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Thread #66792 Message #1112092
Posted By: GUEST
08-Feb-04 - 06:11 PM
Thread Name: Help! Canadian field recordings??
Subject: RE: Help! Canadian field recordings??
Singers and Songs of Canada, a 3 CD set on the Mercury label, compiled by Smithsonian-Folkways in 1996.
That collection was compiled for Mercury by Samuel Gesser, who had been Folkways' Canadian producer in the 1950s and 1960s. It was one of three sets that Sam compiled from the Canadian Folkways material. The others were "A Folksong Portrait of Canada," another 3-CD set for Mercury, and "Montreal Folklore," a 2-CD set for Ananlekta.
All three of those sets have gone out-of-print. However, all of the original LPs from which they were compiled are anow available as custom CD-Rs from Smithsonian Folkways.