Hinton's first commercial recording, Old Man Atom, followed on Columbia in 1950; over the next several years he also made a number of singles for Decca's Children's Series, and in 1952 issued his first LP, Folk Songs of California. After three more efforts for Decca -- 1955's Singing Across the Land, 1956's A Family Tree of Folk Songs, and 1957's The Real McCoy -- he moved to Folkways for 1961's Whoever Shall Have Some Peanuts and 1967's The Wandering Folksong. None of Hinton's musical projects distracted him from his academic duties, however, and from 1948 onward he taught UCSD courses in biology and folklore; for the National Education Television network, he also hosted a 13-part series on folk music, and for several years even wrote a regular newspaper column, The Ocean World, for The San Diego Union. Hinton additionally co-wrote two books on marine research, -Exploring Under the Sea and -Common Seashore Animals of Southern California. Sam Hinton died in Northern California on September 10, 2009 at the age of 92. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi