[78-L] Seeger, Weaver 78s?

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Fri Sep 18 21:16:53 PDT 2009


This got out before I remembered that Seeger is also heard playing guitar (not 
singing, as I recall) on the Decca "Lonesome Train" set.

dl wrote:
> Couldn't remember the Hootenanny disc, and I own the durned thing. I mentioned 
> Encore, which is where you'll find Talking Atom b/w Newspaper Men. There's also 
> the Peekskill Story..can't remember what label that was on and the Political 
> Action box set is way across the room.
> 
> dl
> 
> Robert Shirer wrote:
>> Quite a few.  On his own, beginning with the Almanac Singers, five albums 
>> and a few singles; then lots of Asch and Disc albums (the Folksay album with 
>> Woody and Cisco, Leadbelly, etc); a few singles on Charter, one on Charter 
>> with the Weavers, the "Hammer Song" with the Weavers on Hootenanny, lots and 
>> lots of Weavers discs on Decca.  There are more, that's just off the top of 
>> my head.  I have most of them; that's something I'd like to be a completist 
>> on.  There are a few campaign songs from the late forties for the 
>> Progressives and Henry Wallace that will be hard to find.  A worthy quest.
>> Almost all of the aforementioned are on the very pricey Bear Family 
>> compilation "Songs for Political Action."
>> Cheers,
>> Bob Shirer
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "buster" <busterdog at mac.com>
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>> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 10:13 PM
>> Subject: [78-L] Seeger, Weaver 78s?
>>
>>
>>> Sitting in our seats waiting for the start of a concert featuring Pete
>>> Seeger right now, and wondering what if any 78 outputs he may have had?
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