my deepest cndolences to Caroline and the family
How sad to lose Sandy!
He made so many contributions to the folk world.
A folklorist and field recorder, a vast knowledge of song, generously shared,
Folk-Legacy records the source of important traditional and folk-revival recordings,
always encouraging the projects of others,
and through his and Carolines singing at many folk events.

I've cobbled together a chronology from web
sources, far from complete, but perhaps of
interest:


Charles Alexander (Sandy) Paton
b.1929 Florida
d.26 July 2009
father regular army man
Ohio, Kansas, Seattle (5 years)
1950 left "home"   NY trained as actor
1952 interest in Folk Music through Warren Povey
1954 left acting for folk singing
1955 Park Lane Hotel, Toledo; Plantation Inn
Spring 57 Saturday night folk radio show in SF
Sept 57 UCB concert
appeared with Walt Robertson, Paul Clayton, Richard Chase
met Caroline
Nov 1957 to England
1958 London
performed at Folksong Unlimited, Troubadour Coffee House, Eel Pie Island
travelled Britain, Scottish Highlands
1960 Chicago added folkmusic to record department at Krock's and Brentano's bookstore
1961 formed Folk-Legacy Records with LEE BAKER HAGGERTY(1930-2000)

AWARDS - Sandy and Caroline Paton have been honored by:
the California Traditional Music Society,
the Memphis Dulcimer Festival,
the Eisteddfod Festival of Traditional Arts in Massachusetts,
and others.
1993 Connecticut Commission on the Arts "official State Troubadours"


RECORDINGS of Sandy Paton/Sandy and Caroine Paton
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Jazz Collector JEA.1 American Folk Songs Vol.1
liner notes: Colin Pomroy
Sandy Paton Sings (vocal and guitar)
A1 East Virginia Blues
A2 Rovin' Gambler
B1 Every Night When The Sun Goes In
B2 Cool Colorado

   
Collector Records JEA 2 Sandy Paton sings American Folk Songs Vol.2
Recorded, London, September 29th 1958
recording engineer Stanhope Blaikley
Supervision by Colin Pomroy
liner notes: Paul carter
A1 Captain Wedderburn's Courtship
A2 Wife of Ushers Well
B1 Twa Sisters
B2 The Farmer's Cursed Wife


Collector JEA 3 Sandy Paton Folk Songs of Love
Alberta
At The Foot Of Yonders Mount
Colorado Trail
Cuckoo


Elektra 148 The many sides of Sandy Paton (1958)
additional guitar accompaniments by Fred Hellerman
liner notes: Robert Sherman
song notes: Kenneth S. Goldstein
insert booklet song texts
Production supervisor, Jac Holzman
Engineer, David B. Jones
A1 Captian Wedderburn's Courtship
A2 The Wee Magic Stane
A3 Katy Cruel
A4 An Auld Man
A5 The Overgate
A6 Twa Heids
A7 Auld Maid in a Garret
A8 Wee Croodlin' Doo

B1 Daily Growing
B2 Byker Hill
B3 The Foggy Dew
B4 Coming Home From the Wake
B5 Wild Mountain Thyme
B6 The Begging Tongue
B7 I Never Go To Work
B8 Children's Songs

Elektra EKL 223 A Treasury of Folk Songs for Children: Various Artists - 1962
Production: Jac Holzman
Side 1 - Fun Songs
1A10 Sandy Paton: I Never Go To Work
1A11 Sandy Paton: Street Songs

Elektra SMP 6 The Folk Scene: Various Artists
- Sandy Paton: Daily Growing


Topic TOP 57 Hush Little Baby - Sandy and Caroline Paton   (p)1960
American songs and ballads sung as lullabies
sleeve by Brian Byfield, insert notes
"During Sandy and Caroline Paton's stay in Britain their first child was born.
On this record the Patons sing some of the songs that young David Paton liked."
A1 Perrie Merrie Dixi Domini
A2 Katy Cruel
A3 The Quaker Courtship
B1 Hush Little Baby
B2 Lord Bateman
B3 Tittery Nan Tum Tario


Droll Yankees DY-9 NEVER TRUST A SKIER Sandy Paton    1961
in the Alpen Inn, Sugarbush Valley, Vermont.
A1 Bend in his Knees
A2 Farmer's Cursed Wife
A3 The Great American Bum
A4 The Ballad of Dr.Freud
A5 Hi-Ro-Jerum
A6 Fire Down Below

