Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! (songs) From: Joe Offer Date: 10 Jul 23 - 06:41 PM Thread #50060 Message #760337 Posted By: Joe_F 05-Aug-02 - 07:02 PM Thread Name: What is the saddest song? Subject: ADD: I Wish You Were Here (Malvina Reynolds)
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Subject: Add: BILLY BOY (Malvina Reynolds) From: Joe Offer Date: 09 May 22 - 03:18 PM Thread #66082 Message #1094881 Posted By: Charley Noble 17-Jan-04 - 11:58 AM Thread Name: Lyr Req: songs against/about McCarthyism Subject: Lyr Add: BILLY BOY (Malvina Reynolds)
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Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! (songs) From: Joe Offer Date: 08 Mar 21 - 07:22 PM For Malvina lyrics, you'll now find most of her songs at http://www.malvinareynolds.com/ |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! (songs) From: Thomas Stern Date: 08 Jul 20 - 08:39 PM Does anyone know if OMNI Records (Australia) is still in business ?? They issued 3 Malvina Reynolds CD's of which only the 2017 LITTLE BOXES AND MAGIC PENNIES: A CHILDREN'S SONG ANTHOLOGY seems to remain easily available. Don't know if the following 2 albums have been mentioned: Skördemåne Records ?– SCD 09 Jan Hammarlund -Uncovered Malvina Reynolds (UK IMPORT) CD 1 –Jan Hammarlund My Little Guitar 2:01 2 –Jan Hammarlund Upside Down 3:51 3 –Jan Hammarlund Jailhouse Door 3:12 4 –Jan Hammarlund The Corners Of Your Mind 2:21 5 –Jan Hammarlund Moogical Love 2:20 6 –Jan Hammarlund A Policeman Needs A Riot 2:10 7 –Jan Hammarlund Angels Of Hell 2:12 8 –Jan Hammarlund The Man Says Jump 1:32 9 –Jan Hammarlund Blues Street 3:17 10 –Jan Hammarlund Housewife’s Lament 1:10 11 –Jan Hammarlund Free Enterprise 3:46 12 –Jan Hammarlund If Two Have Four 1:39 13 –Jan Hammarlund Jail House Buddy 3:22 14 –Jan Hammarlund To A Songwriter 2:16 15 –Jan Hammarlund They’ve Got Everything 3:53 16 –Jan Hammarlund Born In The Town 2:22 Bonus Tracks: Malvina Singing 17 –Malvina Reynolds Touble Keep Away 3:13 18 –Malvina Reynolds Are You Walking There For Me? 3:12 19 –Malvina Reynolds When I Fly From This World 1:11 Hammarlund also produced a 2017 LP for MISSISSIPPI Records, drawn from recordings in Malvina's collection, and a couple of tracks he recorded during a Reynolds tour in Europe: Mississippi MRP 107 LP Rel: 24 Apr 17 Malvina REYNOLDS Malvina Reynolds ?– 12 Unreleased Gems / Home Recordings A1. When I Fly From This World A2. Uneasy Dreams A3. The Judge Said A4. This House Is Your House A5. Don't Jump A6. If You Were Little B1. Don't Jump B2. Sleep, Come On By SB3. Are You Walking There For Me? B4. I Lived Thru This Day B5. Johnny Built A House B6. Love Somebody there is another Malvina Reynolds thread on MUDCAT: https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=31773 and the website: http://www.malvinareynolds.com/ Cheers, Thomas. |
Subject: ADD: Down to Hanson's (Malvina Reynolds) From: Joe Offer Date: 22 Jun 20 - 01:28 AM Down to Hanson's Notes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1962 Schroder Music Company, renewed 1990. If you go out to Idaho, Just take my advice, Stop in at the Hanson's, The folks are mighty nice. Whenever the wind begins to blow, The farm it blows away, But the mud rain brings it back again Any rainy day. Chorus: Let's go down to Hanson's, That's the place for me. Let's go down to Hanson's, Beside the inland sea, The rugs are made of sable, There's bear meat on the table, And whenever I am able, That's where I want to be. They catch the catfish ready smoked And it is fine and fat, And since they call it catfish, They feed it to the cat, But when they call it bullhead, They fry it in a pan, And sure that makes a noble food For either dog or man. (Chorus) The vines grow round the outhouse Till it can not be seen; You sit in state and contemplate Beneath a roof of green. And up the hill lives Ernie, Contented as a clam, And if he never sweeps the floor, Nobody gives a damn. (Chorus) Now Irv he traps the muskrat, The link cat and coyote, He is a mighty hunter On snow shoes or afloat. The little foxes run in fear To scent him on the breeze, But the mountain deer, they follow near To share his beer and cheese. (Chorus) Now Ruth is in the kitchen Concocting a ragout, She raised the beef to make it, The spuds and carrots, too. And when she needs a side of beef To cook for three or four, The steers come up upon the porch And knock at the kitchen door. (Chorus) The place is full of treasure, It's found on every hand, With garlic in the garden And Indians in the sand. The wild goose flying southward Along his destined way, He looks down at that little red house, And wishes he could stay. (Chorus) Malvina Reynolds songbook(s) in which the music to this song appears: ---- The Muse of Parker Street Malvina Reynolds recording(s) on which this song is performed: ---- [none] http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/MALVINA/mr039.htm |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! (songs) From: