[78-L] Leona Anderson

[David Lennick]

The Groucho disc is total Marxist propaganda, don't forget..don't offend 
anybody, we're all brothers.

Ha ha, I said Marxist, I made a funny.

dl (I think I made it into the acknowledgments at least, but not the index)

Michael Biel wrote:
> 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 
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