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May 1965 Sing Out, Songs from Berkeley, Irwin Silber IN THIS ISSUE SONGS INSTRUMENTAL TECHNIQUES OF AMERICAN FOLK GUITAR - An instruction book on Carter Plcldng' and Fingerplcking; including examples from Elizabeth Cotten, There But for Fortune 5 Mississippi John Hurt, Rev. Gary Davis, Dave Van Ronk, Hick's Farewell 14 etc, Forty solos fUll y written out in musIc and tablature. Little Sally Racket 15 $2.95 plus 25~ handllng. Traditional stringed Instruments, Long Black Veil 16 P.O. Box 1106, Laguna Beach, CaUl. THE FOLK SONG MAGAZINE Man with the Microphone 21 SEND FOR YOUR FREE CATALOG on Epic hand crafted 'The Verdant Braes of Skreen 22 ~:~~~d~e Epic Company, 5658 S. Foz Circle, Littleton, VOL. 15, NO. 2 W ith International Section MAY 1965 75~ The Commonwealth of Toil 26 -An I Want Is Union 27 FREE BEAUTIFUL SONG. All music-lovers send names, Links on the Chain 32 ~~g~ ~ses . Nordyke, 6000-21 Sunset, Hollywood, call!. JOHNNY CASH MUDDY WATERS Get Up and Go 34 Long Thumb 35 DffiE CTORY OF COFFEE HOUSE S Across the Country ••• The Hell-Bound Train 38 updated edition covers 150 coffeehouses: addresses, des­ criptions, detaUs on entertaInment policies. $1 .00. TaUs­ Beans in My Ears 45 man Press, Boz 469, Armonk, N. Y. (Year's subscription Cannily, Cannily 46 to supplements $1.00 additional). ARTICLES FOLK MUSIC SUPPLIE S: Records , books, guitars, banjos, accessories; all available by mall. Write tor information. Denver Folklore Center, 608 East 17th Ave., Denver 3, News and Notes 2 Colo. R & B (Tony Glover) 6 Son~s from Berkeley NAKADE GUITARS - ClaSSical, Flamenco, Requinta. Kung Recorders. Brochure on request. Folklore Music, (Irwin Silber) 18 4100 Unlversity Way, Seattle. Ireland's Greatest Singing Clan (Peter Kennedy) 23 SUMME R POSITIONS AVAILABLE for lolklorlsts (music and dance). Unusual creative project. Berkshire area. Whatever Happened to Singing Box 1149, PittSfield, Mass. in the Unions ? (Pete Seeger) 28 Johnny Cash (Peter La Farge) 36 THE FRET SHOP - Chicago - Your source tor strings, s upplies, fioe Gibson mandolins, old-time banjos and Glenn Ohrlin: Cowboy Singer gultars. Shlp anywhere. Write Pete Lelbundguth, 1547 (Glenn Ohrlin) 40 E . 53rd, Chicago 15, 01. International Section 47 "BLUE GRASS BANJO" .. A manual of seU instruction Book Review on the 5-strlng Banjo. Diagram "By Ear" method. No The Art of Flamenco musical notes employed I "Blue grass Banjo" presents the fast three linger style 01 picking. Regularly $5.00, (Henrietta Yurchenco) 52 mention SING OUTI and order for only $4.00 post paid. Poets (Moses Asch) 54 Peter Richardson, P.O. Box 132, Branford, Florida. Ragtime (Amelia Ramsey) 55 FREE CATALOGUE - Imported gultar wood and accesso_ In the Field (Bruce Jackson) 56 ries. L. White , 393 High Bank Rd., So . Yarmouth, Mas s. Jazz (Fred Ramsey, Jr . ) 57 Big Bill (Pete Welding) 60 BRITAIN'S FOLK MAGAZINES 'SPIN' and ' BALLADS & Fan the Flames 63 SONGS' available now . For details send stamped addressed Breakdown (Robert Baxter) 67 envelope to P.O. Box -442, Mount Vernon, Indlaoa. Frets and Frails (Israel Young) 75 THE KINGSTON TRIO ..• IOO SOngs lor Folk Singing with Folk Music on Records : Guitar Chords ..." their best numbers" ... 2Vols. $1 .50 each: Blues, Rags, a nd Rounders 79 FOLK WORLD, 601 5th Ave ., NYC. Country Music 83 F REE •.• FOLK SONG GUIDE for Folk Slngers ..• Engllsh Johnny Appleseed, Jr. 91 Folk songs/BroadSides/ Bluegrass Banjo/R.R. & Work Correspondence 97 Songs: FOLK WORLD, 601 5th Ave. , NYC . 10 BANJO TUNE S .. Bluegrass , FralllDg, 2-Flnger, MUSic_ Tablature. $1.00. Da.lton's, 1105 18th Ave., S., NashVille, I c·t:Il4MP; Tenn. PEAR L INLAYS tor banjos, guitars, etc. As original or custom. Write Harry We st, 2290 Davidson Ave ., Bronx On our cover this issue are Johnny N. Y. 10468, CY 8- 1483. ' Cash, Muddy Waters, and four Univer­ FOLK RECORDS - ALL LA BE LS - All artis ts . Free list. sity of California students singing as Write CUff House, Box 42-S, Utica, N. Y. part of a Free Speech demonstration at Berkeley, California. The photogr aphs D.E. POHREN'S DEFINITIVE WORKS on flamenco: THE of Cash and Waters are by Dave Gahr ART OF F LAME NCO, $4.50, and LIVES AND LEGENDS and the photograph of the Berke ley stu­ OF FLAME NCO, $6.50. Society of Spanish Studtes, 4979 dents is by Howard Harawitz. Rose Hedge Drive, La Mesa, California. w :::!: u « STU DENTS AT BERKELEY No one knows just how many songs In the process of delineating the is­ were written by U. C. students, their sues of free speech and assembly on faculty friends, and intellectual the campus, the songwriters demon­ Berkeley neighbors. But songs and strated