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Thread #98128 Message #2368321
Posted By: Genie
17-Jun-08 - 07:36 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Lou Marsh (Phil Ochs)
Subject: RE: Origins: Lou Marsh (Phil Ochs)
OMG, I was browsing the forum looking for info on Phil Ochs (in particular, about his death), and I stumbled across this song, which I had never known existed.
I met and was casually acquainted with Lou Marsh in the summer of 1962 in Greenwich Village, where I was involved with an ecumenical student project, coordinated by Judson Memorial Church, called "The Church And Urban Life" - Lou was dating one of the other young women who was also involved with that project, and I was very much impressed with his gentleness and dedication to his work with the young people he tried to help.
To my great sadness I learned a couple years later that he had been stabbed to death by one of those kids.
I am very glad that Phil, during his own too-brief life, saw fit to immortalize Lou in song.
Genie