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27 Feb 02 - 01:13 PM (#659157) Subject: Susan Reed lp From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy has anyone ever seen &/or heard this recording and/or know where I might find a copy?
Songs For The Wee Folk - Susan Reed Thanks |
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27 Feb 02 - 09:33 PM (#659602) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: khandu So far, all I have found is this. It is not what you seek but it is going in the right direction. I will continue to look! khandu |
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28 Feb 02 - 01:13 AM (#659686) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: Rasta susan reed has a botique in nyack NY, its probabbly listed unless she closed the shop, good luck maybe shes has a led for ya--rastaaaa |
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28 Feb 02 - 09:16 AM (#659858) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy yes, I know she has a shop in Nyack, but she has not responded to my letters. I think she has distanced herself from her singing career, does still do shapenote singing with a group, they appear on Jean Ritchie's None But One release. Thanks for the concern, though |
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28 Feb 02 - 04:00 PM (#660144) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: GUEST,John Hernandez Susan Reed tried making it as a singer in several different genres in the 1950's, including jazz and pop, before settling on folk. Unfortunately, she was too pop for the hard core folkies and too trad for the Kingston Trio crowd. Nice voice, though. |
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28 Feb 02 - 06:37 PM (#660257) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: Don Firth Well, now, I don't know about that, John. Susan Reed was singing folk songs way back in the Forties. Although they were not anywhere near the Hit Parade, she and Burl Ives were fairly well known as "folk singers" by a lot of people, not just folkies. She actually appeared in a movie in the mid- to late-Forties where she portrayed a young mountain girl with a headful of songs whom some handsome young entrepreneur brought to New York to feature in his night club. I forget how the romance worked out, but she was unhappy in the city and returned to the mountains. I can't remember the name of it, but it was a good movie at the time. In the light of what happened a decade or so later, it would be "kinda quaint" now, if not outright weird. I heard her on the radio back then, too. Mind you, this was before The Weavers! She was something of a ballad scholar and knew quite a bit about the songs she sang. I really doubt that she was as opportunistic as you imply. Don Firth |
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28 Feb 02 - 08:07 PM (#660325) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: Suffet I believe the reality was somewhere in between what Don and John wrote. Susan Reed certainly was a folksinger before 1950, and she was bringing folk music to the night club scene in the same manner as Josh White and Burl Ives. But before Susan Reed went off to study traditional ballads, she had been appearing in night clubs as a pop jazz singer. But that was in the forties rather than the fifties. I wouldn't say "she was too pop for the hard core folkies and too trad for the Kingston Trio crowd." Rather, I would say she was too suave for either group. --- Steve |
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04 Mar 02 - 12:31 PM (#662531) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy Well, I would disagree with all of you about Susan's folk credentials. It is true she did a movie, it was called Glamour Girl, released in 1947 (AKA Night Club Girl) where she played a singer/ zither player named Jennia Higgins from Tennessee, discovered and brought to New York, & it was a primarily a vehicle for Gene Krupa & his band. (I'd like a VHS copy of this if it ever plays on cable somewhere, have never seen it.) Susan herself was from North Carolina, had a brother Jared, who was also a singer/actor, her parents were theater people, and she grew up around theater people, learning songs, especially Irish songs, from actors & actresses. She started singing in New York in 1947 or 48 I think, though started earlier recording on 78s in the 40's and later on vinyl, straddled the border between Folk and Interpreter of Folk, I guess, but I think her versions of some Folk songs are the best ever recorded. That gets me BACK to my original question about the Children's album. I have e-mailed Jac Holzman, but got no response. I'd like to keep trying to find a copy if it was ever released, and can give up if it wasn't, though it is listed in the Elektra catalog. I would at least like to know what the songs were, even if it wasn't released. thanks |
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04 Mar 02 - 02:26 PM (#662603) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: Don Firth Bill, thanks for the information. I have always liked Susan Reed. Unfortunately, I have only one of her records, a 10" LP, Old Airs from Ireland, Scotland, and England, Elektra EKL 26, 1954. Wish I had more. Sorry I can't help you with the children's record. Googling through Cyberia turns up references to the record, but no info beyond that. Undoubtedly you've already tried that. Don Firth
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19 Mar 02 - 01:24 PM (#672043) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy any further info? |
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10 Jun 02 - 02:01 PM (#727050) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy refresh |