Joe Offer Date: 15 Jun 20 - 03:27 AM This year is the 120th anniversary of the birth of Malvina Reynolds, so we paid special tribute to her at the San Francisco Free Folk Festival this year. It's a link to a film called "Love It Like a Fool," a tribute to Malvina: We also did a Malvina Reynolds song swap: |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Joe Offer Date: 21 May 20 - 04:30 AM http://malvinareynolds.com/ has grown into a very complete collections of songs and other information. Take a look. -Joe- |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Stewart Date: 03 Jun 17 - 08:21 PM What're You Rebelling Against, Malvina? By Ross Altman, PhD Mildred: What're you rebelling against, Johnny? Johnny: Whaddya got? ~ Marlon Brando in "The Wild One", 1953 Marlon Brando's reply to Mildred's question suits Malvina Reynolds to a T: but unlike Johnny in The Wild One, Singer-songwriter Malvina Reynolds (August 23, 1900—March 17, 1978) was a learned rebel. She got her Ph.D. the old-fashioned way—she earned it, in the UC Berkeley English Department in 1938. She never used it to teach, however, because her first act of rebellion was to refuse to sign the California loyalty oath when she was accepted for a teaching position at Berkeley. Faced with Robert Frost's life-changing choice at the fork in the road she took the one less travelled by—"of whom it could be said: She was an artist, and a red." (MR) Read More Cheers, S. in Seattle |
Subject: ADD: Sing Along (Malvina Reynolds From: Joe Offer Date: 03 Jun 17 - 08:10 PM Sing Along Notes: words and music by Malvina Reynolds; copyright 1958 Schroder Music Company, renewed 1986. This was Malvina's first "hit"--she sang it at rallies for the 1948 Henry Wallace for President campaign. In the Table of Contents to her songbook Song in My Pocket she writes: "First published in the old 'Peoples Songs Bulletin,' this shows signs of wearing to the hand of the user. I sat in on a guitar class conducted by Earl Robinson in Brooklyn Heights, and was pleased to hear some verses which had been added by a group of embattled teachers. In New Mexico they sing 'Cantalo, Cantalo.'"
Chorus: Oh, when I need a raise in pay and have to ask my boss, (Chorus) My congressman's important, he hobnobs with big biz, (Chorus) Oh, life is full of problems, the world's a funny place, (Chorus)
Other place(s) where the music to this song appears: Malvina Reynolds recording(s) on which this song is performed: Recordings by other artists on which this song is performed: Additional note Source: http://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/MALVINA/mr153.htm |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Joe Offer Date: 21 May 17 - 10:51 PM The OC Weekly (I think that's the freebie hippie newspaper in Orange County California) has an interesting article titled The Life and Times of Malvina Reynolds, Long Beach's Most Legendary (and Hated) Folk Singer. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2016 AT 3:53 P.M. By Gabriel San Foman Take a look: http://www.ocweekly.com/music/the-life-and-times-of-malvina-reynolds-long-beachs-most-legendary-and-hated-folk-singer-7474438 Link provided by the San Francisco Folk Music Club Harmony List. -Joe- Oh, this is good stuff. The caravan of Klansmen crept to a stop around midnight in front of the home of David and Lizzie Milder on Nov. 17, 1932. Their quaint bungalow in the Carroll Park neighborhood of Long Beach had just played host to a fund-raiser for the International Labor Defense (ILD), a group affiliated with the Communist Party USA. Members were seeking donations for the Scottsboro Boys, nine African-American teens whose convictions in the rape of two white women in Alabama had recently been overturned. That night, Ben Isgur, boyfriend of the Milders' youngest daughter, Eleanor, spoke eloquently about the injustice in the case—and that was just too much for the KKK. Klan members from Orange County united with their Long Beach brothers for the raid. About 50 eventually gathered outside the Milder house, armed with guns, clubs, rubber hoses and a gasoline-soaked wooden cross. The family's very existence—Jewish, immigrant, communist, anti-racist—could not stand. They planted the cross on the Milders' lawn and set it ablaze. Klansmen stood guard with guns drawn at the porch while others tried to break through the front door. David, Lizzie, their son Samuel and other daughter, Malvina, were sipping coffee with Isgur when the Invisible Empire tried to barge in. The family leapt from the table and tried to keep the door from budging—but it wasn't enough. A group of hooded men circled around to the back entrance and found a way in. "Where are you hiding all your communist literature?" they yelled. Samuel's wife, Miriam, pranked the raiders, pointing them to a pile of everyday newsstand magazines, which the KKK promptly tossed out the window. They then demanded everyone take a ride in the Klan cars—but the Milders wouldn't go quietly.
