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Richard Dyer-Bennet
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Subject: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: GUEST,johntm Date: 25 Aug 02 - 07:55 PM I just found two LP dating from 1995 by Richard Dyer-Bennett. I had never heard of him before. He issued the LPs himself, the first he said in a series... I rather liked the music (Irish and English folk songs or popular ballads) , altho my wife hated it. She said it sounded whiny. Anyone know anything about him johntm |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Anglo Date: 25 Aug 02 - 08:02 PM Try putting "Richard Dyer-Bennett" in the Digitrad & Forum Search box, follow through and read the threads that come up (with the help of a text search for the man if necessary, in each thread, then if there's anything specific you still want to know, start a more specific thread in the forum. You'd probably get quite a lot of more general information, too, by doing a similar search on Google or your favorite search engine. |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Midchuck Date: 25 Aug 02 - 08:05 PM His masterpiece is not singing. It's his recital of Mark Twain's 1601. One of my most treasured recordings. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Bill D Date: 25 Aug 02 - 08:05 PM 1995??...are you sure those are not from 1965?...I have had some Dyer-Bennet records since about then...he (well, his music) was one of my early passions! |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: GUEST,johntm Date: 25 Aug 02 - 08:11 PM Biil D. Yes it should have been 1955. Johntm |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Bill D Date: 25 Aug 02 - 08:21 PM *smile*..yep..and there were earlier ones...He decided the quality was not good enough, so he started his own company in order to have control...He was quite a musician, though not exactly 'trad'...(he had studied classic guitar)..I still listen to his stuff... |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: artbrooks Date: 25 Aug 02 - 08:27 PM Smithsonian/Folkways has pretty much all of his recordings (RDB 1-13 and Twain's 1601) available on cassette and CD, here. |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Don Firth Date: 26 Aug 02 - 02:41 AM For enlightenment and edification, previous Richard Dyer-Bennet discussion here. Incidentally, one "t" in "Bennet." Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Charley Noble Date: 26 Aug 02 - 09:05 AM Yes, Smithsonian/Folkways has been doing a great job re-issuing Dyer-Bennet's recordings, with his widow Malvene overseeing the production and with updated notes by his daughter Bonnie. His high tenor singing appeals primarily to those used to listening to classical music, but there's a lot that the rest of us folkies could learn from his impeccable renditions. Sadly, his sense of humor is only evident in his Georgian folk tales and his remarkable recording of Mark Twain's 1601. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennet From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Aug 02 - 11:32 AM I grew up listening to those recordings, and was glad to see them reissued a few years ago on CD. So 1995 isn't unheard of--as far as reissues go. I'll have to track down the Mark Twain--I haven't heard that. Thanks for the link. He had a truly marvelous voice. SRS |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: GUEST,Just Amy Date: 26 Aug 02 - 12:52 PM I have a music book of his. It has "Eddy Stone Light" which he says he wrote the final verse for. |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 26 Aug 02 - 03:28 PM That should be "he says ie wrote the final verse for" his version Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Charley Noble Date: 26 Aug 02 - 06:15 PM Just Amy- What is the title of your Dyer-Bennet music book? I have a copy of THE DYER-BENNET FOLK SONG BOOK but it doesn't include "Eddy Stone Light". He certainly deserves credit for composing a fitting and witty last verse for that traditional song. I wasn't aware that he wrote another music book. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: GUEST,johntm Date: 26 Aug 02 - 11:24 PM Thanks everybody. I clicked back to that earlier thread and noticed several mentions of a blacklist. Was he blacklisted during the 50s red scare, and what did Burl Ives have to do with it? JohnTM |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Charley Noble Date: 27 Aug 02 - 09:59 AM JohnTM-
Yes, Dyer-Bennet was most certainly blacklisted in the 1950's and 1960's; he refused to cooperate at the Committee Red Scare hearings. Burl Ives was one of the people who mentioned Dyer-Bennet's name at those hearings in testimony as a person who occasionally frequented the Almanac House (residence of Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie et al) in Greenwich Village, singing at various parties and at benefit concerts for Russian war orphans and labor unions during WW II. Dyer-Bennet continued to do some concerts but he was apparently banned from radio and television. Burl Ives' career probably benefited considerably. |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: GUEST,johntm Date: 27 Aug 02 - 10:00 PM Thanks Charley. |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Art Thieme Date: 27 Aug 02 - 11:04 PM I thought he was a fine folksinger. Glad his music is still making some waves in our little folk pond. I have great memories of seeing R.D.B. do a wonderful concert on a beautiful summer night at the University Of Chicago's Court Theater outside Mandel Hall. The entire Gestalt of that night is a fond memory and one that is always extremely detailed. WFMT in Chicago always played his music----and introduced many of us to those important works. Art Thieme |
