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In reply to the discussion: Alan Lomax's Massive Archive Goes Online [View all]Hekate
(91,809 posts)...we all joined in. Even as a small child I remember Burl Ives singing Leatherwinged Bat.
The Clancy Brothers were our badge of Irishness in Hawai'i, where we were otherwise generic haoles, and I'm pretty sure we learned everything they sang. Mom had a couple of paperback books: "Pickin' and Singin'" and "Round the World Folk Sing," and I bought "The Weavers Song Book" on my own.
Harry Belafonte staked a claim in the folk revival, with that honey baritone of his; but ultimately she got some Big Bill Broonzy and Ledbelly into her collection.
My collection in those days was limited by my lack of money, but I wrote the words down to just about everything in a composition book, and could sing it once I had the words....
Good times, good times.
Ooops, sorry, sometimes I just go off on a pleasurable memory and go where it takes me, whether others want to or not!
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