Re: Protest music on radio (was Country music...)

["elipolo@earthlink.net" <elipolo@earthlink.net>]

> From: A. Joseph Ross lawyer@attorneyross.com
> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 00:23:40 -0500
> To: elipolo@earthlink.net, boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> Subject: Re: Protest music on radio (was "Country music"...)
>
>>> About a month or so ago, I heard those wonderfully eccentric folks 
>>> on WATD on Saturday afternoon play "Come and Sing a Simple Song of 
>>> Freedom."
>> 
>> I've played that one recently too (Tim Hardin, #50 Billboard, August
>> 1969).
> 
> Interesting, my recording is by the Weavers.

The song that I've played, and that I've also heard Ron Dwyer play on his 
WATD Saturday afternoon show recently, was Tim Hardin's 1969 hit version, 
which was originally written by Bobby Darin in 1968.

The Weavers may have done a version too, though I'm not familiar with it.

Eli Polonsky


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