Video: Seeger, Guthrie, Terry & McGhee, Gladden

Subject: Review: net video: To Hear Your Banjo Play
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 13 May 06 - 06:50 PM

Wow! I think my heart is still pumping hard! Seeger and Guthrie when they were just young pups; Texas Gladden, Margo Mayo's square dance group (with Manny Weiner calling - thanks to the TradDanceCallers list for the id & the original link), and more...

To see it yourself (a 16-minute b/w film) click this: To Hear Your Banjo Play -- available streaming or to download, thanks to The AV Geeks Film Archive, "an ephemeral film collection curated by Skip Elsheimer," and The Internet Archive, "a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an 'Internet library,' with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format."

Yeah, it's a little staged, a period piece, but oh to see Pete grin from pure joy of playing for those dancers... it makes me a little teary-eyed. But then, I'm a little easy when it comes to that. :-)

~ Becky, in San Diego at Amos's, thanks to the wonder of the 'Cat

Subject: RE: Review: net video: To Hear Your Banjo Play
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 13 May 06 - 07:13 PM

Credits for the film:

featuring
Peter Seeger
with
Woody Guthrie
Baldwin Hawes
Sonny Terry
Brownee McGhee (sic)
Texas Gladden
Margo Mayo's American Square Dance Group

Story & Dialogue written by
Alan Lomax
incorporating sequences directed by
Charles Korvin
Photography by Richard Leacock
Contributing Photographers
Peter Glushanck & Larry Madison

Produced and Directed by
Irving Lerner
and
Willard van Dyke

Subject: RE: Review: net video: To Hear Your Banjo Play
From: BanjoRay
Date: 14 May 06 - 07:38 AM

Lovely bit of film. The best quality is MPEG2 at half a gigabyte, but takes about 15 mins to download on fast broadband. I needed a free viewer to see it, but worth all the hassle.
Ray

Subject: RE: Video: Seeger, Guthrie, Terry & McGhee, Gladde
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 16 May 06 - 12:20 AM

Refresh upon re-titling in hopes of reaching a broader audience...

Subject: RE: Video: Seeger, Guthrie, Terry & McGhee, Gladden
From: Amos
Date: 16 May 06 - 02:26 AM

Wow, indeed, a dose of the best Seeger style! Thanks, Becky!


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Subject: RE: Video: Seeger, Guthrie, Terry & McGhee, Gladde
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 16 May 06 - 11:12 PM

One more refresh

Subject: RE: Video: Seeger, Guthrie, Terry & McGhee, Gladde
From: GUEST,sorefingers
Date: 17 May 06 - 06:45 PM

That strange but effective 'Seeger' lick!, still great and today rarely used. For those who are wondering what I am talking about, Pete invented his own down/upicking method for playing the Banjo.

Also I think the Guitar picker in front of Woody G. is Brownie McGee?

Thanks for sharing.

Subject: RE: Video: Seeger, Guthrie, Terry & McGhee, Gladden
From: BanjoRay
Date: 17 May 06 - 07:55 PM

Yes that's Brownie, with Sonny Terry playing the harp behind Pete.
Ray

Subject: RE: Video: Seeger, Guthrie, Terry & McGhee, Gladden
From: RolyH
Date: 18 May 06 - 10:13 AM

Thanks for finding this.