Illustrated Leon Bibb discography

Leon Bibb
Charles Leon Arthello Bibb, aka "Lee Charles"
b. February 7, 1922 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA
d. October 23, 2015 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
discography L E O N B I B B, source: Cover of RCA LSP-4202
source: Cover of RCA LSP-4202; photographer: Nick Sangiamo

#	year of release	title / label / notes
1	1946	Musical 'Annie Get Your Gun' Original Musical Cast Recording - Doin' What Come Natur'lly - Moonshine Lullaby - You Can't Get A Man Without A Gun - I'm An Indian Too - They Say It's Wonderful - Anything You Can - I Got The Sun In The Morning - I Got Lost In His Arms - There's No Business Like Show Business - My Defences Are Down - Who Do You Love I Hope - The Girl That I Marry Principal cast includes: Ethel Merman (Annie Oakley); Ray Middleton (Frank Butler); William O'Neal (Colonel William F. Cody); Marty May (Charlie Davenport); John Garth III (trainman); Art Barnett (Foster Wilson); Lea Penman (Dolly Tate); Betty Ann Nyman (Winnie Tate); Kenny Bowers (Tommy Keeler); Nancy Jean Rabb (Minnie Oakley); Camilla De Witt (Jessie Oakley); Marlene Cameron (Nellie Oakley); Clifford Sales (Little Jake Oakley); Leon Bibb (waiter); Clyde Turner (porter); Harry Bellaver (Chief Sitting Bull) rec. May 26 & 28, 1946 six 78 rpm set Decca A-468 = Decca DLP 8001 (1949) = MCA MCAD-10047
2	1954	Hootenanny Tonight! Pete Seeger - Cowboy's Gettin' Up Holler Pete Seeger, Jerry Silverman, Sonny Terry - Mule Skinner Blues Leon Bibb - Great Gettin' Up Morning Earl Robinson - Varsovienne Bob & Louise DeCormier - The Rich And The Poor Man Pete Seeger - Talking Union Elizabeth Knight, acc. by Jerry Silverman - Dance Me A Jig Sylvia Kahn, acc. by Jean Hart - Le Cycle Du Vin Pete Seeger - Wimoweh Bob & Louise DeCormier - Dark As A Dungeon Jackie Berman - Children's Peace Song Jewish Young Folksingers - Home In That Rock - Hamentashen Betty Sanders - Riding The Dragon Sonny Terry - California Blues Les Pine - Depression Elizabeth Knight, acc. by Al Moss - Every Night When The Sun Goes Down Leon Bibb - Told My Captain Pete Seeger - America The Beautiful rec. spring 1954; ed. by Irwin Silber Hootenanny HLP-201 = Folkways FN 2511 (1959)
3	1955	The Glory of Negro History Written & Narrated by Langston Hughes The Struggle - The Struggle - Negroes with the Spanish Explorers - African Chant - Phyllis Wheatley - Oh Freedom - Leon Bibb - Sojourner Truth - Steal Away - Hilda Haynes - Harriet Tubman - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot - Hilda Haynes - Harriet Tubman, pt. 2 - Old Riley - Huddie Ledbetter - Frederick Douglass - Go Down Moses - Clark Morgan - John Brown's Body - Hermes Nye - Battle Hymn of the Republic - Brownie McGhee - Abraham Lincoln The Glory - The Glory - Walt Whitman - Reconstruction - Trouble in Mind - Bertha Chippie Hill - Booker T. Washington - George Washington Carver - Dallas Rag - Dallas String Band - Little Brown Baby (poem by Laurence Dunbar) - I'm Not Rough - Louis Armstrong - World War I - If We Must Die (poem by Claude McKay) - NAACP Founding and Activities - Organ Grinder's Swing - Ella Fitzgerald - Mary McLeod Bethune - Battle Hymn of the Republic - George D. McClain Chorale Folkways FP 752 = FC 7752
3a	1957	The Skifflers: Goin' Down To Town Epic LC 3391 track sequence - Stewball - Bone Dry - Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot - I Wish I Was Single Again - Michael, Row The Boat Ashore - Greenland - Born Ten Thousand Years Ago - Midnight Special - Around The Bay Of Mexico - Jenny Jenkins - I'm Going Down Town - Come And Go With Me - The Crawdad Song - Railroad, Steamboat, River And Canal (Two In The Middle) Columbia / Harmony HL-7307 track sequence - Stewball - Bone Dry - Michael, Row The Boat Ashore - Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot - I Wish I Was Single Again - Midnight Special - Around The Bay Of Mexico - Jenny Jenkins - I'm Going Down Town - Come And Go With Me - The Crawdad Song - Railroad, Steamboat, River And Canal (Two In The Middle) Perfect PL 12015 track sequence - Stewball - Bone Dry - Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Foot - I Wish I Was Single Again - Michael, Row The Boat Ashore - Greenland - Midnight Special - Around The Bay Of Mexico - Jenny Jenkins - I'm Going Down Town - Come And Go With Me - The Crawdad Song The Skifflers were: Lee Charles (Leon Bibb), Libby Knight, Hally Wood, Milt Okun Epic LN / LC 3391 = Columbia / Harmony HL- 7307 (1962) "Hootenanny with The Skifflers" = Perfect PL 12015 (196?) "Folk Songs" [no black person on front covers to be seen !]
3b	19??	Songs With A Railroad Ring John Deere is going places ... The New Christy Minstrels - Casey Jones Johnny Horton - Rock Island Line Percy Faith - This Train Pete Seeger - I've Been Working On The Railroad The Carter Family - Wabash Cannon Ball The Skifflers - Midnight Special The New Christy Minstrels - Nine Hundred Miles Bob Dylan - Freight Train Blues Flatt & Scruggs - Cannonball Blues "Little" Jimmy Dickens - Night Train to Memphis Flatt & Scruggs - John Henry Johnny Cash - Wreck Of Old '97 Columbia Special Products
3c	1958	Our Singing Heritage Vol. 1 - Jack Went A-Sailing - Lori Holland - Strawberry Roan - Pat Foster - Rich Old Lady - Peggy Seeger - Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane - Pegram and Parham - Gypsy Lover - Lori Holland - When I Was Single - E.G. Huntington - Roll On Buddy - Paul Clayton - The House Carpenter - Ellen Stekert - Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out - Dave Van Ronk - Who's Going To Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet - Lee Charles - Lakes Of Ponchartrain - E.G. Huntington - Froggie Went A-Courtin - Ellen Stekert - Goodbye, Little Bonnie, Goodbye - Paul Clayton - John Riley - Myra Ross - Johnny Runkins - Pat Foster - Mary, What You Call That Pretty Little Baby - Dave Van Ronk - Yellow Rose Of Texas - Pegram and Parham - Love Henry - Peggy Seeger notes by Kenneth S. Goldstein Elektra EKL 151
4	1959	Folk Festival at Newport Volume 1 Pete Seeger - The Bells of Rhymney - One Grain of Sand / Abiyoyo - Careless Love Martha Schlamme with Frank Hamilton - Hey Daroma - There's A Hole In My Bucket - Que Bonita Bandeira Leon Bibb with John Stauber, g; Eric Weisberg, b - Lonesome Traveler @ youtube - Every Night When The Sun Goes Down @ youtube - Times Are Getting Hard @ youtube - Sinner Man @ youtube Tom Makem with Pat Clancy, Pete Seeger - Cobbler's Song - Mountain Dew rec. July 11/12, 1959 at the Newport Folk Festival notes by Studs Terkel Vanguard VRS-9062 (mono) (US 1959) notes by Studs Terkel = Vanguard VSD-2053 (stereo) (US 1959) notes by Studs Terkel = Fontana TFL 6000 (UK 1959) notes by Studs Terkel = Top Rank 35/070 (UK 1960) ("Top Rank Jazz and Folk Collectors' Choice Series No. 3") Newport Folk Festival discography Fontana Records discography
5	1959	Pete Seeger / Leon Bibb from the Newport Folk Festival 1959 - Careless Love (Pete Seeger) - Times Are Getting Hard (Leon Bibb) Top Rank TR 5020
6	1959	Sing Out! Hootenanny Tonight with Pete Seeger and the Hooteneers Pete Seeger, Leon Bibb & Fred Hellerman - All I Want Is Union Leon Bibb & group - This Land Is My Land Betty Sanders with Jerry Silverman, g - Talking Un-American Blues (= Hoot 103-B rec. c. 9 Jun 1952) Betty Sanders & group - In Contempt Pete Seeger - Gray Goose - Come All You Fair Tender Ladies Betty Sanders & group - Raise A Ruckus Tonight - Commonwealth Of Toil Leon Bibb & group - Get On Board Pete Seeger - Jefferson And Liberty Pete Seeger & Leon Bibb - Another Man Done Gone Fred Hellerman & group - Hallelujah, I'm A-Travelin' Pete Seeger - Pie In The Sky - The Popular Wobbly - John Henry Leon Bibb & group - Solidarity rec. made by People's Artists from 1950-1955 incl. original Hootenanny Records 78s Folkways FN 2513
