Don Paulin, TV-folksinger

Subject: Don Paulin, folksinger on german TV
From: Ernest
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 05:16 AM

This thread is something like a "son-of-Folk on TV"-thread:

One of my first connections with anglo-american folk was an american folk-singer named Don Paulin who used to have a show on german TV back in the middle sixties. It was aired in the afternoon as part of the program for kids (I was in elementary school back then...). One episode usually contained one song and a bit of introduction to it, the historical background etc. One was "She`ll be coming round the mountain".

Does anyone of the german catters remember him?

And does anyone here have more information about him? I did a mudcat search and his name turned up, but unfortunately no information.

Regards
Ernest

Subject: RE: Don Paulin, TV-folksinger
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 30 Jun 06 - 05:56 AM

He gets a brief mention here along with an interesting list of old folk recordings and artists.
If you Google his name you get mostly German language sites, so obviously he was better known there, he's certainly someone I'd never heard of before; interesting though.
Giok

Subject: RE: Don Paulin, TV-folksinger
From: Ernest
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 04:47 AM

Another site that Google brought up yesterday (but not today?) mentioned that Bob Dylan remebered him...

Apparently nobody else here.

It said that he returned to California in the 80s.

Regards
Ernest

Subject: RE: Don Paulin, TV-folksinger
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 05:57 AM

Is that because he thought Germany was going from bad to wurst?
G.

Subject: RE: Don Paulin, TV-folksinger
From: Ernest
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 07:40 AM

It might have been a wurst käse szenario, Giok....

Best

Ernest

Subject: RE: Don Paulin, TV-folksinger
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Jul 06 - 08:04 AM

Cheesy but good Ernest.
G

Subject: RE: Don Paulin, TV-folksinger
From: Susanne (skw)
Date: 02 Jul 06 - 06:12 PM

If not wurst, he certainly was a bad käse! I remember coming across some of his songs - think someone lent me an LP. This was the first time I heard The Peat Bog Soldiers sung; I was totally unaware of the German original but started to check it out after that.

Don wasn't a bad singer, if slightly bland. I liked his voice. But he also authored a 'Folk Lexicon' published by Fischer Verlag. By the time I discovered it I knew enough about folk music to realise how inadequate it was. Basically, the guiding principle was 'People I have recorded with / met on the road', with a few unavoidable names thrown in.

I never heard the programme Ernest mentions (we didn't have TV at the time) and can't remember anything else about Don Paulin.

Subject: RE: Don Paulin, TV-folksinger
From: GUEST,Mike Miller
Date: 03 Jul 06 - 01:12 AM

I knew Don Paulin when he lived in the Philadelphia area, back in the very early 60's. He had an interseting duo with an interprative dancer named Audrey Bookspan. They sang and danced traditional songs in a theatrical setting. Audrey could tell us more about that phase of Don's career. She is long retired from dancing but she still teaches clown and circus skills at local art centers.