Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP

Subject: Folklore: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: TonyGillespie
Date: 06 Dec 15 - 08:55 PM

Hello!

During my journey to complete my collection of Sing Out magazines, I have found myself at a bit of a dead end. I'm looking to:
1. Confirm the existence of a few issues (as I've NEVER seen them anywhere.)
and
2. See if anyone has them and wants to trade/sell their copies.

Looking for the following...any help would be greatly appreciated!

Volume 1, Number 8 (Jan 1951)
Volume 1, Number 9 (Feb 1951)
Volume 4, Number 7 (Fall 1954?)

Like I said, unsure if Sing Out even produced these issues, so if you have one, and can at least confirm it exists, I would be grateful!!

Thanks, friends!!
Tony

Subject: RE: Folklore: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: GUEST,#
Date: 06 Dec 15 - 09:28 PM

Tony, Joe Offer knows quite a bit about Sing Out! Give it a day or two.

Subject: RE: Folklore: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: GUEST,#
Date: 06 Dec 15 - 09:42 PM

Also, have you tried asking at

info at singout dot org

Subject: RE: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: TonyGillespie
Date: 06 Dec 15 - 10:01 PM

Thanks for the response. Hopefully Joe will chime in. I've been on Sing Out's website, and didn't did any answers. I haven't sent them an email as of yet, because I've heard they are in a transition period since Pete's (Seeger) death, and I was afraid I wouldn't hear back.

Thought I would try the great Mudcat first!!

Thx again, friend!
Tony

Subject: RE: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: GUEST,#
Date: 06 Dec 15 - 11:10 PM

Tony, hang tough. We'll get the answers. Just takes a little time.

Subject: RE: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: GUEST,#
Date: 06 Dec 15 - 11:27 PM

thread.cfm?threadid=43021

There are a list with many links to Mudcat threads that discuss Sing Out!.

I'll start at the bottom.

Subject: RE: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Joe Offer
Date: 06 Dec 15 - 11:55 PM

Hi, Tony -

I, too, am trying to assemble a complete collection of Sing Out! Magazine. But if you're searching in the rarefied air of the 1950s, you must be well ahead of me. I'm missing most of the 1980s, and almost all of the 1950s and 1960s until 1966. The magazine's Website (click) has an index of recent years (back to 1994), but I don't know of an index of the entire run of Sing Out!

The Website does have a Song Index. Using [CTRL-F] to search for 1#8, 1#9, and 4#7, I can tell that the magazine did indeed publish the issues you're seeking, because there are songs from those issues in the index.

Good luck in your quest. If you do assemble a complete collection, put it in your will for me, willya? At the prices people charge for Sing Out! on eBay (click), I'd never be able to afford to buy myself a collection.

I wish the complete run of the magazine would be made available online. That would be a boon to all of us aging U.S. folkies.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: GUEST,#
Date: 07 Dec 15 - 12:12 AM

Tony, I checked all the threads and there is nothing helpful regarding your quest. Now on to Plan B.

Subject: RE: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 07 Dec 15 - 10:04 AM

So what is a fair price for copies of this magazine? I have a number issues from the late 50's until the large format came along. Is it worth me climbing into the attic to sort them?. I along with the magazines am in the UK.

Subject: RE: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: GUEST,#
Date: 07 Dec 15 - 10:34 AM

This will give you an idea of roughly how much they go for

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/sing-out

and whether climbing to the topmast is worth the candle (or something like that).

Subject: RE: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: TonyGillespie
Date: 07 Dec 15 - 04:12 PM

Thanks, friends!! Now I know they exist, which is good. Now to track them down.

1. Joe Offer...I sent you an email.
2. Guest #...thx for searching the archives for me. I appreciate that dedication!!
3. Guest Hootenanny...some issues go for higher (example, I just sold a Volume 12, Number 4, the first appearance of Bob Dylan, in a little beat up shape, for $31. However, others only get a few bucks.) If you do make the climb, and have the issues I'm missing, I would gladly pay a premium for them!!

