[78-L] Seeger, Weaver 78s?

[David Lennick]

And of course Pete probably plays banjo, not guitar, on Lonesome Train..anybody 
remember for sure?

dl

Robert Shirer wrote:
> 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>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> 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>
>>>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>>> 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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