- Lead Belly:
The Midnight Special (theme) Last Sessions
Smithsonian Folkways SFCD-40068/71
- Joe Jencks: Singers of Life
I Hear Your Voice Turtle Bear TBR 0101003-1
- Fiddler on the Roof (Zero Mostel-orig. cast): To Life (Jerry Bock/Sheldon Harnick) RCA Victor 82876-51430-2
- Josh White: Live the Life (Thomas A. Dorsey) The Elektra Years
Rhino-Handmade RHM2 7879
- Danny Kaye: Life Could Not Better Be
(Cahn/Fine) The Best of Danny Kaye Music Club MCCD 233
- Phil Ochs: Cross My Heart
Pleasures of the Harbor (died 4/9/1976) A&M Sp 4133
- Lucy Kaplansky: I Had Something
(Kaplansky/Litvin-Kaplansky) The Red Thread Red House RHRCD 166
- Carrie Newcomer: The Gathering of Spirits
Betty's Diner - The Best of Carrie Newcomer Philo 11671 1 245-2
- Colum Sands: The Note That Lingers On
Spring SCD 1051
- Claudia Schmidt: Old Devil Time
(Pete Seeger) New Goodbyes / Old Helloes Flying Fish FF70364
- You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (orig. B'way cast): T-E-A-M (The Baseball Game)
(Clark Gesner) Decca 012 159 851-2
- Bill Cosby: Baseball
Bill Cosby UNI 73066
- Elmo & Patsy: Will You Be Ready (At the Plate When Jesus Throws the Ball) (E.&P. Shropshire)
Baseball's Greatest Hits, Let's Play II Rhino R270959-2
- Heidi Muller: I Like Baseball
Giving Back Cascadia CM103
- Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen:
Tide and the River Rising (Cindy Kallett) A Sense of Place
Redwing RWMCD 5409
- Paul Geremia: Rising River Blues
(trad fr. Geo.Carter) Love, Murder & Mosquitoes Red House RHRCD 172
- Anne Hills: Wait by the River
Bittersweet Street Redwing RWMCD 5402
- Win Stracke: The First Baseball Game (DePaul/Raye) Songs of Old Town Flair S-912
- Bob Newhart: Nobody Will Ever Play Baseball The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart Warner Bros. WS-1399
- John McCutcheon: baseball monologue / I Am Here
(Midnight Special NYE party - 1/1/05) WFMT recording
- Tom Paxton: My Favorite Spring
Live for the Record Sugar Hill SHCD-1053
- David Massengill: My Home Must Be a Special Place
Gadfly Gad281
- Lucy Kaplansky: This Is Home
(Kaplansky/Kaplansky-Litvin) The Red Thread Red House RHRCD 166
- Ronny Cox: You Can't Go Home Again
Ronny Cox Live self
- Rod MacDonald: You Who Sleep Beside Me
Recognition Wind River WR4028CD
- Claudia Schmidt: Folding Sheets
(Anne Marie Oomen) Roads Pragmavision IR 22032
- Judy Collins: Since You Asked
Colors of the Day - The Best of Judy Collins Elektra 75030-2
- Howard Levy & Paul Sprawl:
Security (Levy) Howard Levy & Paul Sprawl Balkan Samba
- Tanglefoot: Traighli Bay
(Al Parrish) Captured Alive Borealis BCD157
- Rick Lee: The Merry Golden Tree
(trad-arr.Rick Lee) Look What Thoughts Will Do Swift River SRM CD-111
- Newfoundland Kitchen Party:
The Pirate Admiral (G.J.Drover) Rebels, Rogues & Pirates NKP1
- Frank Meyer: Pirates in Pittsburgh
Dagnabit Thangmaker 2004
- Wayne and Shuster: A Shakespearean Baseball Game Wayne & Shuster Columbia CS 8231
- Steve Goodman: A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request
No Big Surprise Red Pajamas RPJ-008
- Jean Shepherd: Balls
Jean Shepherd and other foibles Collectors' Choice CCM-343-2
- David Roth: New Cubs' Lament private pressing
- Maria Dunn: God Bless Us Everyone
For a Song Distant Whisper MARCD02
- Kim & Reggie Harris and Magpie:
When I'm Gone (close) (Phil Ochs) Spoken in Love Longtail LT003-2
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RICH'S PICKS:
Colum Sands, Rick Lee
These concerts were mentioned on the program:
Joe Jencks at the Two Way Street Coffee House,
1047 Curtiss, Downers Grove, Friday, April 15 at 8:15. 630-969-9720
Ronny Cox will be there April 22.
Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen at the Maple Street Chapel,
Main & Maple, Lombard, Saturday, April 16 at 7:30. 630-627-0171
Claudia Schmidt performs with Tish Hinojosa at Fitzgerald's,
6615 Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn, Thursday, April 14. 708-788-2118
Claudia Schmidt also performs with Rod MacDonald at Charlotte's
Web in Rockford on Friday, April 15 and
for the World Folk Music Company,
1808 W. 103rd St., Chicago on Saturday, April 16. 773-779-7059
Anne Hills performs a benefit concert at the First Congregational Church of Evanston, 1445 N. Hinman,
Evanston, Saturday, April 16 at 8. 773-283-4361 or 773-924-5057
Paul Geremia performs for Hogeye Folk Arts, Ltd. Saturday, April 16
at 7:30 at the Lake St. Church, 607 Lake at Chicago Ave., Evanston.
847-475-6165 / web site
Rod MacDonald performs at Someplace Else,
at the Highlands Presbyterian Church, 1901 W. 59th St., LaGrange, Saturday, April 16 at 7. 708-246-1911
David Massengill performs for the Lake County Folk Club
at the Greenleaf Grill, 301 Greenleaf St., Park City, Sunday, April 17 at 7. 847-566-1004
Tanglefoot in concert for Off Square Music,
Unitarian Church of Woodstock, 221 Dean, Woodstock, Saturday, April 16 at 8. 815-479-9933 /
website
Maria Dunn in a house concert in Oak Park, Sunday, April 10 at 2.
708-848-2205.
Lucy Kaplansky, and Carrie Newcomer perform at the
Old Town School of Folk Music,
4544 N. Lincoln Ave., Sunday, May 1 at 4. 773-728-6000