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Thread #10383   Message #2103778
Posted By: Joe_F
15-Jul-07 - 09:33 PM
Thread Name: Favourite Performances You Were Lucky to See
Subject: RE: Favourite Performances You Were Lucky to See
Flanders & Swann, in London, in 1959.

Also, I went to concerts of something called the Ballads & Blues Society. At one of them, somebody sang The Second Front Song. It must have been Ewan MacColl, tho I wouldn't have known him from Adam at the time. The song stuck in my mind, and in 1963, in California, I managed to record it off the radio.

Pete Seeger, in a field near Nyack, NY, in the late '60s. Memorable, tho neither the audience nor the heavens smiled on the undertaking. The men, a lot of them, groaned when his parody of "There Was an Old Woman Who Swallowed a Fly" turned out to be feminist. Then a violent thunderstorm shut the show down. I ate a sandwich in my car, drove into town, & got laid.