[78-L] If Daddy is a Commie then you gotta turn him in..

[Michael Biel]

Pittsburgh was a steel town then.  How about John Henry, the Steel
Driving Man?  Or The Cradle Will Rock about a steel strike?

Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [78-L] If Daddy is a Commie then you gotta turn him in..
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Date: Fri, January 29, 2010 9:32 am
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

Michael Biel wrote:
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Well, that was fun..we just watched the 1951 "I Was a Communist
>> for the FBI" with Frank Lovejoy. ... And Cvetic enters a record store,
>> and asks for "Beethoven's Emperor Concerto". The clerk says
>> "The long playing version?" Cvetic replies "No, the standard Red label."
>> You with me so far? What's this in code? The clerk hands Cvetic a 78 
>> album and says that all their listening booths are full but there's a
>> special private room in the back. Cvetic takes the album, goes into
>> the back room, and..the store is a front for the FBI meetings! dl
> 
> Was it a Victor album? Did they have any Red Army Chorus on Keynote?
> Paul Robeson "Songs Of Free Men"? Or The Weavers? Were there albums on
> display? Could they be recognized or were they fake?
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
> 

Guess I'll have to go back and look in slo mo! I don't recall seeing any

titles. The album the clerk hands over looks to have a blank white
cover. In a 
Pittsburgh record store, you'd expect polkas....

dl

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