B1 The Goddam Cat
B2 Go 'Way, Old Man, Go 'Way
B3 Duncan and Brady
B4 Never Trust A Skier
B5 Go 'Way From My Window
B6 Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies
B7 Gamblin' Man


Biograph BLP-12051 Fox Hollow 10th Anniversary, Vol.1       LP (1975)
-Wild Mountain Thyme [1966]


Folk-Legacy 30 Sandy and Caroline Paton
Across the Blue Mountain
Chillly Winds
Coulter's Candy
Foggy Dew, The
Good Old Days of Adam and Eve
I Woke Up In a Dry Bed
I'm A Rambler and a Gambler
I've Traveled This Country
Johnny, Oh, Johnny
Lamoile River Song, The
Loving Hannah
Meekins and Morkins
Now My Friends, the Meeting Is Over
Rivers of Texas, The
Unquiet Grave, The


Folk-Legacy 52 - Sandy and Caroline Paton - I've Got a Song
Aiken Drum
Bump-A-Deedle
By 'M By
Come Along John
Hey Little Boy
I Know A Little Blue-Eyed Baby
I Live in a Great Big Building
I've Got a Song
James, James
Little Johnny Brown
Magic Penny
Mama Lend Me Your Pigeon
Move Over
Opposite Song
This Is a Song
Watch the Stars
You Can't Make a Turtle Come Out


Folk-Legacy 100 Sandy and Caroline Paton - New Harmony
All Gone For Grog
Didn't I Dance
Great Storm Is Over, The
Hori Horo
I Have Seen My Valley
Joshuay
Log Driver's Waltz
May the Roads Rise With You
New Harmony
Rambling Man
Roustabout Song
Rowdy Soul


Folk-Legacy 1002 Sandy and Caroline Paton - When the Spirit Says Sing
Apples and Bananas
Chickens They Are Crowing
Comet
Cousin Emmy's Blues
Dig a Geoduck
Farmer's Curst Wife
Flea Fly
Froggie
Geoduck Reprise
Julian of Norwich
One Bottle Pop
Peace Like a River
Peanut Butter Jam
Peanut Butter Jam
River, Take Me Along
Rubber Blubber Whale
Skin and Bones
Underwears
Vine and Fig Tree
Waltzing With Bears
When the Spirit Says Sing



RECORDINGS by Sandy Paton
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Folkways FA2360 Frank Profitt (Edited by Frank Warner) 1962
A1 Beaver Dam Road      1:26
A2 Cindy                2:16
A3 Bo Lamkin            4:08
A4 Julie Jenkins       1:46
A5 George Collins       2:24
A6 Ninety and Nine      3:23
A7 Down in the Valley   2:46
B1 Baby-O               1:37
B2 Old Abe             3:31
B3 Poor Ellen Smith    1:50
B4 Dan Doo             1:55
B5 John Hardy          2:27
B6 Ground Hog          1:56
B7 Johnson Boys         1:46


Folkways FA2362 Horton Barker 1962
A1 Wayfaring Stranger                3:56
A2 Wondrous Love                      4:26
A3 The Gypsy's Wedding Day            2:56
A4 The Miller's Will                  3:16
A5 Amazing Grace                      4:20
A6 Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender      4:29
A7 Bow and Balance                   5:26
B1 At the Foot of Yonders Mountain    2:00
B2 The Turkish Rebilee                4:41
B3 Blue-Haired Jimmy                  2:12
B4 The Drunkard's Courtship          1:47
B5 The Farmer's Curst Wife            3:07
B6 There Was an Old Lady             2:22
B7 Rolly Trudum                      2:40
B8 City Four Square                   4:14
B9 Devilish Mary                      2:16
B10 Hop, Old Rabbit, Hop               1:23
B11 Sweet Mary                         1:41
B12 Paddy Doyle                        1:51


New World Records NW-239/80239 BRAVE BOYS - New England Traditions in Folk Music
Produced and recorded in the field by Sandy Paton (p)1977/1995
Featuring recordings of Gail Stoddard Storm, Lewis Lund, Ben Mandel, Gale Huntington, Sara Cleveland, Lawrence Older, Mrs. Morris Austin, Harvey Tolman, the Van Arsdales, and many others
booklet with historical text by Sandy Paton, plus information on the recordings artists, each song and the lyrics. Released 1977.