"Won't somebody help us?" Malvina cried to neighbors. "They're killing us!" A Klansman struck her in the jaw, gagged her with a handkerchief and dragged her outside. They beat her father down with a rubber hose and broke Samuel's shoulder. Neighbors rushed outside to assist, but the armed Klansmen kept them at bay. The Klan finally forced the Milders and their guests into cars and prepared to speed off when the Long Beach Police Department's "Red Squad"—tasked with monitoring left-wing activities in the city—just happened to swing by. They stopped the attempted kidnapping, but not before the Klansmen left handbills reading, "Communism will not be tolerated! The Ku Klux Klan rides again." The midnight raid scarred the Milders and made national headlines—but it also gave birth to a legendary troubadour. The eldest Milder daughter went on to become one of the fiercest folks singers in American history. Malvina Reynolds used the terror of the Klan raid to fuel a life and career of radical politics, organizing and writing columns and even running for the Long Beach City Council. But her most lasting legacy are her tunes of justice, songs covered by Joan Baez, Marianne Faithfull and other musical giants, most famously Pete Seeger, who popularized her "Little Boxes," the stinging critique of suburbia more familiar to modern-day listeners as the theme song for the TV series Weeds. As prolific and storied as Reynolds' life was, no one has ever written a biography about her. Mentions of her life in Long Beach are rare. Nevertheless, the themes in Reynolds' political music—economic justice, environmentalism, women's rights and anti-racism—remain all too relevant today. * * * * *
Malvina Reynolds' musical life seemed destined to be intertwined with activism. Two years after her birth in San Francisco on Aug. 23, 1900, her parents joined the Socialist Party. David Milder, a Jewish immigrant from Hungary, served in the United States Navy during the Spanish-American War of 1898 and ran a naval tailor shop in the city. He soon became consumed with politics, helping to start The Revolt weekly newspaper and even running as the party's candidate for city tax collector. Along the way, he befriended radical labor organizer Tom Mooney, who indirectly gave Reynolds her start in music. In 1916, Mooney was charged with setting off a suitcase bomb that had killed 10 people and injured scores more during a pro-World War I parade in San Francisco. Milder took a teenaged Reynolds to the activist's home so his daughter could take violin lessons from Mooney's wife, Rena, who was teaching classes to survive after being acquitted in her husband's trial. Reynolds excelled beyond her teacher's ability, but she wanted to pursue literary, not musical, ambitions in college. There was only one snag; her parents' opposition to World War I caused her high school to deny her a diploma. Teachers helped Reynolds enroll at the University of California at Berkeley despite being blacklisted. She majored in English while playing violin in a dance band. One day in class, a professor had students study old British ballads as poetry. Reynolds quickly realized the ballads weren't meant to be read as poems, but sung as music. "Why don't you sing them for us?" the professor asked when she pointed this out. Reynolds graduated with a degree in English, but the Milders' socialist reputation made jobs hard to come by in the Bay Area. The family moved to San Pedro in 1925, then Long Beach so David could open up a tailor shop to serve naval fleets. Reynolds joined her family in 1931, after dropping out of graduate school. By then, the Milders had joined the Communist Party and happily hosted fund-raisers and political meetings at their home. Long Beach during the Great Depression was proudly white, Protestant and conservative—an Iowa-By-the-Sea far removed from the Milders' Marxism. When the Long Beach Press-Telegram ran a series of articles in 1932 warning of active communist groups in the city, it easily struck fear in the hearts of its readers. It was inevitable the Klan would go after the Milders. "I was very much frightened," Reynolds recounted in 1977 during a KPFK-FM 90.7 radio interview with Dorothy Healey, a communist labor leader who met the musician in San Pedro three years after the raid. "These guys [were] about to load us into cars to take us away. They had lynch ropes in the car."
Reynolds took the stand to identify her attacker, but she knew the legal system wouldn't deliver justice. "When we came to court, there was evidence of what these guys carried on the table—[the weapons] looked like twigs!" she told Healey. She tried moving on with life. After her first marriage dissolved, she began a relationship with Bud Reynolds, a high-school sweetheart. The two departed for Nebraska, where Bud had been assigned to unionize workers. Malvina gave birth to their only daughter, Nancy, in 1935; the new family headed to Berkeley later that year and got married. Once there, she re-enrolled at UC Berkeley, earning a doctorate in romance philology in 1939. But the same problem that originally drove her out of the Bay Area prevented Reynolds from finding steady work. Around that time, she began writing for the Daily People's World, the official newspaper of the Communist Party USA. Soon after, the FBI started a file on her. The death of her father in 1944 brought Reynolds back to Long Beach to run the family shop with Bud. After Japan surrendered to the Allies, ending World War II, the two sold the business, and Reynolds left stitching sailor clothes for her true passion: writing songs of discontent. "I wrote fiction and poetry before that, but it didn't roll until I picked up a guitar," she wrote in her book Little Boxes and Other Handmade Songs. "What a guitar it was! A big old F-hole orange crate with a crack in the back." * * * * *
