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Thread #96848   Message #1900112
Posted By: John on the Sunset Coast
04-Dec-06 - 07:40 PM
Thread Name: Looking for songs against racism
Subject: RE: Looking for songs against racism
Strange Fruit - I especially like Josh White's version
Purlie Brown - another song about lynching, written and sung by Tony Townsend
One Hundred Years from Today - also Tony Townsend. Record released 100 years after emancipation. Will it be another hundred?
What Dress Shall I Wear? sung by Chad Mitchell Trio - "Don't take the green one with the tear [to the cleaners]; that one my dear...is for you".

BTW, if anybody hear knows about Mr. Townsend, his career beyond the LP, or if he is still around please share.