Who has recorded 'Summer Wages'

Subject: Tune Req: MP3 for Summer Wages
From: mg
Date: 08 Jan 10 - 07:48 PM

Does someone have an MP3 of this they could send me for personal use? The original of Ian and Sylvia if indeed they did it..I have him on youtube but he has altered it by then. mg

Subject: RE: Tune Req: MP3 for Summer Wages
From: Stewart
Date: 08 Jan 10 - 08:03 PM

Hi Mary, not a mp3, but a Youtube video
starts with an interview with Ian Tyson
and ends with Ian sing Summer Wages

Cheers, S. in Seattle

Subject: RE: Tune Req: MP3 for Summer Wages
From: M.Ted
Date: 08 Jan 10 - 09:36 PM

She has the Youtube video, Stewart--send me your email, Mary, I've got it--

Subject: Who has recorded 'Summer Wages'
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 05:36 PM

Besides Nanci Griffith, Bobby Bare and Ian Tyson and Dan Maher. mg

Subject: RE: Who has recorded 'Summer Wages'
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 05:56 PM

dunno, but our own Fortunato does it quite well.

Subject: RE: Who has recorded 'Summer Wages'
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 05:57 PM

David Bromberg

Subject: RE: Who has recorded 'Summer Wages'
From: zozimus
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 06:15 PM

Also recorded by J.D.Crowe and the New South, featuring Tony Rice (vocals) and Ricky Skaggs, Great Bluegrass CD

Subject: RE: Who has recorded 'Summer Wages'
From: Arkie
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 06:41 PM

The Good Brothers

Subject: RE: Who has recorded 'Summer Wages'
From: pdq
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 06:46 PM

Tony Rice's version on his solo record "Native American" is probably better than the one on the New South record, but both are "must have" status. The US has been making great music like this for almost 40 years and yet it never gets played on "for profit" radio stations.

Subject: RE: Who has recorded 'Summer Wages'
From: GUEST,Gerry
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 08:37 PM

Greg Brown and Bill Morrisey on their album, Friend of Mine.

Subject: RE: Who has recorded 'Summer Wages'
From: Gern
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 09:10 PM

J.D. Crowe & the New South recoded a bluegrass version with Tony Rice on guitar and vocals.

Subject: RE: Who has recorded 'Summer Wages'
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 09 Mar 10 - 09:14 PM

I record a copy of it every time I burn a road CD for a long car trip. But I don't suppose that was the question.

D

Subject: RE: Who has recorded 'Summer Wages'
From: GUEST,sb
Date: 30 Mar 12 - 04:22 AM

George the number (aka George Hamilton IV) recorded Summer Wages on the album Canadian Pacific along with songs by Gordon Lightfoot, Buffy St. Marie, Leonard Cohen, and Ray Griff

Subject: RE: Who has recorded 'Summer Wages'
From: GUEST,Erich
Date: 30 Mar 12 - 04:56 AM

The irish group "Any Old Time" (Mick Daly, Dave Hennessey, Matt Cranitch) has recorded it in 1982 on their Mulligan LP LUN 047.

Subject: RE: Who has recorded 'Summer Wages'
From: GUEST,Gib Sosman
Date: 19 Sep 14 - 03:31 PM

Re: "Summer Wages":

Last year I went looking for a version I could download for a friend who hadn't heard it in 20 years or more, but finding the version I remembered of this song took a while.

I was looking for the original but kept finding Ian's later version, which I thought was over-orchestrated.

Finally found the original version, (on YouTube), a video in which the 45 rpm record's owner plays it on an old record player.

The sound is very good, considering. Photos on the Web of some of the surviving 45 records of this song led me to believe it may not have been released either as a single or on an album, since it is now apparently quite scarce or even rare.

It was a hit for a while on the radio, so it's hard to imagine it wasn't in stores or put in an album collection. But I couldn't find any albums with it or any normal consumer 45 rpm records of it.

The only copies of the original record which I could find on the Web were "not for sale" promo records for radio stations.
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P.S.
This website is fascinating, for music lovers, what a tremendous archive of information! Thank you Mudcat Dot Or

Subject: RE: Who has recorded 'Summer Wages'
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 19 Sep 14 - 11:30 PM

To my knowledge first recorded on Vanguard records by Ian and Sylvia, So Much For Dreaming about 1968. Also recorded The French Girl which is very nice indeed.

Don

Subject: RE: Who has recorded 'Summer Wages'
From: GUEST,Gib Sosman
Date: 12 Sep 15 - 06:37 AM

"So Much For dreaming" (album) is listed on Amazon with audio samples of the tracks, but the "Summer wages" track is definitely not the same as the one that was a hit on country stations in about 1975.

Subject: RE: Who has recorded 'Summer Wages'
From: GUEST,Jerome Clark
Date: 12 Sep 15 - 07:20 PM

The most recent recording of "Summer Wages" is on the just-released Songs of Heart & Home by Greg Blake. It's a bluegrass album, and quite a good one, I might add.

Subject: RE: Who has recorded 'Summer Wages'
From: GUEST,gib sosman
Date: 19 Oct 18 - 02:38 PM

my most favorite recording of it is the one that was a country radio hit in '75 or maybe '76. it's on youtube labeled "alternate take". it's not jusy my favorite but the only version i like... to me, the earler and later recordings are much inferior.