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Subject: Lyr Add: PASSIVE RESISTANCE (Richard Dyer-Bennet) From: Charley Noble Date: 28 Aug 02 - 09:48 AM One of the unique Dyer-Bennet composed songs in my collection is this WW II topical song commenting on Norwegian passive resistance to Nazi occupation: PASSIVE RESISTANCE (Words and music by Richard Dyer-Bennet © 1942) This is a story of passive resistance, Of a man who refused to give Nazis assistance; A farmer there lived in occupied Norway Who found a grim warning tacked on to his doorway, It read: "You have failed to come up to your quota; Next week if you fail by a single iota, Your farm will be taken and you will be killed. This is the law and must be fulfilled." The farmer replied: "Sirs, the undersigned begs To inform you concerning my quota of eggs, I posted the warning right where the hens live, But the stubborn old bipeds still failed to give So I wrung all their necks, the foul saboteurs. Delighted to serve you, sincerely yours." Clearly a subversive mind was at work here. Charley Noble
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: GUEST,Just Amy Date: 28 Aug 02 - 07:58 PM Charley Noble, I have the book at home, so I will try to get on and get back to you this evening. I think the book has Barbara Allen in it too. Can we make copies of these books if they are out of print? Amy (Just Amy) |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: GUEST,johntm Date: 29 Aug 02 - 08:55 PM Charley Wonderful Johnm |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: DonD Date: 29 Aug 02 - 09:44 PM I first heard RDB on recordings (old 78's which I still have) back in the 40's and still sing some of the songs I learned from them, especially 'The Three Ra'ens". I had the pleasure of seeing him in the 50's in NYC at Town Hall or the 92nd St Y and was impressed by his classical guitar playing (far from the three chords I was used to) and then the lute, which was a revelation! |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Bill D Date: 29 Aug 02 - 10:36 PM I was just in the catacombs, looking for(and failing to find) an old song book which had "Plaisir d'Amour" (The Joys of Love), with the remark that it was taken from the singing of Richard Dyer-Bennet...then it was noted that (almost exact quote) .."no chords are given here, out of respect for the guitar accompaniment of Mr. Dyer-Bennet, which is something more than mere strumming" Dyer-Bennet says he finally learned to play the guitar 'right' from studying with Rey de la Torres, a prominent guitarist of his day. |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 30 Aug 02 - 09:49 AM That's "Rey de la Torre", with no "S" on the end. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: Lyr Add: SO WE'LL GO NO MORE A-ROVING (Byron...) From: Don Firth Date: 30 Aug 02 - 02:21 PM Not to keep pickin' on Bill D here, but the song in question is not Plaisir d'Amour but We'll Go No More A-Roving. It's in A New Treasury of Folk Songs compiled by Tom Glazer (Bantam Books, Inc, New York, 1961). Glazer, I think, spent some time at Dyer-Bennet's "School of Modern Minstrelsy" in Aspen, Colorado in the late Forties. It's a poem by Lord Byron that Dyer-Bennet set to music. It's an absolute gem. Dyer-Bennet's guitar accompaniment is actually not that difficult: a flowing arpeggio pattern with a carefully worked out bass line. But it's simplicity is absolutely elegant. The words to the poem:—
So we'll go no more a-roving Some years ago, someone posted a thread asking for the words to Plaisir d'Amour (The Joys of Love) in French. I don't know if they ever found them, but in any case, here they are:
Plaisir d'amour ne dure qu'un moment Joan Baez and a couple of other people have recorded it using only the chorus with new words written to the same tune as the chorus. Nice song, but in the original (yes, there is an original), the words of the verses are different and the tune of each verse is different. Sheet music and a history of the song can be found here. I've heard Richard Dyer-Bennet sing it in French during a concert, but on his first record on his own label (available here), he sings it in his own excellent English translation (incidentally, So We'll Go No More A-Roving is on this same record):
The joys of love are but a moment long, Dyer-Bennet's accompaniment to The Joys of Love is just about the finest example I've ever heard of classic guitar technique used to accompany the human voice. And when it comes to singing, there is a real lesson to be found in just listening to where he breathes. ". . . but she has changed her mind (ritardando at this point, vocal tone continues, then right into) The joys of (little ornamentation on 'of') love are but a moment long. . . ." all on one breath! Richard Dyer-Bennet was an absolute master of phrasing and dynamics. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Charley Noble Date: 30 Aug 02 - 02:32 PM Nice work, Don. Be nice when the Smithsonian finishes reproducing the entire series. Individual CD's apparently can be custom ordered now but my understanding is the latest CD released for general purchase is about #7. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Bill D Date: 30 Aug 02 - 03:04 PM well..*grin*....I shoulda knowed someone would have the source!....(isn't memory a wonderful thing...you can create all manner of new facts, as long as you don't run into someone with the old ones!) thanks Dave and Don....(running BACK to catacombs to look at my ragged copy of "New Treasury of Folk Songs")....no wonder I didn't find Plaisir in the index! |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Art Thieme Date: 30 Aug 02 - 04:43 PM I do recall seeing "We'll go no more a-roving...etc" in a Ray Bradbury story a long time ago. Maybe in The Martian Chronicles-----either recited or sung or both??? Anybody recall this? Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Don Firth Date: 30 Aug 02 - 09:02 PM Right, Art. I can't remember where, but Byron's We'll Go No More A-Roving associated with a Ray Bradbury story does ring a bell somewhere in the mists of memory--along with "Golden Apples of the Sun," a line from Yeats' The Song of the Wandering Aengus, which someone of the folk persuasion has also set to music. It looks like Bradbury dips into the world of poetry the same way some folk types do. