[78-L] Red Scare - McCarthy era songs.

[David Lennick]

Josh White, we forgive..he had talent. We forgive Abe Burrows while we're at it.

dl

On 5/23/2014 4:47 PM, Steve Shapiro wrote:
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> There were several songs about a HUAC hearing involving People's Artists.
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> Talking Un-American Blues
> In Contempt/Die Gedanken Sind Frei
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> Betty Sanders and Irwin Silber had been called to testify; Ron Radosh reported that their subpoenas were ultimately cancelled.  I think folksingers Josh White and Burl Ives both testified and "named names".  In those days, if you got "named", you got blacklisted, couldn't get much work, and stood a chance of losing your job.  This was much worse than just being placed on a no-fly list. I recently read where the first Alice Kramden from the Honeymooners was Pert Kelton, who suddenly lost her job after seven episodes of the show because her real life husband had some years before once endorsed a call for people to march on May Day.  You can't be too careful to whom you get married and you can't be too careful about what you expose the American public to culturally.  Thanks to the McCarthy Era, our country and our people have been safe and morally upright ever since, but we still need to remain vigilant, lest bad influences corrupt us.
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> Talking Un-American Blues by Betty Sanders (Sanders/Silber)Hootenanny Records 103-B  1952
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> Sounds like Pete Seeger on banjo.
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snvidt4veiE
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> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OZpmin8N4I
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> http://www.folkarchive.de/talkunam.html
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> The reverse side is "In Contempt/Die Gedanken Sind Frei", Hootenanny Records 103-A
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> http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/laura_duncan__ernie_lieberman__betty_sanders_and_osborne_smith
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> steve
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> On 5/14/2014 1:39 PM, 78-L Mail List wrote:
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> A friend sent me this request and of course I open it up to discussion.
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> Eric
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> Hi Everyone,
> I'm looking for a song from the Red Scare" era about
> either McCarthy himself or ,HUAC. There are 2 verses in "Wasn't that a
> Time?" and a verse in Malvina Reynolds' "Quiz Show," but I can't think
> of any others. What am I not remembering?
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