Reynolds began her musical career at 45, as the post-World War II folk-music revival was getting fine-tuned with the return of key players. Woody Guthrie's time as a merchant marine led to his most prolific stretch. Seeger had done a stint entertaining the troops, and in late 1945, he helped to start People's Songs, an organization anchoring the folk revival's left-wing flank. People's Songs' inaugural bulletin laid out its mission to "create, promote and distribute songs of labor and the American people." They put out monthly publications and organized "hootenannies," spreading to cities across the country, including Los Angeles. Reynolds first met Seeger at a People's Songs shindig in LA in 1947. "Here's this middle-aged woman, white hair. To my male eyes, she seemed one more housewife," Seeger recounted in a radio documentary about her life that's on file in the Pacifica Radio Archives. "Yet, she heard me and some other singers and said, 'I want to try writing songs, too.'" She took guitar lessons from Earl Robinson, an influential composer blacklisted from Hollywood, during his People's Songs classes in LA. Reynolds got her chance to sing in 1948 when People's Songs threw its musical support behind Progressive Party presidential candidate Henry Wallace, who was vice president under Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The Independent Progressive Party (IPP) formed in California to support Wallace, and Reynolds became the IPP's chairman in Long Beach. She wrote an "Adventures of a Doorbell Ringer" column for Daily People's World, noting interesting conversations going on in Long Beach homes. "Tell me, granting that you don't go with Wallace on this question, doesn't his platform on other matters please you enough that you could pass this one up for now?" Reynolds asked after failing to sell a white worker on Wallace's pledge to end racial discrimination. "Ma'am," he responded, "'I'd rather have Negroes living next door to me, eating in the same restaurants with me and riding beside me in the street car than to have monopolies ruling over me." The Reynolds house became a stop for like-minded musicians and activists. "Paul Robeson came to dinner once," recalls Reynolds' daughter, Nancy Schimmel. "It was a big dinner in his honor." The Reynoldses loved to entertain guests, political or personal, with a witty sense of humor. "My parents liked to throw parties—my mother for the food and dancing and singing, my father for the chitchat," Schimmel says. "She encouraged me to bring my friends home—and to use the dictionary!" When Reynolds wasn't ringing doorbells or hosting parties, she was performing at Wallace rallies. She scored her first hit in progressive circles with the roman á clef "Sing Along." The catchy tune's opening lines speak of a timid troubadour who gains confidence from a sing-along crowd: My congressman's important, he hobnobs with big biz, Despite the efforts of People's Songs and like-minded activists, Wallace's campaign failed; he earned less than 2.4 percent of the vote, as incumbent Harry S Truman squeaked past Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey. People's Songs folded the following year because of financial problems, but Reynolds continued. She wrote "Magic Penny" and "Bury Me In My Overalls" during her time in Long Beach. Of "Magic Penny," Schimmel recalls, "I came home from [a junior high school] dance, and she had written this song about dancing the night away. That was one of her most popular songs." The inspiration for "Bury Me In My Overalls" came from something more ominous. Bud worked various construction sites as a union carpenter with the American Federation of Labor until political organizing caught up with his health; he suffered a heart attack from all the stress. Reynolds worried about her husband and wrote the song, taking on the fear of death with a touch of humor and working-class thrift: The undertaker will get my dough, Bud died of a stroke in 1971. * * * * *
As Reynolds networked with national figures, she still involved herself in local politics. In 1950, the Long Beach City Council planned to adopt an ordinance requiring Communists to register. Reynolds spoke in vain against it. Frustrated with a city hall she felt was beholden to oil barons, Reynolds decided to take them on in April 1951 by running for a council seat. Her platform: municipally owned electricity, fair wages for city employees and expanding recreational facilities. Running under the IPP banner, Reynolds survived the primary and prepared to face off in the general election against Third District incumbent Raymond Kealer, a petroleum engineer and chairman of the council's oil, harbor and industries committee. She was the only woman candidate that year. Though Reynolds held a doctorate and did political work, her ballot designation read, "housewife." If Reynolds' foray into politics was that of a housewife, she pledged in an open letter to Long Beach residents to clean up local politics from the stain of big business "with hot water, soap and a broom!" A war of words soon broke out among Daily People's World, Long Beach Press-Telegram and the Long Beach Independent over Reynolds' campaign, a skirmish documented by the FBI and House Un-American Activities Committee. The Independent—which had covered Reynolds objectively during her primary race—struck first with the May 18, 1951, headline "Council Candidate Closely Allied to Red Front." The article noted that she "registered as a Communist in Alameda County [in] September 1942." And even though she canceled the registration two years later, the story sternly noted, Reynolds remained active in organizations with communist ties such as the Daily People's World and the Long Beach chapter of the Civil Rights Congress, an organization principally funded by Reynolds' weekly guitar classes to suburbanites and their children. The Daily People's World fired back two days later, calling the Independent's article a "Red herring smeared with oil" and offering Reynolds space to respond. "The [Independent's] article 'accuses' me of defending civil rights and working actively for world peace," Reynolds said. "Such activities which conform to the desires of every honest person can only be attacked with red-baiting." The Press-Telegram hyped the election in an editorial as "the most important council the city has ever had." Long Beach expected a $175 million oil boom to flow into the city's coffers during the next term thanks to the Justice Department exempting the city from tideland litigation, with the U.S. Supreme Court expected to follow suit. Reynolds campaigned hard to have oil taxes benefit all residents of Long Beach, a message she framed in a long-lost untitled song preserved only in her daughter's memory. "It was a song about better use of the oil taxes for civic improvement rather than for lining people's pockets," Schimmel says before singing the verse: We'll have a wondrous city A day before the election, Reynolds addressed the "Communist