Paul Clayton 45 rpm / EPs / LPs / CDs
| # | year of release | title | label # / notes |
| 1 | 1954? | Whaling Songs & Ballads

- Blow Ye Winds
- A Fitting Out
- Whale To The Starboard
- Desolation
- The Coast Of Peru
- Ye Men Of Renown
- The Sailor's Grave

- The Sailorman's Alphabet
- The Greenland Fishery
- In Days Of Old
- The Bark Gay Head
- The Wings Of A Goney
- Off To Sea Once More
- Rolling Home
prod. in cooperation with the New Bedford Whaling Museum | 10 inch album




 Stinson SLP 69 |
| 2 | 1956? | Waters Of Tyne
English North Country Songs & Ballads

- Waters Of Tyne
- Billy Boy
- Collier's Rant
- Keel Row
- Lambton Worm
- When This Old Hat Was New
- Geordie Hinny

- Cushie Butterfield
- Willow Tree
- Blaydon Races
- Ca' Hawkie
- Maa Bonny Lad
- Heh You Seen Wor Jimmy
- Banks Of The Dee
|  Stinson SLP 70
|
| 3 | 1956 | Bay State Ballads

Sea Songs
- Cape Cod Girls
- Huzza For Commodore Rodgers
- The Ocean Rover
- Blow The Man Down
- Come All Ye Shipmates
- Whiskey Johnny
- The Seaman's Grave

Land Songs
- Springfield Mountain
- The Bailiff's Daughter Of Islington
- The Old Soldier
- Polly Van
- The Embargo
- Bachelor's Hall
- Around The Ingals Blazing
| 10 inch album
 Folkways FP 47/2 = FA 2106
|
| 4 | 1956 | Folk Songs And Ballads Of Virginia

- Railroad Bill
- In The Pines
- Gambling Man
- Wild Rover
- Bill Dooley
- Talt Hall
- The Farmer's Curst Wife

- Harvey Logan
- Lady Margaret
- Frankie
- If I Had A Bottle Of Rum
- Lord Darnell
- Poor Old Maids
- The Little Pig | 10 inch album
 Folkways FP 47/3 = FA 2110
|
| 5 | 1957 | Cumberland Mountain Folksongs

- The Hustling Gamblers
- Lord Bateman
- Floyd Collins
- Mush Toodin
- The House Carpenter
- Sugar Baby

- Spotty And Dudie
- Pretty Polly And False William
- Once I Courted A Pretty Little Girl
- Kathy Fiscus
- Walk, Tom Wilson, Walk
- Cold Winter's Night
- The Texas Rangers
| 10 inch album
 Folkways FA 2007
|
| 6 | 1956 | The Folkways-Viking Record of Folk Ballads of the English Speaking World

- Botany Bay
- The Twa Sisters
- Katherine Jaffray
- The Dying Stockman
- Silkie Of Sule Skerry
- Lass Of Roch Royal
- Derby Ram

- Dupree
- Lilliburlero
- Naomi Wise
- The Sea Captain
- The Baffled Knight
- The Cherry Tree Carol
- The Bailiff's Daughter Of Islington
- Avondale Mine Disaster
| prod. in connection with A.B. Friedman, ed., "The Viking Book of Folk Ballads" Folkways FA 2310
|
| 7 | 1956 | Whaling And Sailing Songs from the Days of Moby Dick

- The Maid Of Amsterdam
- Old Stormalong
- The Girls Around Cape Horn
- Paddy Doyle's Boots
- Spanish Ladies
- Sally Brown
- The Dying Sailor To His Shipmates
- Ranzo
- The Mermaid
- Johnny's Gone To Hilo

- Saturday Night At Sea
- Shenandoah
- Admiral Benbow
- Round The Corner
- The Greenland Whale Fisheries
- Go Down You Blood Red Roses
- The Turkish Revelee
- Boney Was A Warrior
- Lady Franklin's Lament
- Santy Anna

|  Tradition 1005 = Legacy CD 389 (1994) "Sailing and Whaling Songs of the 19th Century"
 =Tradition CD 1064 (1997) more info
=Empire Musicwerks 450 765-2 (2006) |
| 8 | 1956 | Bloody Ballads British and American Murder Ballads

- Pearl Bryan
- Banks of the Ohio
- Stagolee
- Two Brothers
- Brookfield Murder
- Down in the Willow Garden
- Jellon Grame, Bloody Ballads
- Suncook Town Tragedy

