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Thread #103407 Message #2255775
Posted By: Severn
07-Feb-08 - 06:30 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Oh, Louisiana (from Pete Seeger)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'Oh, Louisiana' info?
Some of the confusion here might be an age difference thing as to how we first encountered the song.
The "We Shall Overcome" concert was issued on CD as a two disc set. Some of us older folks remember it all coming out in two distinct pieces on Columbia LPs. 'We Shall Overcome" was released as one LP, telling people where it came from and when it was recorded. Some of the rest of the concert, including, "Oh Louisiana" was released as "I Can See A New Day", an excellent Seeger concert recording that told nothing of how and where it was recorded and gave no indication of the occaision of its recording. It was only on hearing the CD reissue of WSO in its entirity that I learned that it was all the same concert and that there was more good stuff still that never made either LP.
Columbia gave out less info than Folkways did. They recorded better, though.