[78-L] Who is William Robyn? - more answers

[Michael Biel]

Willie was quite short, and sometimes was called Wee Willie Robyn.  At 
the last Edison Site concert, which I recorded in stereo (and I think 
that Larry Tedder also has), I took a Polaroid photo of each of the 
performers and had them autograph it, so I have one of Willie at the 
mic.   Even in his old age he was a powerful singer.  He did a firey 
version of "The Green Eyed Dragon" that time.  Because he was at the 
site concerts each year, I seriously doubt Steve Barr's contention that 
he might have been "astonished . . . discovering there were folks who 
had heard of him many decades later".  He already knew he was still 
known and remembered by record collectors.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com


Steve Ramm wrote:
> Robyn was one of the EDison and other p;ioneer artists who would come to the Edison Site in West Orange in the late 1970s for the "Evening With The Artists Programs" They were great and Willie and Gladys Rice and Douglas Stanbury and Edna White and Eva Taylor and MORE were there and were great. I have photos that I can share of Willie.
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> The sirte programs are available to purchase (they are fasconating with live performances" from Larry Tedder at www.americansoundarchives.com. He may have posted some of my photos there.
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> THe late Milford Fargo - who co-hosted these evenings with Ray Wile - did a presentation on Willie at a synagogue in Rochester NY in the 1980s. Merritt Malvern recorded it. I think Larry has that one too. WELL worth hearing.
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> Hope that adds to the previous answers.
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> Steve Ramm