- Poor Ellen Smith
- Knoxville Girl
- Delia
- Pretty Polly
- Cruel Mother
- John Hardy
- Tom Dooley
- Edward
- Lula Viers
|  Riverside RLP 12-615 = Washington WLP 727
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| 9 | 195? | Wanted For Murder Songs of Outlaws and Desperados

- Jesse James
- Cole Younger
- Charles Guiteau
- Duncan And Brady
- Kenny Wagner
- Wild Bill Jones
- Quantrell
- Ella Speed

- Billy The Kid
- Bully Of The Town
- Sidney Allen
- Claude Allen
- Bad Lee Brown
- Sam Bass
- Coon-Can Game
- Zeb Turney's Girl
|  Riverside RLP 12-640 Coffee House Folkie Sounds CD (Jp)
|
| 10 | 1957 | American Broadside Ballads In Popular Tradition

- When Cockle Shells Make Silver Bells
- Pleasant And Delightful
- Three Maidens To Milking Did Go
- The Bonny Bunch Of Roses
- The Bold Thrasher
- My Grandmother
- The Lost Lady Found
- When Pat Came Over The Hill
- The Dark-Eyed Sailor

- Jim, The Carter's Lad
- Geordie
- The Oyster Girl
- The Bold Fisherman
- Brian O'Lynn
- The Sweet Primroses
- Green Room
- Herchard Of Taunton Dene
- The False-Hearted Knight
- The Indian Lass |  Folkways FA 2378 = F 8708
|
| 11 | 1957 | Dulcimer Songs And Solos

- Flop-Eared Mule
- Old Joe Clark
- False Love
- Soldier's Joy
- Goin' To Georgia
- Shady Grove
- Boil Them Cabbage Down
- Mary Hamilton
- Charley's Ran
- John Henry
- Lonesome Road

- Sad And Lonely
- Cedar Mountain Breakdown
- Swannanoah Tunnel
- Dogwood (Knocking Blues)
- Storms Of The Ocean
- Massey Groves
- John Hardy
- Chinese Breakdown
- Georgia Buck
- All the Good Times Are O'er

| Folkways FA 2382 = FG 3571 (1962)
|
| 12 | 1957 | American Songs of Revolutionary Times

- The Gambling Suitor (Paul Clayton & Jean Ritchie)
- That's Once (told by Richard Chase)
- The Bashful Courtship (Jean Ritchie)
- The Split Dog (told by Richard Chase)
- Locks And Bolts (Paul Clayton)
- The Snakebite Hoehandle (told by Richard Chase)
- The Old Grey Goose Is Dead (Jean Ritchie)
- The Big Toe (told by Richard Chase)
- The Deaf Woman's Courtship (Paul Clayton & Jean Ritchie)

- Wondrous Love (Jean Ritchie)
- The Devil's Question (Paul Clayton & Jean Ritchie)
- The Man In The Kraut Tub (told by Richard Chase)
- The Swapping Song (Paul Clayton)
- The Hickory Toothpick (told by Richard Chase)
- The Riddle Song (Jean Ritchie & Paul Clayton)
| 

 Olympic 6123 The Atlas Series - Music from around the World |
| 13 | 1958 | timber-r-r! Lumberjack Folk Songs & Ballads

- Lumberman's Alphabet
- Jerry's Rock
- Little Brown Bull
- Harry Dunn
- James Whalen
- Wild Mustard River
- Banks of the Little Eau Plaine

- Canaday
- Jack Haggerty
- Rackets Around Blue Mountain Lake
- Backwoodsman
- Lost Jimmie
- Peter Emberly
- Harry Bale
- Jolly Shantyboys
|  Riverside RLP 12-648
|
| 14 | 195? | Concert Of British And American Folksongs


| Riverside RLP 12-836 [??? Riverside RLP 12-836 is much more likely "Ohela Halevy: Voice of Israel"]
|
| 15 | 1958 | Unholy Matrimony

