Yeah,

I grew up with liberal folks, born 6 weeks prior to the 60's, I remember a lot of protests- against segregation based on race, economics, culture, and lots of other things. Mainly I recall my folks also at demonstrations against the War in Vietnam. One thing I didn't know was that the folk singer's magazine that I saw around the house as early as 1963 had articles about the Cold War and injustice, and ways to fight it.

All those articles were in a magazine called "Sing Out!", and they were written by a fellow named "Johnny Appleseed". (McCarthy was still alive and well). Wasn't till later that I found that "Johnny Appleseed" was indeed Pete Seeger, the very guy whose children's LP I grew up loving (I still know the words to all the songs), and was delighted later when both Seeger and Arlo teamed up and tackled the issues of the Junta in Chile, and other sad, horrific acts of policing the world that made me feel embarrassed to be American when traveling in Canada, of all places!

Just wanted to say... I am so happy the Spirit lives on.. as long as there's even a flicker, we can bring it back to a blaze!

Respectfully, Leah DosSantos

hi Leah....i remember the magazine "Sing Out"....haven't thought about it for awhile....thanks for reviving a good memory.....i'm a bit older than you...probably a little younger than your parents, but not much....

....it's always so great to meet folks from different generations that connect to the spirit of those days....we are sure gonna need alot of it .... coming together again... these days....

SING OUT magazine is hard to find around here for some reason. I did find an issue with Arrlo in it once or twice. Too abd folk stuff like that is hard to find around here...

I've found Sing Out! magazines in my local Borders Books before. It's not really like the old issues though. There are a lot more articles. Of course, I am young, so I could be wrong about that.

Sing Out! Magazine is alive and well.

www.singout.org

It's published four times a year. You can subscribe and receive the print magazines and CDs of the music featured in each issue. Sing Out! also publishes books and maintains an archive of folk music and publications.

Back issues are often available, and are advertised in the magazine. The magazine also has a booth at some folk events - always at the Philadelphia Folk Festival - where back issues, books and music are available.

Sadly, the current issue (Summer 2004) contains Pete Seeger's last Appleseeds column. It's been a featured item since 1954.

Wonder why Pete isn't gonna do his column anymore. That's sad. I liked it...

Pete wrote that he has memory problems - he can't remember names and words. Medication has failed to help.

"Any last words?" Pete asks in the column. "Keep on learning from people like Woody Guthrie, Malvina Reynolds and others like them throughout the world. People who keep a sense of humor in spite of all the crazy things going on, people who can use words honestly and economically, and yet remember the old saying, 'Well done is better than well said.'"

He concludes by quoting songwriter Len Chandler (Beans in My Ears): "Keep on keeping on."

Thanks for the info! & Vibes & prayers to Pete for his memory problems...

Thanks for the info about Pete. All of this info about Pete having memory problems make me really sad. He doesn't live too far away from me ... in Beacon.) Maybe he could try a different medication.

Hey,

I'd forgotton that I'd written this post and was pleased to see it in Google when I was searching for something else using my name.
Re: Sing Out! The issues I recall (these oldest I recall ever seeing a decade later were from circa 1963 when I was a toddler, though I came to appreciate the magazine's value by puberty)... those Sing Out! magazines were published during both the Cold War and the Vietnam War. They featured a song from a folk artist each time, a very, very thin piece of vinyl the size of a record -- a "45". One would place it atop another record, usually an LP and hear the real performer singing and playing. I'd think that anyone who has saved any of these (still like that just before the 1970's at least) would have a valuable piece of folk history. I wonder sometimes what something like that might be valued at on TV shows on PBS like the Antique Craft Show.

I am Appalled at the number of songs that Woody wrote that kids grow up hearing today without knowing the history. The work that Pete and Woody did to raise the awareness in this country of others --even the working poor!! --is inestimable, and I feel that Arlo has truly filled his Dad's shoes perhaps not in being as prolific a songwriter as his father, but in discussing injustice through the medium of song. Bob Dylan was another, but on another level. All music that condemns injustice and praises love, with the ability of making us laugh at ourselves and some of the hipocrisy (since our anger must go some place, lest we, too become combatative and embody the warmongering spirit) is important.

I did want to make one more observation. Our National Anthem is a song glorifying a battle! "rockets red glare, bombs bursting in air..." I am opposed to have not only people in our Government

I think an appropriate song for the USA National Anthem should be something like "This Land Is Your Land"!! (Of course the stanza where Woody complains about a "No Trespassing" song has been left out of most songbooks... I wonder why. Not!

And as to PBS- there are so many fantasic memories there with people you don't expect to show upll Seeger and Arlo are only two of many to enrich our lives and remind us of the human Spirit.

Leah DosSantos

Ok, now I know I've bored you to tears.

Leah DosSantos

Leah - you have not bored me to tears!!! I'm a subscriber of SING OUT -- GREAT magazine. The latest one has info about Arlo -- haven't had the time to fully read it, tho. We might be about the same age and I remember a lot of what you're talking about. I love to browse through book stores and haven't seen Sing Out anywhere so 2 years ago I decided to become a member. As grandpasteve posted earlier -- there's a lot of extra 'perks' to being a member. I just wanted to let you know that ...I hear ya!! Peace!

Thanks for the info on Arlo being in it. I've had trouble finding it lately. Dunno why the folk music magazines are so hard to find around here...

My mom subscribed to Sing Out magazine for years. I think she still has all the issues she ever received, piled up in the basement somewhere.

I live in the UK and was really surprised to find Sing Out in my local Borders Book store. Surprisingly, there are a lot of people over here who love American music -- country, alt country, folk. Thank God for that! You have to know where to look for it (you won't hear much of this stuff on radio anywhere) but at least it's here.