Thanks again!!

Subject: RE: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: TonyGillespie
Date: 04 Jan 16 - 09:10 AM

Here's an almost complete list of Sing Out from Volume 1, Issue 1 back in May 1950 through Volume 34, Issue 4 in 1993.

Volume 1        Issue 1        The Hammer Song (Seeger)        May-50
Volume 1        Issue 2        Springtime Orchestra               Jun-50
Volume 1        Issue 3        Walk In Peace                        Jul-50
Volume 1        Issue 4        Headlines                        Aug-50
Volume 1        Issue 5        Police "Peace Catcher"               Sep-50
Volume 1        Issue 6        Photographers                        Oct-50
Volume 1        Issue 7        Snowman w/ Banjo               Dec-50
Volume 1        Issue 8                                         Jan-51
Volume 1        Issue 9                                         Feb-51
Volume 1        Issue 10 Wash Vigil for Martinsville 7 Mar-51
Volume 1        Issue 11 Song Lyrics                        Apr-51
Volume 1        Issue 12 French Peace Song               May-51
                        
Volume 2        Issue 1        First Anniversary Issue               Jul-51
Volume 2        Issue 2        Les Deportados                        Aug-51
Volume 2        Issue 3        "We've Always Welcomed Strangers" Sep-51
Volume 2        Issue 4        Halloween Pumpkin Issue               Oct-51
Volume 2        Issue 5        Josephine Baker                        Nov-51
Volume 2        Issue 6        Peace on Earth                        Dec-51
Volume 2        Issue 7        Construction Worker               Jan-52
Volume 2        Issue 8        Lead Belly                        Feb-52
Volume 2        Issue 9        Singing Trio                        Mar-52
Volume 2        Issue 10 Sit Down, Sit Down               Apr-52
Volume 2        Issue 11 Black Cover (poem to Robeson)        Oct-52
Volume 2        Issue 12 The Troubador                        Nov-52
                        
Volume 3        Issue 1        Earl Robinson                        Sep-52
Volume 3        Issue 2        Earl Robinson                        Oct-52
Volume 3        Issue 3        Ethel Rosenberg Letter               Nov-52
Volume 3        Issue 4        Man in Handcuffs               Dec-52
Volume 3        Issue 5        Robert Burns                        Jan-53
Volume 3        Issue 6        Mrs Ingram and Her Two Sons        Feb-53
Volume 3        Issue 7        Women of Spain                        Mar-53
Volume 3        Issue 8        Prokofiev                        Apr-53
Volume 3        Issue 9        "Juan"                         May-53
Volume 3        Issue 10 Betty Sanders                        Jun-53
Volume 3        Issue 11 Calypso                        Oct-53
Volume 3        Issue 12 Woody Guthrie                        Nov-53
                        
Volume 4        Issue 1        Irwin Silber (3rd Anniversary)        Dec-53
Volume 4        Issue 2        Man/Woman Holding Hands               Jan-54
Volume 4        Issue 3        Harmonica Breakdown               Feb-54
Volume 4        Issue 4        Songs From Australia               Mar-54
Volume 4        Issue 5        Old Satch                        Apr-54
Volume 4        Issue 6        Pete Seeger                        May-54
Volume 4        Issue 7                                        Fall -54
                         
Volume 5        Issue 1        Banjo                                Winter 55
Volume 5        Issue 2        Scottish Folk                        Spring 55
Volume 5        Issue 3        Steamboat Cover                Summer 55
Volume 5        Issue 4        Foolish Frog                        Autumn 55
                        
Volume 6        Issue 1        Fifth Anniversary Issue               Winter 1956
Volume 6        Issue 2        Songs From India               Spring 1956
Volume 6        Issue 3        The Long Song-Seller               Summer 1956
Volume 6        Issue 4        Julia Ward Howe                        Winter 1957
                        
