I just checked a few records (78's & LP's) in my collection. Actually, not a "collection" . . .It's more of a "Legacy" bunch of records that I grew up with; that my parents bought in the 30's & 40's. . . One of the "perks" of growing up in a "Red House!" Or, as Earl Robinson would say: "The House I Live[d] In" I have an album of "The Lonesome Train" [three 12 inch 78's] and, the Decca LP that I bought in the 60's as "insurance" against breaking the 78's (I wanted to play it for my kids but they weren't interested) I've also got "original" 78's of the Almanac Singers & Woody Guthrie & Pete Seeger & Josh White & Paul Robeson's "St Louis Blues" (recorded in the mid-40's) I also have an on-site recording of the Peekskil (NY) Riot when Robeson gave a concert in 1949. Pete and others would stay at our house when they came to San Francisco in the 40's & 50's. And, HUAC et al would send my folks and their friends "invitations [subpoenas] to appear" when THEY came West around the same time. Which usually meant for this kid to get the crap kicked out of him at school. . .another perk of "Being Red". . . But, we had REALLY good music!
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