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17 Jul 02 - 10:31 AM (#749682) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: GUEST refresh |
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08 Sep 02 - 08:42 PM (#779348) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: DonD Well, I had a pleasant experience today that I'd like to share with you all. My wife asked if I'd like to spend the afternoon at what used to be the annual Nyack Antique and Craft show and since it was a beautiful afternoon and Nyack is just across the Hudson from our Westchester County, I said sure. (They now have such weekends in Nyack about a half dozen times a year.) We walked the streets and checked out the booths, and then I spotted a store on the corner that said 'Susan Reed'. I thought I was kidding when I asked the elderly lady behind the counter if she had an Irish Harp. (Back in the 40's, Susan Reed was known and parodied for climbing on a tall stool and saying with her innocent soprano girlish voice, "This is an Irish Harp." To my surprise, she replied. "No, but you've found an Irish harper," and she pulled out an LP which I recognized as an antique itself. since she's not on the 'Net, it's safe to say that she's a nice old lady; she makes no bones about being in her mid seventies. I told her about theMudcat and her contemporaries who are om it ("Jean Ritchie! She's years older than I am!") We had a delightful chat about the good old days, when she started as a girl of sixteen (sixty years ago), interrupted by her pitching to customers and keeping her eyes open for shoplifters. She said she still sings, but mostly in the local park, recalls her most recent gigs at some folk festival in or near Philadelphia ("I love the people in Pennsylvania"), and expessed some regret that a three-CD compilation of the early days in Greenwich Village that someone sent her ignores both Burl Ives and herself. She also proudly showed me the album covers she's painted for Tom Chapin's CD's. I left her to her immediate concerns of making a living selling 'folk clothing, jewelry and art" with thanks for happy memories and wishes that we would see each other again in years to come. Her business address is 50 South Broadway in Nyack, NY 10960, and her business phone is (845) 358-5577, Tuesday through Sunday Noon to 5:00PM. Maybe a call will get better results than a letter. I hope that Bill Kennedy, Don Firth and others will find this helpful and/or of interest. |
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09 Sep 02 - 05:20 AM (#779517) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: Orac If you go to http://www.gemm.com/ and put her name in the search engine you will find that there are about 5 or so lps out there for sale by various folks. Hope this helps. |
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09 Sep 02 - 12:51 PM (#779772) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: Don Firth Thank you, DonD! And thank you for the address. I'm now about to write the first fan letter I have ever written to anyone. Don Firth |
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09 Sep 02 - 01:11 PM (#779797) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy thanks, as well from me, good for you. I tried to write her, call her previously, but it was summer, she may have been away, I'll try again. |
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02 Jun 04 - 09:41 AM (#1198488) Subject: AUCTION: Susan Reed, 1945 From: Deckman I just placed a "Life Magazine" from 1945 in the auction. It has a feature, two page article on SUSAN REED in it, complete with photos. Go to the "auction" to read more about Reed. (sorry, I couldn't help myself) Bob |
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19 Aug 06 - 02:04 PM (#1813872) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: Joe Offer I hadn't known anything about Susan Reed, but I picked up a couple of Collectors' Choice CD reissues of her Elektra albums, and I really enjoyed them. What a beautiful voice! The CD's are available now from Collectors' Choice Music. They will be released for general distribution August 29. Here are the two albums that are currently available: Susan Reed Sings Old Airs
2. Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow, The 3. Leprechaun, The 4. He Moved Through The Fair 5. Bendemeer's Stream 6. Irish Famine Song 7. Wraggle Taggle Gypsy 8. Seventeen Come Sunday 9. Foggy Dew, The 10. I Know My Love 11. Must I Go Bound 12. Boreens Of Derry, The 13. Wailie, Wailie Susan Reed
2. Old Woman, The 3. I'm Sad And I'm Lonely 4. Drill, Ye Tarriers 5. Greensleeves 6. Go Away From My Window 7. Mighty Ship, A 8. Mother, I Would Marry 9. Barbara Allen 10. Michie Banjo 11. Zelime 12. Gue, Gue 13. Soldier And The Lady, The 14. Molly Malone 15. Three White Gulls 16. Venezuela 17. If I Had A Ribbon Bow 18. Miss Bailey 19. Danny Boy This Elektra discography has a track listing for Songs for the Wee Folk:
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19 Aug 06 - 07:45 PM (#1814123) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed LP, CD's, & info From: bill kennedy Yes, Joe, I knew about the Collector's Choice cds, and I have had them on order for a month or more already, they are supposed to be shipped to me in early September. I have these both on lp, but it will be nice to listen to them in the car. Thanks to someone who's name I can't remember right now, I have a copy of the children's album I was asking about burned to a cd, once again Mudcat works wonders. Glad you enjoyed them. |