- Stay Away From The Girls
- The Wooden-Legged Parson
- Will The Weaver
- Mother-In-Law Song
- I Wish I Was Single Again
- The Old Wife Who Wanted Spruncin'
- The Charleston Merchant
- Life On The Installment Plan
- The Dumb Wife
- Jack The Sailor
- Farmers Nagging Wife
- Dirty Wife
- The Farmer's Servant
- A Quick Way To Be Rid Of A Wife
- The Butcher And The Tailor's Wife
- The Husband With No Courage In Him
- I Can't Change It
- Home, Sad Home
with Bob Yellin banjo, cithern |  Elektra EKL 147
|
| 16 | 1958 | Bobby Burns' Merry Muses Of Caledonia
Sung By Paul Clayton

- Nine Inch Will Please A Lady
- Our Jock's Broke Yesterday
- How Can I Keep My Maidenhead?
- Who Will Mow Me Now?
- Johnnie Scott
- John Anderson
- My Jo
- Tommie Makes My Tail Toddle
- Tweedmouth Town
- Would You Do That?
- Ellibanks
- Beware Of The Ripples
- Duncan Macleerie
- Muirland Meg
- No Hair On It
- Copper Of Dundee
- Who The Devil Can Hinder The Wind To Blow
- Lassie Gathering Nuts
- The Thrusting Of It
- My Bonnie Highland Lad
- The Patriarch
- Duncan Davison
- Know Ye Not Our Bess
- Auntie Jean
- A Hole To Hide It In
- Can You Labour Lea

|  Elektra EKL-155
|
| 17 | 1959 | Foc'sle Songs And Shanties

- Ratcliffe Highway (Paul Clayton)
- Rio Grande (Roger Abrahams)
- Haul On The Bowline (Dave van Ronk)
- Maggie May (Paul Clayton)
- Haul Away Joe (Bob Brill)
- Do My Johnny Booker (Paul Clayton)
- Roll The Cotton Down (Roger Abrahams)
- Haul Boys Haul (Paul Clayton)
- Leave Her Johnny (Dave van Ronk)
- Paddy Lay Back (Paul Clayton)

- Fire Down Below (Paul Clayton)
- A Hundred Years Ago (Bob Brill)
- Santy Anno (Dave van Ronk)
- Captain Nipper (Paul Clayton)
- Hanging Johnny (Roger Abrahams)
- Banks Of The Sacramento (Paul Clayton)
- Won't You Go My Way (Roger Abrahams)
- Good Bye Fare Thee Well (Paul Clayton)
- All Bound To Go (Roger Abrahams)
- The Black Ball Line (Paul Clayton)
|  Folkways FA 2429 = Le Chant Du Monde FWX-M 52429 Chants de marins anglais
|
| 18 | 1959 | Paul Clayton

- Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons (When I'm Gone)
- This Land Is Your Land |  Monument 45-416 |
| 19 | 1960 | Paul Clayton

- Last Cigarette
- So Long (It's Been Good To Know You) |  Monument 45-424 |
| 20 | 1960 | Paul Clayton

- So Long (It's Been Good To Know You)
- Wings Of A Dove |  London 45-HLU-9285 |
| 21 | 1961 | Home-Made Songs & Ballads

- Durango Jail
- Last Cigarette
- The Bully Of The Town
- Long John
- Love For Love
- Pharaoh`s Army

- On The Job Too Long
- Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons
- Pretty Peggo-O
- If She's Gone
- Young But Growing
- This Morning She Was Gone
|  Monument M 4001
|
| 22 | 1961 | Paul Clayton

- Wings Of A Dove
- So Long (It's Been Good To Know You)

- Last Cigarette
- Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons | 7 inch EP
 London RE-U 1276 (GB)
|
| 23 | 1964 | Paul Clayton

- Wings Of A Dove
- The Convent At Ronda |  Monument 45-432 |
| 24 | 196? | Paul Clayton

- Yellow Bird
- Kilgary Mountain |  Monument 45-450 |
| 25 | 196? | Paul Clayton

- San Francisco Bay Blues
- Green Rocky Road |  Monument 45-819 |
| 26 | 1965 | Folk Singer!

- Pay Day At Coal Creek
- Silver City Bound
- Green Rocky Road
- Down By The Rio Grande
- Gotta Travel On
- San Francisco Bay Blues

- Wild Mountain Thyme
- Goin' On Down The Road
- Spanish Is The Loving Tongue
- Lie Down Betty
- Cecil Gone In The Time Of Storm
- Life Is A Toil
|  Monument MLP 8017 = SP 18017
|
| 27 | 2008 | Paul Clayton Sings Homemade Songs And Ballads / Folk Singer!