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Midchuck Date: 30 Aug 02 - 09:17 PM That Golden Apples of the Sun was Judy Collins, on her very first record - back when she was a folksinger. Just about 40 years ago - I was in college when it came out. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Charley Noble Date: 30 Aug 02 - 09:32 PM Peter- do a search for the definitive discussion of Golden Apples of the Sun on the threads, and it may just be that Dyer-Bennet was the source of the musical arrangement. Some day I'll have to follow up tht lead. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Don Firth Date: 30 Aug 02 - 11:07 PM Finding some kind of definitive tune for The Song of the Wandering Aengus might be a little dicey. I just ran an exhaustive search on google (that is, I checked a mess of web sites until I got exhausted, but I got to nowhere near all of them), and I was really surprised at the number of people who have recorded it. But what makes it really messy is that many of them have written their own tunes for it. It seems that everybody and his pet chicken has taken a shot at it. Whenever there was a sound-clip, I listened to it, and I'm sorry to report that the vast majority of the melodies are pretty putrid—monotonous, unimaginative, and definitely unworthy of the poem. One fellow's credited was "said to have been written by Richard Dyer-Bennet." I listened to his thirty second sound-clip, but I don't think Dyer-Bennet wrote what I heard. It was pretty similar to the one that Judy Collins sings (she credits that to Dyer-Bennet by way of Will Holt), but I really have my doubts. Dyer-Bennet's tunes are pretty good, and this one's really kind of blah. It just didn't sound like something he would have done. A friend of mine named Dick Adams wrote a tune for it back in the late Fifties, and that's the one I've been singing. It isn't bad, but I must say it does leave something to be desired. From what I heard in the way of sound-clips, I'd say that the poem is up for grabs. Somebody! Write something good! It would be really nice if it had a tune that does it justice. Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Bill D Date: 31 Aug 02 - 12:26 AM The tune I like best is the one Burl Ives sort of 'chanted'....on "Songs of Ireland" record. He said he learned it from actress Sarah Allgood.. |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Bill D Date: 31 Aug 02 - 12:44 AM I just did a Google search...wow, there are a lot of folks who like the poem!...and I did find a tune in MP3 on this page by Hanz Araki...he plays flute and whistle.. |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Bill D Date: 31 Aug 02 - 12:55 AM and here is another MP3 by Larry Siegel the one by Hanz Araki sounds a bit like what Burl Ives did,,,but the Siegel tune does not move me at all! |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Charley Noble Date: 31 Aug 02 - 09:16 AM Hmmmmm-is Will Holt still among the living? Unfortunately, he has a rather common name to try a Goggle search. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Stilly River Sage Date: 01 Sep 02 - 12:56 AM Great thread! Don, you never cease to amaze me (which pleases me no end!) For those doing sophisticated searches on Google, they have some Beta tests going that might help. Visit here for the list of test sites. The one I recommend giving a try is "Google Sets". You name a few things in your set, and see what else it comes up with that is related. This is great for jogging your memory, or finding other items that belong on the list that you didn't know about. Who knows, this might work with song titles or lists of performers. It seems to do a fairly intuitive search, and when it gets a list item wrong, you can usually easily identify *why* it happened. SRS
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: GUEST,johntm Date: 02 Sep 02 - 08:13 PM Fascinating where a simple request on this site takes you.That is why I prefer it ( a weak verb) to a google search. Thanks everyone John T M |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Charley Noble Date: 02 Sep 02 - 08:47 PM Johnm- Well, you can also sign up as a member. It's a free service with lots of benefits. I did! Cheerily, Charley Noble, actually related to RDB |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Thomas Stern Date: 23 Jun 08 - 02:54 PM need details of the 78rpm record album: VOX 631 Minstrel Songs of the British Isles If you have this album, please PM me. Looking for matrix numbers, record numbers, song titles, date, album notes, etc. Thanks! Thomas. |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Charley Noble Date: 23 Jun 08 - 04:46 PM Thomas- I'd be happy to conduct a search of the family archives; I don't have a personal copy. What kind of project are you working on? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Thomas Stern Date: 23 Jun 08 - 08:40 PM Hello Charley Noble, I'm trying to update the discography Paul Jenkins will publish in his forthcoming biography of Richard Dyer-Bennet. Trying to list all the 78's and their reissues, the LP recordings, and known extant broadcast recordings. The 3 Vox albums one would think easy to locate, but only the USA and German sets appear in any of my sources - the British Isles set doesn't. I thought I had a copy, but have been unable to locate it. Hope you are able to find it. Many thanks! Best wishes, Thomas. |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Charley Noble Date: 23 Jun 08 - 08:46 PM Thomas- I'll send your request off to his daughters, Bonnie and Brooke. It's nice to know that someone is working up a biography of my uncle. I do wonder if Paul Jenkins has considered interviewing my mother, Dyer-Bennet's surviving sister-in-law. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Barbara Date: 24 Jun 08 - 02:04 AM Wow Charlie, I didn't know you had that in your family tree, too, along with all the artists and maybe a raccoon... Though as I recall, the raccoon was in the house, not the tree... FWIW I do own an LP of RDB reading the Mark Twain bit about Queen Elisabeth, Sir Walter Raleigh and flatulence -- the number escapes me at the moment ---1601? and it has a number of bawdy songs on the flip, but it is 33.3 not 78. Blessings, Barbara |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Charley Noble Date: 24 Jun 08 - 09:43 AM Barbara- 1601 is a relatively rare recording by Dyer-Bennet. It's available as a CD on special order from Smithsonian Folkways. How on earth did you get your hands on one? My relationship to Dyer-Bennet is via my father's youngest sister, Malvene, who married him him in the early 1940's. Melvene was a modern dancer in the traditional of the Martha Graham Dance Company. She is my last surviving aunt and has always been a wealth of information about family history and music. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Abby Sale Date: 24 Jun 08 - 09:44 AM Yep, Mudchuck. 1601's one of my favorite LPs, too. Along with MacColl's Merry Muses of Caledonia, of course. I recall that Dyer-Bennet wrote that he put out that record largely because he was plain tired of being referred to as an aesthetic pantywaist. It was only that he had a high voice. Don't forget to listen to the other side of the record - it was one of the earliest over-the-counter records with the bawdy verses left in. If Dyer-Bennet was an acquired taste, he was also a great talent, dedicated to valid presentation and to giving the setting and meanings of the sings. I was stunned the first time I heard him on record and then live. Ahhh! Ballads! That's what it's all about! Not just Feel Good or Sing Along or Knee Slappin' but actually telling a story! I was sold from then on. About 1956. |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 24 Jun 08 - 12:50 PM When I was a late-teenager (late 40s, early 50s) I first discovered Burl Ives, then Pete Seeger, and then Dyer-Bennet. Those three blew me away, and (with just a little help from Josh White) impelled me to get a guitar and start singing folk and folk-type songs. They their various approaches and excellences formed a sort of constellation of stars toward which I aimed the arrow of my desire. Of course I'm not and have never been of the quality (singing or instrumentally) of any of them, but among them they formed my idea of style and the kind of song I wanted to sing. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Thomas Stern Date: 24 Jun 08 - 05:05 PM Below is a discography of the recordings of Richard Dyer-Bennet. Anyone with corrections or additions is urged to contact me with revised data. NOTABLY MISSING data needed: details of the 1941 Packard recordings (matrix, record numbers, dates), details for VOX album 631 (Minstrelsy of the British Isles), many recording dates, release dates, missing matrix number sequences, odd tracks in compilations, and the source of many of the titles reissued on Stinson LPs. Your help to make this as correct and complete is greatly appreciated. THANK YOU! Sincerely, Thomas. RICHARD DYER-BENNET DISCOGRAPHY ------------------------------- 1941 Frederick C. Packard Jr. 110 - 112 3-12" 78rpm Ballads and folk songs sung by Richard Dyer-Bennet. The Charleston merchant Come all ye The golden vanity Cockle shells The Lincolnshire poacher Early one morning Lord Rendal Brigg Fair Leprechaun. 1941 Keynote album 108 (K517-K519) 3-10" 78rpm (issued fall 1941) Richard Dyer-Bennet Lute Singer BALLADS AND FOLK SONGS Mercury MG 20007 (1 side) 12"-LP (issued: 195x) OLDEN BALLADS Richard Dyer-Bennet and Tom Glazer M1001 THE GOLDEN VANITY K 517 A (108-1) MG 20007 B1 M1002 THE SWAG MAN K 518 A (108-3) MG 20007 B4 M1003 THE HOUSE CARPENTER K 518 B (108-4) MG 20007 B5 M1004 THE CHARLESTON MERCHANT K 519 A (108-5) MG 20007 B6 M1005 1.THE LINCOLNSHIRE POACHER, 2.THE DERBY RAM, K 517 B (108-2) MG 20007 B2 B3 M1006 1.HULLABALOO BELAY, 2.WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH A DRUNKEN SAILOR K 519 B (108-6) MG 20007 B7 B8 October 12, 1941 NBC Broadcast; 4:00 p.m.-4:15 p.m. Title Sylvia Marlowe Performers: Sylvia Marlowe, Richard Dyer-Bennet LWO 12873 16A2 December 7, 1941. Red net. Sustaining. Red Net Pearl Harbor Coverage. Part 6. 4:00 to 4:30 P. M. Sylvia Marlowe and Richard Dyer-Bennet The first selection is Bach's Prelude and Fugue in D Minor. Harpsichord and lute/vocal. Bulletin at 4:06: a report from KGU, Honolulu, from the roof of the Advertiser Building. The unidentified announcer says "the attack has been going on three hours. This is no joke, this is real war." The telephone company operator ends the transmission for an "emergency call." Reports from New York: H. R. Baukhage reports from Washington (about seven minutes). At 4:20, a "piano recital" is announced, but organ music is heard! At 4:23, Baukhage reports from the Press Room of the White House. He reads a message from President Roosevelt to the Emperor of Japan (four minutes). Sylvia Marlowe, Richard Dyer-Bennet, H. R. Baukhage. 30:00. December 28, 1941 NBC Blue network Broadcast; 2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. Title: Great plays - Taming of the shrew Performers: Grace Coppin; Herbert Rudley; Edward Jepson; Sydney Smith. Summary: Shakespeare adaptation includes music of the period by Sylvia Marlowe and Richard Dyer-Bennet. Adapted for radio by Randall McDougall. LWO 12736 77A1-4 OWI BROADCASTS probably 1943 An Office of War Information(OWI) recording of an unknown date. 15minutes Dyer-Bennet, Richard. (performer) LWO 5833 GR12 4B3 Probably 1943, An Office of War Information recording of an unknown date. 15minutes Richard Dyer Bennet sings topical songs Work(s) Rommel the fox. Battle of New Guinea. Song of submarine. Raid on Norway. LWO 5554 GR21 7B4 March 3, 1943 An Office of War Information recording. 15minutes Richard Dyer-Bennet West Indian music and comment. Work(s) Panograss. Norwegian cow. Mme. Chiang. Hitler is dead. Two Flynns. Brazilian fishhooks. LWO 5554 GR10 3A4 March 23, 1943 An Office of War Information recording. 15 minutes Richard Dyer Bennet sings topical songs Work(s) Drill ye Tarriers. Artists and writers. Merchant seamen. LWO 5554 GR10 3B1 April 9, 1943 An Office of War Information recording. 