[78-L] Seeger, Weaver 78s?
Robert Shirer
rshirer at neb.rr.com
Fri Sep 18 21:30:00 PDT 2009
Peekskill is on Charter as well. Got it as a throw in in a bunch of Weaver
Deccas from Oboy for little money. I had forgotten the Lonesome Train set
from way back when when Burl Ives was a progressive. Oh well.
Cheers,
Bob Shirer
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Seeger, Weaver 78s?
> 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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