title: The Wayfaring Stranger (album)
text: # The Wayfaring Stranger (album)
  
  The Wayfaring Stranger (Asch 345) 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 (C-103) – also called The Wayfaring Stranger and itself a re-release of a 1941 album on Okeh Records – which contains 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 (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 cassette tape (Stinson CA-1). 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 listing for record 1 (Asch or Stinson 345–1) :
  
  | Track | Song Title |
  | - | - |
  | A1. | Poor Wayfaring Stranger |
  | A2. | Buckeye Jim |
  | B1. | The Bold Soldier |
  | B2. | The Sow Took the Measles |
  
  Track listing for record 2 (Asch or Stinson 345–2) :
  
  | Track | Song Title |
  | - | - |
  | C. | The Foggy Foggy Dew |
  | D. | Black Is the Color |
  
  Track listing for record 3 (Asch or Stinson 345–3) :
  
  | Track | Song Title |
  | - | - |
  | E. | Henry Martin |
  | F. | The Blue Tail Fly |
  
  Stinson SLP-1 track listing Side One (Stinson SLP-1A) :
  
  | Track | Song Title |
  | - | - |
  | 1. | Poor Wayfaring Stranger |
  | 2. | Black Is The Color |
  | 3. | The Foggy Foggy Dew |
  | 4. | Buckeye Jim |
  | 5. | The Bold Soldier |
  
  Stinson SLP-2 track listing Side Two (Stinson SLP-2A) :
  
  | Track | Song Title |
  | - | - |
  | 1. | The Sow Took the Measles |
  | 2. | The Blue Tail Fly |
  | 3. | Henry Martin |
  | 4. | The Fox (Bonus Track) |
  | 5. | Brennan on the Moor (Bonus Track) |
  