- Durango Jail #
- Last Cigarette #
- Pharaoh's Army #
- Bully of the Town #
- Love For Love #
- Long John (Long Gone) #
- On the Job Too Long #
- Who's Gonna Buy You Ribbons (When I’m Gone) #
- Pretty Peggy-O #
- This Morning She Was Gone #
- If She’s Gone (Let Her Go) #
- Young But Growing #
- Pay Day At Coal Creek *
- Silver City Bound *
- Green Rocky Road *
- Down By The Rio Grande *
- Gotta Travel On *
- San Francisco Bay Blues *
- Wild Mountain Thyme *
- Goin' On Down The Road *
- Spanish Is The Loving Tongue *
- Lie Down Betty *
- Cecil Gone In The Time Of Storm *
- Life Is A Toil *
- So Long (It's Been Good To Know You) []
- This Land Is Your Land []
- Yellow Bird []
- Kilgary Mountain []
remastered from original master tapes of the two Monument LPs (# *) by Simon Polinski at Laundry Goat Studios 2008; four non-LP tracks ( [] ) included; originally prod. by Fred Foster |  Omni CD 120www.worldwentdown.com/ omni/ |
"Mr. Clayton has also recorded songs traditional in his family for the Archive of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College, Vermont, and for the Library of Congress."
from liner notes to Tradition TLP 1005
|
Anthologies / Compilations / Samplers
containing music performed by Paul Clayton
| # | year of release | title / songs (Paul Clayton | label # / notes |
| 1 | 195? | Tradition Folk Sampler

- The Bird's Courtship (Erik Darling)
- O'Donnell Aboo (Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem)
- John Henry (Etta Baker)
- The Hearse Song (Colyn Davies)
- Rodenos (El Niño de Ronda)
- Johnny's Gone To Hilo (Paul Clayton)
- Dark As A Dungeon (Glenn Yarbrough, Fred Hellerman)

- Johnny Lad (Ewan MacColl)
- Ha-Na-Ava Ba-Ba-Not (Hillel & Aviva)
- I Was Born About 10,000 Years Ago (Oscar Brand, Fred Hellerman)
- Keel Row (Isla Cameron)
- The Fairy Boy (Seamus Ennis)
- The Gambling Suitor (Jean Ritchie & Paul Clayton)
- Spirtual Trilogy (Oh, Freedom, Come And Go With Me, I'm On My Way) (Odetta)
|  Tradition TSP1
|
| 2 | 1958 | Our Singing Heritage Vol. 1

- Jack Went A-Sailing (Lori Holland)
- Strawberry Roan (Pat Foster)
- Rich Old Lady (Peggy Seeger)
- Little Old Log Cabin In The Lane (Pegram and Parham)
- Gypsy Lover (Lori Holland)
- When I Was Single (E.G.Huntington)
- Roll On Buddy (Paul Clayton)
- The House Carpenter (Ellen Stekert)
- Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out (Dave Van Ronk)
- Who's Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet (Lee Charles)
- Lakes Of Ponchartrain (E.G.Huntington)
- Froggie Went A-Courtin (Ellen Stekert)
- Goodbye, Little Bonnie, Goodbye (Paul Clayton)
- John Riley (Myra Ross)
- Johnny Runkins (Pat Foster)
- Mary, What You Call That Pretty Little Baby (Dave Van Ronk)
- Yellow Rose Of Texas (Pegram and Parham)
- Love Henry (Peggy Seeger) |  Elektra EKL 151 |
| 3 | 1958 | Folk Sampler Five

- Stay Away From The Girls
|  Elektra SMP 5 (mono) |
| 4 | 196? | Everybody Sing, Vol 2. Songs For Juniors

- Lumberman's Alphabet
- Buffalo Skinners
|  Riverside/Wonderland RLP-1419 |
| 5 | 196? | Little Cowboys 15 Cowboy Songs specially selected for Children

Bob Gibson, Paul Clayton, Ed McCurdy, Oscar Brand, Milt Okun, Merrick Jarrett & others
|  Riverside/Wonderland RLP-1423 |
| 6 | 196? | Folksong Selection

- Banks Of The Sacramento

|  Chants Du Monde FWX 1601
|
| 7 | 1970 | A Nation Conceived And Dedicated
American Adventures Program Vol. 1