7	1959	Leon Bibb Sings Folk Songs - Sinner Man - East Virginia - Turtle Dove - Darlin' (If I Had My Way) - Rocks And Gravel - Poor Lolette - Look Over Yonder - Red Rosy Bush - Take This Hammer - Skillet - Jerry - Dink's Blues - Irene with chorus and orchestra; Milt Okun, conductor; Fred Hellerman, g 4-track 7 1/2-ips tape SMS/Vanguard S1 "Stereo Tapes for the Perfectionist" Vanguard VRS-9041 = Amadeo AVRS 9022 (Austria)
7a	19??	Leon Bibb - Rocks And Gravel - Goonight Irene 7 inch 45 rpm Vanguard VRS-35006
8	1959	Leon Bibb: Folk Songs Vol. 1 - Sinner Man - Poor Lolette - Red Rosy Bush - Take This Hammer Top Rank JKR 8022
9	1960	Leon Bibb: Tol' My Captain Leon Bibb Sings Chain Gang And Work Songs - Midnight Special - Tol' My Captain - Sylvie # - I Seen Little Rosie - Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground # - Heavy Hipped Woman - Another Man Done Gone - Prettiest Train - Track Lining * - Bald Headed Woman - Stewball - This Is The Hammer That Killed John Henry - Rainbow Round My Shoulder * with instrumental and vocal ensemble conducted by Milt Okun; # John Stauber & * Fred Hellerman, g notes by S.W. Bennett Vanguard VRS-9058
10	1960	Leon Bibb Sings Love Songs - When Love Is Kind - Cotton Eye Joe - Shenandoah - Katy My Love - I Know Where I'm Going - Squirrel - Delia - Bird Song - The Water Is Wide - Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair - Jackie Rover - Down In The Valley - Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies - Dance To Your Daddy with instrumental ensemble conducted by Milt Okun, John Stauber, g notes by S.W. Bennett Vanguard VRS 9073 = Fontana TFL 6010
11	19??	Leon Bibb & Ronnie Gilbert: It Could Be A Wonderful World Little Songs On Big Subjects lyrics by Hy Zaret; music by Lou Singer; Robert DeCormier conductor Motivation MR-10
11b	1960	Everybody Sing! Vol. 1: Songs For Cubs 24 American folk songs specially selected for children Oscar Brand - That's What We Learn In The School Oscar Brand - Fooba Wooba John Marjorie Bennett - I Know An Old Lady Marjorie Bennett - This Old Man Bob Gibson - There's A Hole In The Bucket Bob Gibson - Noah Jean Ritchie - Hop Up My Ladies Jean Ritchie - Charlie Merrick Jarrett - Lone Star Trail Merrick Jarrett - Cowboy's Dream Milt Okun & Ellen Steckert - Paper Of Pins Milt Okun & Ellen Steckert - Jenny Jenkins Bob Gibson - There's A Meetin' Here Tonight Bob Gibson - Day O Ed McCurdy - Big Rock Candy Mountain Ed McCurdy - My Darling Clementine Jean Ritchie & Oscar Brand - Marching Through The Green Grass Jean Ritchie & Oscar Brand - Billy Boy Oscar Brand - Daisy Bell Oscar Brand - Sidewalks Of New York Oscar Brand - Band Played On Oscar Brand - After The Ball Oscar Brand - Good Night Ladies Leon Bibb - Good News Leon Bibb - Joshua Cynthia Gooding - All Through The Night Riverside/Wonderland RLP-1418
11c	1960	Everybody Sing! Vol. 3: Songs For Seniors 24 American folk songs specially selected for children Ed McCurdy - Worried Man Blues Ed McCurdy - Hand Me Down My Walking Cane Jean Ritchie & Oscar Brand - Pretty Little Reckless Boy Jean Ritchie & Oscar Brand - Who Killed Cock Robin Milt Okun & Ellen Stekert - Must I Go Bound Milt Okun & Ellen Stekert - The Cambric Shirt Leon Bibb - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Leon Bibb - Ride Up In The Chariot Peggy Seeger - Madam, I Have Come To Court You Peggy Seeger - The Farmer's Curst Wife Ray Boguslav - Crows In The Garden Ray Boguslav - Tobacco Herb Strauss - Aura Lee Herb Strauss - When Oscar Brand - Good Peanuts Oscar Brand - I Don't Want No More Of Army Life Cynthia Gooding - Go Way From My Window Cynthia Gooding - I Know Where I'm Going Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl - The Fish Of The Sea Peggy Seeger & Ewan MacColl - The Golden Vanity Bascomb Lamar Lunsford - I Shall Not Be Moved Bascomb Lamar Lunsford - Weeping Willow Tree Bob Gibson - Ol' Bill Bob Gibson - Michael, Row The Boat Ashore Riverside/Wonderland RLP-1420