Question," in the Press-Telegram while stressing her platform. "The story of registration at another time and in another climate is old news by now," Reynolds said. "The program I propose for Long Beach is new news—and good news." IPP members pushed hard, dropping off 40,000 leaflets at households and mailing another 20,000. The Press-Telegram predicted a blowout despite calling Reynolds "one of the most active campaigners" in the race. And they were right: Kealer walloped Reynolds with 34,449 votes to her 5,584. The Daily People's World tried to put a positive spin on her performance, writing that 13 percent of the vote was "impressive" in light of "a red-baiting campaign conducted against her for several weeks by [Long Beach's] two commercial newspapers." But Reynolds' time in Long Beach was about to end. The FBI kept up its surveillance of Reynolds: An August 1952 report described her as "a very active Communist in the Long Beach community." "I have nothing to say to you," Reynolds told an agent who approached her as she hung laundry outside her home. "Beat it off my property now." Had she won the election, Reynolds would've stayed in the city for at least the duration of her three-year term. But defeated, with her daughter enrolled at her alma mater up north and tired of the city's right-wing politics, Reynolds moved back to Berkeley in 1953, never to return to Long Beach. * * * * *
By her own admission, Reynolds never had a great singing voice. "She felt that the best tunes grew out of the rise and fall and tempo of the speaking voice," says Schimmel. But despite that limitation and her late start, Reynolds found a following after leaving Long Beach by expressing complex truths with poetic simplicity. In 1960, at age 59, she recorded her first album with Folkways Records, Another County Heard From, which included "Sing Along." Two years later, while driving through Daly City on the way to a gig, Reynolds told Bud to take over the wheel so she could write "Little Boxes," a tune poking fun at the suburban conformity sprouting on Daly City's hillsides. Seeger covered "Little Boxes" in 1963, and it was a hit. Reynolds didn't get a chance to commercially release her version until landing a deal with Columbia Records, resulting in the 1967 album Malvina Reynolds Sings the Truth. Since then, "Little Boxes" has lived on in an array of covers from slain Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara to a newer generation of musicians who recorded their versions to serve as the intro theme for Weeds on Showtime. For all its drama, Reynolds never wrote about the Klan raid of her parents' home in Long Beach. But Malvina Reynolds Sings the Truth does include "Battle of Maxton Field," a song she penned in 1958 after Lumbee Indians ran off the Klan during a North Carolina rally. "She sat down and wrote that song that day, words and music, and sang it that night," Schimmel says, calling the song her mom's "revenge." Reynolds recorded more albums; wrote children's music; started her own label, Cassandra Records; published songbooks; and toured overseas well into her late 70s. She even appeared on Sesame Street as a folk singer named "Kate." "I can almost hear them saying, 'Who is this old bat?'" Reynolds told Healey. She'd win them over with clever storytelling between songs. "In about 10 minutes, they're singing along with me and laughing." While working on songs for her final album, Purely Political, a friend asked Reynolds to come to Orange County for a protest at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. "I was cranky about it, but when I got there, it was a great demonstration!" Reynolds told Healey. The rally left such an impression on Reynolds that it inspired one of her last hits, "Power Plant Reggae." Reynolds died on March 17, 1978, after pancreatitis caused her kidneys to fail. She wanted little fanfare to mark her passing—in "Wake for a Singer," Reynolds wrote, "Celebrate my death, of whom it could be said/She was a working-class woman and a red." Family and friends held a private wake at her Berkeley home, but a public memorial concert followed, with Seeger closing out a lineup that included Margie Adam and Chicago's Steve Goodman. Two years later, Purely Political was posthumously released as Mama Lion. Schimmel wants her mother's story to be fully told. She asked famed folklorist Ellen Stekert to write a biography of Reynolds, but illness kept Stekert from pursuing the project. Schimmel started blogging about her mom in 2006 and even visited her grandparents' Long Beach house, the one the Klan raided decades ago. A singer in her own right, Schimmel hopes to transform the blog into Out of the Box, a book with more of a memoir feel. Uncle Ruthie Buell befriended Reynolds after many interviews between the two on Buell's Halfway Down the Stairs, which has aired on KPFK since 1959. Both women shared being Jewish folk singers with People's Songs pasts. The Children's Music Network honored Buell for her lifetime of work in 2010 with its Magic Penny Award, named for Reynolds' song. "When you're a songwriter, you don't die," says the 86-year-old Buell, who continues to teach Reynolds' songs to blind children in Hollywood. "You get to live forever."
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Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: BrooklynJay Date: 18 Apr 17 - 05:36 PM Joe, Waaaaay back on September 29, 2004 you posted the lyrics for The Little Land. You said you could provide the tune (chords?) if asked to transcribe it. Is that, ah... offer (sorry, Joe) still good? I've seen the two YouTube recordings and I think the slightly different melody I remember may be because I always seem to associate it with The Limeliters (it was on their Sing Out album). Never realized when I was little that it was a Malvina Reynolds song. For a while now the song's been going through my head and I'm curious to know what her chords were. Just returning yesterday from my first trip to Ireland has only added fuel to the fire. Jay
Malvina recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXQOJ2AeBTo Thread on the song (click) - you'll enjoy the comments posted by Malvina's daughter. Click to play (joeweb) |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: GUEST Date: 18 Apr 17 - 04:00 PM This may have been addressed, but the melody to "From Way Up Here" was by Pete Seeger, whom Malvina gave the lyric to to set to music.
