Detailed Description
1926-1953 FEATURE NEARLY 300 EXTREMELY RARE RECORDINGS ON TEN COMPACT DISCS-ALSO INCLUDES A HARDCOVER BOOK CD1: THE LEFTIST ROOTS OF THE FOLK REVIVAL Carl Sandburg, John Allison, Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger, Aunt Molly Jackson, Sara Ogan Gunning, Tilman Cadle, John Handcox, Bob Miller, The New Singers and The Manhattan Chorus CD2: THEATER AND CABARET PERFORMERS 1936-1941: Mordecai Bauman, Earl Robinson, Paul Robeson, Tony Kraber, Saul Aaron, Harrison Dowd and Josh White CD3:THE ALMANAC SINGERS:MARCH -JULY 1941 Songs For John Doe, Talking Union, Sod Buster Ballads, and Deep Sea Chanteys CD4: FIGHTING THE FASCISTS: 1942-1944 The Almanac Singers, The Priority Ramblers, Songs Of The LIncoln Brigade and The Union Boys CD5 WORLD WAR II AND THE FOLK REVIVAL Earl Robinson, Dooley Wilson, Sir Lancelot, Vern Partlow, Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston and Citizen CIO CD6: THE PEOPLE'S SONGS ERA: 1945-1949 Josh White, Lee Hays, Bob Claiborne, Bernie Asbel, Lord Invader, Brownie McGhee, Sis Cunningham, Malvina Reynolds, Bill Oliver, The Berries, Mario Casetta,Vern Partlow, Dick Blakeslee and others. CD7: PETE SEEGER: 1946-1948 With Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Hally Wood and others. CD 8: CHARTER RECORDS: 1946-1949 Sir Lancelot, Goodson and Vale, People's Songs Chorus, The Berries, Pete Seeger, Mario Casetta, Betty Sanders, The Weavers and The Peekskill Story CD9: CAMPAIGN SONGS: 1944-1949 1944 Roosevelt campaign: Earl Robinson, Josh White and Bill Oliver, 1946 F.T.A./Cannery Workers campaign: Vern Partlow and Mara Alexander. 1948 Henry Wallace/Glen Taylor Presidential campaign: Richard Huey, Royal Harmonaires, Abigail Alvarez, Paul Robeson, Michael Loring, Sis Cunningham, Bill Oliver, Malvina Reynolds, Sir Lancelot, Alan Lomax, and others. 1949 Mayoral campaigns: The Weavers, Hope Foye, Laura Duncan, and others. CD10: AN ERA CLOSES: 1949-1953 Camp Unity's Freedom Theater, Gerald Gallant, Fred Hellerman, The Weavers, Ernie Lieberman, Hope Foye, Laura Duncan, Betty Sanders. Osborne Smith, Jewish Young Folksingers, Joe Glazer, Bill Friedland and Woody Guthrie.
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