Volume 7        Issue 1        Big Bill Broonzy               Spring 1957
Volume 7        Issue 2        Woody Guthrie                        Summer 1957
Volume 7        Issue 3        Jean Ritchie                        Fall 1957
Volume 7        Issue 4        A.L. Lloyd                        Winter 1958
                        
Volume 8        Issue 1        Odetta                                Spring 1958
Volume 8        Issue 2        Blue (man/women singing)        Summer 1958
Volume 8        Issue 3        Jerry Silverman                        Winter 1959
Volume 8        Issue 4        Richard Dyer-Bennet               Spring 1959
                        
Volume 9        Issue 1        Alan Lomax                        Summer 1959
Volume 9        Issue 2        Sonny Terry                        Fall 1959
Volume 9        Issue 3        Ewan McColl                        Winter 59/60
Volume 9        Issue 4        Rev Gary Davis                        Feb/March 1960
                        
Volume 10        Issue 1        Theodore Bikel                        April/May 1960
Volume 10        Issue 2        Guy Carawan                        Summer 1960
Volume 10        Issue 3        Lightning Hopkins               Oct/Nov 1960
Volume 10        Issue 4        Alan Mills                        Dec/Jan 60/61
                        
Volume 11        Issue 1        Pete Seeger (10th Anniversary)        Feb/March 1961
Volume 11        Issue 2        Clancy Bros w/ Tommy Makem        April/May 1961
Volume 11        Issue 3        Memphis Slim                        Summer 1961
Volume 11        Issue 4        Cisco Houston                        Oct/Nov 1961
Volume 11        Issue 5        New Lost City Ramblers               Dec/Jan 61/62
                        
Volume 12        Issue 1        Ella Jenkins                        Feb/March 1962
Volume 12        Issue 2        Earl Scruggs                        April/May 1962
Volume 12        Issue 3        Peggy Seeger                        Summer 1962
Volume 12        Issue 4        Bob Dylan                        Oct/Nov 1962
Volume 12        Issue 5        Freedom Songs, Albany, GA        Dec/Jan 1962
                        
Volume 13        Issue 1        Bill Monroe                        Feb/March 1963
Volume 13        Issue 2        Horton Barker                        April/May 1963
Volume 13        Issue 3        Joan Baez                        Summer 1963
Volume 13        Issue 4        The Old and The New               Oct/Nov 1963
Volume 13        Issue 5        Calhoun's Jug Stompers          Dec 63/Jan 64
                        
Volume 14        Issue 1        Bill Monroe/Doc Watson               Feb/March 1964
Volume 14        Issue 2        Carter/Schwartz/Cohan               April/May 1964
Volume 14        Issue 3        Mike Seeger                        Jul-64
Volume 14        Issue 4        Elizabeth Cotten               Sep-64
Volume 14        Issue 5        Mississippi John Hurt               Nov-64
Volume 14        Issue 6        Broadside Hoot-NYC               Jan-65
                        
Volume 15        Issue 1        Lead Belly                        Mar-65
Volume 15        Issue 2        Johnny Cash                        May-65
Volume 15        Issue 3        Protesters in Selma               Jul-65
Volume 15        Issue 4        Peanuts                                Sep-65
Volume 15        Issue 5        Newport 65-Dylan Goes Electric Nov-65
Volume 15        Issue 6        Peter La Farge                        Jan-66
                        
Volume 16        Issue 1        15th Anniversary               Feb/March 1966
Volume 16        Issue 2        Rackensack Tribe of Timbo, AK        April/May 1966
Volume 16        Issue 3        Pencil Drawing                        Jul-66
Volume 16        Issue 4        Newport Folk Festival               Sep-66
Volume 16        Issue 5        Songs of the Delano Grape Strikers Nov-66
Volume 16        Issue 6        Irwin Rosenhouse Drawing        Jan-67
                        
