Ella Jenkins, the woman who popularized childhood classics like “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad,” died on November 9.

"First lady of the children's folk song," Ella Jenkins. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings For 50 years, Ella Jenkins—once dubbed the "first lady of the children's folk song" by an admiring critic ...

Ella Jenkins, a singer-songwriter known as the “first lady of children’s music,” has died. She was 100. According to NPR, John Smith, the associate director of Smithsonian Folkways ...

Ella Jenkins’ repertoire of call-and-response songs have kept generations of children singing along for more than 50 years. On most of the folk songs Jenkins has recorded, children sing ...