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Moe Asch 103 Birthday gift

02 Dec 08 - 03:16 PM (#2506140)
Subject: Moe Asch 103 Birthday gift
From: mark gregory

Free song download from Smithsonian Folkways available today only as a happy birthday wish to Folkways founder Moses Asch, who would have turned 103 on December 2nd.

Just follow the link below to find the music:

http://www.folkways.si.edu/learn_discover/recording_spotlight/moe_birthday.aspx

2008 marks the 60th anniversary of Folkways Records and the 20th anniversary of Smithsonian Folkways, and December 2nd, 2008 would have been Folkways founder Moses Asch’s 103rd birthday


02 Dec 08 - 03:27 PM (#2506151)
Subject: RE: Moe Asch 103 Birthday gift
From: GUEST,BanjoRay

It's a track from Champion Jack Dupree, the New Orlans blues singer and piano player who used to live in a council house in Halifax who told a very dirty joke when we had him on a Radio Sheffield programme back in the early seventies.
What a great character.
Ray