Selected discography
• Ellen Stekert, Ozark Mountain Folk Songs Volume One (Stinson Records, c. 1955)
• Ellen Stekert, Ballads Of Careless Love (Cornell Recording Society, 1956)
• Milton Okun And Ellen Stekert, Traditional American Love Songs (Riverside Records, 1957)
• Ellen Stekert, Songs Of A New York Lumberjack (Folkways Records, 1958)
Listen to Ellen’s music
Here are a few songs by Professor Stekert recorded over the years.
“The Jealous Lover”
From Songs Of A New York Lumberjack (Folkways Records, 1958). To read more about it, see our recent blog post on the song.
“Dink’s Song”
From Ballads of Careless Love (Cornell Recording Society, 1957). Ellen recorded this as an undergraduate at Cornell University.
“The Associate Professor’s Lament”
Ellen singing at a concert at Madonna College in Livonia, Michigan on April 2, 1967. Thanks to the Michigan Traditional Arts Program.
“The Cumberland and the Merrimac”
From Songs Of A New York Lumberjack (Folkways Records, 1958).
“The Fox”
From Songs Of A New York Lumberjack (Folkways Records, 1958).
“Golden Apples”
Live at Solid State Records in Minneapolis, 2017. A poem by William Butler Yeats, this song was also recorded by Judy Collins.