KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Singing for Our Lives, 1 of 2

Analog Audio

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Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

AM.1994.02.17.A

Program Length

78 min

Part

1 of 2

Dates

1994-02-17 | broadcast
| 402 | created

Genres

Folk music

Musical Selections

Singing For Our Lives [excerpt] (0:41) / Holly Near -- Hold The Fort (ca. 1870) (2:05) / Philip P. Bliss -- The Rebel Girl [excerpt] (ca. 1914-15) (0:46) / Joe Hill -- I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night [lyrics by Alfred Hayes] (1936) (3:02) / Earl Robinson -- Ballad for Americans [excerpt, lyrics by John Latouche] (1939) (0:56) / Earl Robinson -- Zog Nit Keynmol (”Never Say”) [lyrics by Hirsh Glick] (ca. 1935-43) (1:02) / Dmitri Pokrass -- Mayn Rue Plats (”My Resting Place”) (2:08) / Morris Rosenfeld -- Viva La Quince Brigada (2:25) -- Freiheit [lyrics by Gudrun Kabisch (a.k.a. Karl Ernst)] (ca. 1936) (2:32) / Paul Dessau -- Picket Line Priscilla [lyrics by Mike Stratton] (1937) (3:50) / Saul Aarons -- All I Want (ca. 1930s) (2:53) / Jim Garland -- Beloved Comrade [lyrics by Abel Meeropol (a.k.a Lewis Allan)] (1:32) / Fred Katz -- Strange Fruit (3:10) / Abel Meeropol (a.k.a Lewis Allan) -- Tzena, Tzena, Tzena [lyrics by Yechiel Chagiz (a.k.a Jehiel Hagges)] (ca. 1941) (2:09) / Issachar Miron (a.k.a. Stefan Michrovsky) -- Goodnight Irene (3:20) / Huddie 'Leadbelly' Ledbetter -- Wasn’t That A Time? [lyrics by Walter Lowenfels] (2:10) / Lee Hays -- Que Bonita Bandera (2:40) / Flor Morales “Ramito” Ramos -- Fight On (2:41) / Fred Hellerman -- Power and the Glory (ca. 1963) (2:17) / Phil Ochs -- Started Out Fine (2:22) / Holly Near -- It Could Have Been Me (5:37) / Holly Near -- Mothers, Daughters and Wives (5:10) / Judy Small

Performers

Pete Seeger, banjo and vocals (Hold ; Viva)
Paul Robeson, vocals (I Dreamed ; Ballad ; Zog)
The Almanac Singers (All)
Billie Holiday, vocals (Strange)
The Weavers (Tzena ; Goodnight ; Wasn’t ; Que ; Fight)
Ronnie Gilbert, vocals (Power)
Holly Near, vocals (Started ; It Could)

Subjects

Folk songs
Folk songs, English -- United States
Ballads, English -- United States
Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Songs and music
Folk songs, Jewish
Folk songs, Spanish
Folk songs, German
Working class -- Songs and music
Labor movement -- Songs and music
Protest songs

Acknowledgment

Funding for the preservation of this program made possible through a grant by the National Endowment for the Arts.