Songs of the Lincoln Battalion

Songs of the Lincoln Battalion
Studio album by Baldwin 'Butch' Hawes, Bess Lomax Hawes, Pete Seeger, Tom Glazer.
Released 1940
Genre Folk
Label Asch
Producer Moses Asch

Songs of the Lincoln Battalion is a 1940[1] Asch album by several members of the Almanac Singers: Baldwin 'Butch' Hawes, Bess Lomax Hawes and Pete Seeger, along with Tom Glazer. The album presents "the songs of the men who left home and safety behind them in 1937 to fight Fascism" in Spain. [2]

Track listing

TrackSong TitleBy
1.Viva La Quince Brigada
(Long Live the 15th Brigade)
Traditional
2.Jarama ValleyTraditional
3.Spanish Marching SongTraditional
4.Cookhouse: The Young Man From AlcalaTraditional
5.Quinto Regimento
(Fifth Regiment)
Traditional
6.Quartermaster SongTraditional

References

  1. Songs of the Spanish Civil War, booklet, Folkways Records & Service Corp, 1961, http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/folkways/FW05436.pdf
  2. The songs of this album were re-released on "The Sea, The Soil & The Struggle" on Naxos Records. Retrieved August 9, 2008.
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