12	1961	Leon Bibb Sings - Joey, Joey, Joey - John Hardy - Oh Shenandoah - A Quiet Girl - I Got A Song - Summertime - Dance Boatman - Maria - Bonnie Wee Girl - C. C. Rider - On My Way To Saturday - Lost In The Stars Orchestra conducted by Robert DeCormier; prod. by Joseph Scianni notes by Joseph Scianni Columbia Records CS 8562
13	1961	Folk Song & Minstrelsy LP 1: The Deller Consort - Sumer Is Icumen In - He That Will An Alehouse Keep - Greensleeves - We Be Soldiers Three Leon Bibb # - Come All Ye Fair And Tender Ladies - Squirrel - Cotton-Eyed Joe - Darlin' - Poor Lolette Ronnie Gilbert - The Golden Vanity - Go From My Window - Johnny Is Gone For A Soldier - Spanish Is A Loving Tongue - House Of The Rising Sun Cisco Houston - East Texas Red - Sinking Of The Reuben James LP 2: The Weavers - Meet The Johnson Boys - The Wild Goose Grasses - Aweigh, Santy Ano - Get Along Little Dogies - Erie Canal - We're All Dodgin' - State Of Arkansas - Greenland Whale Fisheries - Eddystone Light Odetta - I've Been Driving On Bald Mountain And Water Boy - Saro Jane - God's A-Gonna Cut You Down - John Riley - John Henry - All The Pretty Little Horses - No More Auction Block For Me LP 3: Odetta - The Foggy Dew - No More Cane On The Brazos - The Fox - He's Got The Whole World In His Hands - The Ox Driver - Another Man Done Gone - I'm Going Back To The Red Clay Country Cisco Houston - Talking Guitar Blues - Danville Girl - Old Dan Trucker - Buffalo Skinners - The Streets Of Laredo - Hard Travelin' - Bonneville Dam - Do Re Mi - The Wreck Of The Old 97 - John Hardy LP 4: Ed McCurdy - The Bold Fisherman - When The Cockle Shells Turn Silver Bells - Frankie And Johnny - Long A-Growing Joan Baez and Bob Gibson - Virgin Mary Had One Son Bob Gibson - Wayfaring Stranger John Jacob Niles - The Hangman, or The Maid Freed From The Gallows Alan Mills - I Know An Old Lady Tom Makem - Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye Tom Maken - The Whistling Gypsy Tom Maken - The Cobbler's Song Cisco Houston - Railroad Bill Cisco Houston - The Cat Came Back Pete Seeger - East Virginia Blues Jimmy Driftwood - Old Joe Clark Jimmy Driftwood - The Unfortunate Man # with an instrumental ensemble conducted by Milt Okun, John Stauber, Fred Hellerman (guitars) 4 LP box set with 24 page booklet Vanguard RL 7624 ("The Classics Record Library")
16	1962?	Leon Bibb: OH FREEDOM! and other Spirituals - Every Time I Feel The Spirit # - Motherless Child * - Good News # - Round About The Mountain * - Oh, Freedom - Daniel * - Nobody Knows # - Ride Up The Chariot # - In That Morning # - Poor Pilgrim # - Joshua # - Let Us Break Bread Together * - Honor, Honor # - Swing Low Sweet Chariot - I Got A Home In That Rock # - No More Auction Block * - Little Boy # Leon Bibb, voc; # Tanya Gould, p: * Walter Raim, g; prod. by Kenneth S. Goldstein notes by Kenneth S. Goldstein Washington WLP 701
17	1963	Leon Bibb: Encore! Leon Bibb in Concert - Mule Skinner - 500 Miles - The Lady Bug And The Centipede - Far Side Of The Hill - Stewball - Babe - Ox Driver - The Goony Bird Song - Love Song Medley - All Hid - Sing Hallelujah rec. live at Champlain College, Vt and Brooklyn College, New York with Stuart Scharf, g; prod. by Walter Raim; cover photo: Norman Vershay Liberty LRP-3327 / LST-7327
18	1964	Leon Bibb: Cherries & Plums - The Honey-Wind Blows - Eas'man - Adieu Madras - Cuddlebug - Cherries And Plums - Mary Ann - No One To Tell My Troubles To - When Spring Comes Around - Polly Oliver - The Fisherman - Quinto (My Little Pony) (from the film "Bitter Rice") - Rozhinkes mit Mandlen featured musicians: Stuart Scharf, Walter Raim, Jay Berlinger, g; Bill Lee, b; Eric Weissberg, bj & mandolin; Charles Layton, hca; Romeo Penque, oboe & flute; prod. by Walter Raim; cover photo: Jim Marshall Liberty LRP 3358 / LT 7358
19	1/1964	Leon Bibb - Little Boxes - Adieu Madras Liberty 55663
20	7/1964	Leon Bibb - Cherries And Plums - No One To Tell My Troubles To Liberty LIB 10161
