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Thread #6602 Message #3998960
Posted By: Joe Offer
02-Jul-19 - 10:57 PM
Thread Name: Lyr: 7 Thousand Macedonians in Full Battle Array
Subject: RE: Lyr: 7 Thousand Macedonians in Full Battle Array
Since he helped me build my nearly-complete collection of Sing Out! Magazine, Bill Day asked me if I could find Pete Seeger's "One Big Fat Hen" recitation. Up above, Bill says the magazine's index says the piece is in Volume 9, #2, of the magazine - but I can't find it in that issue, or in the magazine's Song Index. Am I looking in the wrong place? Can anybody help find Pete's version of this recitation?
Here's what Bill said about it:When the 3 Seegers sang together here a number of years ago, I got a chance to ask Pete about a 'recitation' I heard him do in Kansas about 1962. It was an incremental thing that began "one big fat hen"...I remembered one complex verse about 7s**....and Pete stood there and went thru the entire thing! I asked him if it had ever been printed, because online attempts were really different. He said he thought it had been in Sing Out,,,maybe in the 70s.
I can't find a reference. IF it is in one, I'd love to get a scan of it for nostalgia.
It's not in Pete's Where Have All the Flowers Gone or his Incompleat Folksinger, but apparently it's on a Fellside CD titled Pete Seeger in England. Can anyone help?
-Joe-