Hi everyone, welcome to our Suggested Listening posting for this week; a bit late as I somehow didn’t hit publish last week when I finished the post – so we’ll celebrate the lives and contributions of working class people today, and all through this week!
Suggested Listening postings are published on Fridays; and our next Suggested Listening posting will be out on Friday, September 6, 2024.
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Our recommended songs for this week celebrate the history of American workers, on the occasion of Labor Day weekend (and the week after it!).
The songs are listed in chronological order, with the exception of the last song, This Land Is Your Land, which is certainly a quintessentially American song, celebrating the freedom of all Americans. And as it is a very hopeful song, and hope seeming to be in short supply today, at least if one watches the news – I thought we’d end on that hopeful note!
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Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries by Rudy Vallee
From The Album: The Very Best Of Rudy Vallee (2009)
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Brother Can You Spare A Dime? By Bing Crosby
From The Album: The Essential Bing Crosby (1932/2003)
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Midnight Special by Lead Belly
From The Album: Midnight Special — The Library of Congress Recordings, V. 1 (1991)
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Solidarity Forever by Pete Seeger
From The Album: Talking Union and Other Union Songs (1955)
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Sixteen Tons by Tennessee Ernie Ford
From The Album: Sixteen Tons (1960)
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Working On A Chain Gang by Sam Cooke
From The Album: The Best of Sam Cooke (2011)
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The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll by Bob Dylan
From The Album: The Times They Are A-Changin’ (1964)
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Work Song by Nina Simone
From The Album: High Priestess Of Soul (1967)
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Hoopla Album Of The Week
The Almanac Singers, Volume 1 by The Almanac Singers
And from the album the song:
Talking Union by The Almanac Singers
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Have a great week,
Linda Reimer, SSCL
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