15 minutes Jazz in America (No. 116) Features music of Woody Guthrie, Lil Hardin Armstrong and Richard Dyer-Bennet. Work(s) Sally, don't you grieve. Dig a hole. Suzy Q. Song of the Bama. LWO 6087 GR9 8A2 April 10, 1943 An Office of War Information recording. 15 minutes Richard Dyer Bennet LWO 6087 GR9 5A4 April 17, 1943 An Office of War Information recording. 15 minutes Richard Dyer Bennet LWO 6087 GR1 10B4 April 20, 1943 An Office of War Information recording. 15 minutes Richard Dyer-Bennet LWO 5833 GR12 4B5 May 4, 1943 An Office of War Information recording. 15 minutes Richard Dyer Bennet LWO 5554 GR16 5B2 mid-September 1943, V-Disc recording session, RCA Victor studios, New York. Richard Dyer-Bennett, with guitar V-Disc 47 12"-78rpm VP- VP-158-D3-MC-197-1 1. Venezuela, 2. The keeper of the Eddystone Light V-Disc 47 A VP- VP-159-D3-MC-198-1 Foggy, foggy dew V-Disc 47 B Asch A364; Stinson S364 3-10" 78rpm BALLADS by the 20th Century Minstrel richard dyer-bennet 364-1A O, NO JOHN 364-1A SLP61 A3 364-1B 1.THREE JOLLY ROGUES, 2.COME ALL YE 354-1B 1.SLP61 B3 2.SLP60 A5 364-2A-1 THE FROG AND THE MOUSE 364-2A SLP2 A3 364-2B JOHN PEEL 364-2B SLP2 B4 364-3A 1.EDDYSTONE LIGHT, 2.LITTLE PIGS 364-3A SLP2 B6 A4 364-3B MOLLY MALONE 364-3B SLP2 A5 Asch/Stinson album 461 3-12" 78rpm BALLADS Richard Dyer-Bennet, vocal with guitar 1511 Barbara Allen 461-1 SLP35/FM103/FS203 B1 1512 I Once Loved A Girl 461-1 SLP35/FM103/FS203 A3 The Three Ra'ens Part I 461-2 SLP35/FM103/FS203 B2 The Three Ra'ens Part II 461-2 SLP35/FM103/FS203 B3 1515 John Henry 461-3 SLP35/FM103/FS203 A4 1516 Gently Johnny! 461-3 SLP35/FM103/FS203 A2 Asch 560-3 12" 78rpm 1 side BA 9 Spanish is the Loving Tongue 560-3 SLP35/FM103/FS203 A1 1944 New York concert debut NO KNOWN RECORDING NYT March 5, 1944 March 18, 1944 Atlantic spotlight NBC Broadcast 12:30 p.m. 30 minutes (incomplete) Performers: Edmund Gwenn; Alec Templeton; Sir Cedric Hardwicke; Richard Dyer-Bennet; Jack Hylton; C. Derniere Warren; Elizabeth Welsh; Carroll Gibbons. RWA 6324 A3-4 1944 Russian War Relief 801 AM/802 AM (A Musicraft Album - Produced by Musicraft Records) 2-10" 78rpm Russian War Relief presents BABES OF THE ZOO (lyrics by S.Marshak, music by Sam Morgenstern) Richard Dyer-Bennet with Charles Lichter and Orchestra RWR-5134 BABES OF THE ZOO - Side 1 RWR 801 AM RWR-5135 2 RWR 802 AM RWR-5136 3 RWR 802 AM RWR-5137 4 RWR 801 AM DECCA Records Richard Dyer-Bennett(sic), with guitar Decca Album A-573 (24209-24212) 4-10" 78rpm (Copyright 1947) Richard Dyer-Bennett Twentieth Century Minstrel American Folk Music Series Edited by Alan Lomax 16pp booklet DECCA DLP 5046 10"-LP 1949 DECCA ED 531 2-7" 45rpm TWENTIETH CENTURY MINSTREL - TRADITIONAL BALLADS OF ANCIENT TIMES! Decca DL-9102/DL-79102 12"-LP Twentiety Century Minstrel Folk Songs & Ballads Edited by Alan Lomax Decca DL 4469/74469 All time hootenanny folk favorites 12" LP various performers Decca DL 34056 American Folk Songs 12" LP various performers June 27, 1944, NYC 72303 EGGS AND MARROWBONE Decca 24209 B (side 2) DLP 5046 A2 DL 9102/79102 ED 531 72304 THE WILLOW TREE Decca 24210 A (side 3) DLP 5046 A3 DL 9102/79102 ED 531 72305 GREENSLEEVES Decca 24212 A (side 7) DLP 5046 B3 DL 9102/79102 ED 531 DL 30456 DL 74469 June 28, 1944, NYC 72315 LOLLY TOODUM DL 9102/79102 72316 MO MARY DL 9102/79102 72317 THE OLD MAID Decca 24211 B(1) (side 6) DLP 5046 B2(2) DL 9102/79102 ED 531 72317 EARLY ONE MORNING Decca 24211 B(2) (side 6) DLP 5046 B2(2) DL 9102/79102 ED 531 72318 The Devil and The Farmer's Wife (unissued) November 20, 1944 For the record Radio program, NBC Radio Network Wain, Bea; Wood, Barry; Dyer-Bennet, Richard; Block, Martin, spk; Bluestone, Harry, violinist. cnd. Garabedian Collection (Library of Congress) 1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 16 in. Contents: Dancing in the dark (instrumental) -- Turn off the rain (Barry Wood) -- I'll be seeing you (Bea Wain) -- Black is the color of my true love's hair (Richard Dyer-Bennet) -- Comin' around the corner (Barry Wood). Notes: "V-discs presents For the record"--from audition. LC Classification: RGB (playback copy) RWE (preservation master) IDC 45784 (original lacquer disc) November 20, 1944 Consstitution Hall, Washington DC "For The Record" session (V-Disc) Black is the Color unissued The Keeper of the Eddystone Light unissued DECCA Records Richard Dyer-Bennett(sic), with guitar March 15, 1945, NYC 72770 OH SALLY MY DEAR Decca 24212 A (side 8) DLP 5046 B4 DL 9102/79102 ED 531 72771 The Next Market Day; The Soldier and the Lady (unissued) 72772 The Sally Gardens (unissued) 72773 SWAPPING SONG Decca 24211 A (side 5) DLP 5046 B1 DL 9102/79102 ED 531 72774 FAIN WOULD I WED A FAIR YOUNG MAID DL 9102/79102 72775 The White Lillie (unissued) 72776 THE DEVIL AND THE FARMER'S WIFE Decca 24209 A (side 1) DLP 5046 A1 DL 9102/79102 ED 531 72777 VILLIKIENS AND HIS DINAH Decca 24210 B (side 4) DLP 5046 A5 DL 9102/79102 ED 531 1946 Disc 609 (5019-5021) 3-10" 78rpm (June, 1946) LOVE SONGS Richard Dyer-Bennet notes John Ward, texts inside front cover. Asch(Folkways) AA3/4 2-12" LP 1967 The Asch Recordings, 1939 to 1945 - Vol. 2 AA4 A1 Two Maidens Went Milking One Day Richard Dyer-Bennet (might be alternate take) ???????????????????? P119 AS I WAS GOING TO BALLYNURE Disc 5021B SLP2 B2 P120 BRIGG FAIR Disc 5020B SLP2 B5 P121 WESTRON WYNDE Disc 5019B SLP2 B3 P123 VENEZUELA Disc 5021A SLP2 A2 P124 TWO MAIDENS WENT MILKING ONE DAY Disc 5019A SLP2 B1 AA4 A1 P125 BLOW THE CANDLES OUT Disc 5020A SLP2 A1 March 31, 1946 CBS broadcast, Report to the nation Talk show; includes replay of A. Kostelanetz and L. Pons concert from March 21, 1945 and interviews, reports, and addresses. John Daly, host; guests iclude Henry J. Kaiser, Richard Dyer-Bennet, Jane "Knoxville" Jennings, Mme. Schiaparelli, Garry Moore with humorous stories about the life on the home front, unidentified war veterans. Sponsored by Continental Can Company; includes commercials. Work(s) Holiday for strings. Performed by First Army Orchestra. Caro nome / Giuseppe Verdi. Performed by Lily Pons, soprano. (1) RXA 9752 B "Second Best Bed" Ethel Barrymore Theatre, (6/3/1946 - 6/8/1946) 8performances Produced