Ed McCurdy
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Biography
Edward Potts McCurdy, also known as Ed McCurdy, was born on January 11, 1919, in Willow Hill, Pennsylvania, and was an American and Canadian singer of both contemporary and English folk music, a songwriter, and character actor. He started his career as a disc jockey at a gospel radio station in Oklahoma by 1938. In the early 1940s, he gained popularity singing romantic songs in nightclubs across North America. He moved to Vancouver in 1948, hosting a radio show for CBC Radio and releasing his first folk album, Canadian Folk Songs, in 1949. He achieved success with his folk show at New York's Village Vanguard in 1950 and recorded many albums in the 1950s and 1960s, including "Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream", an anti-war anthem covered in seventy-seven languages. He retired by the late 1960s due to health problems. He passed away on March 23, 2000.
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- Four Nights Drunk
- Robin Hood And The Bold Peddlar
- Quantrell
- Blood On The Saddle
- Portland County Jail
- The Pig And The Inebriate
- Lulu
- The Dublin Murder Ballad
- The Yeomen of Kent
- How Happy Is She
- Roving Gambler
- The Jolly Boatsman
- The Good Boy's Song
- Ballad Of A Young Man
- I Once Had Virtue
- The Gambler's Song
- Three Pretty Fair Maids
- Young People Who Delight In Sun
- Rye Whiskey
- Tobacco Is An Indian Weed
- She Plays The Game
- John Adkin's Farewell
- Poor Polly, The Mad Girl
- Gambling On The Sabbath Day
