Take This Hammer - Recordings

Recordings

• The Beatles on Get Back 'Camera B' Rolls vol 11 (recorded 1969) (also on Thirty Days)
• The Beau Brummels as "Nine Pound Hammer" on their LP Triangle
• Big Bill Broonzy on the DVD The Story of the Blues (2003)
• Brothers Four (on the CBS LP Starportrait)
• Johnny Cash on Blood, Sweat and Tears (1963) under the title "Tell Him I'm Gone"
• Sanford Clark, 1956 recording as "Nine Pound Hammer" (Dot 15534)
• Ken Colyer (1955, Decca Single F10631, b/w "Down By The Riverside")
• Delmore Brothers as "Tell It To The Captain" (1948)
• Drafi Deutscher & His Magics, 1965 German version "Ich Will Frei Sein", reissued on the Bear Family CD Drafi Deutscher: Die Decca Jahre Teil 3
• Lonnie Donegan on Lonnie Rides Again (1959)
• The Felice Brothers on Tonight at the Arizona (2007)
• Foggy Mountain Boys (Flatt and Scruggs) on Folk Songs of our Land (1962)
• Frederic & The Rangers, German Beat Band (1966), reissued on the Bear Family CD Ruhrgebeat
• The Greenbriar Boys on Ragged But Right! (1964)
• Hickory Flat on Long Dry Spell (2003)
• John Fahey on The Voice of The Turtle (1968) under the title "Nine-Pound Hammer"
• Jesse Fuller
• Mississippi John Hurt
• Clifford Jordan
• Junco Partners on a single in 1965 (re-released on Pebbles, Volume 6 (LP) (1980)
• Lead Belly (on a single recorded in 1942)
• John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Stevie Wonder on A Toot and a Snore in '74 1974 - bootleg recording: These are bootlegs (see Day by Day)
• Long Chris & Les Cowden, 1964 French version "Le Train Qui Part Ce Soir" (Philips EP)
• Harry Manx on Road Ragas (2004) and Harry Manx & Friends Live at the Glenn Gould Studio (2008)
• Monroe Brothers as "Nine Pound Hammer is Too Heavy" (1936), also on Feast Here Tonight (1975)
• MV&EE "Hammer" on LP Gettin Gone (2007)
• The New Christy Minstrels on Presenting and In Person (2003)
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band feat. Merle Travis as "Nine Pound Hammer" from their 3-LP set Will the Circle Be Unbroken
• Notting Hillbillies on Missing...Presumed Having a Good Time (1990) under the title "Railroad Worksong"
• Odetta on Odetta at the Gate of Horn (1957)
• Osborne Brothers on Voices in Bluegrass (c 1970)
• Our Gang (The Rattles and friends), reissued on the Bear Family CD Die Hamburg Szene
• John Prine (as "Nine Pound Hammer") on Sweet Revenge
• Ragged Men, German Beat Band, 1965 Single on PATRIA 8, reissued on the Gee-Dee CD Rare & Raw Beat From The Sixties Vol. 5
• Seven Souldiers (Side-Project of Herbert Hildebrandt from The Rattles, LP Traditional Soul on FASS 1486 WY
• The Shadows as "This Hammer": B-side of single "Theme For Young Lovers" (1964)
• Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee on their LP Blues & Shouts (America records 6075)
• Sooner or Later, Swedish Garage-Band, as "This Hammer" (re-released on Pebbles, Volume 26)
• Spencer Davis Group as "The Hammer Song" on their second LP The Second Album (Feb '66)
• Mark Selby as "Nine Pound Hammer" on his LP Nine Pound Hammer
• Ton Steine Scherben as "Nimm den Hammer" on Wenn die Nacht am tiefsten… (1975)
• Merle Travis
• Townes Van Zandt
• Jimmy Witherspoon on Live in London (recorded 1966)