Track listing

1. "Tone the Bell Easy" – 3:20
2. "Blue Willow Moan" (Bill Eaton) – 3:35
3. "Ananias" – 2:50
4. "Boy" (G. Tipton, Joe Tinker Lewis) – 3:49
5. "My Love Is a Dewdrop" (Mark Spoelstra
   Mark Spoelstra
   Mark Warren Spoelstra was an American singer-songwriter and folk and blues guitarist.He was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. He began his musical career in Los Angeles in his teens and migrated around to wind up in New York City in time to take part in the folk music revival of the early...
   
   ) – 3:25
6. "Back of the Bus" – 3:25
7. "Pastures of Plenty
   Pastures of Plenty
   "Pastures of Plenty" is a 1941 composition by Woody Guthrie. Describing the travails and dignity of migrant workers in North America, it is evocative of the world described in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. The tune is based on the ballad "Pretty Polly," a traditional English-language folk...
   
   " (Woody Guthrie
   Woody Guthrie
   Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie is best known as an American singer-songwriter and folk musician, whose musical legacy includes hundreds of political, traditional and children's songs, ballads and improvised works. He frequently performed with the slogan This Machine Kills Fascists displayed on his...
   
   ) – 3:38
8. "John the Revelator" (Traditional, Carver Neblett) – 3:41
9. "Four Strong Winds
   Four Strong Winds
   "Four Strong Winds" is a song written by Ian Tyson in the early 1960s. It was first recorded by The Brothers Four in a version that "Bubbled Under" the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1963...
   
   " (Ian Tyson
   Ian Tyson
   Ian Tyson CM, AOE is a Canadian singer-songwriter, best known for his song "Four Strong Winds". He was also one half of the duo Ian & Sylvia.-Career:Tyson was born to British immigrants in Victoria in 1933, and grew up in Duncan B.C...
   
   ) – 2:54
10. "Black Betty
    Black Betty
    "Black Betty" is a 20th century African-American work song often credited to Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter as the author, though the earliest recordings are not by him. Some sources claim it is one of Lead Belly's many adaptations of earlier folk material; in this case an 18th century marching...
    
    " (Traditional, Kaye Dunham) – 4:14
11. "Big Boat Up the River" – 4:06

Personnel

• Harry Belafonte
  Harry Belafonte
  Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. is an American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist. He was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s...
  
   – vocals
• Ernie Calabria – guitar
• Jay Berliner
  Jay Berliner
  Jay Berliner is an American guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Starting with his first television experience at age 7 on NBC’s The Children’s Hour with sister Eve, his career has spanned the globe: from the Metropolitan Opera house , where he was house guitarist and mandolinist; to...
  
   – guitar
• John Cartwright – bass
• Percy Brice – drums
• Ralph MacDonald
  Ralph MacDonald
  Ralph MacDonald is an American percussionist and song-writer. He joined Harry Belafonte's band at age 17. He wrote the Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway song "Where is the Love" with songwriting partner William Salter. Probably his best-known composition is the Grover Washington, Jr...
  
   – percussion
• Paul Griffin
  Paul Griffin (musician)
  Paul Griffin was an American session musician and pianist, who recorded with hundreds of artists from the late 1950s to the 1990s...
  
   – organ

• Orchestra and chorus conducted by Howard A. Roberts
• Bob Bollard – producer
• Priscilla Eaves – producer
• Bob Simpson – engineer
• Ed Begley – tape mastering
• Peter Perri – cover photo

Chart positions

External links

• Belafonte Tracks discography site.