Grateful Dead Family Discography: Monkey And The Engineer

Monkey And The Engineer

Composer: Jesse Fuller

Monkey And The Engineer was played by the pre-Dead group Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions in 1964. The song was performed by the Grateful Dead in acoustic sets in 1969, 1970, 1980 and 1981.

Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions

Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, 1998

Grateful Dead

Reckoning, Grateful Dead, 1981
Beyond Description, Grateful Dead, 2004
Grateful Dead Download Series: A Night At The Family Dog 2/4/70, Grateful Dead, 2005
Reckoning, Grateful Dead, 2006 (bonus on exp. CD)

Jesse Fuller

no info Single (The Monkey And The Engineer / Runnin' Wild), Jesse Fuller, 1961
Sings and Plays Jazz, Folk Songs, Spirituals and Blues, Jesse Fuller, 1961
Railroad Worksongs, Jesse Fuller, 1992

Other recordings

Sing of Our Times, The Brothers Four, 1964
Jubilee!, Peggosus, 1991
S.S. Bathtub: Songs for Kids and Their Grownups, David LaMotte, 1998
no info Cricket on the Hearth, Jeff Robbins, 199?
no info Emily Songs, Ben Rudnick & Friends, 2001
Some Old Lonesome Day, Lauren Sheehan, 2003
Sing of Our Times / The Honey Wind Blows, The Brothers Four, 2004
no info Stomp Yer Feet!, Johnny Bregar, 2005
no info Sugar Pine, Sugar Pine, 2005
no info Going for Broke, Michael Martin and Friends, 2006
Little Mo' McCoury, Ronnie McCoury, 2007
no info Yarn Sessions, Tobasco Donkeys, 2008
A Friend Of A Friend, Dave Rawlings Machine, 2009