disc 1. Excelsior! (Ernest Pike, Walter Miller) (4:21) Don't go down the mine dad (Frank Miller) (2:30) Wreck of the old '97 (Vernon Dalhart) (3:00) St. James infirmary (Louis Armstrong) (3:11) Tallahatchie River blues (Mattie Delaney) (2:39) Miss Otis regrets (Ethel Waters) (2:57) Wreck on the highway (I didn't hear nobody pray) (Dorsey Dixon) (3:07) Ol' man Mose (Eddy Duchin, featuring Patricia Norman) (2:26) We mourn the loss of Sir Murchison Fletcher (Lord Executor) (2:54) Gloomy Sunday (Artie Shaw, featuring Pauline Byrne) (3:34) Black girl (Leadbelly) (2:07) Goin' down slow (St. Louis Jimmy Oden) (3:09) Frankie and Johnny (Lena Horne) (6:19) Death of little Kathy Fiscus (Jimmie Osborne) (3:01) Riders in the sky (Vaughn Monroe) (2:59) Old shep (Red Foley) (3:18) I hold your hand in mine (Tom Lehrer) (1:24) Sinner's dream (Eugene Fox) (3:23) The drunken driver (Ferlin Husky) (2:27) Their hearts were full of spring (The Four Freshmen) (3:12) Death of an angel (Donald Woods & the Vel-Aires) (3:06) Black denim trousers and motorcycle boots (The Cheers) (2:08) Sweeney Todd the barber (Stanley Holloway) (4:43) Message from James Dean (Bill Hayes) (1:54) Down bound train (Ken Colyer's Skiffle Group) (2:38)
disc 2. Knoxville girl (Louvin Brothers) (3:46)
Wild dogs of Kentucky (Nervous Norvus) (2:31)
Chicken (The Cheers) (1:56)
Ballad of Thunder Road (Robert Mitchum) (2:29)
The grave (Tony Casanova) (2:30)
The tragedy of school bus 27 (Ralph Bowman) (2:40)
No school bus in heaven (Stanley Brothers) (2:21)
Music to be murdered by (Alfred Hitchcock) (4:53)
Stagger Lee (Lloyd Price) (2:22)
Don't take your guns to town (Johnny Cash) (2:57)
Take a message to Mary (The Everly Brothers) (2:25)
Three stars (Ruby Wright) (2:57)
Who shot Sam? (George Jones) (2:22)
La mort (Jacques Brel) (2:50)
Two hour honeymoon (Paul Hampton) (3:12)
Blue eyes crying in the rain (Gene Vincent) (2:13)
Teen angel (Mark Dinning) (2:38)
Sail ho! (Robert Horton) (4:59)
Grandpa's grave (Peter Sellers) (3:19)
Running bear (Johnny Preston) (2:34)
Tell Laura I love her (Ray Peterson) (2:53)
Tell Tommy I miss him (Marilyn Michaels) (2:42)
Car crash (The Cadets) (2:29)
The water was red (Johnny Cymbal) (2:51)
Wreck of old 97 (Creed Taylor Orchestra) (1:37).