[78-L] Betty Sanders - info wanted

Mark Bardenwerper citrogsa at charter.net
Sat Nov 23 16:45:05 PST 2013


On 11/23/2013 3:33 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
>    Does anyone have any biographical information for BETTY SANDERS.
>    She recorded 78's for YOUNG PEOPLE'S RECORDS/Children's Record Guild, CHARTER & HOOTENANNY (People's Songs/Sing Out),
> and did an LP of ROBERT BURNS songs for RIVERSIDE in 1957.
>    I think there was an album about a decade later, but I have been unable to find any information - perhaps
> in addition to forgetting details, perhaps I'm conflating her with some other.....
>    Some of the 78's and other Sing Out hoots appeared on Folkways LP's, and in the BEAR FAMILY Political Action box.
>    Anyone know her or about her?, or know if there is an obit somewhere ?? (My searches have found nothing OTHER than
> for the People's Songs era.)
>
http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cornell?a=d&d=CDS19461123.2.4
http://cdsun.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/cornell?a=d&d=CDS19461122.2.18
http://www.peteseeger.net/timehoot.htm
watch out for this one it has a suspicious pop up message.
Brown-eyed, from Brooklyn...

*http://tinyurl.com/kjnlpny
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Involved with Communist party...
...East European Jewish origins*

*http://www.cengage.com/resource_uploads/static_resources/0155062298/12043/ch15_pete_seeger_bio.html
...More red troubles
"...In 1950 Irwin Silber and Betty Sanders started /Sing Out/ magazine 
as a journal of American folk music..."

Pretty interesting person.

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