(Keynote Album 106),
recorded May 1941,
at an unidentified Central Park West studio.
Producer: Eric Bernay.
Released: July 1941. "DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF JOE HILL" Any copyrighted material on these pages is used in "fair use", for the purpose of study, review or critical analysis only, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s).
Audio files are DELIBERATELY encoded "low-fi" to enable faster streaming and are intended as "illustrations" and "appetizers" only.
Official and "hi-fi" recordings can (and should) be purchased at your local record dealer or through a number of web-based companies, like CDNow. |
HOME
The Almanac Singers In Memoriam Millard Lampell Woody Guthrie Song Lyrics Some of Woody's Prose... Tributes Audio
Note: To play Real Media selections, you will need Real Audio Player version 5.0 or higher.
CLICK HERE
to access this free software.
| | PETE SEEGER, vocal/banjo; LEE HAYS, vocal; MILLARD LAMPELL, vocal; JOSH WHITE, guitar/vocal; SAM GARY, CAROL WHITE, BESS LOMAX HAWES, vocal
Even though "Songs for John Doe" was primarily distributed through Communist bookstores, it sold enough copies to merit a followup release. After talking with Eric Bernay, the Almanacs decided to record an album of union songs. Returning to that same studio that May, the Almanacs again invited Josh White and Sam Gary to accompany them. To give songs like "Union Train" more of a choral sound, they also brought in White's wife, Carol, and Bess Lomax.... "Talking Union" went on sale in June 1941; it became the Almanac Singers' most enduring album, remaining in the Keynote catalog until Mercury absorbed the label in 1948. Six years later Moe Asch borrowed Seeger's copy of the album for a Folkways reissue. That version -- drenched in echo and using an expurgated "Talking Union" -- is the one best known to listeners. Ronald D. Cohen & Dave Samuelson, liner notes for "Songs for Political Action," Bear Family Records BCD 15720 JL, 1996, pp. 78-79.
| |
SEARCH AMAZON.COM FOR "BOOKS, MUSIC & MORE"
ON THE ALMANAC SINGERS AND WOODY GUTHRIE Order available recordings right from this site:
 NEXT |