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Subject: DT Corr: We Hate to See Them Go From: Joe Offer Date: 22 Jan 17 - 02:10 AM "We Hate to See them Go" is in the Digital Tradition as "The Bankers and the Diplomats": THE BANKERS AND THE DIPLOMATS (Malvina Reynolds) INTRO Last night, I had the strangest dream, I saw a big parade, with ticker-tape galore, And men were marching there the like [in the ranks] I'd never seen before: 1. Oh, the bankers and the diplomats are going in the army: Oh, happy day, I'd spend my pay to see them on parade, Their paunches at attention and their stri-ped pants at ease - They've gotten patriotic and they're going overseas. We'll have to do the best we can and bravely carry on, So we'll just keep the laddies here to manage while they're gone. cho: Oh, we hate to see them go! The gentlemen of distinction in the army! 2. The bankers and the diplomats are going in the army It seems a shame to keep them from the wars they love to plan, We're all of us contented that they'll fight a dandy war - They don't need propaganda they know what they're fighting for They'll march away with dignity and in the best of form, And we'll just keep the laddies [young folk] here To keep [each other] the lassies warm. 3. The bankers and the diplomats are going in the army: We'll have to make things easy, 'cause it's all so new and strange, We'll give them silver shovels when they have to dig a hole, And they can sing in harmony while answering the roll, They'll eat their old K-rations from a hand-embroidered box, And when they die, we'll bring 'em home and bury 'em in Fort Knox! by Malvina Reynolds, from Faith Petric, 1977. Copyright Schroder Music Company 1959 @political @Army filename[ BANKDIP TUNE FILE: BANKDIP CLICK TO PLAY JB Here are the lyrics from The Malvina Reynolds Songbook, 2nd enlarged edition, 1974, page 86 WE HATE TO SEE THEM GO (Malvina Reynolds) INTRO Last night, I had a lovely dream, I saw a big parade with ticker-tape galore, And men were marching there the like I'd never seen before. 1. Oh, the bankers and the diplomats are going in the army: Oh, happy day, I'd give my pay to see them on parade, Their paunches at attention and their stri-ped pants at ease - They've gotten patriotic and they're going overseas. We'll have to do the best we can and bravely carry on, So we'll just keep the laddies here to manage while they're gone. CHORUS: Oh, we hate to see them go! The gentlemen of distinction in the army! 2. The bankers and the diplomats are going in the army It seemed too bad to keep them from the wars they love to plan. We're all of us contented that they'll fight a dandy war - They don't need propaganda, they know what they're fighting for. They'll march away with dignity and in the best of form, And we'll just keep the laddies here to keep the lassies warm. 3. The bankers and the diplomats are going in the army: We're going to make things easy, 'cause it's all so new and strange, We'll give them silver shovels when they have to dig a hole, And they can sing in harmony while answering the roll, They'll eat their old K-rations from a hand-embroidered box, And when they die, we'll bring them home and bury them in Fort Knox! by Malvina Reynolds, from Faith Petric, 1977. Copyright Schroder Music Company 1959 @political @Army filename[ BANKDIP TUNE FILE: BANKDIP CLICK TO PLAY JB Just a few differences (and the title) - I put them in italics. |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Thompson Date: 21 Jan 17 - 02:02 AM And me thinking this was about the Malvinas (les Îles Malouines), founded by sailors from St Malo (the people of which town are known as Malouins), which itself was founded by the Irish saint Malo (Mach'lo, Maclou, Maclovius, Machutus), a co-navigator of Brendan the Navigator who sailed to America rather than digging canals like later Irish navigators or navvies… |
Subject: ADD: You Can't Make a Turtle Come Out (Reynolds) From: Joe Offer Date: 21 Jan 17 - 01:44 AM YOU CAN'T MAKE A TURTLE COME OUT (Malvina Reynolds) You can't make a turtle come out, You can't make a turtle come out, YOu can call him or coax him or shake him or shout, But you can't make a turtle come out, come out, You can't make a turtle come out. If he wants to stay In his shell, If he wants to stay in his shell, You can knock on the door but you can't ring the bell, And you can't make a turtle come out, come out, You can't make a turtle come out. Be kind to your four-footed friends, Be kind to your four-footed friends, A poke makes a turtle retreat at both ends, And you can't make a turtle come out, come out, You can't make a turtle come out. So you'll have to patiently wait, So you'll have to patiently wait, And when he gets ready he'll open the gate, But you can't make a turtle come out, come out, You can't make a turtle come out. And when you forget that he's there, And when you forget that he's there, He'll be walking around with his head in the air, But you can't make a turtle come out, come out, You can't make a turtle come out. ©1962 by Schroder Music From Little Boxes and other handmade songs by Malvina Reynolds Oak Publications, 1964, page 76 |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Joe Offer Date: 02 Jan 17 - 01:54 AM Hi-I think the best Malvina CD is "Ear to the Ground"from Smithsonian/Folkways, described in detail above. The Australian OMNI recordings are good, too. This thread is old, but I have corrected most of the out-of-date information. Joe |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: GUEST Date: 31 Aug 09 - 09:22 AM Anyone know where I can get tapes, records or cds of Funnybugs and Artichokes? My grandchildren NEED to hear and learn all of the songs from these. My daughter was raised on them but the old tapes have died. THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: GUEST,distresses Date: 04 Nov 08 - 08:05 PM I am having the hardest time trying to fing chords to her songs...in particular 'i don't mind failing' or 'it isn't nice' ...usually you can just type in the song name and get 50 results. any help would be great |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Charley Noble Date: 06 Jun 08 - 08:53 PM Joe- Thanks for the update. Charley Noble |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Joe Offer Date: 06 Jun 08 - 12:14 AM Hi, Melisa - click here for the recordings available from Malvina's daughter, Nancy Schimmel. I don't see that particular recording on the list. Smithsonian/Folkways has two Malvina albums:
