Happy Birthday!

In NYC:

Irwin Silber

born

10/17/1925

Silber can be held responsible for hundreds of records and thousands of
books & magazines about folk music & other stuff, including (a short list):

American favorite ballads; tunes and songs as sung by Pete Seeger; 1961
Folksinger's Wordbook; 1973 (with Fred Silber)
Songs of the Suffragettes (sung by Elizabeth Knight)
Songs of the Civil War (sung by Jerry Silverman)
The Guardian; Executive Editor, (1972-1978)
Lift Every Voice (the 2nd People's Songbook) first published 1954
Sing Out!; Editor (1951-1967)
Socialism--what went wrong?; 1994
Songs of Independence; 1973
Songs of the Great American West; 1995 (first pub. 1967)
The Vietnam Songbook; 1969 (with Barbara Dane)

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