Pete Seeger's Gazette Albums

Subject: Pete Seeger's Gazette Albums
From: GUEST,Pete Seeger's Gazette Albums, Folkways
Date: 18 Apr 25 - 06:33 PM

I have just acquired a CD version of Pete Seeger's
Gazette Vol I no. 1 album.
I ordered it for the sake of the song,
"Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People"
which was written by someone other than Pete Seeger. Vern somebody?

A personal note:
my single parent had heard Pete Seeger when in college.
The family's record collection had a number of Pete Seeger records:
The Birds, Beasts and Little/Bigger Fishes series,
and the American folk ballads (that may be the wrong title).

What the collection did not have were the Gazette albums
which were closely connected to Sing Out magazine.
Those would have been too liberal/radical for my parent.
So I feel like I'm sticking my neck out
by acquiring a Pete Seeger album that was too much for my parent.

Subject: Track Listing: Pete Seeger's Gazette Albums
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Apr 25 - 07:38 PM

I see two Pete Seeger Gazette albums at Smithsonian Folkways:

Vol. 1 (1958)
-Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu/pete-seeger/gazette-vol-1/american-folk/music/album/smithsonian
-YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OPXGLJKvpw&list=OLAK5uy_mqj2oVO3wVozPz-nbrJry0mNGT71BLZDk
1. Pretty Boy Floyd
2. Banks of Marble
3. The TVA Song
4. Martian Love Song
5. 42 Kids
6. State of Arkansas (My Name is Terry Roberts)
7. Declaration of Independence
8. The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be
9. The Ballad of Sherman Wu
10. Roll On Columbia
11. The Sinking of the Reuben James
12. Then We'll Have Peace
13. The Scaler
14. Newspapermen
15. Talking Atom (Old Man Atom)
16. Teacher's Blues
17. The Demi Song
18. The Battle of Maxton Field
19. Doctor Freud
20. There is Mean Things Happening in This Land

Vol. 2 (1961)
-Folkways: https://folkways.si.edu/pete-seeger/gazette-vol-2/american-folk/music/album/smithsonian
-YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2LgcW1hrz4&list=OLAK5uy_m1q9vf89n0DHkHeyvdm70n4LsK0qEnHok
1. Tomorrow is a Highway
2. The Dying Miner
3. Bourgeois Blues
4. The Literacy Test Song
5. Fayette County
6. Moorsoldaten (Peat Bog Soldiers)
7. Hold the Line
8. When a Fellow Is Out of a Job
9. The RAND Hymn
10. The Crow on the Cradle
11. I Come and Stand at Every Door
12. The Easter Marchers
13. The Jack Ash Society

Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger did two New Briton Gazette albums:

• Vol. 1, Contemporary British Songs (1960)
  https://folkways.si.edu/ewan-maccoll-and-peggy-seeger/new-briton-gazette-vol-1/celtic-historical-song-struggle-protest-world/music/album/smithsonian
  
• Vol 2.
  https://folkways.si.edu/ewan-maccoll-and-peggy-seeger/new-briton-gazette-vol-2/celtic-historical-song-struggle-protest-world/music/album/smithsonian

And here's the Folkways Pete Seeger channel at YouTube - you won't believe how much is there:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6J7zes7i6Fr2GmwkadEq-w

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger's Gazette Albums
From: Thomas Stern
Date: 18 Apr 25 - 08:45 PM

Vern Partlow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Partlow

BEAR FAMILY
SONGS FOR POLITICAL ACTION
DISC 5:
12. I'm a Native American Nazi - Vern Partlow
13. Join the U.A.W.-C.I.O. - Vern Partlow
14. Keeping Score For '44 - Vern Partlow
15. U.A.W. Train, The - Vern Partlow
16. Susan's in the Union - Vern Partlow
17. Rollback Blues, The - Vern Partlow
18. Mama Don't Allow - Vern Partlow

DISC 6:
29. Atomic Talking Blues - Vern Partlow
30. Newspapermen Meet Such Interesting People - Vern Partlow

DISC 9:
4. Fertilizer Song, The - Vern Partlow
5. Talking F.T.A. - Vern Partlow
6. Kiss the Boys Goodbye - Vern Partlow
7. Round and Round the Canneries - Vern Partlow
8. My Name Is Cannery Bill - Vern Partlow

Thomas.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger's Gazette Albums
From: keberoxu
Date: 19 Apr 25 - 05:42 PM

Just listened to Gazette Vol. I no. 1 straight through.

Some of the broadside songs have been matched up to
existing folk tunes, recognizable on first hearing.

42 Kids    -- Sixteen Tons
Talking Atom Blues   --   Talking Blues
My Name is Terry Roberts --   State of Arkansas (credited)
Demi Song    --       Twelve Days of Christmas

Particularly strong and effective performances of
Pretty Boy Floyd,
Roll On Columbia,
Sinking of the Reuben James, and of course
Newspapermen.

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger's Gazette Albums
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 20 Apr 25 - 08:46 AM

Of course, on Gazette Album Vol. 2,

"The Crow on the Cradle"
is the song by Sidney Carter
(just listened to it in order to make sure)

Subject: RE: Pete Seeger's Gazette Albums
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Apr 25 - 09:30 AM

The song that opens Gazette Album Vol. 2,
TOmorrow is a Highway,
has its text posted on
the thread, Pete Seeger Songs, a good place for it.

Another note:
some people refer to these Gazette albums as
"the broadside albums," I believe.