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Nursery Days (1946)

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First released in 1951 as Songs to Grow on, Volume One: Nursery Days, the album returned in 1992 with four extra songs under the plain title Nursery Days.

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Album story

Overview

• Nursery Days: album of children's songs by American folk singer Woody Guthrie
• First released in 1951 by Folkways Records as Songs to Grow on, Volume One: Nursery Days
• Re-released in 1992 with four extra songs under the name Nursery Days by Smithsonian Folkways
• Several songs are instructional, helping children learn to count
• Other songs are songs of adoration written by Guthrie with his own children in mind

Background

• Guthrie wrote and recorded the children's song collection Songs to Grow on for Mother and Child after the war
• The collection includes "Goodnight Little Arlo (Goodnight Little Darlin)", written when Arlo was nine years old
• After his military discharge, the family moved to a house on Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island
• The Mermaid Avenue years are described as his most productive period as a writer
• Guthrie is a folk singer and songwriter from Okemah, Oklahoma

Sources: en.wikipedia.org · pt.wikipedia.org

Tracklist

Disc 1

Disc 2

Disc 3

Sources: musicbrainz.org

Artist

Formation

• Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, born July 14, 1912 in Okemah, Oklahoma; died October 3, 1967 in New York.
• Left Okemah in 1929 and followed his father to Pampa, Texas, where he began busking and playing music.
• Moved to California during the Dust Bowl period and worked at Los Angeles radio station KFVD.

Members

• Solo artist; no group members.
• Married Mary Jennings (1933), Marjorie Greenblatt (1945), and Anneke van Kirk (1953); fathered eight children in total.
• His son Arlo Guthrie became a nationally known musician.

Career

• Known for songs such as "This Land Is Your Land" and "Tear the Fascists Down", with themes of American socialism and anti-fascism.
• Wrote hundreds of country, folk, and children's songs; the 1940 album Dust Bowl Ballads earned him the nickname "Dust Bowl Troubadour".
• Wrote the column "Woody Sez" for the communist newspaper People's World (1939–1940); was never a formal Communist Party member.
• Served in the U.S. Merchant Marine during World War II before being drafted into the Army in 1945.
• Diagnosed with Huntington's disease in 1952; hospitalized from 1956 until his death in 1967.
• Influenced Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen and many others; inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.

Reception

At release

• First released in 1951 by Folkways Records
• Original title: Songs to Grow on, Volume One: Nursery Days
• A collection of children's songs by American folk singer Woody Guthrie
• Several songs are instructional, helping children learn to count
• Other songs are songs of adoration written by Guthrie with his own children in mind
• Guthrie wrote and recorded the collection during the years in the Mermaid Avenue house in Coney Island
• The Mermaid Avenue period is described as his most productive period as a writer

Records

• 1951: released by Folkways Records under the title Songs to Grow on, Volume One: Nursery Days
• 1992: re-released by Smithsonian Folkways under the name Nursery Days
• The 1992 reissue added four extra songs to the original set
• The reissue uses the shorter title Nursery Days, while the 1951 release carried the longer title

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

Trivia

• The 1951 release bore the longer title Songs to Grow on, Volume One: Nursery Days
• The 1992 reissue added four songs to the original set
• After his military discharge, Guthrie's family moved to a house on Mermaid Avenue in Coney Island
• Guthrie described the Mermaid Avenue years as his most productive period as a writer

Sources: pt.wikipedia.org

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