Folk-Legacy CD-1 Frank Proffitt of Reese, NC
Bonnie James Campbell
Cluck Old Hen
Going Across the Mountain
Gyps of David
Handsome Molly
I'll Never Get Drunk No More
I'm Going Back to North Carolina
Lord Randall
Moonshine
Morning Fair
Reuben Train
Rye Whiskey
Song of a Lost Hunter or Love Henr
Sourwood Mountain
Tom Dooley (Dula)
Trifling Woman
Wild Bill Jones


Folk-Legacy CD-36 Frank Proffitt - Memorial Album
Blackberry Wine
Everybody's Got to Be Tried
Got No Sugar Baby Now
I'm A Long Time Traveling Here Bel
Little Birdie
Little White Robe
Lord Lovell
Man of Constant Sorrow
Oh, Lord, What a Morning
Poor Man
Poor Soldier
Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down
Shake Hands With Mother Again
Shulls Mills
Single Girl
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?


Folk Legacy CD 125 Ballads and Songs of Tradition
1. Cutty's Wedding - Jeannie Robertson, Aberdeen, Scotland.
    Recorded in Edinburgh by Hamish Henderson with Sandy Paton, September, 1958;
2. Gyps of David (Child 200) - Frank Proffitt, Reese, NC.
    Recorded by Sandy Paton, September, 1961;
3. Gypsy Davy (Child 200) - Lawrence Older, Middle Grove, NY.
    Recorded by Sandy Paton, 1964;
4. Are You Sleeping, Maggie - Jeannie Robertson, Aberdeen, Scotland.
    Recorded by Hamish Henderson with Sandy Paton, September, 1958;
5. Hind Horn (Child 17) - Joe Estey, New Brunswick, Canada.
    Recorded by Lee Haggerty and Henry Felt, August, 1963;
6. My Bonny Boy (Laws 0 35) - Lizzie Higgins, Aberdeen, Scotland.
    Recorded in Aberdeen, Scotland, by Sandy Paton with Hamish Henderson, September, 1958;
7. Bonny James Campbell (Child 210) - Frank Proffitt, Reese, NC.
    Recorded by Sandy Paton, September, 1961;
8. The House Carpenter (Child 243) - Lee Monroe Presnell, Beech Mountain, NC.
    Recorded by Diane Hamilton, Paul Clayton and Liam Clancy, 1956;
9. The House Carpenter (Child 243) - Dave Thompson, Sugar Grove, NC.
    Recorded by Lee Haggerty and Henry Felt, 1963;
10. Twa Brothers (Child 49) - Jeannie Robertson, Aberdeen, Scotland.
    Recorded in Edinburgh by Hamish Henderson with Sandy Paton, September, 1958;
11. The Jolly Tinker (Laws L 13) - James Brown, New Brunswick, Canada.
    Recorded by Sandy Paton with Dr. Edward Ives, August, 1962;
12. Tom Sherman's Barroom (Laws B 1) - Vern Smelser, Paoli, IN.
    Recorded by Pat Dunford and Lee Haggerty, 1963;
13. Lost Jimmy Whalen (Laws C 8) - Marie Hare, Strathadam, New Brunswick, Canada.
    Recorded by Sandy Paton, 1962;
14. I'll Get Married A-Sunday - William Harrison Burnett, Fayetteville, AR.
    Recorded by Sandy Paton, 1962;
15. The Bunch of Watercresses - Joe Estey, New Brunswick, Canada.
    Recorded by Lee Haggerty and Henry Felt, August, 1963;
16. The Overgate - Jeannie Robertson, Aberdeen, Scotland.
    Recorded in Edinburgh, Scotland, by Hamish Henderson with Sandy Paton, September, 1958;
17. The Young Man who Wouldn't Hoe Corn (Laws H 13) -Vern Smelser, Paoli, IN.
    Recorded by Pat Dunford and Lee Haggerty, 1963;
18. Sweet Sixteen - William Harrison Burnett, Fayetteville, AR.
    Recorded by Sandy Paton, December, 1962;
19. He Never Came Back - Mrs Miner (Harriet Hall) Griffin, Fayetteville, AR.
    Recorded by Sandy Paton, 1962;
20. The Old Arm Chair - Lee Monroe Presnell, Beech Mountain, NC.
    Recorded by Diane Hamilton, Paul Clayton and Liam Clancy, 1956;
21. The Old Arm Chair - Grant Rogers, Walton, NY.
    Recorded by Sandy Paton, 1964