-Joe- |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: GUEST,melisa Date: 05 Jun 08 - 10:30 PM does anyone know how to purchase a cassette of cd or something of malvina reynolds old album funny buggs, giggleworms & other good friends? |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Joe Offer Date: 05 Oct 07 - 02:49 AM Hi - I thought we had it up above (click), but it's one of the albums Heather couldn't find. Ah, but it is here (click). -Joe- |
Subject: track listing for M Reynolds Sings the Truth From: GUEST Date: 05 Oct 07 - 01:18 AM Does anyone have the track listing for this recording? thanks! |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Nov 06 - 03:55 PM Malvina Reynolds Recording Rights:I got a response from Nancy right away. Here's what she says (posted with permission): Hi Joe Most requests can come to me at this email address and be dealt with here, but we don't own the rights to Turn Around, Magic Penny, and a very few others. I can get the contact info for those and post them, tho sometimes they change as companies merge. Perhaps a simple answer is best--me--and I can redirect. Also I'm starting a blog called Writing Malvina about the process of writing my mother's biography, at http://web.mac.com/nancyschimmel. I google Malvina now and then and have gotten Mudcat and posted a reply or two, I think. It's a good service. Thanks for it. Can't remember if I posted the new Malvina lyrics site at Western Kentucky University; it's http://www.wku.edu/%7Esmithch/MALVINA/homep.htm If you could take a look and post this info, that would be great. Nancy Nancy can be contacted through her Website, sisterschoice.com |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Nov 06 - 03:14 AM I was pleased to see that Malvina's songs were not listed for licensing by the Harry Fox Agency - that would seem to be a sellout to Corporate America. Nonetheless, it would be good for the right person to get payment for recording rights. I'll contact Malvina's daughter Nancy Schimmel and ask. -Joe Offer- |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: GUEST,Colleen Date: 28 Nov 06 - 08:09 PM I'm wondering about getting the rights to record songs of hers. Do I just got through Schroder Music? Is it even still a company? |
Subject: "Playing war" From: GUEST,Rob Date: 29 Aug 06 - 03:14 PM thanks Kevin for the Gaber album - I'm off to find it somewhere! peace, Rob |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Joe Offer Date: 27 Jul 06 - 10:14 PM It appears to me that a lot of work has been done at Malvina Reynolds: Song Lyrics and Poems |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Kevin Sheils Date: 26 Apr 06 - 06:01 AM The only reference I can find on the web is to a Finnish record company Love records LP released in 1970 by Martha Graber with the following track listing LRLP 23 Martha Gaber 1970 Martha Gaber The Crow on the Cradle | I Come And Stand | Dana dana dana | Joe Hill | Drill ye terriers drill | Now That the Buffalo's Gone | I've Got to Know | Turn turn turn | Zum gali gali | The Three Ravens | Guantanamera | Every Cop Is Your Brother | Who Killed Columbia? | The Cruel War | Playing War | Le deserteur I'm only guessing that the Playing War is probably the Malvina song I think the record company is no longer in existence but my Finnish is non existence however here is a web site that refers to the LP (follow the .pdf or .doc link at http://jata.users.daug.fi/musiikkisivut/love/ BTW that listing is a "cut and paste" so terriers is probably tarriers! |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 25 Apr 06 - 10:20 PM I like "The New Restaurant" too. Also the children's song (I heard her sing it at a concert many years ago, and haven't heard or seen it since) that contains the stanza "I have a barnacle, His name is McGonigle, Oh slishsloshery wishwashery under my boat. He lives on the boring Of old teakwood flooring, And when he is snoring, He can't sing a note". --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: We are all strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others. :|| |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Danks Date: 25 Apr 06 - 02:44 PM It might have been mentioned already, but I love Hedy West singing Malvina's " New Restaurant". A cleverly written song. |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: MMario Date: 25 Apr 06 - 11:42 AM see Yellowbook (e-mail sent) |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: MMario Date: 25 Apr 06 - 11:31 AM "WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO THE RAIN" Written by Malvina Reynolds Published by Schroder Music Co. The only address I have found for Schroder is "Berkely Ca." |
Subject: Schroder Publishing Co. From: GUEST,tennesseeplayers@webtv.net Date: 25 Apr 06 - 11:09 AM I would like address and telephone number for publisher, regardin "What Have They Done to the Rain." Thurston Moore TennesseePlayers.org Thank you, |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: GUEST,Guest - Corey Date: 06 Mar 06 - 10:24 PM Help!! I've been trying to find the guitar chords for "I don't mind failing in this world" but I keep coming up short. Does anybody have them or a URL that works that I can get them from! It would be much appreciates Cfrank@stny.rr.com Thanks again. CLICK HERE -Joe Offer (e-mail sent)- |
Subject: Playing War From: GUEST,Rob Date: 21 Feb 06 - 02:38 AM Thanks Stewart and Joe, I appreciate your searching for me. I actually have the words, and also the chords and notes (which I found randomly during some archive-digging for a graduate school project...I guess they are unpublished?). It seems only a bootleg might offer a recording. Anybody have a collection of Malvina bootlegs? Thanks again, Rob |
Subject: Lyr Add: PLAYING WAR (Malvina Reynolds) From: Stewart Date: 19 Jan 06 - 10:22 PM PLAYING WAR Malvina Reynolds (1900-1978), in 1964 There's a nameless war in Vietnam, There's wars in many lands, And my little boy in our back yard, Has a toy gun in his hands, And the big toymakers in Buffalo Are getting my boy set to go, But I say No and the kids say No, We're playing war no more. Today it's a plastic tank or plane, Tomorrow it's for real; Today it shoots a wooden shot, Tomorrow the bullet's steel. And the buyers in the department store Are getting my boy ready for war, But I say No and the kids says No, We're playing war no more. Well, a little red wagon on the hill Can pull his pal along, But we want no little revolver gun To shoot his buddy down. The factories run in old New York to get him ready for the dirty work, But I say No and the kids say No, We're playing war no more. There's many a boy like my own boy Who's lying in the mud, And his good young life was cut away While it was in the bud. So the stores that offer death for play Will have to get rich some other way 'Cause I say No and the kids say No. We're playing war no more. Well, the Army brass and the CIA Are hardly grown-up boys, And they're playing now with atom bombs As though they were plastic toys. But the life of the world is on the throw, And while there is time, we're shouting "No!" We say No and the kids say No, We're playing war no more. Don't know the melody or if/where it is recorded, but these are the words. Cheers, S. in Seattle |