Ella Jenkins, Barry Hall, Pete Seeger, Sam Hinton, Ewen McCall, Paul Clayton, Ossie Davis, Montgomery Gospel Trio and others
Side One: The Early Americans

Side Two: The Rise Of A Nation |  Folkways |
| 8 | 1996 | The Riverside/Folklore Series Vol. 3: Singing the New Tradition Songs, Singers, and Instrumentalists of the Folk Revival

- Omie Wise
- Tom Dula
| rec. 1955-1958  Riverside RCD-9911-2
more info |
Collaborations with / (Guest) Appearances on other Artist's recordings
| # | year of release | artist / title | label # / notes |
| 1 | 1956 | Instrumental Music Of The Southern Appalachians

recording (with Diane Hamilton, Liam Clancy), liner notes
- Cripple Creek (Mr. Hobart Smith)
- Pateroller Song (Mr. Hobart Smith)
- One Dime Blues (Mrs. Etta Baker)
- Sourwood Mountain (Mr. Boone Reid)
- Going Down The Road Feeling Bad (Mrs. Etta Baker)
- Amazing Grace (Mrs. Edd Presnell)
- The Girl I Left Behind Me (Mr. Richard Chase)
- Marching Jaybird (Mr. Lacey Phillips)
- John Brown’s Dream (Mr. Hobart Smith)
- Sally Goodin (Mrs. Edd Presnell)

- Railroad Bill (Mrs. Etta Baker)
- Soldier’s Joy (Mr. Lacey Phillips)
- Molly Brooks (Mr. Richard Chase)
- Pretty Polly (Mr. Hobart Smith)
- Johnson Boys (Mr. Boone Reid)
- John Henry (Mrs. Etta Baker)
- Drunken Hiccups (Mr. Hobart Smith)
- Shady Grove (Mrs. Edd Presnell)
- The Bully Of The Town (Mrs. Etta Baker)
- Skip To My Lou (Mr. Richard Chase)
| rec summer 1956  Tradition TLP 1007
 Rykodisc TCD 1061
more info |
| 2 | 195? | Jean Ritchie & Paul Clayton: American Folk Tales & Songs

- The Gambling Suitor
- That's Once
- The Bashful Courtship
- The Split Dog
- Locks And Bolts
- The Snakebit Hoehandle
- The Old Grey Goose Is Dead
- The Big Toe
- The Deaf Woman's Courtship
- Wondrous Love
- The Devils Questions
- The Man In The Kraut Tub
- The Swapping Song
- The Hickory Toothpick
- The Riddle Song.

|  Tradition TLP 1011
|
| 3 | 1961 | Rev. Gary Davis and Pink Anderson: American Street Songs

rec. by Paul Clayton May 29, 1950 Charlottesville, Virginia
Pink Anderson: Carolina Street Ballads
- John Henry
- Everyday In The Week
- The Ship Titanic
- Greasy Greens
- Wreck Of The Old 97
- I've Got Mine
- He's In The Jailhouse Now


Rev. Gary Davis: Harlem Street Sprituals
- Blow, Gabriel
- Twelve Gates To The City
- Samson And Delilah
- Oh Lord, Search My Heart
- Get Right Church
- You Got To Go Down
- Keep Your Lamp Trimmed And Burning
- There Was A Time That I Was Blind
| Pink Anderson rec. May 29 1950 by Paul Clayton Davis rec. Jan. 20 1956 by Kenneth F. Goldstein Riverside RLP 12-611 = Riverside RLP 148 "Gospel, Blues and Street Songs"
 = OBCCD-524-2 (1987) fantasyjazz.com acerecords.co.uk
Pink Anderson discography
|
| 4 | 1975 | Bill Clifton & Paul Clayton: The First Recordings A Bluegrass Session, 1952

- John Henry
- Watermelon On The Vine *
- Roll On The Ground §
- Pleasant And Delightful #
- The Fox #
- John Hardin #

- East Virginia Blues #
- Jealous Lover #
- Beautiful Mable Clare #
- Burry Me Beneath The Willow #
- Poor Boy #
- Roll On The Ground
# Paul Clayton, lead vocal, guitar
* Paul Clayton, guitar
§ Paul Clayton, guitar and vocal | Folk Variety FV 12004 (D) Folk Variety has been Richard Weize's first effort before starting Bear Family Records



 Bear Family BF-15001 (1979)
 King GXF 6002 (Jp)
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