I also would like to know something of JOHN & LUCY ALLISON's background. Anyone have birth/death dates for them??
Below is a list of the recordings I am aware of.
Thanks for any information.
Best wishes, Thomas.

John & Lucy Allison

radio: The Jubileers'
Sawyer's Minute Men
The American Folk Singers
The Allisons
The Connecticut Folk Singers


RCA Victor Set P-11 Ballads of the American Revolution and the War of 1812
                      Folk Song Series Vol.1
A program of Early American Songs taken from the Collection of John Allison

John and Lucy Allison and Sawyer's Minute Men
(Dick Sawyer, John Mitchell and Bill Mitchell)

Victor (black label, gold print) 26458-26462 5-10" 78rpm
insert booklet of notes by John Allison, texts

P 11-1 26458-A
1.Free America
2.Unhappy Boston
3.The White Cockade
John and Lucy Allison
with Sawyer's Minutemen
Singing with accordion, bass and guitar

P 11-2 26458-B
1.Yankee Doodle
2.The Boston Tea Tax
John and Lucy Allison
with Sawyer's Minutemen
Singing and whistling with drums, accordion, bass and guitar

P 11-3 26459-A
The Chieftain's Bride
John and Lucy Allison
with Sawyer's Minutemen
Singing with accordion, bass and guitar

P 11-4 26459-B
The Bombardment of Bristol, R.I.
John Allison
with Sawyer's Minutemen
Singing with oboe, accordion, bass and guitar

P 11-5 26460-A
1.Ballad of Bunker Hill
2.The Death of Warren
John and Lucy Allison
with Sawyer's Minutemen
Singing with accordion, bass and guitar

P 11-6 26460-B
1.Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier
2.Riflemen's Song at Bennington
John and Lucy Allison
with Sawyer's Minutemen
Singing with drum, accordion, bass and guitar

P 11-8 26461-A
1.The Capture of Major Andre
John Allison
with Sawyer's Minutemen
Singing with accordion, bass and guitar

P 11-8 26461-B
1.Nathan Hale
2.Cornwallis's Country Dance
John and Lucy Allison
with Sawyer's Minutemen
Singing with piano, accordion, bass and guitar

P 11-9 26462-A
1.The Constitution and the Guerriere
2.Hey Betty Martin
John and Lucy Allison
with Sawyer's Minutemen
Singing with drum, fife, accordion, bass and guitar.

P 11-10 26462-B
1.Hunters of Kentucky
2.Ye Parliament of England
John and Lucy Allison
with Sawyer's Minutemen
Singing with accordion, bass and guitar.



BLUEBIRD RECORDS Made by RCA VICTOR BC-44 3-10" 78rpm            1941
SONGS OF THE ZOO (John Allison)
Sung by John and Lucy Allison with instrumental acc.
BC 44-1 B-618-A Songs of the Zoo-Part 1 The Elephant
      2       B                  -Part 2 1.The Buffalo 2.The Chamois
      3 B-619-A                  -Part 3 1.Mrs.Tall Giraffe 2.The Panda
      4       B                  -Part 4 1.The Camel 2.The Tiger
      5 B-620-A                  -Part 5 1.Little Mrs.Penguin 2.The Peacock
      6       B                  -Part 6 1.The Hippopotamus 2.Monkey Shines


From the VICTOR library of Children's Records
Songs of the Zoo Sung by John and Lucy Allison
color gatefold sleeve
deep blue label with silver printing
record is Bluebird with dog & horn His Masters Voice logo,
RCA Victor division of Radio Corporation of America Camden, N.J.

RCA Victor Y-309
(39-3029 A B 618 A)
Side 1 39-3029-A Y 309 SONGS OF THE ZOO-Part 1 The Elephant
(39-3029 B B 620 B)
Side 2 39-3029-B Y 309                  -Part 2 1.The Hippopotamus 2.Monkey Shines

RCA Victor Y-337 Picture Sleeve....                               1947
          45-5110
????



KEYNOTE K102 Early American Ballads    3-10" 78rpm
by John and Lucy Allison
booklet

K 102-1 533 A PATRIOTIC DIGGERS       (1103)
K 102-2 533-B THE GREENLAND FISHERY   (1110)
                NANTUCKET LULLABY

         534    Sir Peter Parker
                Ballad of Saratoga

         535    Unfortunate Miss Bailey
                Ballad Of The Tea Party & Escape Of Old John Webb




BILLBOARD MARCH 24 1958 lists Ficker Records as new label


FICKER (Old Greenwich, Conn) C100001
(XTV 26838/26839)
Heroes, Heroines & Mishaps
John Allison with the Connecticut Folk Singers

A1 Gypsy Davy
A2 The Riverman's Daughter
A3 The Titanic
A4 Peggy
A5 The Golden Vanity
A6 Slow Mule

B1 Wreck on the C&O Road
B2 The Wild Goose Grasses
B3 The Bowery Grenadiers
B5 Betsy From Pike
B5 The Cow Chase
B6 Waily, Waily


FICKER C 10008 Spaceway Ballads Folksongs of the Rocketmen (circa 2075 A.D.)
(XTV 27542/27543)
John Allison and the Connecticut Folk Singers

A1 Life On A Rocket
A2 Rocket Away
A3 The Heritage of Men
A4 The Pup That Rides The Sky
A6 The Maiden of Venus
A7 The Worlds of Space

B1 Der Yodel Von't Kom Oudt!
B2 Song To Venus
B3 The Crazy Dane
B4 The Missile That Missed
B5 Ol' Earth A-Rollin'
B6 Rookie Take-off Song
B7 The Ruddy Red Regions



FOLKWAYS FH 5211 WITCHES AND WAR-WHOOPS (1962)
Early New England Ballads Collected and Sung by John Allison
insert notes by John Allison, texts.
songs credited to Allison, except A2 Cooke-Allison, B4 Whittier-Allison

A1 Lookie There!
A2 Death of Goody Nurse
A3 Lovewell's Indian Fight
A4 Susanna Martin
A5 The Gloucester Witch

B1 Giles Corey
B2 Bloody Brook
B3 Old Mammy Redd
B4 Flud Ireson
B5 Robin Goodfellowe


June 4, 1941, Town Hall, NYC
CAVALCADE OF SONGS
Burl Ives, Tony Kraber, Earl Robinson, The Almanac Singers, Pete Bowers,
John and Lucy Allison, Aunt Molly Jackson, Starlite quartette, Joshua White, Leadbelly, Harold Ambeyen, Elsie Houston, The American People's Chorus, directed by Herbert Haufrecht with Arthur Alkins as soloist.