Volume 17        Issue 1        Mississippi John Hurt               Feb/March 1967
Volume 17        Issue 2        Eric Von Schmidt Art               April/May 1967
Volume 17        Issue 3        Sleepy John Estes               Jun/July 1967
Volume 17        Issue 4        George Phippen Painting         Aug/Sept 1967
Volume 17        Issue 5        Lady w/ Glasses                        Nov/Dec 1967
Volume 17        Issue 6        Thanh Hoa Province, N. Vietnam        Dec/Jan 67/68
                        
Volume 18        Issue 1        Homeless Man                     March/April 1968
Volume 18        Issue 2/3    Country Joe and the Fish    June/July 1968
Volume 18        Issue 3        Richie Havens Interview              Aug/Sept 1968
Volume 18        Issue 4        Painting by George Phippen    Aug/Sept 1968
Volume 18        Issue 5        Roger McGuinn Interview              Dec 68/Jan 69
Volume 18        Issue 6        Pencil Drawing                     Feb/March 1969
                        
Volume 19        Issue 1        Harry Smith Interview              April/May 1969
Volume 19        Issue 2        Sloop (Boat)                     July/Aug 1969
Volume 19        Issue 3        Indian on Horse                     Sept/Oct 1969
Volume 19        Issue 4        Song My April, 1968              Winter 1969/1970
Volume 19        Issue 5        Ramblin Jack Elliott              March/April 1970
Volume 19        Issue 6        Raimon                              1970
                        
                        
Volume 20        Issue 1        20th Anniversary Issue              Sept/Oct 1970
Volume 20        Issue 2        Art Rosenbaum Artwork              Nov/Dec 1970
Volume 20        Issue 3        Bernice Reagon                     Jan/Feb 1971
Volume 20        Issue 4        Bill Cheatham                     March/April 1971
Volume 20        Issue 5        Paul Siebel                     May/June 1971
Volume 20        Issue 6        Ry Cooder                     July/Aug 1971
                        
Volume 21         Issue 1        Hazel Dickens                     Sept/Oct 71
Volume 21         Issue 2        Folklore Center                     Jan/Feb 1972
Volume 21         Issue 3        Happy and Artie Tatum              March/April 1972
Volume 21         Issue 4        Kid w/ harp/fiddle              1972
Volume 21         Issue 5        Rev Gary Davis                     Sept/Oct 72
Volume 21         Issue 6        Jarrell and Cockerham              Nov/Dec 1972
                        
Volume 22        Issue 4        Joe Heaney                     Jan/Feb 1973
Volume 22        Issue 2        Bob Beers                     March/April 1973
Volume 22        Issue 3        Aunt Molly Jackson              May/June 1973
Volume 22        Issue 4        Teach In Issue                     July/Aug 1973
Volume 22        Issue 5        Chile (Fife)                     Sept/Oct 1973
Volume 22        Issue 6        Ray Fisher                     Jan/Feb 1974
                        
Volume 23        Issue 1        Sing Out Folk Festival            March/April 1974
Volume 23        Issue 2        Frankie Armstrong            May/June 1974
Volume 23        Issue 3        Larry Johnson                     July/Aug 1974
Volume 23        Issue 4        Drawing                             Sept/Oct 1974
Volume 23        Issue 5        New Orleans Mardi Gras            Nov/Dec 1974
Volume 23        Issue 6        Ralph Stanley                     Jan/Feb 1975
                        
Volume 24        Issue 1        Malvina Reynolds            March/April 1975
Volume 24        Issue 2        Nimrod Workman                    May/June 1975
Volume 24        Issue 3        Utah Phillips                    July/Aug 1975
Volume 24        Issue 4        Martin Carthy                    Sept/Oct 1975
Volume 24        Issue 5        Native American Music            Nov/Dec 1975
Volume 24        Issue 6        Black Music in America            Jan/Feb 1976
                        
