The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119376   Message #3772158
Posted By: GUEST
12-Feb-16 - 03:31 AM
Thread Name: Mudcat Master - Frank Hamilton
Subject: RE: Mudcat Master - Frank Hamilton
Hi...Back in L.A., it was Frank who passed on an old reworked hymn to Guy Carawan, and the final version became We Shall Overcome which Guy put in his songbag and passed along to MLK's many and the rest is history...when Obama celebrated those days at the White House, some of the major players in the movement paid homage to Guy, just a young kid, a collector of music, folksinger who showed up thereabouts and joined in, his contributions,(had a cowlick and an innate sweetness and humility that came through in his silences though his singing blew down the walls)his courage throughout his bardic life much like Pete's and Frank's...this program was shortly before he passed away and he probably saw it...but he didn't care about things like that...just his natural way of being...same with Pete...and Frank
Lynn Gold