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- From: colm@mathcs.emory.edu (Colm K. Mulcahy)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.folk
- Subject: Box Set of MacColl/Seeger/Parker radio ballads?
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 02:10:42 -0500
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- Sound like an interesting proposition? I think so. These LPs, issued
- in the mid to late 60s, recorded as BBC broadcasts in the late 50s and
- early 60s, have been long out of print, and command high prices if you
- can find them. I just paid $50 for one, the most I've ever spent on one
- record.
-
- Anyway, the good folks at the Smithsonian are considering issuing a boxset
- of them all (6 to 8? I forget), with some nudging from Peggy Seeger (who
- did all the music for these, though in true pre-feminist era style she did
- not get equal billing with the other two).
-
- They need some idea of public interest, so I urge you to write to them and
- say you heard and think it's a great idea - many of you may even volunteer
- that you would buy such a package.
-
- Personally, I think these are of such historical importance that they need
- to be available again, even if in limited quantities, so that they can at
- least be bought by libraries and thus made available for generations to come.
-
- The address:
-
- Smithsonian Folkways, 955 l'enfant plaza, smithsonian institution,
- washington, DC 20560, USA
-
- Please give it serious thought, and ACT if you care. Go! Move! Shift! Thanks
-
-
- PS If these are issued we'll all see where Christy Moore got a large
- chunk of his early repertoire!
-
-
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- In a world of mega-stores, mega-stars, mega-sales and mega-hype, there is little
- room left for the individual with a magaphone. Everything is being brought in
- line with everything else. ERIC GOULDEN, 1990
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