Subject: ADD: I Wish You Were Here From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 19 Jan 06 - 10:21 PM From memory: I WISH YOU WERE HERE (Malvina Reynolds) I wish you were here to be underfoot, I wish you were here to get in my way, To call me from work, to call me to play. I wish you were here again. Oh, what did I do that had to be done, And what did I read that had to be read, When I could have turned to watch you instead? I wish you were here again. The monuments rise, the monuments fall, The papers are signed and turn into chaff, But I can recall the sound of your laugh. I wish you were here again. I wish you were here to be underfoot, I wish you were here to get in my way, To call me from work, to call me to play. I wish you were here again. --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Parent & child is host & guest plus warden & prisoner. :|| |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Joe Offer Date: 19 Jan 06 - 09:54 PM Hi, Rob - I looked all around, but had no luck. It's not in any of the Malvina songbooks or recordings I know of. It's not on Malvina's Ear to the Ground complilation CD, or on the Sorrels No Closing chord CD. -Joe Offer- Here's the track list for No Closing Chord, by Rosalie Sorrels: Rosalie Sorrels / No Closing Chord: The Songs Of Malvina Reynolds Label: Red House Year: 2000
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Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: open mike Date: 19 Jan 06 - 01:00 AM the cd that rosalie sorrells did of malvina songs is called no closing chord. I recommend it for malvina fans. Laurel |
Subject: "playing war"?? From: GUEST,rob goldberg Date: 19 Jan 06 - 12:51 AM Hi Malvina fans! I'm trying to find an LP copy (or CD is there is one) of Malvina singing "Playing War," a song she wrote in 1964 about war toys... Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Rob Goldberg rrgoldberg@gmail.com 917 710 7852 |
Subject: ADD: Little Land From: Joe Offer Date: 29 Sep 04 - 10:43 PM Deckman mentioned this song in another thread, so I thought it would be good to post it. -Joe Offer- Little Land (Malvina Reynolds, 1958) When you're in the Little Land They fill your hands with gold, You think you stay for just a day, You come out bent and old. CHORUS Dead leaves in your pockets, Oh, my enchanted, have a care. Run, run from the Little Folk, Or you'll have dead leaves in your pockets, And snowflakes in your hair. When you're in the Little Land You watch the wee folk play, You see them through a game or two, You come out old and gray. CHORUS Lights shine in the Little Land From diamonds on the wall, But when you're back on the brown hill side It's cold pebbles after all. CHORUS Music in the Little Land, It makes the heart rejoice, It charms your ear so you cannot hear The sound of your true love's voice. CHORUS source: Little Boxes and other Handmade Songs, Malvina Reynolds (Oak Publications, 1964)
Click to play (joeweb)Also see: /thread.cfm?ThreadID=36505 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YQdpvO4s_w CHORDS (Key of C): C Am |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Mark Ross Date: 02 Sep 04 - 02:07 PM I got to know Malvina in the '70's when I lived in Berserkely. When my wife and I were feuding I'd spend a night or two at the Anarchist commune across the street from her house. We had met when she appeared on campus at a rally. I went up and introduced myself and said that we had mutual friends and acquaintances. She invited me back to Parker Street for tea. We had some interesting discussions about songwriting. A couple of years later I was back in NYC working at the Folklore Center. Malvina appeared as part of the store's concert series. When she arrived she requested that I sit in with her, I readily agreed to play stump the band (with me being the stumpee). I confess I don't think I did very well, but nonetheless, a couple of days later a check arrived for me at the store from Malvina. I think it was for more than she had made that evening. What a great lady! Mark Ross |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: GUEST,Erik Date: 02 Sep 04 - 05:23 AM I spotted an earlier request for a list of the songs performed on the album "MALVINA REYNOLDS" (CFS 5100) - copyright 1977 Cassandra Records. The list off the back of my LP jacket follows: SIDE 1 The World's Gone Beautiful Daddy's In The Jail It Isn't Nice Boraxo We Hate To See Them Go There'll Come A Time SIDE 2 From Way Up Here The Desert D.D.T. Let It Be Morningtowm Ride No Hole In My Head The back of the album also states "All compositions by Malvina Reynolds." Hope the information helps! |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: PoppaGator Date: 24 Aug 04 - 05:24 PM Those who love Malvina Reynolds may be interested in these three women who love her enough to name their trio after her: The Malvinas' website |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Susanne (skw) Date: 24 Aug 04 - 04:59 PM Peter T., where do you live? I have a taped live performance of Andorra by Hamish Imlach somewhere. It isn't technically very good, but very spirited and you're welcome to it. Send me a PM if you're interested. |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: GUEST Date: 23 Aug 04 - 05:27 AM Um, that didn't work... It's my page about the Seekers' version at http://poparchives.com.au/feature.php?id=453 |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: GUEST,Lyn Date: 23 Aug 04 - 05:23 AM Margret, thanks for your reply about "Morningtown Ride". I've referred to it at my page about the Seekers' version. Hope that's okay. |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Margret RoadKnight Date: 22 Aug 04 - 09:36 PM Nancy Schimmel (Malvina's daughter) might have this ("Andorra") info .... contact her via sisterschoice.com website. Malvina doesn't seem to have recorded it, but didn't Pete Seeger? |
Subject: RE: Help: Everything Malvina! From: Peter T. Date: 22 Aug 04 - 11:42 AM Malvina is the greatest! It is a pity that so much of her stuff seems unobtainable -- she needs one of those 5 CD box set things. Can anyone tell me if there is a reasonably accessible version of "Andorra" anywhere recorded? yours, Peter T. |
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