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Aliases
Huddie Leadbelly
Lead Belly
Real name
Huddie William Ledbetter
Born
January 23, 1888
Died
December 6, 1949
Country
United States
IPI
00017609586 23 works
Affiliation
BMI
Comments
His date of birth is uncertain: According to his grave he was born in 1889, and according to his 1942 draft registration card the date was January 23, 1889. However, the 1900 United States Census lists him born in January 1888.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970
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Covers by Leadbelly

Title Performer Release date Originally by
  1994 Vernon Dalhart REC, Billy Murray REL
1990 Odette and Ethel
1960 (unknown)
1941 Bessie Jackson, Walter Roland
Covered by (3 artists)
February 1941 Rev. C.D. Montgomery, Dave Cutrell with McGinty's Oklahoma Cow Boy Band
1939 Bentley Ball
1939 Fiddlin' John Carson
April 1966 Charlie Poole with The North Carolina Ramblers
Covered by (8 artists)
1954 Isham Jones' Orchestra
February 1941 (unknown)
1969 (unknown)
October 25, 1940 Amos
April 1966 (unknown)
2015 Charles Beck
February 1941 (unknown)
1943 Lead Belly
1954 Fisk University Male Quartette
Oh, Mary, Don't You Weep Lead Belly 1994 Unverified
Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out Leadbelly 1953 Unverified
2014 Dolly Connolly
April 1966 Rev. C.D. Montgomery, Dave Cutrell with McGinty's Oklahoma Cow Boy Band
1954 Rev. C.D. Montgomery, Dave Cutrell with McGinty's Oklahoma Cow Boy Band
Match Box Blues Leadbelly 1970 Unverified
April 1966 Bentley Ball
1939 James "Iron Head" Baker and Group REC
Covered by (97 artists)
Julie Ann Johnson Leadbelly March 20, 2006 Unverified
1943 Fiddlin' John Carson
1946 Eva Davis
1944 Ashley and Foster
1954 Al Carney
April 1966 (unknown)
Covered by (69 artists)
1943 Ida Cox, Leroy Carr
Ha-Ha This A Way Leadbelly 1997 Unverified
1943 Leadbelly
  1939 The Leighton Brothers REC, Paul Biese Trio REL
1946 Gid Tanner and George Riley Puckett
1960 Morehouse College Quartette
Ella Speed Lead Belly 1962 Unverified
November 1940 Ma Rainey - Acc. by Her Georgia Jazz Band
April 1966 Price Family Sacred Singers
listen on Internet Archive February 1948 Little Son Joe
1954 Regent Club Orchestra [Bob Haring]
1960 Frank and James McCravy
  1954 May Irwin PRF,REC, Mr. J. W. Myers REL
1954 Burl Ives
1944 "Dock" Walsh
February 1941 Prince's Orchestra
1954 Prince's Orchestra
1994 Fisk University Jubilee Singers
1939 Covered by (8 artists)

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