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Thread #103890   Message #3271222
Posted By: Joe Offer
09-Dec-11 - 07:13 PM
Thread Name: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
Subject: RE: Songbook Indexing: Oak Publications
Thank you kindly, GM.
One might wonder why Geoff Lawes posted a link to the song index of Sing Out! Magazine. Since its beginning in 1950, Sing Out! has had words and music for several songs in each issue, always in a distinctive format. You'll notice the same format in the Oak Publications songbooks, and it was similar in the People's Songs Bulletin. Irwin Silber (1925-2010) was the executive director of People's Songs from 1947-1949. He was editor of Sing Out! 1950-1967, and he was associate producer at Folkways Records 1958-1964. From 1960-1967, Silber was Editor and Co-Publisher (with Moses Asch) of Oak Publications.

-Joe Offer-