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 a re-release of a 1941 album on Okeh Records - containing different songs. The Asch album includes the first releases of two signature songs by Ives: "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" and "The Blue Tail Fly."[1]
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.[2]
| Song Title | |
| A1. | Poor Wayfaring Stranger |
| A2. | Buckeye Jim |
| B1. | The Bold Soldier |
| B2. | The Sow Took the Measles |
| Song Title | |
| C. | The Foggy Foggy Dew |
| D. | Black Is the Color |
| Song Title | |
| E. | Henry Martin |
| F. | The Blue Tail Fly |
| Song Title | ||
| 1. | Poor Wayfaring Stranger | |
| 2. | Black Is The Color | |
| 3. | The Foggy Foggy Dew | |
| 4. | Buckeye Jim | |
| 5. | The Bold Soldier |
| 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) |