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Thread #84089   Message #1550713
Posted By: GUEST,Jeff Place
26-Aug-05 - 10:50 PM
Thread Name: This Land Is Your Land (first recording?)
Subject: RE: This Land Is Your Land (first recording?)
Joe- Woody never recorded it commercially. It was one of those "Mermaid Avenue" kinds of things, some lyrics. A school teacher named Martin Hoffman put the melody to it later. I am told that the Woody Guthrie Archives in nYC run by daughter Nora has it in a set of unreleased publisher's tapes. Woody was asked by his publisher TRO to sing into a borrowed tape deck a lot of his songs which had not been recorded. Micheal Smith at the WG Archives told me its in there. It could be a recitation, who knows. Doubt you could get a copy of it though.-JP