Uploaded by VictrolaJazz on Jul 12, 2009
Back in 1950, my grandmother was shopping in downtown Waco--she was in McCrory's 5&10 and heard this record playing over the PA system. She liked it and bought it for me for Christmas. I fell in love with it as a six year old, and the next year with On Top of Old Smokey. I'm sure my grandmother would have been astonished if she'd known The Weavers were Communists, but on the other hand she probably would not have known what a Communist was.
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A lot of our most gifted artists around this time were well intentioned, gullible and seduced by pie-in-the-sky idealistic ideas of a communist utopia. Most were still good Americans, but some were led to betray their country for a bankrupt system.
I hope most people can see the artist for their actions and talents and forgive their naivity and never have black lists again.
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@edr341 You're exactly right! I think the beauty of their legacy in music greatly overshadows any wrong thinking they may have had in the hysteria of the time!
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@witchie50 This was #1 on my b-day also, 20 Sept 1950. :-)
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@DutchHeartMonger1 26th of august 1950 :) zo like he is i am a virgin.
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@witchie50 What day were you born? It was number 1 on my brother's birthday too, he was born on sept.4 1950
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@56Mercgal Thanks! Just wished the little light in the Stroboscope worked! Love this song, too!
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BIRTH OF THE FOLK ERA---- WEAVERS-- GUTHRIE -- SEEGER-- HAROLD LEVENTHAL----
Dslevent86 1 month ago
@Dslevent86 Thanks! That's right, and about ten year forerunners to Peter, Paul and Mary!
VictrolaJazz 1 month ago
this song was number 1 at the day i was born :) so ik will listen to it very often from now on.
witchie50 1 month ago 2
@witchie50 Thanks! And I was seven then and loved it as well!
VictrolaJazz 1 month ago
This hit by Gordon Jenkins & The Weavers was the #1 song in the USA for 1950.
mkl62 9 months ago
@mkl62 That's right, and On Top of Old Smokey was No. 1 in 1951. Thanks!
VictrolaJazz 9 months ago