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Thread #49946   Message #756321
Posted By: cetmst
29-Jul-02 - 08:26 AM
Thread Name: Help: Songs of the Lincoln Brigade
Subject: RE: Help: Songs of the Lincoln Brigade
"Six Songs for Democracy" was recorded in Barcelona in 1938 during shelling of the city, sung by Ernst Busch and a chorus from the Thaelmann Battalion (11th International Brigade and issued on 78's by Keynote Records in 1940 (Keynote 101). It was reissued by Folkways Records FH5436 in 1961 as one side of an album entitled "Songs of the Spanish Civil War" vol. 1. The other side was "Songs of the Lincoln Battalion" issued by Asch Records in 1940 and sung by Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer, Baldwin Hawes and Bess Hawes (Woody Guthrie is not mentioned). Smithsonian Institution has reissued Folkways recordings on CD's and I think this one as well as volume 2 is available from them. The six songs are Los Quatro Generales, Die Thaelmann-Kolonne, Hans Beimler, Das Lied von der Einheitsfront, Lied der Internationalen Brigaden and Die Moorsoldaten. Descriptive notes in the LP attribute these songs to their composers and include the lyrics in Spanish, German and English. The songs of the Lincoln Battalion included are Jarama Valley, Cookhouse, Young Man from Alacala, Quartermaster Song, Viva la Quince Brigada, El Quinto Regimeiento and Si Me Quires Escribe. I do not yet have volume 2 but will post more if I can find it.