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19 Aug 06 - 07:57 PM (#1814130) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed LP, CD's, & info From: pdq No company can send the CD until the release date no matter when it was ordered. And thanks to Elektra. They had some great artists and often had extremely good recording quality. BTW, the record "Dian and the Greenbriar Boys" is also due for an AUG 29 release date so people might want to order it at the same time. |
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20 Aug 06 - 01:59 PM (#1814509) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed LP, CD's, & info From: Desert Dancer Ooh, a blast from the past. I may have to keep a look out for these. ~ Becky in Tucson |
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23 Aug 06 - 09:40 AM (#1816960) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed LP, CD's, & info From: cetmst I was fortunate to hear Susan Reed in concert at Swarthmore College in 1948 with her brother Jerry who died shortly after. At a college reunion in about 1998 she gave another concert, voice and harp still lovely. The college radio archives may have some recordings of Jerry's who apparently never recorded professionally. I have two 78 albums of Susan Reed's on Victor labels which may or may not have survived twenty years in the attic. Information I have on reissue of some of the Elektra recordings on, of all places the Best Buy website, give an issue date of 29 August 2006. I'm looking forward to obtaining these |
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23 Aug 06 - 10:34 AM (#1816998) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed LP, CD's, & info From: bill kennedy there's a recent interview with Susan here: http://radiogreenwich.com/interviews.shtml thanks to David Schwartz for sharing it with me. |
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23 Aug 06 - 10:58 PM (#1817553) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed LP, CD's, & info From: Desert Dancer Wow! Thanks, Bill. I had no idea she was still around. And she still sounds good! ~ Becky |
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01 Sep 06 - 09:32 AM (#1824515) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed LP, CD's, & info From: bill kennedy just got my two cds yesterday and have been listening to them, they sound great, my hope is that some radio programs will get them and re-introduce Susan to the current audience. She deserves air play, I have played from her lps on my programs occasionally, now it will be easier. |
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12 Sep 06 - 02:52 PM (#1832851) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed LP, CD's, & info From: Mudlark Synchronicity is a marvelous thing! Boreens of Derry came into my head this morning, haven't thot of it in years, tho I have Susan Reed's LP. Searched here first, no luck in DT or Forum using that name, so Googled...and came up with this thread! Very glad to hear LPs reissued as CDs...will def. order. And great to hear that she's (I hope) still going strong. |
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17 Mar 08 - 03:23 PM (#2290825) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: John on the Sunset Coast I have what ya' call a guilty pleasure. Specifically, I read old, old comic books. Mostly I read them for stamp collecting ads that were prevalent in comic books of the '40s and '50s, printing the ads to show at the local stamp club. But today I was surprised to find Susan Reed in a Wonder Woman comic book from 1951! No Lie! Therein I found a feature called 'In The Groove', containing brief profiles on four young musicians of the day. "Tiny Susan Reed wanted a night club act so she learned to play the zither, an almost extinct instrument, then dug up some ancient folk songs. Now she's such a sensation that there's a run on zithers. There's a big demand" A drawing of a girl playing a zither accompanies that text. I'd bet (not very much, tho') that she's the only folk singer to be featured as herself in such medium. |
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17 Mar 08 - 04:42 PM (#2290921) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: open mike There is a book and accompanying c.d. called Follow the Music which chronicles Jac Holzman's Elektra years. There is info about a failed attempt to convert a mountain lodge into a recording studio. Well, not completely failed, Jackson Browne did manage to record some tracks there, but as I recall none have been released as everyone on board was so spaced out that the results were disasterous. Susan is on there singing Foggy Dew. This lodge, Paxton, is near me, and I got the book out of curiosity about the Paxton Lodge recordings. |
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22 Mar 08 - 04:34 PM (#2295372) Subject: RE: Help: Susan Reed lp From: GUEST,newjazz I just picked up an original copy of Susan Reed's "Wee Folk". White label mono. Anybody want any info on it, or interested in purchasing? |
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04 Aug 08 - 01:33 PM (#2405007) Subject: 2 Susan Reed CDs at Crit.Choice sale From: Art Thieme Folks, I figured you good trad folkies'd like to know: From Critics Choice Overstock Sell--Out Sale catalogue SUSAN REED: SINGS OLD AIRS from Ireland, Scotland and England---1954 LP-----CD = $7.98 SUSAN REED---19 songs CD---$7.98 1-800-923-1122 anytime or ccmusic.com Art Thieme |
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04 Aug 08 - 03:59 PM (#2405137) Subject: RE: 2 Susan Reed CDs at Crit.Choice sale From: Joe Offer Damn! I paid a lot more for them. Good CD's, though. I do worry when I see good recordings go on sale. Collectors Choice has been slowly reissuing Elektra folk albums, and I hope they're making enough on the reissues to continue. I want the whole Elektra folk catalogue. -Joe, greedily- |