Volume 25        Issue 1        25th Aniversary (Seeger)    May/June 1976
Volume 25        Issue 2        Sarah Ogan Gunning            July/Aug 1976
Volume 25        Issue 3        La Raza (Puerto Rico)            Sept/Oct 1976
Volume 25        Issue 4        Irish Musicians                    Nov/Dec 1976
Volume 25        Issue 5        Ellis Island Music            Jan/Feb 1977
Volume 25        Issue 6        Bai Konte                    March/April 1977
                        
Volume 26        Issue 1        Moe Asch                    May/June 1977
Volume 26        Issue 2        Wilma Lee Cooper            July/Aug 1976
Volume 26        Issue 3        Roosevelt Sykes                    Sept/Oct 1977
Volume 26        Issue 4        Andres Jimenez                    Nov/Dec 1977
Volume 26        Issue 5        Lillie West                    Jan/Feb 1978
Volume 26        Issue 6        Ed Larken                    March/April 1978
                        
Volume 27        Issue 1        Drawing (Kathie Abrams)            May/June 1978
Volume 27        Issue 2        Wassail                           July/Aug 1978
Volume 27        Issue 3        Leda Valladares                    May/June 1979
Volume 27        Issue 4        Nancy Lyon                    July/Aug 1979
Volume 27        Issue 5        Dave Van Ronk                    Sept/Oct 1979
Volume 27        Issue 6        Ardoin Family                     Nov/Dec 1979
                        
Volume 28        Issue 1        John Hartford                    Jan/Feb 1980
Volume 28        Issue 2        Peggy Seeger                    March/April 1980
Volume 28        Issue 3        30th Anniversary (Seeger)   May/June 1980
Volume 28        Issue 4        Klezmorim                    July/Aug 1980
Volume 28        Issue 5        Lee Hayes                    Sept/Oct 1980
Volume 28        Issue 6        Rose Maddux                    Nov/Dec 1980
                        
Volume 29        Issue 1        Django Reinhardt            Jan/Feb 1981
Volume 29        Issue 2        Festivals                    April/May/June 83
Volume 29        Issue 3        Trapezoid                    July-Sept 1983
Volume 29        Issue 4        Dewey Balfa/Tracey Schwartz Oct/Nov/Dec 83
                        
Volume 30        Issue 1        Hawaiian Music                    Jan/Feb/March 84
Volume 30        Issue 2        Sally Rogers                    Apr-May-June 1984
Volume 30        Issue 3        Tom Paxton                    July/Aug/Sept 84
Volume 30        Issue 4        Laskin/Robb                    Oct/Nov/Dec 84
                        
Volume 31        Issue 1        John Hammond                    Jan/Feb/March 85
Volume 31        Issue 2        Festival                    Apr/May/June 85
Volume 31        Issue 3        Taj Mahal                    July/Aug/Sept 85
Volume 31        Issue 4        Faith Petric                    Oct/Nov/Dec 85
                        
Volume 32        Issue 1        Queen Ida                    Winter 86
Volume 32        Issue 2        Nanci Griffith                    Fall 86
Volume 32        Issue 3        Howard Armstrong            Winter 87
Volume 32        Issue 4        Si Kahn                           Spring 87
                        
Volume 33        Issue 1        Richard Thompson            Fall 87
Volume 33        Issue 2        Ewan MacColl                    Winter 88
Volume 33        Issue 3        Bill Staines                    Spring 88
Volume 33        Issue 4        Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer   Summer 88
                        
Volume 34        Issue 1        Eric Bogle                    Winter 89
Volume 34        Issue 2        Alistair Anderson            Spring 89
Volume 34        Issue 3        Christine Lavin                    Summer 89
Volume 34        Issue 4        Jerry Jeff Walker            Fall 89
                        
Volume 35        Issue 1        Katie Webster                    Spring 1990
Volume 35        Issue 2        David Bromberg                    Summer 1990
Volume 35        Issue 3        Michael Doucet                    Fall 1990
Volume 35        Issue 4        Walt Michael                    Winter 1991
                        