a genuinely acute awareness singing were an integral part of the of some of the underlying issues. now historic battle on the California One song, "Hey, Mr. Newsman," campus spearheaded by the Free (words by Richard Kampf to the tune Speech Movement (FSM). of a traditional blues; copyright 1964 Fantasy/Galaxy Records) may prove It is hardly a coincidence that the a revelation to those seeking a thread most significant demonstration of stu­ of truth beyond the obvious. dent unrest on American campuses of the last decade should be charac­ HEY, MR. NEWSMAN terized by an outburst oftopical song. It is a reflection of the sure hold Hey, Mr. Newsman, how come folksinging has on the campus -- and you're taking pictures of the great flexibility of the topical/ me? (2) folk song tradition that lends itself Is it because of my long hair to spontaneous expression. Or 'cause of my boots up to my To date, the Free Speech Movement knees? has produced a songbook, two 12-inch LPs, and a 7-inch LP of topical Hey, Mr. Newsman, Abe Lincoln Christmas carols. Leading folksing­ he had long hair, too (2) ers (Joan Baez, Barbara Dane, the Or did you think Abe Lincoln Freedom Singers, Malvina Reynolds) Would have a crewcut just like have lent their voices to the battle - you? and a whole bevy of writers and song­ leaders have played a leading role in You call me a Commie, say that the movement. all my friends are Red, (2) Be rke ley student demonstration U PI Te lephoto But we've been freezing here for From the beginning, there was an freedom identification of the Free Speech While you've been sleeping in Folll process on the campus Movement with the cause of civil your nice warm bed. rights. Many students believe that it was the San Francisco civil rights Don't know if I'm subversive, demonstrations of last spring (largely just want to say what I manned by Berkeley students) that in­ please. (2) Songs from Berkeley curred the wrath of some powerful Strange how us subversives Bay Area interests (read: former Keep fighting for democracy. Senator Knowland, etc.) resulting in by Irwin Silber so characteristic of the Berkeley the ban on such activity that triggered Yes, my hair is long, and I campus last fall. "Hail to IBM" (to off the controversy. haven't shaved in days, (2) What was, perhaps, the most re­ the melody of the chorale section of But fighting for my freedom Beethoven's 9th Symphony) depicts a Throughout the demonstrations, vealing expression of all in the re­ when 800 stUdents were being carted While clean-cut kids just look "mighty factory" of education: cent free speech demonstrations at off to jail and at the height of mass the other way. the University of California (Berke­ rallies, the most popular songs were ley) came through in a student-com­ Make the students safe for My boots are old, and my collars knowledge, "We Shall Overcome," "We Are Sol­ posed verse to the tune of "I Don't diers in the Army," "Let My Little don't button down (2) Want Your Mlllions, Mister." Keep them loyal, keep them But you don't need no tuxedo clean. Light Shine," and other songs of the Southern freedom movement. When you're fighting for the We don't want mass education, This is why we have a college, rights of man. From IBM machines so blind. Hail to IBM machine! But just to be treated as human One song describes U. C. as the The influence of collegiate folk­ beings, "Womb With A View," while another singing can be seen in the choice of The students learned lessons in Our cause is freedom of the (to the tune of "Come All Ye Faith­ tunes for the student parodies: solidarity that were beyond the ken mind. ful") simply states: "Streets of Laredo," "Talking of the IBM machines -- and Don Paik Blues," "Hard Travelin' ," Phil Ochs' captured this concept in a parody to It was a theme stated again and 0, come all ye mindless, "William Worthy," "Which Side Are "There's A Man Goin' 'Round Taking again in the vast outpouring of songs, Conceptless and spineless, You On?"," Times Are Getting Names" (Copyright 1964 Fantasy/ parodles, and topical verse that was Sell out your integrity to IBM Hard," and lots of others. Galaxy Records): -18- -19- THERE'S A MAN T AKlNG NAMES The mike is so loud, and it's drawing a crowd, CHORUS: And I'm sure that our rules say There's a man goin' 'round it's just not allowed. takin' names, (2) You may take my buddy's name CHORUS: But you gotta take me just the Oh, this will look bad in the same. papers, There's a man goin' 'round This will look bad in the press. takin' names. Call on the troopers from Oak­ land, I read my Constitution long They'll get us out of this mess.
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