[78-L] Leona Anderson

[Michael Biel]

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> Ahh...I wish it WERE a recovered memory,  but I've never been able to get it 
> out of my head during the last fifty years.
>
> Wonder if Hargis was thinking that those old American folk songs on Young 
> People's were actually socialistic propaganda...and isn't there a Groucho of 
> The Funniest Song in the World or some such thing,  on the same label?  That 
> was clearly designed to warp minds and,  I'm happy to report,  at least in 
> my case...it worked!
>
> Taylor B
>   
Yes, he did.  I highly recommend a new book about this company 
"Revolutionizing Children's Records" by David Bonner.  (Standard 
disclaimers apply despite my being quoted on pages 149-50 -- I made the 
index!!!)  But it was more than the words.  I remember seeing a booklet 
from him around 1972 that discussed a secret rhythm in some record that 
burrowed into our young minds that was to unleash our revolutionary 
spirit when heard again in adulthood.  He cited a specific record, and I 
have been looking for that pamphlet ever since.  I had thought it was 
Little Indian Drum, but listening to it shows it couldn't have been it. 

Those records also worked on me as well, and this reminds me that I have 
been trying to get my supplementary list of which YPR and CRG records I 
want to a listmember who auctioned off some I won a week or two ago.  I 
gotta pull myself away from the 78-L first!

Mike (didn't the revolution come already??) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com