21	1964	This Land Is Your Land Songs of Social Justice - Another Man Done Gone UAW more info
22	1965	Liberty Hootenanny Nancy Ames - Raise A Ruckus Bud And Travis - Down In The Valley The Johnny Mann Singers - Foggy Foggy Dew Leon Bibb - Muleskinner Walter Raim - Laredo Lament Jackie De Shannon - Sing Hallelujah Bud And Travis - Ah Nora, War Is Over Nancy Ames - Chilly Winds Bob Harter - Fair And Tender Ladies The Wanderers Three - The Riddle Song Leon Bibb - The Lady Bug And The Centipede The Johnny Mann Singers - Scarlett Ribbons Liberty L 5506
22a	1966	Spotlight on Latin America - Introduction to Latin America - Mexico Is Just Across The Border - Benito's Lullaby - How Do You Spell "Nicaragua" - Ay, Ay Brazil - Chuquicamata (Copper Mining In Chila) - Who Was Who In Latin America - Simon Bolivar - Chief Among The Indians - Some Geographical Terms - Deep Within The Earth (Volcanoes) - Highway Of Friendship (Pan Amarican Highway) - Adios Amigos Leon Bibb, Ronnie Gilbert, Robert Harter, Vivian Martin; Robert DeCormier, conductor Motivation MR 0646
23	1963	Folksong Digest Odetta - If I Had A Hammer Joan Baez - Banks Of The Ohio Leon Bibb - East Virginia The Weavers - The Boll Weevil Odetta - No More Cane On The Brazos Brother John Sellers, Sonny Terry - When I've Been Drinkin' The Weavers - Wimoweh Odetta - Dark As A Dungeon Brother John Sellers, Sonny Terry - I Love You, Baby Leon Bibb - Skillett The Weavers - Follow The Drinking Gourd Joan Baez - Rambler Gambler Leon Bibb - Darlin' Odetta - Pay Day At Coal Creek Brother John Sellers, Sonny Terry - Great Day Joan Baez - Fennario Amadeo AVRS-9125 (Austria 1963) Brother John Sellers discography
24	196?	All Star Hootenanny The New Christy Minstrels - This Land Is Your Land Orriel Smith - Down By The Glenside Pete Seeger - John Henry Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs with Mother Maybelle Carter - Worried Man Blues Leon Bibb - John Hardy The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - The Whistling Gypsy Johnny Cash - Nine Pound Hammer The Brothers Four - This Train Pete Seeger - Where Have All The Flowers Gone The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem - Brennan On The Moor Carolyn Hester - Swing And Turn Bob Dylan - Blowin In The Wind Columbia CL2122 mono
25	19??	Let's Sing Out! The Travellers The Halifax Three The Clancy Brothers Leon Bibb - Shenandoah Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs New Christy Minstrels Pete Seeger Carolyn Hester Bob Dylan Oxydol Presents! series pressed in Canada Oxydol promo only for the Canadian tv show Let's Sing Out Columbia Special Products Division XTV 88804 (Canada)
13	1966 2LP	African-American Poetry Theatre: a hand is on the gate Original Cast album. Featuring: Roscoe Lee Browne, Cicely Tyson, Moses Gunn, James Earl Jones, Leon Bibb, Josephine Premice, Ellen Holly, Gloria Foster. Arranged and Directed by Roscoe Lee Browne. The actors listed perform poetry, songs and text by Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Ted Joans, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright, James Weldon Johnson and many others arr. Bill Lee & Stuart Scharf Stuart Scharf, g Bill Lee, b Floyd Williams, perc Seldon Powell, fl Verve Folkways FVS 9040
25a	19?? 5 LPs	The 50 Greatest Folk Singers: Legendary Folk Songs LP # 5 (LWS-181) The Rooftop Singers - Walk Right In Joan Baez - Black Is The Color Leon Bibb - Shenandoah Odetta - Jumpin' Judy Jack Elliott - Roll On, Buddy The Weavers - Goodnight Irene Ian & Sylvia - CC Rider Mike Seeger - Ok Molly Dear Richard Dyer-Bennett - Lord Randall Josh White - Careless Love The Babysitters - Skip To My Lou The Greenbriar Boys - We Shall Not Be Moved 5 LP set Longines Symphonette Recording Society / Vanguard LONGIN LWS-176-181
26	196?	Windex presents A Hootenanny The Rooftop Singers - I've Been Working On The Railroad The Weavers - Boll Weevil Ian & Sylvia - Mary Ann Leon Bibb - I Know Where I'm Going The Rooftop Singers - Hey, Boys The Weavers - Go Tell Aunt Rhodie Ian & Sylvia - Long Lonesome Road Leon Bibb - Shenandoah Windex (no #)
27	196?	The Sound Of Folk Music - Rainbow Round My Shoulder Vanguard SRV-125 = Fontana TFL 6013
28	1969	Leon Bibb: Foment, Ferment, Free...Free - Brother Where Are You - Theme Brown Girl (for Gloria) - From Children Of The Ghetto - God Bless The Child - Rocks And Gravel - Slaves - Last Letter To The Western Civilisation - I Am Free - My Man - Dink's Song - Celebration rec. in RCA's Studios A and B, New York City; arranged and conducted by Coleridge Perkinson; prod. by Jim Foglesong; photos by Nick Sangiamo RCA LSP-4202
29	1969	Leon Bibb - Slaves - God Bless The Child RCA 74-0213
30	1970	This Is Leon Bibb - If We Only Have Love - Smile Away The Rain - Ma Rainey's Blues - I Climbed The Mountain - The Ballad Of The Virgin Soldiers - Another Spring - He Ain't Heavy... He's My Brother - Measure The Valleys - Turn, Turn, Turn - This Is My Life (La Vita) rec. in RCA's Studios A and B, New York City; prod. by Jim Foglesong notes by Sidney Poitier RCA LSP-4298
31	1970	Leon Bibb - The Ballad Of The Virgin Soldiers - Smile Away The Rain RCA 74-0322
32	1973	22 Greatest Hit Folksongs sung by America's Greatest Folksingers - Shenandoah Vanguard REC -SPV-8 / Columbia 1P60151
33	19??	Leon Bibb: The Now Composers - Patch Of Green (M. Barkan - A. Kornfeld) - If I Were A Carpenter (Tim Hardin) - In My Life (Lennon - McCartney) - Come Find Me (Lewis - Alterman) - Bon Soir Dame (B. Dashiell) - To Be A Man (Len Chandler) - Suzanne (Leonard Cohen) - The Times They Are A-Changing (Bob Dylan) - Here There And Everywhere (Lennon - McCartney) - Little Boxes (Malvina Reynolds - G. Raskin) prod. by Artie Kornfeld notes by Leonard Aronson Phillips PHS 600-249
34	1985	'Jacques Brel Lives ...' The Original Cast of the Vancouver Arts Club production 'Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living In Paris' Leon Bibb - Alone - Amsterdam Jabula 38 more info
35	1991	Dance Theatre Of Harlem: Alex North's Ballet "A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" Milton Rosenstock's Ballet "THE LEGEND OF JOHN HENRY" with vocals by Leon Bibb Premier PRCD-1017
36	1997	Vanguard Collector's Edition - I Seen Little Rosie Vanguard CD 6366
37	1997	Leon Bibb: Shenandoah - The Eagle And Me - Back-Water Blues - Little David Play On Your Harp - River Medley - Anyplace I Hang My Hat Is Home - September Song - Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child - Everytime I Feel The Spirit - Amsterdam - Shenandoah Leon Bibb Productions CD LB 9701 available from www.newworldcds.com
38	2001 5 CDs	The Long Road to Freedom An Anthology of Black Music - Follow the Drinking Gourd - Eas' Man BUDDHA / BMG CDs 74465 997562 more info
39	2002	Leon & Eric Bibb: A Family Affair - Oh, Had I A Golden Threat - Sylvie - Look Over Yonder - Five Haundred Miles - Love Like A Good Song - Let Me Fly - Deep River/I've Known Rivers/Mirey - There's A River - Turn On All The Lights - Look Inside Your Heart - Fields Of Gold - Balm In Gilead Manhaton HATMAN 2007 = Jericho Beach JBM 0202 (Ca) = Tradition & Moderne 023 (D) Eric Bibb discography
40	2003	Leon Bibb: Lift Every Voice And Sing - This Little Light Of Mine - Higher Ground - Smile - Somewhere - Have I Told You Lately That I Love You - Five Hundred Miles - Shingle By Shingle - Fields Of Gold - Everything Must Change - Lift Every Voice And Sing - This Little Light Of Mine (reprise) prod. and arr. by Bill Sample for Taste Music Productions Ltd.
41	2006	Leon & Eric Bibb: Praising Peace - A Tribute To Paul Robeson - The Prelude (Ol' Man River) - Joe Hill - Praising Peace - Put On Your Robe Son - Motherless Child - Home In That Rock - Weepin' Mary - The House That I Live In - Shenandoah / The Water Is Wide - On Our Journey - Danny Boy - Deep River - Ol' Man River - A Friend Like You Stony Plain 1318 (Ca) Eric Bibb discography

