage Down," Ensemble. 1:4. "Joe Clark," Ensemble. 1:5. "Pretty Little Willow," Ensemble. 1:6. "Down the Old Plank Road," Tom Paley. 1:7. "Shortnin' Bread," Jean Ritchie. 1:8. "Roll on the Ground," Tom Paley. 1:9. "Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow," Harry West and Jeanie West. 1:10. "Railroad Bill," Tom Paley. 1:11. "Raise a Ruckus Tonight," Ensemble.



COUNTERPOINT/ESOTERIC CPT/ES-545 Smoky Mountain Ballads (1958)
* ARCHIVE OF FOLK MUSIC(Everest) FM-108/FS-208 Harry & Jeannie West
Artie Rose, dobro (trks 2,3,4,6,8,?)
1.Sing Song Kitty (Won't You Ki-Me-O) *1
2.Rambling Boy (trad.) *2
3.Watermelon Hanging On the/a Vine (Watermellon On the Vine) *3
4.Little Rosewood/Rosebud Casket *4
5.Black Jack Davy/David *5
6.Mother's Only Sleeping *6
7.I'm Troubled, I'm Troubled *7
8.Goodbye Maggie *8
9.Handsome Molly *9
10.Bringing in the Georgia Mail
11.Little Red Shoes
12.Pretty Polly
13.Working on a Building
14.Lonesome Dove
15.Where The Soul of Man Never Dies
16.Barbara/Barbry Allen
17.Where Are You Going


FOLKWAYS FW 2352 Songs of the Southland (1963) Harry and Jeanie West, Artie Rose

101 Little Joe
102 Coal Miner's Blues
103 Curley Headed Baby
104 End of My Journey
105 Sugar Cane Mama
106 Hills of Roane County
107 Free Little Bird
201 Nine Pound Hammer
202 Somewhere Sommebody's Waiting
203 Tennessee Gambler
204 Rosa Lee McFall
205 Building on the Sand
206 Far Beyond the Starry Sky
207 Will You Always Love Me, Darling?
208 Jenny Jenkins



PRESTIGE INTERNATIONAL INT 13038 Roamin' the Blue Ridge with Jeanie West
A1.Six More Miles
A2.Greenback Dollar
A3.Girl in the Blue Velvet Band
A4.Rabbit in a Log (Have a Feast Here Tonight)
A5.Poor Ellen Smith
A6.Storms Are On The Ocean
A7.Tramp On The Street
B1.Single Girl, Married Girl
B2.Flower Blooming in the Wildwood (You're a Flower Blooming in the Wildwood)
B3.Little Margaret
B4.Gypsy's Warning
B5.Girl I Left in Sunny Tennesee
B6.Green Grow/Grows the Lilacs/Laurel
B7.Brown Eyes (Those Dark Eyes)




PRESTIGE INTERNATIONAL INT 13049 Country Music in Bluegrass Style (1960)
*The Homestead on the Farm
*I’d Like to Be Your Shadow in the Moonlight
*Give Me the Roses Now
*Take This Hammer
*They’re at Rest Together
*I’m Coming Back, But I Don’t Know When
*The Banks of the Ohio
*Unclouded Day
*Blue Moon of Kentucky, Let Us Be Lovers Again
*In a Little Village Churchyard
*Sittin’ on Top of the World
*Where the Old Red River Flows
*Bury Me Beneath the Willow



PRESTIGE PRCD-24238-2 (CD) Country Bluegrass (2000)
Jeanie West with Harry West, Bill Emerson, Artie Rose, Tom Morgan
Original sessions produced by Kenneth S. Goldstein
Six More Miles
Greenback Dollar
The Girl in the Blue Velvet Band
Have a Feast Here Tonight
Poor Ellen Smith,
The Storms Are on the Ocean,
Tramp on the Street;
Single Girl, Married Girl
You’re a Flower Blooming in the Wildwood
Little Margaret
The Gypsy’s Warning
The Girl I Left in Sunny Tennessee
Green Grow the Violets
Those Dark Eyes
*The Homestead on the Farm
*I’d Like to Be Your Shadow in the Moonlight
*Give Me the Roses Now
*Take This Hammer
*They’re at Rest Together
*I’m Coming Back, But I Don’t Know When
*The Banks of the Ohio
*Unclouded Day
*Blue Moon of Kentucky, Let Us Be Lovers Again
*In a Little Village Churchyard
*Sittin’ on Top of the World
*Where the Old Red River Flows
*Bury Me Beneath the Willow

PRESTIGE PRCD-9903-2 (CD) Prestige/Folklore Years, Vol.3
Roots and Branches (1995)
10. I'm Coming Back, But I Don't Know When
11. I'd Like To Be Your Shadow In The Moonlight



FOLK VARIETY FV 12028 Roots of Bluegrass (1982) (recorded May 1964)
OLD HOMESTEAD OHCD 90204 (CD) Roots of Bluegrass (released c.1985)
When The Angels Carry Me Home
Why Not Confess
Road Side Rag
Take Me Back To Tulsa
I Believe I’m Entitled To You
Juanita
We Can’t Be Darlings Anymore
Natural Bridge Blues
There’ll Come A Time
Jordan Am A Hard Road To Travel
Going Down The Valley
Little Annie
I Know What It Means To Be Lonesome
Kneel At The Cross
Somebody Loves You Darling



FOLK VARIETY FA 12030 What is a Home Without Love ????????????



OLD HOMESTEAD OHS 90164 I Need the Prayers of Those I Love
OHCD-90164 (CD) -Old Time Sacred Picking & Singing (p1985)
(recorded for Gerd Hadeler by Charles Faurot c.fall-winter 1969-1970)
Harry West, mandolin/guitar; Jeanie West, guitar; Everett West, string bass


Keep On The Sunny Side
I Need the Prayers of Those I Love
Row Us Over the Tide
I Dreamed I Searched Heaven for You
I Have Found the Way
Surely I Will
What Would You Give in Exchange for Your Soul

Precious Memories
shake my mother's Hand For Me
This World is Not My Home
Where the Roses Never Fade
In His Care
Sunny Side of Life
Don't You Hear Jurusalem Mourn




Old Homestead OHS 80057 "Goin' Steppin' (1983)
***** is there an error in this attribution - Old Homestead 80057 is
performed by "The Jumbo String Band"
(?Lisa Gutkin, vln may be a different Jumbo String Band; other members unknown
were Harry & Jeanie West on this record???


Evil Hearted Woman, Pain In My Heart, I Ain’t Got No Home, Slewfoot,
Lady of Spain, Old Crossroads, I’ll Go Steppin Too, Dan Tucker,
Soul of Man, Dream, Drifting Too Far from the Shore, Don’t Worry
Baby



OLD HOMESTEAD OHS 90156 In A Little Village Churchyard
(Old Time Picking and Singing with Mandolin and Guitar)
(recorded by Fred Severud, Jr. 9/19/81, 9/20/81 and 9/27/81) (p)1983)

We Can't Be Darlings Anymore
Natural Bridge Blues
Parting Time Has Come
Sinner, You Better Get Ready
Bonaparte's Retreat
Let Us Be Lovers Again
Take Me Back ot Old Yazoo
Hop Along Peter

Sweet Summer
What Would The Profit Be
Carroll Country Blues
Mississippi Shore
Jimmy Randall
In A Little Village Churchyard


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