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05 Aug 08 - 02:40 PM (#2405897) Subject: RE: 2 Susan Reed CDs at Crit.Choice sale From: Art Thieme re-fish |
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15 Feb 09 - 04:09 PM (#2567756) Subject: RE: Susan Reed lp From: GUEST,Olaf I have known Susan Reed for many years and have collecting stuff about her,I even had to copy some photos of her she didn't have herself. I posted them on flickr...and have all her recordings. Susan lives now in a house for old people,around Brooklyn. |
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15 Feb 09 - 04:16 PM (#2567765) Subject: RE: Susan Reed lp From: Rifleman (inactive) some of her songs appear on the following compilation Here |
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16 Feb 09 - 01:10 PM (#2568352) Subject: RE: Susan Reed lp From: sharyn I have several Susan Reed albums (my grandparents had one and I found a few more), I do not have Songs for Wee Folk, unfortunately. My very favorite is "Songs of the Auvergne" on Columbia, which features French songs on one side and miscellaneous folk songs on the other ("Zebra Dun, " "Molly Malone," etc. |
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13 Feb 10 - 12:50 PM (#2838244) Subject: RE: Susan Reed lp From: Algy It's a coincidence that Susan Reed is "near Brooklyn." She had a joint concert with Josh White at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1947 or '48. What a great evening that was! |
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26 Apr 11 - 07:02 PM (#3143036) Subject: RE: Susan Reed lp -- Instrumentation(?) Question From: John on the Sunset Coast Yesterday I bought two used Susan Reed LPs from 1957, one a 12", the other a 10" disc. Both are in surprisingly good, playable condition. Each track has a notation as to the instrument she is playing, be it harp or zither. Three of the tracks indicate "Ever-Lovin'" where an instrument should be noted. What is an "Ever-Lovin'"? The accompanying instrument sounds something like a harpsicord to me. Anybody know about this? |
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27 Apr 11 - 06:35 PM (#3143702) Subject: RE: Susan Reed lp From: maeve John, I see an interesting instrument I can't quite identify among the beautiful photos on this Flickr page: Susan Reed photos. See what you think. Maeve |
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27 Apr 11 - 08:36 PM (#3143743) Subject: RE: Susan Reed lp From: John on the Sunset Coast Thanks, Maeve, and thanks to Texas Olaf. The only pic that seems like something different is 4th down in the 5th column of pictures. That instrument appears to have two ports (perhaps 3 if the whole instrument were shown). I appreciate your time in finding that material. John |
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27 Apr 11 - 11:15 PM (#3143789) Subject: RE: Susan Reed lp From: Little Robyn I've just listened to my Susan Reed LP - EKL-116, and the one track that lists "Ever-Lovin'" sounds just like an autoharp to me. But the ones that say Zither sound more like a guitar. In the photos, she has a rather beautiful instrument that looks like it should be an autoharp and she's also holding an instrument very similar to my Hohner lute - a 6 string, guitar tuned, lute shaped instrument. Is that what she called a zither? Incidently, both instruments are slightly out of tune but her singing is very nice. Robyn |
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27 Apr 11 - 11:41 PM (#3143793) Subject: RE: Susan Reed lp From: John on the Sunset Coast "...her singing is very nice." I'll certainly drink to that, but not playing an instrument, myself, I wouldn't know about the instrument tuning. One singer I knew claimed that he played a guitar which he purposely had slightly out of tune because it suited his voice better. But then again, he might have been stretching my leg to make both even. "Ever-Lovin'" is certainly a strange name for a musical instrument, so much so, that I was hesitant to ask about it. Thanks for your response.--John |
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28 Apr 11 - 03:09 PM (#3144227) Subject: RE: Susan Reed lp From: Thomas Stern THE HARVARD CRIMSON October 23, 1947 Susan Reed Peers Over Zither at Networkers, Calls Them Shy Wolves NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED Ballad singer Susan Reed smiled prettily yesterday over her slither-like "ever" lovin," pointed through a glass window to the cluster of WHHV official standing shyly in their control booth, and complained that although Harvard men are "fine," they always "hide in the next room." A Hollywood and Cafe Society star, the 21-year-old redhead is in the Hub area for a Radcliffe Alumul-sponsored concert in Arlington tomorrow night. A bevy of concert usherettes escorted her to the Network studies to record a program for broadcasting tonight. English I reading lists now include some of the hill country ballads and Negro folk songs 'Suve" learned during a. South Carolina childhood. Her speech still has traces of Dixie. Singing a Hobby In New York, where she migrated with her family, the shy and by her own word "plan" girl, aspired to be a painter but carried on her singing encouraged by friends and teachers. It wasn't long before Cafe Society spotted her and a hobby became a inerative venture. Publicity-wise and sophisticated now the little freckle-faced kid who liked to sing folk songs still finds audiences with her clear-voiced renditions of such ballads as "Melly Malone" and "Barbara Allen." Singing is her only love. "I have no beau." Susie sighs. "Men are wonder full but they always run the other way." One of the songs the successful vocalist sings these days is an old melancholy lament, 'I'm sad and I'm Lonely. |