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Thread #24789   Message #4007637
Posted By: Thomas Stern
06-Sep-19 - 09:41 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Chords Add: Song of My Hands (Asbel)
Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Add: Song of My Hands
Has anyone come upon any recordings of Bernie Asbel's SONG OF MY HANDS other than those mentioned above ????

To reiterate:

Published in PEOPLE'S SONG BULLETIN II, 1 and 2

c.1947
BELL Bell LL-101-A SONG OF MY HANDS - Bernie Asbel
                -B MAD AS I CAN BE - Pete Seeger and Bernie Asbel

c.1948
DISC unissued 78rpm SONG OF MY HANDS - Bernie Asbel
reissued 1995 in Bear Family SONGS FOR POLITIACL ACTION.

1948
HOOTENANNY 100-A (HY104) SONG OF MY HANDS
               Ernie Lieberman, vocal, guitar
100-B (HY103) SPRING SONG - Hope Foye, Ernie Lieberman,
                                 Vivian Scott piano acc.
reissued c.1950 AVANTI(Sweden) 313
AV 313 a SONG OF MY HANDS - Ernie Lieberman
AV 313 b ATOM SONG - Pete Seeger
reissued in Bear Family SONGS FOR POLITICAL ACTION

1973
PAREDON P-1014                                     LP 1973
Dreadnaught Music DMCD-1605                        CD 19xx
SMITHSONIAN-FOLKwAYS                               CD-r 2012
I Hate The Capitalist System - Barbara Dane
B2 Song of My Hands

this lp also on some European labels.


CAN someone provide a dub of the BELL 78rpm recording ??

I recently saw a WPA ahort film:
HANDS by William Van Dyke and Ralph Steiner (1934, 4min)
Produced by The Commercial Department of Pathe News
for WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION

can be seen on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JogRPO9-qZM

wonder if this was known to Bernard Asbel and may have
influenced his composition ??

Thanks.
Thomas.