Volume 36        Issue 1        Conjunto Music                    Spring 1991
Volume 36        Issue 2        Odetta                           Aug/Sept/Oct 91
Volume 36        Issue 3        Songs of the Civil War            Nov/Dec 91, Jan 92
Volume 36        Issue 4                
                        
Volume 37        Issue 1        Arlo Guthrie                  May/June/July 92
Volume 37        Issue 2        Raffi                          Aug/Sept/Oct 92
Volume 37        Issue 3        Mahlathini                  Nov/Dec 92, Jan 93
Volume 37        Issue 4        Laurie Lewis                  Feb/March/April 93

Subject: RE: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: GUEST,Joe Offer
Date: 04 Jan 16 - 08:39 PM

That's terrific, Tony.
Thank you very much.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Jan 17 - 10:17 PM

The magazine's Website (click) has cover photos and tables of contents for issues 39-1 (1994) through the most recent one in print, 55-4. That last issue was published in Spring 2014, and the cover is a tribute to Pete Seeger, 1919-2014, I suspect it may be the last issue of Sing Out! to appear in print.

On a happier note, I have a variety of extra Sing Out! Magazines from the 1960s through the 1970s. Since they were given to me, I feel bound to give them away (for the cost of postage). You collectors, let me know what issues you need and I'll try to help. My collection starts with Volume 10 (1960), and is fairly complete after that. If anybody wants to be really generous and help me out with magazines from the 1950s, I'm listening. Thanks to a very generous Mudcatter, I have at least half of the issues of the magazine that were published in the 1950s, and they're real gems.

I wish Sing Out! would just scan the whole run and make it available to everyone online.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Jan 17 - 11:50 PM

Here's part of the missing year:

Volume 38      Issue 1     May/Jun/July 1993     Sweet Honey in the Rock
Volume 38      Issue 2     Aug/Sep/Oct 1993     Tarika Sammy
Volume 38      Issue 3     Nov 1993-Jan 1994     June Tabor
Volume 38       missing - is there one?

Subject: RE: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Zhenya
Date: 12 Jan 17 - 12:26 AM

I have a copy of Volume 38, Issue No. 4. The date is Feb/March/April 1994. The main cover picture is an illustration of a baby playing guitar and harmonica and surrounded by a few other instruments. The picture is labeled "Generation F". There's a fairly long cover article discussing the (at that time) younger generation of folk musicians.
There are smaller cover photos of Mike Seeger and Jorma Kaukonen.

Joe, I like your idea about making all the issues available online. I have many back issues, but nowhere near a complete collection. I'm in a small apartment with lack of space to add many more magazines, but I'd love to be able to read the issues I don't have online.

Subject: RE: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Jun 19 - 03:02 AM

I'm still looking for most of the issues from the 1950s. I'd actually rather have digital copies because I don't have storage space.
Anybody know of a service like JSTOR that would have the early issues of the magazine?
I emailed the magazine and offered to donate to get the back issues online, but I got no reply.
Joe

Subject: RE: Sing Out Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Jun 19 - 03:36 AM

An interesting history of the magazine: http://pabook2.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/SingOut.html

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: GUEST,Hootennanny
Date: 14 Jun 19 - 10:08 AM

Joe,

I just went to the loft, I have numerous issues from 1960 onward but also the following:
Vol 2 No. 10 1952
Vol 3 No. 11 1953
Vol 9 No. 1 1959
Vol 9 No   2

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: GUEST,Hootenanny
Date: 14 Jun 19 - 10:12 AM

I hit the button by mistake,

Vol 9 No. 2 is also 1959

I am in London, UK. If they are of interest can you let me have an e-mail address to contact you direct.

I would like to off-load the whole lot really. Anybody in the UK interested ??????

