Real name: Cynthia Day Gooding

Effective period / Period of releases: 1953 - 1965

Cynthia Gooding (August 12, 1924 – February 10, 1988) was an American folk singer who recorded traditional songs from various countries for Elektra Records in the 1950s and 1960s.

In about 1960, she began hosting "Folksinger's Choice", a regular radio program on WBAI in New York. She made many recordings around Greenwich Village and elsewhere, as research and material for her shows, and in early 1962 conducted the first radio interview with Bob Dylan, before his first album was released.