Many of the songs can be found on Ives' six-album set Historical America in Song, released by Encyclopædia Britannica Films in 1950. The two sets are not identical, however. For example, while there is considerable overlapping between New Ballads and two of the albums in the 1950 set, there is almost no overlapping between Tales for Singing and the earlier set. The duplicated songs on the 1963 set seem to be fresh recordings. Certainly the sound is better on the six LPs that comprise the 1963 set than on the thirty 78 rpm records that make up the 1950 set.Album labels, Historical America in Song, N.p.: Encyclopædia Britannica Films, 1950Album labels, Burl Ives Presents America's Musical Heritage, N.p.: Longines Symphonette Society, 1963
