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“Donkey Debka” Young Israel Sings Ron & Nama Elektra Records
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“Donkey Debka” Young Israel Sings Ron & Nama Elektra Records

Bruce Murdoch “33 1/3 Revolutions Per Minute” Stormy Forest Records (1971) Canadian folky. Here’s a nice post about this record. Thanks again to Joe in Maine!

“MGA PAKULO” D’Big 3 Sullivans Mavon Records (File Under: Filipino Folk)
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“The Gay Gordon” The Joe Gordon Folk Four” RCA Victor


Thunderbird Records Present “Indian Songs of the Southwest” (Gems for Collectors) Includes a paste on cover of native American art by Gerald Nailor from 1948. Interesting liner notes too.


“Beat Generation” Jazz Poetry. Folk Lyrics. John Brent, Len Chandler and Hugh Romney at the Gaslight, Greenwich Village. Musitron Records.

Music for Little Folk Singers in Hi-Fi. Merry Go Round Records.
These old Folkways Records were very special to those in the New York City music scene that Dylan came upon circa 1962. He writes of meeting Cisco Houston at a party on Fifth Avenue down in the Village. Cisco was a compatriot of and fellow traveler with Woody Gutherie. The real deal. Dylan imagined getting a recording contract with Folkways — never dreamt of recording for Mitch Miller’s Columbia until John Hammond signed him. These Folkways covers are distinctive for their think, heavy cardboard covers. This one includes a nice line drawing by artist Ben Shahn. Shahn did numerous covers in the Fifties and early Sixties for various labels.