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30 Jun 06 - 05:16 AM (#1772532) Subject: Don Paulin, folksinger on german TV From: Ernest 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 |
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30 Jun 06 - 05:56 AM (#1772561) Subject: RE: Don Paulin, TV-folksinger From: John MacKenzie 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 |
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01 Jul 06 - 04:47 AM (#1773321) Subject: RE: Don Paulin, TV-folksinger From: Ernest 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 |
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01 Jul 06 - 05:57 AM (#1773357) Subject: RE: Don Paulin, TV-folksinger From: John MacKenzie Is that because he thought Germany was going from bad to wurst? G. |
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01 Jul 06 - 07:40 AM (#1773408) Subject: RE: Don Paulin, TV-folksinger From: Ernest It might have been a wurst käse szenario, Giok.... Best Ernest |
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01 Jul 06 - 08:04 AM (#1773423) Subject: RE: Don Paulin, TV-folksinger From: John MacKenzie Cheesy but good Ernest. G |
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02 Jul 06 - 06:12 PM (#1774284) Subject: RE: Don Paulin, TV-folksinger From: Susanne (skw) 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. |
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03 Jul 06 - 01:12 AM (#1774463) Subject: RE: Don Paulin, TV-folksinger From: GUEST,Mike Miller 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. |