by Ruth Chatterton and John Huntington Written by N. Richard Nash Directed by Ruth Chatterton and N. Richard Nash Scenic Design by Motley; Costume Design by Motley Richard Dyer-Bennet Ballad Seller NO KNOWN RECORDING 1946 Concert Hall Society, Inc. Richard Dyer-Bennet, tenor Ignace Strassfogel, pianist Stefan Frankel, violin Jascha Bernstein, cello Liner notes: Philip Lieson Miller, texts Concert Hall A-9 Ludwig Van Beethoven - Scottish Songs 4-12" 78rpm Concert Hall A-G BEETHOVEN: IRISH Songs for Tenor and Piano Trio 3-10" 78rpm Concert Hall CHC-13 Scottish Songs (Schottische Lieder) 12"-LP CHS#85- 4 Faithfu' Johnie A-9 (1) CHC 13 A1 CHS#86- 2 1.O Sweet Were the Hours, 2.Oh How Can I Be Blithe and Glad A-9 (2) CHC 13 A2 CHS#87- 5 1.The Lovely Lass at Inverness, 2.Could This Ill World Have Been Contriv'd A-9 (3) CHC 13 A3 CHS#88-15 Sunset A-9 (4) CHC 13 A4 CHS#89- 9 Again My Lyre A-9 (5) CHC 13 B1 CHS#90- 3 On the Massacre at Glencoe A-9 (6) CHC 13 B2 CHS#91- 4 The British Light Dragoons A-9 (7) CHC 13 B3 CHS#92- 4 1.O Mary at Thy Window Be, 2.Bonny Laddie, Highland Laddie A-9 (8) CHC 13 B4 #93 The Pulse of an Irishman A-G (1) #94 Once More I hail Thee A-G (2) #95 Return to Ulster A-G (3) #96 Oh, Who My Dear Dermont A-G (4) #97 The Morning Air Plays On My Face A-G (5) #98 Morning A Cruel Turmoiler Is A-G (6) 1947 VOX Vox set 631 Minstrel Songs of the British Isles 4-10" 78rpm ( ????????????????????????) Vox set 632 Minstrel Songs of the U.S.A. 4-10" 78rpm (690-693) Vox set 633 Minstrel Songs of Germany 4-10" 78rpm (694-697) Sung in English, translations by Richard Dyer-Bennet VX 9081-3 Song of reproach 694-A (633-1) SLP60 A2 VX 9082-3 The three tailors 694-B (633-8) SLP60 A1 VX 9083-1 Secret Love 695-A (633-2) SLP60 B3 vx 9084-1 Jan Hinnerk 695-B (633-7) SLP61 B2 VX 9085-3 The Ghost of Basel 696-A (633-3) SLP61 B1 VX 9088-3 Along the Colorado Trail 690-A (632-1) SLP60 A3 VX 9090-3 The Rackets 'Round Blue Mountain Lake 690-B (632-8) SLP60 B4 vx 9092-2 The Quaker Lover 691-B (632-7) SLP60 A4 vx 9093-3 The Turkish Revery 693-A (632-4) vx 9094-3 Old Bangum 692-A (632-3) SLP61 A2 vx 9095-2 The Lass from The Low Country 692-B (632-6) SLP60 B5 vx 9096-4 When Cockle Shells Turn Silver Bells 691-A (632-2) vx 9097-2 Were You There? 693-B (632-5) VX 9097-3 Moonrise 697-A (633-4) SLP60 B2 VX 9098-1 Phyllis and Her Mother 696-B (633-6) SLP61 A1 VX 9104-3 Where to? (Franz Schubert-arr.Richard Dyer-Bennet) 697-B (633-6) SLP60 A6 MAY 1951 Remington RLP-199-34(jacket) R-199-34 (record) 12" LP [STAMPER: RE336-2 / 337-3] Continental 2001 ??? Continental 2011 (jacket) CLP-4011 (record label) 12"-LP [cover color photo of Richard Dyer-Bennet on stage, standing with guitar] [notes on jacket for A1, A3, A7, B1, B2, B3, B5, B7 by Richard Dyer-Bennet] [stampers 33-1833-1 16-3 9- / 33-1834-1 16-3 9-61] FOLK SONGS by Richard Dyer Bennet A1 Lord Randall A2 Kitty, My Love A3 The Rising Of The Moon A4 The Wife Wrapt In Sheepskin A5 My Good Old Man A6 Lowlands A7 John Henry B1 The Golden Vanity B2 Greensleeves B3 Bonnie Dundee B4 Binnorie B5 The Laird O'Cockpen B6 The Lonesome Dove B7 The Kerry Recruit some listings show 2 additional songs The White Lily (side A, after Lord Randall) Pull Off Your Old Coat (side B, after Bonnie Dundee) Remington REP-1 7" 45rpm EP picture sleeve Lord Randall The wife wrapt in sheepskin My good old man John Henry VOX ep POSSIBLY from Remington session Vox Records #VIP 30,120 Richard Dyer-Bennet 1953 7"-EP picture sleeve The Ash Grove, The Bold Fennian Men David of the White Rock Bonny Earl of Murray. Theatre Masterworks/Continental GRC 7804 2-12" LP [1952?] AN EVENING WITH WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Staats Cotsworth, Eva Le Gallienne, Arnold Moss, Faye Emerson, Dion Allen, Wesley Addy, Nina Foch, Berthe Fleurus, Claude Rains, Frederick Rolf, Leueen MacGrath, actors; Richard Dyer-Bennett, singer ; Margaret Webster, director, narrator. "These recordings are based on the original performance given by this cast in Hartford, Conn., on Dec. 5th, 1952." Program and biographical notes inserted in container. Contents Introduction -- song -- Merchant of Venice, Act 1, scene 2 -- King Henry V, Act 5, scene 2 -- King Chard II, from Act 3, scene 2, Act 4, scene 1, Act 5, scene 2 -- narration -- Twelfth night, from Act 1, scene 5, Act 2, scene 2 -- songs -- Macbeth, Act 1, scene 3 -- narration -- Macbeth, from Act 1, scene 7, Act 2, scene 1 and 2, Act 5, scene 1 and 5 -- Epilogue from The tempest, Act 4, scene 1 -- narration. The Stinson LPs ---------------- 10" issue early 1950's 12" issue early 1960's * SLP35 and SLP60 12" have extra tracks Everest/Archive FM-103/FS-203 is reissue of 12"-SLP 35 STINSON SLP 2 THE 20th CENTURY MINSTREL Richard-Dyer Bennet 10" & 12" A1 BLOW THE CANDLES OUT (English Folk Song) A2 VENEZUELA (Barbados Sailor Song) A3 THE FROG AND THE MOUSE (English Folk Song) A4 LITTLE PIGS (English Folk Song) A5 MOLLY MALONE (Irish FOlk Song) B1 TWO MAIDENS WENT MILKING ONE DAY (English Folk Song) B2 AS I WAS GOING TO BALLYNURE (Irish Folk Song) B3 WESTRON WYNDE (English Traditional) B4 JOHN PEEL(John W. Graves) (Traditional Tune) B5 BRIGG FAIR (English Traditional) B6 EDDYSTONE LIGHT (Comic Sailor Song) Stinson SLP 35 BALLADS Richard Dyer-Bennett 10" & 12"* Everest/Archive of Folk Music FM-103/FS-203 Richard Dyer-Bennett 12" LP 1965 10" 12" A1 SPANISH IS A LOVING TONGUE A2 GENTLY JOHNNY MY JINGALO A3 I ONCE LOVED A GIRL A4 JOHN HENRY A5 GREENSLEEVES B1 BARBARA ALLEN B2 THE THREE RA-ENS (Part I) B3 THE THREE RA-ENS (Part II) B4 THE DEVIL AND THE FARMER'S WIFE STINSON SLP 60 more songs by the 20th century minstrel RICHARD DYER-BENNET 10" & 12"* LP 10" 12" A1 THE THREE TAILORS A2 SONG OF REPROACH(Minnelied) A3 COLORADO TRAIL A4 QUAKER LOVER A5 COME ALL YE A6 WHERE TO (Schubert) A7 EGGS & MARROW BONE B1 THE CHARLESTON MERCHANT B2 MOONRISE B3 SECRET LOVE B4 BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE B5 THE LASS FROM THE LOW COUNTRY B6 EARLY ONE MORNING B7 SWAPPING SONG STINSON RECORDS SLP 61 A RICHARD DYER-BENNET CONCERT - FOLK SONGS and BALLADS 10" & 12" LP A1 Phyllis and Her Mother