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Jun 19 - 11:21 AM

If Joe can round up physical copies of those earlier volumes I will help scan and OCR* them, and we can figure out if someplace can host them. (Can as in, "get away with it" or "legally do it" or find an academic library that can work out the details and host them.








*Optical Character Recognition - and my software does a better job and Adobe does.

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Jun 19 - 08:02 PM

Hi, Hootenanny -
Thanks to Deckman, I have a lot more issues from the 1950s than I thought I have. They sure are interesting to look through. I checked what I have, and I think I have all the 1950s issues you listed.

I'm missing these:
Volume 1: Missing Issues 1-5 through 1-10, and 1-12
Volume 2: Missing issues 2-1, 2-3, and 2-8
Volume 3: Missing Issue 3-7
Volume 4: Missing 4-4 and 4-7
Volume 5: Missing 5-1
Volume 6: Missing 6-1
Volume 7: Missing 7-2 and 7-3
Volume 8: Missing 8-1 and 8-3
Volume 9: Missing 9-3
Volume 11: Missing 11-4


Thanks for checking.

Joe Offer
[e-mail]

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Jun 19 - 10:48 PM

I logged-on at my alma mater and searched the JSTOR database. There are any number of reviews published in other journals about Sing Out! volumes, but not the journal itself. That would be the ideal solution.

Did Bob mail those to you, Joe? My dad subscribed, but I don't remember their being at the house when I packed up everything. I'll bring in a step-ladder later and take a look at the tippy-top shelf in my library, I see some saddle-stitched publications that are the right size up there.

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Jun 19 - 11:56 PM

Hi, SRS - A coupla years ago (well, 2015), Bob invited me to Seattle to get books from him and from Don Firth. In addition, I went to a couple of great singarounds, and Stewart gave me a tour of the Fremont District. In addition, I met Ken Barroga, whom I had known in school in Milwaukee 50 years ago. Do you know Ken?
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Joe Offer
Date: 19 Jun 19 - 02:54 AM

There are some issues at archive.org:

• Vol 11, No. 1 (10th Anniversary Issue)
• Vol 18, No 4

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jun 19 - 12:13 PM

No, I don't. And it occurs to me that someone like John Ross might have been a resource on this. I wonder what happened to his estate? He wasn't married, had no children that I know of.

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Jun 19 - 07:45 PM

I have: vol 1#3..vol. 2#1.. vol. 2#9...and vol. 7#3, vol 8#1 and vol 8 #2

and some more in the 60s...list on request.

(I put vol 1#2 in the Mudcat auction years ago)

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Jun 19 - 01:58 PM

? Has everyone gotten all they need?

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Jun 19 - 02:17 PM

Hi, Bill -

Of those on your list, I could sure use Volume 2 #1, Volume 7 #3, and Volume 8 #1.

If you're willing to part with them, I'm willing to receive them. What do you want in exchange?

Thanks.

Joe

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Jun 19 - 04:36 PM

Bill likes beer.

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Joe Offer
Date: 22 Jun 19 - 04:52 PM

...and so does Joe, and they have enjoyed a beer together now and then...

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Jun 19 - 09:41 PM

We have indeed.... the Getaway is a good place to trade... or do you want the issues sooner? Oh.. and I'm posting this before reading PMs... hmmmmm

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jul 19 - 11:13 PM

I'm emptying my office at home for some major construction (long story) and in the process have had to move my father's as yet unprocessed collection. There is more to move, but so far I've found only reprints, bought a very long time ago (the cover price was $1 but he got it for .77 cents at GovMart.)

Volumes 2, 3, 4, and 5.

SRS

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Jon Bartlett
Date: 03 Jul 19 - 07:59 PM

I have bought a few on EBay but I really don't like to sell my spares for the inflated prices I see there - I'd much rather SWAP with other 'Catters issue for issue. Does this turn anyone's crank? If interested parties PM's me. I'd send a list of What I Want and What I Have.

