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When Woody Guthrie was singing hillbilly songs on a little Los Angeles radio station in the late 1930s he used to mail out a small mimeographed songbook to listeners who wanted the words to his songs. On the bottom of one page appeared the following: This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of our'n, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do - Pete Seeger, on Woody, June 67
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0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. Thanks for the link Stuart. I just received an email from Smithsonian Folkways sharing the news of the Folk-Legacy acquisition and was planning on posting this link to the Folkway's site with more info:
https://folkways.si.edu/folk-legacy I've got a few great Folk-Legacy LPs in my collection and am very glad their "legacy" is in the hands of Folkways. Thank you, Lew. I probably should have posted it as well and saved you the trouble as I also received the S-F email this morning. I agree than Folk-Legacy released many quality recordings. I'm glad that they are going to be added to the S-F catalog and made available.
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