Jan. 23rd is National Pie Day. Hmmmn, pie...
[a list compiled mostly by Paul Stamler]
Performer(s) - Title - Album
- 'neath the Crust of the Old Apple Pie -
Kate Borkowski - A Good Piece of Pie - Seeing in the Dark
- A is for Apple Pie -
Lucy Kaplansky - A Song About Pi - unreleased?
Don McLean - American Pie -
Hair of the Dog - American Pie -
PIEta Brown - anything -
Michael Fracasso - Apple Pie -
Lenny Solomon - Armando's Pie - Armando's Pie
Joseph Marais & his Bushveld Band - Ay, Ay, The Pied Crow Cry - Joseph Marais & his Bushveld Band
Annie & Mac - Bake That Chicken Pie - Fresh from the Cave
Uncle Dave Macon- Bake That Chicken Pie [dubious lyrics] -
Jack Hardy - Blackberry Pie - The Nameless One & the Tinker's Coin
Bette Midler - Blueberry Pie - In Harmony
Fred & Jenny Armstrong-Park - Blueberry Pie - Wild Hog in the Woods
Chris Stuart & Backcountry - Buttermilk Pie - Mojave River
Ed Trickett - Calico Pie -
Screaming Jay Hawkins - Cherry Pie -
Jim Smoak - Chicken Pie - Bayou Bluegrass
Juggrnaut Jug Band - Chicken Pie -
Eric Taylor - Chicken Pie - Scuffletown
Ken Waldman - Chicken Pie - All Originals
George Scherer - Chicken Pot Pie -
Bruce Molsky - Chinquapin Pie - Poor Man's Troubles
Brian Peters - Cold Stringy Pie - Sharper Than the Thorn
Dave Hillery - Cold Stringy Pie -
Omar Blondahl - Cotton Wool Pie - Once More for Newfoundland
Bob Dylan - Country Pie - Nashville Skyline
- Crow & Pie -
Ry Cooder - Crow Black Chicken - Boomer's Story
New Lost City Ramblers - Crow Black Chicken - Vol. I: The Early Years
John Hammond - Custard Pie - Live
Jack Erde - Custard Pie -
Paul Rishell & Annie Raines - Custard Pie - A Night in Woodstock
Sonny Terry - Custard Pie Blues - The Folkways Years
Jean Ritchie - Dame Get Up and Bake You Pies - Carols for All Seasons
Grant Livingston - Don't Bother Jack (When He's Eating Pie) -
- Doodle Dandy -
Peter Mayer - Dorothy's Pie - Novelties
Margaret MacArthur - Dried Apple Pies - New England Farm Songs
Fats Waller - Eep, Ipe, I Want a Piece of Pie -
Blind Boy Fuller - Give Me Some of Your Pie -
Jim Howie - Gooseberry Pie - Gooseberry Pie
Vernon Dalhart - Gooseberry Pie - Old Homestead LP
- Green Peas & Mutton Pies -
Tommy Armstrong - Hedgehog Pie - album on Topic
Marais and Miranda - Hold Your Head Up High -
Les Barker - Hollad's Meat Pies -
Beatles - Honey Pie - White Album
Guy Davis - Hooking Bull at Landing -
Jackie Washington - I Like Pie, I Like Cake -
Ry Cooder - J. Edgar -
Hank Williams - Jambalaya -
- Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee (Let's Have Another Piece of Pie) -
Pete Seeger - Little Jack Horner - Dangerous Songs!
Jesters - Ma, I Miss Your Apple Pie - Swing Out to Victory, v. 3
Dave De Hugard - Magpie Morning? -
Patty Griffin - Makin' Pies -
Lui Collins - Making Pie - Closer
Tom T. Hall - Mama Bake a Pie (Daddy Kill a Chicken) - 100 Children
Jerry Holland - Merry Miss Mary B./ Fin Fever/Johnena's Fine Mincemeat Pie - Crystal Clear
New Lost City Ramblers - Methodist Pie -
Grandpa Jones - Methodist Pie -
Big Apple Bluegrass - Methodist Pie - Big Apple Bluegrass
Greenbriar Boys - Methodist Pie -
Jonathan Eberhardt - Methodist Pie -
Bradley Kincaid - Methodist Pie -
Mike Seeger & family - Mince Pie or a Pudding - American Folk Songs for Christmas
McNulty Family - Miss Fogarty's Christmas Cake (okay, it's not pie, or Christmas for that matter) - Irish Showboat, also Decca 78 (1941)
Spook Handy - Missoula? - Breakfast at Bill's
Kate Campbell - Moonpie Dreams -
U. Utah Phillips - Moose Turd Pie - Good, Though!
Nancy Tucker - Mudpie - Treasures in the Attic
Dana & Susan Robinson - My Peach Pie - Round My Door
K.C. Groves - Peach Pie -
Tom Paxton - Peanut Butter Pie - Goin' to the Zoo
Jeff Tweedy - Pecan Pie -
Alferd Packer Memorial String Band - Pi - VA/Oasis Acoustic v. VI
Claudia Schmidt - Pie - Roads
Smith & Watson - Pie - VA: One Meat Ball
Debi Smith - Pie - Cupid; also VA: One Meat Ball
Dan Berggren - Pie Dot Com - Rooted in the Mountains
Cisco Houston - Pie in the Sky -
U. Utah Phillips - Pie in the Sky - Fellow Workers
The Priests - Pie Jesu? -
Malvina Reynolds, perhaps also Pete Seeger - Pied Piper of Hamelin -
Zoe Lewis - Pies for the Public - Sheep
Lefty Jones Band - Pies in my Eyes Over You -
Sam Hinton - Pizen Serpent -
- Preacher and the Slave -
Anne Dodson - Priggish Tom & Piddly Pie -
Joe Thompson - Pumpkin Pie - Family Tradition
Diane Taraz - Raisin Pie - Shoes That Fit Like Sand
Donkey's Breakfast - Rarrtle Mutton Pie -
Big Bill Lister - RC Cola and a Moon Pie -
Mrs. Ackroyd Band - Rhubarb -
Linda Allen - Sally's Quiche -
Oldham Tinkers - Seaur Pies -
Still on the Hill - Seven Pies - Ozark
- Shoo-Fly Pie (and Apple Pan Dowdy) -
- Simple Simon
- Sing a Song of Sixpence -
Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet - Sugar & Pie - Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet
Guy Workman - Sugar Pie - Stone in the Ocean
Subdudes - Sugar Pie -
Stanley Holloway - Sweeney Todd, the Barber - 'ere's 'olloway
John Roberts & Tony Barrand - Sweeney Todd, the Barber -
Mem Shannon - Sweet Potato -
James Taylor - Sweet Potato Pie - Never Die Young
Sweet Potato Pie - Sweet Potato Pie -
Bob Wills - Tater Pie -
Chateau Neuf - The Great Pie Pois -
Various artists - The Hedgehog Pie - Tommy Armstrong of Tyneside
Derivatives - The Pi Song -
[no recording known, nor even a tune] - There Was a Knight in Jessamay -
Jenny Reynolds - Whiskey and Pie - Next to You
David Wilcox - Wildberry Pie - Welcome Home
Michelle Shocked - Yamboree Queen -
Bob Dylan from the Basement Tapes : Don't Ya Tell Henry (apples got your pie)
Erin McKeown : Blackbirds (4 & 20 blackbirds baked in a pie)
That's Amore : when the moon is a high as a big pizza pie
Robert Bobby
Additional song suggestions? Email Richard Gillmann
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