Jon Bartlett

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Jul 19 - 01:40 AM

I'm interested, Jon. My list is above.
[e-mail]

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 05 Jul 19 - 11:36 AM

During the temporary move I've come across other limited-print volumes from one of British Columbia (Vancouver) folk groups. It's packed away behind a plastic wall right now, but I'll name it here and give a range. I don't know that every publication out there needs it's own thread, but someone looking at the Sing Out! thread might be interested in others. It can go from there.

I still have a lot of boxes of stuff that I just moved, didn't open, so I may have more. Dad was good at tracking down things to create complete collections (his superpower was Reference Librarian)

Joe, you listed this as absent from your collection:

Volume 1: Missing Issues 1-5 through 1-10, and 1-12
Volume 2: Missing issues 2-1, 2-3, and 2-8
Volume 3: Missing Issue 3-7
Volume 4: Missing 4-4 and 4-7
Volume 5: Missing 5-1
Volume 6: Missing 6-1
Volume 7: Missing 7-2 and 7-3
Volume 8: Missing 8-1 and 8-3
Volume 9: Missing 9-3
Volume 11: Missing 11-4

How does it look now? And can any of those reprints fill in for the originals?

Maggie

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Joe Offer
Date: 05 Jul 19 - 01:39 PM

Hi, Maggie. I think you've got the list right. Most of the songs from the early issues were in the reprints booklets - but the Reprints booklets contain only songs. I think all of the Reprints booklets were included in the two collections of reprints that were published (pink and blue books). But the reprints did not include the articles from the magazine, and it is those articles I am trying to collect.

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Joe Offer
Date: 10 Sep 20 - 01:43 AM

OK, I'm still trying to get a response from Sing Out! If anyone here knows anybody on the Board of Sing Out!, can you get them to find somebody to at least consider my proposal? Here's what I wrote to them today:

Hi, Mark and all -
I like the that you're keeping Sing Out! alive online.. What you're publishing is good stuff. The Website is wonderful.

I'm wondering, though, if there's some way to put the old issues of Sing Out! online. I've been able to assemble a personal collection of most of the issues from 1960 to present, but I'm really spotty in the 1950s. And this is really a collection that should be available to everyone. Is there some way that you can make the back issues fully available to everyone on the Sing Out! Website? I have a pretty big IRA, and I can get a big tax deduction by making a contribution directly from my IRA to Sing Out! What would it cost to make the entire run of the magazine available to everyone?

I've written to you before, but I haven't received a response. I'm willing to make a sizable donation (i.e., lots of money) to make this possible. If you don't want to tackle this, at least please refer it to your board for discussion.

All the best to you.

Joe Offer, Music Editor, The Mudcat Cafe

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Bill D
Date: 10 Sep 20 - 11:15 AM

Gee, Joe... maybe you should offer them a good beer... ;>)

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: GUEST,E LeBlanc
Date: 10 Sep 20 - 11:19 PM

I have two Sing Out issues
Volume 15 Issue 6 Peter La Farge Jan-66
Volume 14 Issue 3 Mike Seeger Jul-64
if someone is interested.

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Hagman
Date: 11 Sep 20 - 04:39 AM

Great letter, Joe. I'm sure a crowd-funder would add to the coffers to assist any project to digitise. Hope you get a positive response.

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Sep 21 - 08:32 PM

Well, well, well. On the "Ten in a Bed" thread, somebody linked to lyrics for the song in an old issue of Sing Out! Magazine at archive.org. Turns out that they have lots of old issues online, including most of the issues I'm missing from the 1950s:

https://archive.org/details/pub_sing-out

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Sep 21 - 12:02 AM

The Internet Archive is a treasure trove. I think there is a lot of Mudcat stuff there also.

Subject: RE: Sing Out! Magazine Back Issue HELP
From: wimpee3
Date: 14 Sep 21 - 09:39 PM

Send me a list of old sing out!should are looking for. Most of what I have are 1960's through 1980's.I you need any in that time and if I have them I can send them to you.