thanks to Jim Schmidt, Linda Cleveland and Thomas Stern for additional information / scans

series of Leon Bibb photos from eBay auctions

photo from flyer 'Folk Music on Vanguard'

from cover of 'Shenandoah'; photo: Rob Kruyt

Leon Bibb (source: 'Shenandoah' CD (1997); photographer: Rob Kruyt)

from liner notes to 'Shenandoah'; photo: Helesia Luke

Leon Bibb (source: 'Shenandoah' CD (1997); photographer: Helesia Luke)

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

1969 bio (Stambler, Irvin & Landon Grelun: Encyclopedia of Folk, Country and Western Music.- New York / London 1969, p. 27)
1969 Leon Bibb biography (Stambler, Irvin & Landon Grelun: Encyclopedia of Folk, Country and Western Music.- New York / London 1969, p. 27)
1959 Leon Bibb biography

Lobby card from 'For Love of Ivy' (1968). Directed by Daniel Mann. Starring Sidney Poitier, Abbey Lincoln, Beau Bridges, Leon Bibb, Nan Martin, Lauri Peters, Lester Mack, Carroll O'Connor, Mae Crane.
Leon Bibb filmography
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The Folk Singers Song Bag, Vol. 2
1963 sheet music compilation by Sanga Music of New York
Contains 21 songs with words and guitar chords as sung by the likes of Harry Belafonte, Leon Bibb, Chad Mitchell Trio, The Highwaymen, Cisco Houston, Limeliters, Odetta, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul & Mary, Shel Silverstein, The Weavers and others

1959 Leon Bibb biography

Leon Bibb filmography Happy Birthday page

Leon Bibb filmography
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