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Paul Robeson – Wikipedia

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Paul Robeson – Wikipedia

Paul Leroy Robeson (/ˈroʊbsΙ™n/ ROHB-sΙ™n;[2][3] April 9, 1898 – January 23, 1976) was an American bass baritone concert artist and stage and film actor who became famous both for his cultural accomplishments and for his political activism. Educated at Rutgers College and Columbia University, he was a star athlete in his youth. He also studied Swahili and phonetics at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London in 1934. His political activities began with his involvement with unemployed workers and anti-imperialist students whom he met in Britain and continued with support for the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War and his opposition to fascism. In the United States he became active in the Civil Rights Movement and other social justice campaigns. His sympathies for the Soviet Union and for communism, and his criticism of the United States government and its foreign policies, caused him to be blacklisted during the McCarthy era.

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“And the victims learn to giggle, for at least they are not bored.”
~ Phil Ochs

Peter, Paul and Mary – The Marvelous Toy

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I used to listen to song a lot with my parents house on audio cassette tape as a kid, and somehow it felt really good on this wet winter night. It's 50 years old now, although when I listened to the song, it was only about 15 years old.

NPR

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Phil Spector, Legendary Record Producer And Convicted Murderer, Dies : NPR

"He had this one priceless gift, which was a musical ability," Brown notes. "And he was able to create out of this gift these extraordinary records, these grandiloquent dreams of romance and love and escape, and fling those back into the face of the world. It was flinging them at his father, who killed himself; flinging at the kids who wouldn't talk to him at school; flinging it at record industry, who thought he was a madman. These records were Spector's revenge."

Weeds – Malvina Reynolds

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Weeds – Malvina Reynolds

Nancy Reynolds, daughter of Malvina Reynolds, the writer of ‘Little Boxes’, tells us about the day her mother wrote the song that started it all ....

“My mother and father were driving South from San Francisco through Daly City when my mom got the idea for the song. She asked my dad to take the wheel, and she wrote it on the way to the gathering in La Honda where she was going to sing for the riends Committee on Legislation. When Time Magazine (I think, maybe Newsweek) wanted a photo of her pointing to the very place, she couldn’t find those houses because so many more had been built around them that the hillsides were totally covered.ȁ

“As for ‘protest’ I think it was more social commentary."

“rom what I’ve read, I think Levittown was built more for working class families than for doctors and lawyers and was more community oriented than the aly City sprawl, with community centers and stuff.ȁ

“When I went with her to Japan in 1970 we saw suburbs where the little boxes had flat tile roofs, very Japanese, but they still all looked just the same."

“I’m delighted that you will have the McGarrigles and hope you can get Bebel Gilberto next year! My mom thought the song sounded better in rench than in English."