A2 Old Bangum A3 Oh No John A4 The Leprechaun A5 Lord Randal B1 The Ghost of Basel B2 Jan Hinnerk B3 The Three Rogues B4 Lincolnshire Poachers B4 Cockle Shells ====================================================================================================== Dyer-Bennet Records (founded 1955 with Harvey Cort) Dyer-Bennet Records L8OH. RICHARD DYER-BENNET 7"-45rpm 195? Greensleeves John Henry Joys of Love Lonesome Valley 1000 Richard Dyer-Bennet #1 Smithsonian-Folkways CD SFCD 40078 Oft in the Stilly Night Molly Branigan Down by the Sally Gardens The Bold Fenian Men Three Fishers Richard The Bonnie Earl of Morey Fine Flowers in the Valley The Vicar of Bray So We'll Go No More A-Roving Phyllis and Her Mother The Joys of Love I'm a Poor Boy Pull Off Your Old Coat Down in the Valley Pedro The Lonesome Valley 2000 RICHARD DYER-BENNET 2 (yellow cover) 1956 Smithsonian Folkways CD SFW 40142 1 When Cockleshells Turn Silverbells 2 Corn Rigs Are Bonnie 3 The Garden Where the Praties Grow 4 The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington 5 Two Maidens Went Milking 6 Who Killed Cock Robin? 7 Veillée de Noël 8 Jan Hinnerk 9 Woman! Go Home! 10 Blow the Candles Out 11 Eggs and Marrowbone 12 The Beggar Man 13 The Turkish Revery 3000 Richard Dyer-Bennet, Vol. 3 1956 The Lady's Policy Dinah and Villikens Fain I Would Wed Willie Taylor Charlie is My Lilli Burlero The Beloved Kitten Spottlied Auf Napoleons Ruckzug Aus Russland The Lass from the Low Country The Swapping Song House Carpenter The Lady Who Loved a Swine Go Down Moses 4000 Richard Dyer-Bennet, Vol. 4 1957 A May Day Carol The Rising of the Moon The Kerry Recruit Searching for Lambs The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee The Spanish Lady in Dublin City The Three Ra-ens (The Three Ravens) Song of Reproach Jag Vill Gå Vall The Three Tailors The Swagman The Foggy Foggy Dew The Fox Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill DYB-5000 Requests 1958 Smithsonian Folkways CD SFW 40143 SDBY 5000-5764 1. Greensleeves 2. The Golden Vanity 3. The White Lily 4. Lord Rendal 5. Westryn Wynde 6. Barbara Allen 7. Venezuela 8. The Quaker Lover 9. John Henry 10. Spanish is the Loving Tongue 11. I Ride An Old Paint 12. Edward 6000 with young people in mind Smithsonian Folkways CD SFW 45053 rel.Jan 25, 2000 1. Come All Ye 2. Old Bangum 3. Three Jolly Rogues Of Lynn 4. Aunt Rhody 5. Frog Went A-Courtin' 6. John Peel 7. Leprechaun, The 8. Piper Of Dundee, The 9. Bow Down 10. Tailor And The Mouse, The 11. I Went Out One Morning In May 12. Green Corn 13. Buckeye Jim 14. Little Pigs 15. Three Craw 16. Hole In The Bottom Of The Sea, The 7000 Beethoven Scottish and Irish Songs 1958 Richard Dyer-Bennet, Natasha Magg, Urico Rossi, Fritz Magg, Faithfu' Johnie On the Massacre of Glencoe Bonnie Laddie, Highland Laddie Sunset The Lovely Lass of Inverness The Pulse of an Irishman Once More I Hail Thee Morning a Cruel Turmoiler Is The Morning Air Plays on My Face The Return to Ulster Oh, Who My Dear Dermot Again My Lyre 8000 Richard Dyer-Bennet, Vol. 8 1959 The Agincourt Song Come Live with Me Come Away, Death I Care Not for These Ladies Flow, My Tears All in a Garden Green Henry Martin All mein Gedanken Die bekehrte Schäferin Kränzelkraut Jagdabenteuer Warnung Le Brave Marin Aminte 9000 Richard Dyer-Bennet, Vol. 9 1960 The Laird o' Cockpen The Two Sisters of Binnorie Early One Morning The Pride of Petravore Gently, Johnny, My Jingalo The British Light Dragoons Schneiders Höllenfahrt Der Tod von Basel Le Joli Tambour The Buffalo Skinners John Riley The Cherry Tree Carol Dyer-Bennet Records DYBX 2 Aksel Schiøtz, baritone; Paul Ulanowsky, piano (1st-4th, 8th, 16th works) ; Richard Dyer-Bennet, guitar. Recorded Aug. 1960, Temple of Music, South Mountain, Pittsfield MA. Program notes by Richard Dyer-Bennet on container; texts with English translations ([6] p.) inserted. FRANZ SCHUBERT: Liebesbotschaft ; Ganymed ; Der Wanderer an den Mond ; An die Laute CARL MICHAEL BELLMAN: Fredman's epistles, no. 25 ; Blåsen nu alla! ; Fredman's song, no. 31 ; HUGO WOLF: Heb auf dein blondes Haupt ; Der Tambour ; Verschwiegene Liebe ; Auf dem grünen Balkon ; Anakreons GrabJOHANNES BRAHMS: An die Nachtigal ; Salamander ; Im Waldeseimsamkeit ; Mein Mädel. DYB-1601 Mark Twain's 1601 with Songs in the same spirit 1962 "1601" OLD JOE CLARK THE OLD SHE CRAB THE TAILOR'S BOY THE EERIE CANAL - THERE WAS A FRIAR IN OUR TOWN THE GATHERIN' OF THE CLAN. Dyer-Bennet Records #10. 1962 recorded live at the Temple of Music, South Mountain, Pittsfield, Massachusetts The Lincolnshire Poacher Lowlands I Once Loved a Girl She Moved thro' the Fair The Seven Little Pigs O Speak then my Love Le Veritable Amour The Unfortunate Troubadour The Reaper's Ghost Two Comments Go 'way old Man The Wife Rapped in Wether's Skin My Good Old Man No Hiding Place. 11 Richard Dyer-Bennet, Vol. 11 STEPHEN FOSTER 1962 Linger in Blissful Repose Gentle Annie Come with Thy Sweet Voice Again If You've Only Got a Moustache Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair For Thee, Love, for Thee Ah! May the Red Rose Live Alway! Beautiful Dreamer Sweetly She Sleeps, My Alice Fair There Are Plenty of Fish in the Sea Open Thy Lattice, Love Come Where My Love Lies Dreaming 12 Richard Dyer-Bennet, Vol. 12 1964 SONGS OF SHIPS, SEAFARING MEN, WATERY GRAVES, CARD SHARPERS, GIANT RAM, and INDIAN SCALPING and ONE EDIBLE RAT. Shallow Brown The Drunken Sailor The Eddystone Light Hullabaloo Belay The Mermaid The Willow Tree The Charleston Merchant Peter Gray The Roving Gambler Billy Barlow Australian Girls Hanging Johnny The Derby Ram Plain Language from Truthful James 13 Richard Dyer-Bennet, Vol. 13 1964 STORIES AND SONGS FOR CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS The Soldier and the Lady The Tale of the Tales/The Man Who Was Full of Fun The King of the Noise The Devil and the Farmer's Wife The Old Gray Goose The Wolf Who Was a Friend The Fox and the Geese September, 1976 Temple of Music, Pittsfield, MA, USA Dyer-Bennet records LP 33674-33675 2-12" LP 1978 THE LOVELY MILLERESS (Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin, D795) Richard