Liner Notes
Cat. No. 80270
Release Date: 1977-01-01
American Song During the Great Depression
A much-requested CD reissue from the original New World LP!
American society was much less homogeneous during the Great Depression (1929 - 1941) than it became after World War II. There were still quite sharply defined classes, divided along economic, geographic, and ethnic lines. Each group was affected by the Depression, but in different ways and to different degrees. Each had its own tradition of popular song, and this carefully compiled sampling of recordings from the thirties gives a vivid picture of how each fared and how it reacted to the almost universal adversity of that decade. Included is a 36-page booklet with a lengthy essay on the Great Depression and copious notes on each recording by noted American music scholar Charles Hamm.
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? (Bing Crosby); The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Deane Janis); Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries (Rudy Vallee); In the Still of the Night (Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra); Love Walked In (Kenny Baker); On the Good Ship Lollipop (Shirley Temple); Unemployment Stomp (Big Bill Broonzy); The Gold Digger's Song (We're in the Money) (Dick Powell); All in Down and Out Blues (Uncle Dave Macon); Fifteen Miles from Birmingham (The Delmore Brothers); The Coal Loading Machine (The Evening Breezes Sextet); NRA Blues (Bill Cox); I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore (Woody Guthrie); The Death of Mother Jones (Gene Autry); All I Want (The Almanac Singers and Pete Seeger); The White Cliffs of Dover (Glenn Miller and His Orchestra)
A much-requested CD reissue from the original New World LP!
American society was much less homogeneous during the Great Depression (1929 - 1941) than it became after World War II. There were still quite sharply defined classes, divided along economic, geographic, and ethnic lines. Each group was affected by the Depression, but in different ways and to different degrees. Each had its own tradition of popular song, and this carefully compiled sampling of recordings from the thirties gives a vivid picture of how each fared and how it reacted to the almost universal adversity of that decade. Included is a 36-page booklet with a lengthy essay on the Great Depression and copious notes on each recording by noted American music scholar Charles Hamm.
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? (Bing Crosby); The Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Deane Janis); Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries (Rudy Vallee); In the Still of the Night (Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra); Love Walked In (Kenny Baker); On the Good Ship Lollipop (Shirley Temple); Unemployment Stomp (Big Bill Broonzy); The Gold Digger's Song (We're in the Money) (Dick Powell); All in Down and Out Blues (Uncle Dave Macon); Fifteen Miles from Birmingham (The Delmore Brothers); The Coal Loading Machine (The Evening Breezes Sextet); NRA Blues (Bill Cox); I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore (Woody Guthrie); The Death of Mother Jones (Gene Autry); All I Want (The Almanac Singers and Pete Seeger); The White Cliffs of Dover (Glenn Miller and His Orchestra)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
| MP3/320 | $14.00 | |
| FLAC | $14.00 | |
| WAV | $14.00 | |
| CD-R+ | $27.00 |
A *.pdf of the notes may also be accessed here free of charge.
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Harburg, Gorney
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The Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Dubin, Warren
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Life Is Just a Bowel of Cherries
Brown, Henderson
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In The Still of the Night
Hoagy Carmichael
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Love Walked In
George, Ira Gershwin
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On the Good Ship Lollypop
Clare, Whiting
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Unemployment Stomp
Anonymous
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The Gold Diggers' Song (We're in the Money)
Dubin, Warren
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All In Down and Out Blues
David Harrison Macon
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Fifteen Miles from Birmingham
Alton Delmore
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The Coal Loading Machine
George Korson
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NRA Blues
Bill Cox
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I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
Woody Guthrie
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The Death of Mother Jones
Anonymous
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All I Want
Millard Lampell et al
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