Midnight Special: The Skiffle Years, 1953-57

Compilation by Lonnie Donegan

Released 2008

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CD 1
1
Hard Time Blues (live)
3:02
2
Nobody's Child (live)
3:45
3
You Don't Know My Mind (live)
2:15
4
Midnight Special (live)
Lonnie Donegan vocal: Ken Colyer
3:07
5
John Henry (radio Broadcast)
2:16
6
Midnight Special (radio Broadcast)
Lonnie Donegan vocal: Ken Colyer
2:22
7
Rock Island Line (Decca)
2:26
8
John Henry (Decca)
2:04
9
Nobody's Child (Decca)
3:04
10
Wabash Cannonball (Decca)
2:14
11
Precious Lord, Lead Me On (live)
3:14
12
Over in the New Burying Ground (live)
3:22
13
Leavin' Blues (live)
3:51
14
Diggin' My Potatoes (Decca single)
3:38
15
Bury My Body (Decca single)
3:23
16
The Passing Stranger (Oriole single)
3:07
17
On a Christmas Day (Columbia single)
1:59
18
Take My Hand, Precious Lord (Columbia single)
3:48
19
When I Move to the Sky (radio Broadcast)
Lonnie Donegan with Ottilie Patterson
4:30
20
On a Monday (radio Broadcast)
2:51
21
Midnight Special (Polygon Broadcast)
2:12
22
When the Sun Goes Down
3:50
23
New Buryin' Ground
3:27
24
Worried Man Blues
2:08
25
Harmonica Blues
Lonnie Donegan harmonica: Chris Barber
2:27
CD 2
1
(In the Evening) When the Sun Goes Down (radio Broadcast)
3:27
2
Midnight Special (radio Broadcast)
2:38
3
Railroad Bill (radio Broadcast)
2:46
4
Lost John
2:41
5
Stewball
2:08
6
Lost John (radio Broadcast)
3:19
7
Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad (radio Broadcast)
Lonnie Donegan vocal: Dickie Bishop
2:35
8
The Ballad of Jesse James
Lonnie Donegan vocal: Dickie Bishop
2:36
9
Ol' Riley
2:42
10
Railroad Bill
2:19
11
Stackalee (Stack O'Lee)
Lonnie Donegan vocal: Dickie Bishop
3:11
12
Bring a Little Water, Sylvie
2:25
4.0 ★
13
Dead or Alive
2:30
4.0 ★
14
Wabash Cannonball
1:55
15
HowHow Long, How Long Blues
2:33
16
Nobody's Child
4:54
17
I Shall Not Be Moved
2:21
18
I'm Alabammy Bound
1:49
19
I'm a Ramblin' Man
4:53
20
Wreck of the Old '97
2:26
21
Frankie and Johnny
5:20
22
I've Got Rocks in My Bed
3:51
23
Rock Island Line (Unissued)
3:20
24
Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O
1:41
CD 3
1
On a Monday (live)
2:38
2
Old Hannah (Go Down Old Hannah) (live)
2:46
3
Mule Skinner Blues (live)
4:58
4
Precious Memories (live)
Lonnie Donegan vocal: Dickie Bishop
2:34
5
Brother Moses Smothe the Water (live)
2:12
6
Ella Speed (live)
3:24
7
Glory (False Start) (live)
0:58
8
Black Girl (live)
2:54
9
Glory (live)
5:30
10
I'm Alabammy Bound (radio Broadcast)
2:54
11
Cumberland Gap (radio Broadcast)
3:18
12
Don't You Rock Me Daddy-O (radio Broadcast)
2:19
13
Bring a Little Water Sylvie (radio Broadcast)
2:50
14
Cumberland Gap
1:57
15
Love Is Strange
2:52
16
Puttin' On the Style
3:35
17
Gamblin' Man
3:17
18
My Dixie Darling
2:59
19
I'm Just a Rolling Stone
4:08
20
Jack O'Diamonds
2:47
21
Ham 'n' Eggs
3:17
22
Hard Travellin'
2:23
23
The Grand Coulee Dam
2:37
24
Nobody Loves Like an Irishman
2:40