Dyer-Bennet (Tenor), Nancy Garniez (Pianoforte) translation by Richard Dyer-Bennet. Vanguard Twofers VSD-95/96 The ESSENTIAL RICHARD DYER-BENNET (c)1977 Vanguard Recording Society notes by Richard Dyer-Bennet, 1976 Vanguard Classics(Omega) OVC 6007 (CD) The ART OF RICHARD DYER-BENNET released 1991/1993 ?? from Dyer-Bennet Records 1955-1965 A1 1 Blow THe Candles Out A2 2 Down By The Sally Gardens (words: W.B.Yeats) A3 3 The Lonesome valley A4 4 Come All Ye A5 5 The Bonnie Earl of Morey A6 6 Pull Off Your Old Coat A7 7 John Peel B1 8 The Swapping Song B2 9 Venezuela (arr.J.J.Niles) B3 10 The Lass from The Low Country (arr.J.J.Niles) B4 11 The Devil, and the Farmer's Wife B6 12 Hanging Johnny B6 13 The Drunken Sailor B7 14 Westryn Wynde C1 15 The Soldier and the Lady C2 16 Greensleeves C3 17 Two Maidens Wnet Milking C4 18 Molly Brannigan C5 19 The Leprechaun C6 20 Peter Gray C7 21 Hullabaloo Belay D1 22 Eggs and Marrowbone D2 23 Who Killed Cock Robin? D3 24 Phyllis and Her Mother D4 25 Edward D5 26 The Garden Where the Praties Grow D6 27 So We'll Go No More A-Roving(Dyer-Bennet-Lord Byron) Longines Symphonette Recording Society / Vanguard LONGINES LWS-176-181 6-12" LP box The 50 Greatest Folk Singers: Legendary Folk Songs LWS-181 record 5 B3 Lord Randall Smithsonian RD 046-1 Folk song America I: a 20th century revival produced in association with Sony Music Special Products, (p)1991 Greensleeves (Richard Dyer-Bennet) 2:28 - source ?????????????????????????????????????????? A PROGRAM OF DRAMATIC DECLAMATION OF THREE EXCERPTS FROM Robert Fitzgerald translation of HOMER'S THE ODYSSEY. 1 sound tape reel. 1979. Library of Congress. THE ODYSSEY TAPES. 3/4" videocassette. 1980. Research Foundation, SUNY/the Arts on TV. 1/2" 30 min VHS videocassette sd., col. ; , Museum of Modern Art, New York NY produced and directed by Susan Fanshel and Jill Godmilow. Photographed by Jeri Sopanen ; sound by Lee Orloff. Notes: Richard Dyer-Bennet. Summary: The Great concert artist Richard Dyer-Bennet recites some of the lines of Robert Fitzgerald's translation of Homer's Odyssey. He has set himself an ingenious challenge : to record the entire ancient poem in all its epic length and beauty-in the spoken form in which the world first heard the tale, three millennia ago. He discusses his preparation for this project, including his personal ideas and feelings about the poem and how it should best be rendered vocally with incidental musical accompaniment. For sale ($225.00) or rent ($90.00) |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Stringsinger Date: 24 Jun 08 - 06:30 PM RDB was a counter-tenor. He referred to himself as a Twentieth Century Minstrel, like the early troubadours. My favorite rendition was his "The Bonnie Earl of Morey" which was the best version of this song that I've heard. This is the song that spawned the term "Mondegreen". "They took the Bonnie Earl of Morey and laid him (mondegreen) on the green." Leadbelly was a fan of his. His performance of John Henry was considered to be funny. It wasn't his style. I think he had a beautiful voice in the tradition of the Early Music counter-tenors such as Russell Oberlin and Alfred Deller. It's an acquired taste. He ran a school of folk music in Aspen Colorado in the late Forties and Ray de la Torre taught guitar there. He may have been the folk stylist to first incorporate arpeggios ala Carcassi, (a classical guitarist) and I believe he was the first to integrate classical guitar into the folk song idiom. William Clausen (I think that was his name) was a follower of Dyer-Bennet. They both presented formal concerts in tuxes. (I think for Columbia Artists but I'm not sure) Joan Baez owes him (perhaps unwittingly) for the arpeggiated guitar styles found in accompaniment to Anglo-American ballads by interpreters (not in the rough folk "tradition"). As I recall, Dyer-Bennet played a rosewood classical guitar and used classical technique for his accompaniments. It would be unfair to compare his stylistic renditions with traditional folk singers. He was an interpreter (and quite musical, unlike many "folkies" you might hear today). He was the last of that kind of singer like Susan Reed, Josh White and of course Burl Ives who had training in Schubert Lieder from a Metropolitan Opera vocal coach. You might want to listen comparatively to John Jacob Niles and then Dyer-Bennet. It's almost oranges and apples but oddly enough, the same concert approach was employed. Frank Hamilton |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: Charley Noble Date: 24 Jun 08 - 07:08 PM Leadbelly and Dyer-Bennet did several joint performances together in the 1940's. I wish I had access to a time machine so I could listen to what they created together. Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: Richard Dyer-Bennett From: fox4zero Date: 24 Jun 08 - 08:56 PM Around the time I was a medical student (ca.1954)I came upon a copy of his recordings on a Remington 33 1/3, at Sam Goody. I then discovered that he was performing in Carnegie Hall (I believe) and my wife and I went to the concert. It was really quite a spectacle: he wore formal attire....white tie and tails. He sang in the style of a "trained" voice, much like Buell Kazee. The image is one that has been in my mind's eye ever since then, and I sing the songs aloud (when no one is within hearing) which is easy now that I live in "horse country". He sang "You've Got to Cross that Lonesome Valley" which caused chills up my spine, "The Rising of the Moon", "Bonnie Dundee", "Mi Amour Mi Coresso" (much more beautiful than my phonetic Spanish), "The Woman Wrapped in Sheepskin", "Gentle Johnny", "The Laird of Cockpen". I just amazed myself by remembering all those titles....I guess the neurons are still firing on all 8 cylinders, give or take six or seven. I have no recall of his being blacklisted. I do remember Pete Seegher's concerts being cancelled at Brooklyn College, but were moved over to Columbia University....blacklisted at a public college! Larry Parish |
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