| Product Summary | | Label: Smithsonian Folkways | | UPC: 00093074002124 | | Release Date: 6/2/2003 | | Buy.com Sku: 60027757 | | Item#: MR36Q6 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Freedom Road - Josh White ~ Various Artists |  | | 2. Talking Sailor - Woody Guthrie ~ Various Artists | | | 3. Ballad Of October 16 - The Almanac Singers/Pete Seeger ~ Various Artists | | | 4. Billy Boy - The Almanac Singers/Josh White ~ Various Artists | | | 5. Plow Under - The Almanac Singers/Pete Seeger ~ Various Artists | | | 6. I'm Gonna Put My Name Down - Tom Glazer ~ Various Artists | | | 7. What Are We Waiting On (What Are We Waiting For) - Woody Guthrie (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 8. Citizen C.I.O. - Union Boys/Tom Glazer/Josh White ~ Various Artists | | | 9. Sinking Of The Reuben James - Woody Guthrie ~ Various Artists | | | 10. You Better Get Ready - Union Boys/Burl Ives (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 11. If You Want To Do Your Part - Leadbelly (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 12. Move Into Germany - Union Boys/Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 13. So Long, It's Been Good To Know You (Dusty Old Dust) - Woody Guthrie (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 14. Martins And Coys - Union Boys (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 15. Mr. Hitler - Leadbelly (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 16. Sally Don't You Grieve - Woody Guthrie/Cisco Houston ~ Various Artists | | | 17. Jimmy Longhi Story - Vincent "Jimmy" Longhi (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 18. When The Yanks Go Marching In - Woody Guthrie/Cisco Houston/Sonny Terry (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 19. Round And Round Hitler's Grave - The Almanac Singers (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 20. Fuhrer, The - Josh White (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 21. Miss Pavlichencko - Woody Guthrie (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 22. National Defense Blues - Leadbelly/Sonny Terry/Brownie McGhee/Champion Jack Dupree (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 23. Gee But I Want To Go Home - Leadbelly ~ Various Artists | | | 24. Looking For A Home - Pete Seeger (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | | | 25. Now That It's All Over (He'll Go Back To Selling Shoes) - Pete Seeger (previously unreleased) ~ Various Artists | |
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | THAT'S WHY WE'RE MARCHING: WORLD WAR II & THE AMERICAN FOLK SONG MOVEMENT includes 15 previously unreleased tracks. | | Compilation producers: Jeff Place, Dr. Guy Logsdon. | | Engineers: Moses Asch. | | Principally recorded between 1941 and 1949. Includes liner notes by Dr. Guy Logsdon and Jeff Place. | | Personnel: Woody Guthrie (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Tom Glazer (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Brownie McGhee (vocals, guitar, background vocals); Cisco Houston, Butch Hawes, Josh White, Burl Ives (vocals, guitar); Leadbelly (vocals, 12-string guitar); Pete Seeger (vocals, banjo); Bess Lomax Hawes (vocals, mandolin); Doc Reese, Millard Lampell, Hally Wood, Alan Lomax, Lee Hays (vocals); Sonny Terry, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee (harmonica); Sis Cunningham (accordion); Willie "The Lion" Smith (piano); Pops Foster (bass guitar); Arthur Stern (background vocals). | | Liner Note Authors: Guy Logsdon; Jeff Place. | | Unknown Contributor Roles: Dupree ; Almanac Singers. | | Fifteen of the 25 tracks on this 71-minute disc are previously unreleased and the rest are not easily available. That's no reflection on their quality, but it is a clue to their limited typicality: these are songs written and recorded in the first half of the 1940s in response to world events before and during World War II; after the war, they dated fast. In fact, some of them became obsolete even before the U.S. entered the war. The earliest songs are three tracks by the Almanac Singers (who included Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, and others) from the spring of 1941 decrying the actions of the Franklin Roosevelt Administration that inclined the country toward the war. When the songs were recorded, they expressed a commonly held sentiment. But only a couple of months later, when Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the singers themselves repudiated their sentiments, and another six months later, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, they seemed positively treasonous. The rest of the album's songs are patriotic, pro-war expressions of the need to overcome Hitler and win the war. But even amid such mainstream sentiments, the left-wing folksingers slip in lyrics in support of unions and civil rights, more long-standing views for them. They also find space to praise U.S. ally the Soviet Union in songs that became politically unacceptable after the war. Fifty years later, of course, all of this makes for a musical, historical curiosity, and a listener's primary interest is likely to be the opportunity to hear previously unissued music by Guthrie, Seeger, Leadbelly, Josh White, Burl Ives, Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and a host of other excellent folksingers. ~ William Ruhlmann |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 02/20/1996 | | Original Release Date : 1996 | | Catalog ID : 40021 | | Label : Smithsonian Folkways Recordings | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Mono | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00093074002124 |
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